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Show m f . . SERIOUS CONDITIONS - IN SOUTH CAROLINA f tn Governor Accused of Taking Bribes. Said to Have ' - Pardoned Criminal V Testifying in the court house " at Altanta, Ga., last Friday be fore an invesigating committee i of the South Carolina legislature, S. B. Folder, an attorney of Atlanta, At-lanta, accused Governor Cole E. ' I Blease of that state of having, taken bribes from whisky houses , which supplied liquor to the South Carolina dispensaries, bribes for his influence in direct- " ing the course of bills in the legislature, leg-islature, bribes tor protection extended to "blind tigers" and a bribe of $2000 for pardoning Ru-, dolph Rabon, a notorious - . "fence." I Felder gave names and details and supported his accusations with evidenca gathered by agents of the noted detective, William' J. Burns. Much of the testimony was obtained with dictagraphs. Mr. Burns was present. He said that in all' his thirty years' experience he had never seen anything equal to the situa-' tion in South Carolina and that1 ' San Francisco graft was infitesi- I mal in comparsion with the cor- 1 ruption in South Carolina. The investigation is being held in Georgia because Mr. Felder ) had been warned, he said, that ) if he entered South Carolina he I ' would be assassinated. He said 3 he knew that mercy had been I promised to one of Blease's henchmen if he would put Felder C out of the way. n There is no real need of any- m one being troubled with consti- Ri pation. Chamberlain's Tablets n will cause an agreeable move- m ment ofrthe bowels without any ;, unpleasant effect. Give them a W trial. For sale by Palace Diug i. Store |