Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-26
the pardon were related by Fielder as

the pardon were related by Fielder as
| follows:
Tho day before the pardon was
granted and, as we were hourly eX-
pecting it, some very unfavorablc de-
vclopments occurred, resulting from
undesirable newspaper publicity, ana
we requested those responsible for it
to iesist until things quieted Down.
1--WE had been expecting for a week
Or ten days to get the order for Morse's
! release 1t did not come, so the day
the release was granted we called at
! the office of Hon. John r. Mclean, a
warm personal friend of Mr.. DauGh-
erty's and an acquaintance of mine,
also friend of both the president and
the attorney general: Mr.. Mclean took
the matter up actively. He called the
editor in chief OF the Washington Post,
b Mr.. Bennett, over the phone, sent his
automobile tor him and had him
brought to his office, where he had
a long conference, going thoroughly
over the situation.
Got Discharge Order.
CAS- q result thereof Mr.. Bennett
was despatched to the office of the at
torney general, where he was joined
by Attorney General Wickersham. and
the twain called at the White House,
and after a protracted conversation
| between the president and Mr.. Mclean
over the telephone, Mr.. Bennett re-
turned to the office of Mr.. John r. Nc
Lean and delivered to US the order dis
charging Charles w. Morse and the
same was transmitted by us to the
head official at the Atlanta peniten-
tiary."
The letter then tells of Morse's de-
| parturc for Europe, and states that
there appeared in the press Of the
country numerous sensational articles
/ to the effect that there was nothing
the matter with iNorse's health; that
| his release from the Federal penitenti-
I airy had been secured by fraud and Of
| ficials were urged to, take immediate
steps to have him remanded to the
! penitentiary.
! Conferences followed with Attorney
/ General Wickcrsham, in which Daugh-
erty and Fielder urged that he pardon
order was final and that if the pardon
had been obtained by fraud it would be
necessary to submit it to jury.
/ Next in the letter is related how
/ Daugherty and Fielder sought to COL
, lect the fee after Morses return from
Europe. AS q result Of preliminary
conferences, Morse, Daugherty and
Fielder met in the room of New York
hotel, according to the letters.
"An animated discussion followed in
which Mr.. Daugherty denounced Morse
| i'm unmeasurcd terms, declining en-
phatically to accei., the stocks tender
cd, either as collateral or payment"
says the letter.
"In this humor he left the room. and
after some further discussion with
| Mr.. Morse he asked me to hold the
stocks until he could make some other
ARRANGEMENTS in respect to them
told them that l would not use the
] stocks, hut he left the room and LETT
them on my dresser. When | left the
city that night fer my home in Allan
\ ta, Ga, took the stocks in my valise.' y
! Fielder, in the letter, vigorously de-
/ nied that Daugherty and he had any
t knowledge of fraud in the Morse par
don-but agreed. that publicity would
be disagrCeable if not embarrassing to
all concerned"
1--WE were informed that the depart
mcnt was in possession of evidence
going to show that after physicians
were appointed to examine Morse and
before they appeared on the scene soap
suds or chemicals or something would
\ be taken by him to produce hcmor-
irhage of the kidneys and that as soon
as the, examination was over, the pa
Iient wAuld recuperatc rapidly" the
letter continues.
"As have stated, we have not
brought the suit or instituted any Pi"-
ceedings in the matter, because both
Mr.. Daughcrty and myself felt that we
had all the notoriCty and newspaper
publicity that we should in reason have
IN connection with this transaction .
The letter concludes:
I'VE have rightly earned all tha'
, Morse agreed to pay, viz: the eXpcns-