Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-06-19
TO SUBPOENA MAYOR GRACE /?
Dispensary Probers Wish to Hear His
Graft Charges.
News and Courier Special. }

N.>e"S ana courier special NI
Spartanburg, June 12. That
Mayor John p. Grace, of Charleston,
will be subpoenaed before the dis
pensary investigating committee to
testify as to the charges he is al
legged to have made with reference to
tracing graft from the Charleston
blind tiger situation up to Governor
Blease is what Is learned in Spartan
burg. 1t is also the plan to sum-
| mons b. II. Stothart, chief Of the
constabulary at Charleston, to testify
as to the same alleged charges.
The long and short of the matter
Is that 1t has been published in a
! newspaper in Charleston that graft"
has been going to Columbia, and the
same paper published a statement
from Mayor Grace to the effect that
he had traced the graft" direct to
the Governor This publication and
charge excited the whole State, and
| that Mayor Grace Is to be summoned
before the dispensary committee to
air his charges is certain. Senator
Carlisle, the chairman Of the COM
mittee, stated this morning that the
committee would be called together
early next week, probably on Tues
day, in Columbia, to resume their In
vestigations.
The next sessions Of the commit
tee may be productive of sensations.
| &c. at Got 'Nhnc Enl6nr Of
Atlanta, will be heard by the COM
| mittee shortly and he is expected to
give some sensational testimony. His
enmity to Governor Blease and his
charges against him made sensa-
ton throughout the State, and If he
comes before the committee some in
terestinE testimony is promised No
announcement along this line has
been obtained officially, but this cor
respondent after a careful investiga-
ton in several sections and from
several quarters believes 1t safe
prediction to make that II. B. Fell
der will come before the committee
and testify.
| Club" Evans, Of Newberry, and
Senator. w. J. Johnston, Of Fairfield,
will also be summoned again, II is
more than likely, and it seems that
the bottom" Of the matter is about
to be reached. Some definite an
nouncement as to the committees
plans will be made at the meeting
early next week, Tuesday being the
day when .uas ura rEportcd 70 as
semble in Columbia
Grace Ready 20 TrIa 81 @ratt
Charlestou Iuno t~-~NgHe .i.y}
to-day abou. In rrgorg of f'r scr
vice of subpoena upon him to tes-
tify about graft conditions in Char
lesion county in the enforcement Of
the dispensary law, Mayor Grace
stated that he had not yet received
the subpoena to appear before the
dispcnsary investigating committee.
but that he would willingly accept
service and is ready to tell what he
knows. when h S called upon.
81 wrote the editorial in Common
Sense regarding the graft conditions
in Charleston" said Mayor Grace,
and have no desire to avoid the re-
Sponsibility for anything | have said.
am ready to sustain everything
! that I wrote.
eff | am subpoenaed ! will tell the
grounds on which the article was
based, and | am sure that those who
hear the statement will agree with
me in the conclusions which | have
reached. I can prove that graft ex-
lists in Charleston and I will say, as
| have stated on several previous oc-
casions that can trace the graft to
the Governors Office at Columbia" "
"Coward and Liar."
Columbi,.. June 14.-Governor
Blease stated. when asked what he
thought Of the chrages made by
Mayor Grace, Of Charleston, that
graft had come to the Governors Of
flee, and Gracos Willingness tc
'provc' this to the investigating
committee. replied that any man who
said that he (Blcase) had received
graft from Charleston blind tigers
was a Toward and liar"
Helped to Keep Down Expenses
Mrs. J. e. Henry, Akron, M'L'
tells how she did so: 81 was 'th-
cred with my kidneys and haC,o go
} nearly double. ] tried SO PIC ol
Foley Kidney pills, and the ana me