Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-23

committee and he has I'D to this time
so far as / am informed, not even paid
your state visit.
Plenty Of Money and SeoundreIs.
In the meantime, having determined
| to make some kind of showing" and
having been urged on by my enemies
and knowing that he had nothing, ant
could get nothing, that would be to my
discredit, either as q man or as an Of
fetal, Fielder hit upon the plan Of 'mak-
ing a case" against me even II he had
| to resort to bribery and perjury. He
called to his assistance William ]
Burns and his associates, who are pri-
vate detectives and are always on the
lookout for the dishonorable task OF
blackening the good reputation of some
honest man or woman and blackmail-
| ing even their own employers. This
crew of Felder's was put to work ir
South Carolina; they had instructions
to dig back into my past: to trail my
footsteps and the footsteps Of my rela-
tives and friends; to inquire Of every
man with whom had had business as
an Individual or as an official, in their
endeavors to find something wrong, or
ungentlemanly that I had done, and
their instructions went further, that II
no wrong could be found, then to make
it appear that wrong had been found.
Huge sums of money were given these
sleuths-Felder himself admitting un-
der oath 0f his oath be worth any
thing) that ne gave one Of these men at
one time the sum of $4,000; and the
Atlanta Journal, as will appear from
it's morning edition of July 16, Is au-
thority for the statement that the "in-
vestigations" made by Fielder and his
detectives have already cost him be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
The Gallant Body Guard.
: After my speech at Bishopville, when
II was seen that the people Of South
Carolina would re-elect me to the office
of governor, this Fielder, the legislative
committee which was bowling to his
every whim, and number of my po-
litical enemies, in their desperation, de-
cided that it would be best to bring to
the attention of the people the result
of their contemplate and dirty meth
ods and matters. They realized that
something had to be done to counteract
the strong wave which, from the noun
tains to the seacoast, was rolling me
once more into the leadership Of my
people. But Fielder and his detectives
would not come to South Carolina. The
excuse of this coward for his refusal to
come across the Savannah river was
that he feared would have him killed.
This man, who for so long has pro-
claimed his bravery, with an array OF
henchmen and thugs to protect him, ad-
mitted his fear to come into the peace
able state of South Carolina. even In
the open daylight, although he knew,
Ill %haf Of
tend the meetings Of the committee,
and that 1 had not sent and would not
send any one to represent me before 1t.
Fielder termed all my friends and sup
porters as assassins and cutthroats; he
made no appeal for protection; II he
had done so I should gladly have given
1t to him and would, with pleasure,
have appointed as an escort Of honor
and bodyguard those brave men H. B.
Carlisle, G. w. Sullivan, ]. H. Clifton,
F. M. Cary and ]. ]. Evans, and Of this
gallant company would have made w.
F. Stevenson Commonly known as
"Seaboard Bill') the captain. I am
sure that these six men could have
protected their friend, Colonel" Fell
der, and had they failed in their efforts
and had he been assassinated, 1t would
have happened that the proper number
of his best friends we're present to
have become pallbearers.
In the past few days, and since he
went before the committee at Augusta,
one of Felder's famous detectives. the
man who the newspapers say followed
q daring kidnapper into the bad lands"
of Dakota, has admitted also that he
fears assassination in your state. Some
may regret that this daring detective
has made this confession, but !, for
one, am glad. because it may tend to
discourage the custom of the youths Of
our state to read with joy, the daring
acts and courage Of Nick Carter"
Fielder Crowd Afraid.
So, the obliging committee Of the
South Carolina general assembly, anx-
ious to get something" that would put
me "in a hole" concluded that IF the
mountain would not come to Mahomet,
Mahomet would go to the mountain
and they left your fair land and went
to Augusta in a foreign state, at your
expense to the tune Of IS per day each,
to sit with wide-open ears and search
ing eyes, to hear and see such revela-
tions as they hoped would blacken the
name of your governor although 1t
disgraced their own state. Now, / want
to uncloak this committee of Felder's;
I want you people to know that, In ad-
dition to Felder's fears Of coming to
your state, because Of the bribery
charges against him here, he had an
other cause for not coming: l wish you
to know why this committee of South
Carolinians, misrepresentation of the
honest citizenship of your state, were
willing to trail the dignity of our COM
monwealth in the dust at the bidding
Of a bribe- taker and perjurer, and this
Is the reason-any testimony given by
Fielder or any of his henchmen before
that committee in the state OF
Georgia, however false and with
out foundation, would not subject
the man so swearing to prose-
cution for perjury. Perjury Is a seri-
Gus crime under the laws of our state;
a conviction Of it results in imprison-
ment at hard labor, without the alter
native of a fine. Fielder knew that he
and his hirelings were going to swear
to outrageous falsehoods, and the fact
of their being falsehoods, could be es-
tablished without question. He knew
that a jury of South Carolinians would
convict any man proved guilty OF false-
" swearing away or attempting to
swear away the good reputation of an
honest man. This vile creature and
this committee, a majority of its men,
bers being lawyers, knew that Fielder
and his gang could testify to anything
they desired to swear to at Augusta
and go free Of the punishment for per-
Jury, because that committee, acting
under the appointment of South Car
olina body and under South Carolina
laws, was not recognized by the laws
Of the state of Georgia, and that COM
mittee could not compel any person to
appear before it in Augusta, had no
power in that state to punish for con-
tempt, and no power under the laws
Of Georgia to administer an oath and
no power to bring prosecution In that
state for false swearing.
1 wish to remind you that, according
to the Columbia State, Fielder was rep
resented at the Augusta hearing by
seven able and prominent lawyers OF
the state of Georgia" 1t took not only
the South Carolina lawyers who were
present as members of that committee.
and w. F. Stevenson Of Cheraw
Oeader of the Jones faction in the last
session of the general assembly,, but
Fielder, although a lawyer himself. had
to have the assistance of seven other
lawyers, before a friendly committee,
to help him bring out his malicious and
dirty fabrications.
Taking Up "charses" Separately.
Rut what did Fielder. his detectives,