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

that he had been unable TO get Burns
and his assistants TO come before him
to explain, deny or justify their con-
duct. In concluding his report, the
attorney general wrote as follows:
"The course of the executive, how
ever, seems to me to be clear, and that
is. he can not countenance the methods
employed in the prosecution of these
cases by requiring an enforcement OF
the sentence imposed in the Jones
case" If you care to read the whole
report of the attorney general on the
Jones case, I suppose you can get a
COPY of it from his Office, in the city
of Washington. The whole matter is
set out in the American Federationist,
magazine published by the American
Federation of Labor, in the issue OF
the present month, at page 537, in an
article from the pen of Samuel Com
pers, editor of that magazine, who is
president of the American Federation
of Labor-and Mr.. Gompers is the
brave man who, fighting the battles for
iaboring men of America, has stood
firm and true, even going to the point
of being sentenced to Jail for a con-
tempt of an august court. In comment
ing on the conduct of Burns in the
Jones case, Mr.. Gompers said: Thus
is fully established the fact, in Burns
own handwriting, that he has proved
himself to stand as the worst type of
private detectives which he so illum-
inatingly describes" A copy of that
magazine can likely be obtained by ad-
dressing the magazine company at
sO1 G street, N. W., Washington, D. c.,
and enclosing 10 cents-unless all the
copies have been exhausted by the
general demand all over the country
to read of the wickedness of repro
bate.
Other Future Charges and Proof.
Since the Augusta meetings have
] ended, and the Fielder committee fail
ed so miserably in their efforts to con-
meet me with wrongdoing, statements
from Fielder, and insinuatiohs from
other sources almost equally as bad,
have from time to time appeared in
the newspapers that other disclosures
and charges would be laid against me
later. These slanderers evidently did
not stop to consider before making
these announcements, for this is a
frank confession from them that so far
they have shown absolutely nothing.
But regardless of what they think of
their failures of the past, let them
proceed with their malicious work.
Knowing the men engaged in this un-
clean alliance, having knowledge of
the little regard for honesty, truth or
character they possess, having ample
proof of their ability to get finances
for their corrupt work, I shall not be
surprised, as you must not be surpris-
ed, if they go into some avenue of pol
luton and bring forth some poor, mis-
cradle being in the shape of a human
being, who is willing, for the sake
few paltry dollars, to further steep
his or her soul in infamy. And they
may, in their desperate efforts to get
rid of me, assail and attack those kin
dred and friends dear TO me. Such
other foul falsehood as they shall send
forth, shall be answered by me, if an
swer be deemed necessary, whenever
they are made. Of course, you know
as I know, what is the reason for the
continuous making of these announce
ments, and for the reason of the Eel
der committee to continue its sessions.
They desire to keep my friends de-
Tending me, to keep me defending my
self, while the issues of this campaign
are being clouded. Those issues are
the records of the life and labors of
Ira B. Jones as legislator and judge
land the fight am making for the
interests of the people against ex-
travagance in their government,
against the rule of the self-serving
corporations, and against the right
of the newspaper trust to in
wade the sancity of your homes
shall not be swerved from
my purpose, and Judge Jones, his cam
paign manager, Fielder and the five
ardent Jones men on the dispensary
investigating committee, had just as