The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
FELDEDR HAS WRITTEN BOOK.
Said to Be Some "Hot Stuff-Felder
Had Burns Shadow Blease.

in the State about the book that Mr..
Tom Fielder, of Atlanta, is said to
have written and great many
people have come to the conclusion
that he was bluff and they were in
disposed to pay any attention to the
stories of the man from Atlanta. The
Times reporter has several times been
told of the book that Mr.. Fielder has
written but always under the seal of
secrecy but recently it has come to
the paper in a way that the reporter
feels at liberty to use, that Rev. ].
L. Harley, one of the most reliable
men in the State, has seen the book
and read enough of it to make him
sick. He has recently been in this
section of the State and he has told
number of people of his reading of
the book in the office of Mr.. Fielder,
and that he really does not believe
that Cole L. Blease will be a candi-
date for the governorship when this
book comes out. 1t has been pre-
pared for use as an official document,
and can be used in no other way
without giving the best opportunity
in the world for prosecution for
criminal libel.
1t is understood that the commits
sion could not use the evidence that
they had against the governor, both
as senator from Newberry county
and in other ways, but that in an
Investigating commission the story
as Mr.. Fielder has it can be used,
and Mr.. Harley says that it is the
red hottest thing that ever was put
into book.
1t is also understood from several
sources, but none of them what
might be called official, but the story
is told in places that ought to be in
formed that Detective W. J. Burns,
the greatest detective on earth, has
been trailing the governor, and that
his report may possibly constitute
part of the evidence that is to be
submitted to the committee of in
quiry in this investigation.
It is thought that this book and
the stories therein contained, will be
a part of the testimony given by Mr..
Thomas Fielder at the investigation
on Thursday.
The story of the presence and
work of Detective Burns in this State
as the shadow of Cole L. Blease has
been told to the Times twice under
the seal of "swear you won't tell"
and once without that restriction,
which removes all of the restrictions.
If the attorney general or Mr.. w.
F. Stevenson, or any of the others
who have been active in this matter
in Columbia know anything about
this matter they are as close as clans
and it is impossible to get anything
at all from them.
If Mr.. Fielder has been working on
these lines he has been doing it at
his own instance and not at the in
stance of the winding up commis-
sion, as seems very plain from these
attempts to get "a line on the Burns
story"
1t is supposed by some knowledge
of these stories that prompted the
editor of the News and Courier to
suggest that Cole L. Blease might
not be in the race for governor this
summer.
1t is then unquestioned that Mr..
Fielder has book and that it is i
red hot book, and that it does tell
things on the governor, but that does
not make the things that are told as
sound as evidence in the court room.
There is also a story of a matter
which might bring the governor into
conflict with the United States au-
thorities in the matter of the use of
the mails, but that is like good
many other things that are just in
and is probably not at all
true.
The contents of this book have
been told of in various ways, but the
Times has no reliable information on
that line.
1t is expected that Mr.. Fielder will
be in Columbia on Thursday and that
his evidence will be most highly SEN
sational.-Florence Times.