Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1912 — FELDER “CALLS” GOV. BLEASE [ARTICLE]

FELDER “CALLS” GOV. BLEASE

Witness in South Carolina Dispensary Case Answers Executive’s SI,OOO Defy. Atlanta, Ga., July 16 —“I am neither a bully nor a braggart, blit I am willing to meet Blease anywhere outside the state of South Carolina and give him any personal satisfaction he desires.” This statement was made by Thomas B. Felder, on his return to Atlanta, after testifying before the special investigating committee of thb South Carolina legislature, probing the old state dispensary case at Augusta. The statement was in answer to. a declaration made at Bamberg. S. C., by Gov. Cole L Blease, in which he said, “I will gi,ve any man SI,OOO who will get Tom Felder two feet on this side of the Savannah river and let me fee present.”