The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-23

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 it was seen that the people of
South Carolina would realect me to
the Office of governor, this Fielder, the
legislative committee which was bow
ing to his every whim, and a number
of my political enemies, in their des-
peration, decided that it would be best
to bring to the attention of the people
the result of their contemplate and
dirty methods and matters. They rea-
lized that something had 20 be done to
counteract the strong wave which,
from the mountains to the seacoast,
was rolling me once C1ore 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
1 would have him killed. This man,
who for so long has proclaimed his
bravery, with an array of henchmen
and thugs to protect him, admitted his
fear to come into the peaceable State
of South Carolina, even in the open
daylight, although he knew as all of
you knew, that I did not attend the
meetings of the committee, and that 1
had not sent and would not send any
one to represent me before it Fielder
termed all my friends and supporters
as assassins and cutthroats; he made
no appeal for protection; if he had
done so, I should gladly have given it
to him and would, with pleasure, have
appointed as an escort of honor and
bodyguard those brave men H. B. Car
Isle, G.. w. Sullivan, J. H Clifton, F.
NJ. Cary and ]. ]. Evans, and of this
gallant company I would have made
w. F. Stevenson commonly known as
"Seaboard BilrO the captain. l 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 it would
have happened that the proper number
of his best friends were present to
have become pallbearers.
In the past few days, and since he
went before the committee at Au-
gusta, one of Felder's famous detec-
tives, the man who the newspapers
say followed a daring kidnaper into
the ''bad lands" of Dakota, has ad-
mitted also that he fears assassina-
ton in your State. Some may regret
that this daring detective has made
this confession, but l, 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 hole" concluded that If the
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 SIS per day each,
to sit with wide-open ears and search
ing eyes, to hear and see such revela-
tons as they hoped would blacken the
name of your governor, although it dis
graced their own State. Now, want
to uncloak this committee of Felder's;
I want you people to know that, in
addition 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; I 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
in the dust at the bid
ling of a bribe-taker and perjurer, and
his is the reason-any testimony Civ
IN by Fielder Or any of his henchmen
before that committee in the State of
Georgia, however false and without
would not subject the man
so swearing to prosecution for per-
Jury. Perjury is serious crime under
The laws of our State; a conviction of
it results in Imprisonment at hard la