Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-05-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| Columbia, May 90: Governor
Blease today addressed letters to the
sheriffs Of the various counties OF the
state who have prisoners in the state
penitentiary for safe keeping that the
Ipenttentiary authorities would eitner
send the prisoners to them or tney
would have to send for them. Tnere
are now twelve prisoners In the state
prison who should be incarcerated IN
the county jails. They are either
convicted Of or are alleged 10 DC
guilty. of murder or criminal assault.
lShe governor takes the position that
sufficient time has elapsed since the
lcommission of the alleged crimes for
line minds of the people to have calm
ed: that It Is reflection on the law
abiding citizens Of the various coun
ties to have the prisoners still lodgeu
In the state penitentiary. All OF the
prisoners who have been convicted OF
murder and of criminal assault nave
appealed from judgments OF the cir
cult courts, which automatcaiiy sus-
pends the death sentence. governor
Blease, In his letter to the sheriIs,
says that the prisoners VIII nave 70 pe
sent to their respective counties 10 pe
sentenced or re-sentenced ana they
might as well be sent to their proper
places Of imprisonment-the county
jail. -
| - Columbia Record, Saturday: Inc
supreme court today In an opinIon
decided that w. J. Massee, tne noteu
Macon, Ga, capitalist VINO Was a. a.
rested in Spartanburg county by the
sheriff on order OF Governor Biease'
July 25. 1912, in accordance with re.
ouisition from Governor Hooper OF
Tennessee, will have to appear peiore
Circuit Judge Sease. in person on q
date to be designated by him, ana
that he be remanded to the CUSTODY
of the sheriff OF Tennessee to De sur
rendered to the proper ofncer OF tne
state Of Tennessee, The opinion Wa
written by Associate Justice WOODS anu
was concurred in by Chief Jusuce
IGary and Associate Justices HydricK.
Watts and Frazer. The crime for
which Massee was accused by the
state of Tennessee was for making
threats and using duress to force
Robert williams to dismiss an acuon
lin the United States court. Massee,
after his arrest, appealed to Judge
Sease for a writ Of habeas corpus BE-
fore the habeas corpus hearing Judge
Sease released Massee on a siO,vvo
bail to appear before him on July 20.
| Governor Blease has accepted an
Invitation from the Nation Conserve
ton exposition to attend panQuet 10
be rendered the southern newspaper
men in Knoxville, Tenn, at O'Clock
lon the evening of May 81. The fnvi-
ltation was in the form OF letter
from J. b. Criswell, an advertising
man. Knoxville; J. L. Baker, city cd
litor. Knoxville Journal and Tribune,
and w. L. Morgan, managing eaitor
of the Knoxville Sentinel. Governor
Blease replied that he would atIeno
1.-THE banquet and speak on on C0n-
seryation Of the Principles or the Re
public as well as of Material hesourc-
tes." rs
Columbia, May "a: When asked
lfor a comment upon the Fielder dicto-
graph story coming from Aianta
yesterday, Governor Blease this morn.
ling dictated the following: L DO not
see that 1t Is necessary for me 70 give
out any interview or to have anything
TO saw. 1t is not inside Of my state
land / do not suppose anybody that
knows Tom Fielder would be surprised
lif he is guilty or IL that Is e. scheme
worked up by him to get little cheap
notoriety and advertisement. HOW
ever. / presume that the members OF
Ithe Atlanta bar will immediately iur-
nish certificates of character Tor their
darling Tommy and show that ne Is
above suspicion and gentleman Oh
1.-THE highest character with an unpiem-
lished reputation as a man and attor,
ney and if a court OF Georgia snoulo
order his arrest, that Genera Anue .,sti.
SON will forthwith call out the militia
and have him released, as Generai
Anderson, his former partner and life-
Hong friend, knows Of his character
and reputation and will not Tor mo
ment allow his Tommy to be interter-
ed with. And am satisfied that poor
little misled Joe Brown has had his
pardon clerk already fixing up re-
lease for his Innocent darling In case
of any conviction. And as q matter
of course the gutter snipes VINO went
over to Augusta from South Carolina
will hurry to offer their services TO go
on sweet Tommy's bond and also TO
Iappear in the courts along with sea-
board Bill and his friend, ]. Frazer
lIyon. who have heretofore been his
bosom friends In his defense, all save
chairman Carlisle, who I suppose VIII
II be too busy "moseying" to leave his
own state Just now. Consequently all
will be we'll. Birds Of feather flock
together, and Of course IL the LEAD
lbuzzard rings his bell the congregation
Will assemble.
Columbia Record, May "a: Gov.
Blease had planned to attend the
Gettysburg reunion and to take MS
entire staff, or as many Of those VINO
desired to accompany him. However,
| he stated this morning he has received
so many invitations to deliver adress-
ses in this state during the summer
and particularly on July 4, that ne
~ a 5,,Ax 10 70 h GtQfa
that he should not be out OF South
Carolina on the natal day or the ma
ton. There is another, and prooaply
the paramount, reason for Governor
Blease's change of attitude In regard
to attending the Gettysburg reunion.
The chief executive Is of the opinion
that there Is entirely too much red
tape connected with the anair. he
states that he thought 1t was 10 pe
a regular reunion OF the aged Wearers
of the Blue and the Gray. He mas
had some correspondence with the
secretary in charge Of the reunion
larrangements, and he received a let
ter this morning from him asking for
certain credentials, etc. From the
mass of correspondence exchanged,
l. the governor has arrived at the con-
clusion that only those with certain
specified credentials will be looked
after; and, while this In no way
would affect the governor and his
staff, the chief executive says that ne
does not care to attend an occasion
of this kind in which special privileges
will be extended to any one, even to
the governor Of a state. Governor
Blease, this morning, wrote Col. Lewis
E. Beitler, the secretary, as follows:
"Your letter Of May 20 received.
There seems to be so much red tape
connected with securing quarters for
the Gettysburg reunion that, in view
Of this fact and in further view OF
the correspondence I have heretofore
had with you, and your seeming lack
of interest, I have decided not to at
tend with my staff, as had planned.
Il trust that a good number OF veter-
ans from this state will be able to
|attend." The governor said that, In
view Of all the circumstances, he be,
lieved the best place for the old
soldiers Of South Carolina on this oc-
casion will be at home, but that he
wanted to leave to each individual
veteran the matter Of whether or not
he will attend: that the only interest