The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-08-21
JENNINGS GIVES GOV.
BLEASE DAMN Liz"
PandemOnium Broke Loose at
Sumter Yesterday.
GOVERNOR CALLED DOWN
He Merely Thought il Funny When
Sumter Gamecock Put the Gan
Into Him to the Limit.

Sumter Special to Columbia Rec
ord Aug. 2O.-The final meeting of
the campaign was called to order at
the court house square in the
"Camecock City, this morning by
Senator John II. Clifton, county
chairman who said THAI each of the
speakers had been guaranteed n re-
spectful hearing.
Before the commencement of the
meeting Governor Blease was driven
to the square in vari-colored float
Senator Smith was given an ova-
ton when he commenced his speech
by prasing the citizenship of Sumter
He said that he had waged cam
paign Of issues.
That he had been elected six years
ago by the greatest majority ever
given a man, and the history of his
past was behind him. that he had
kept his promise, and had worked
'in season and out of season" for the
farmer, and that he mad no apology
for the course he had pursued
He eulogized the farmer as the
great 'benefactor of the human
- race" If he is elected, he pledged
himself to keep up his work for the
farmer in the state.
Despite the diversified resources
and the enormous undeveloped
wealth of the South, its people are
notoriously poor.
tous banking system he said there
wasn't enough money to buy the ne
cessities and the luXuries, while
bumper crops were being produced
He denied that the cause of the low
prices for agricultural products was
not over production, but under con-
sumption, caused by the construction
OF the currency under the old bank
ing system.
AS usual, the speaker today made
sarcastic remarks about the lawyers,
who the farmers thought they had to
elect to Office. but now the farmer
is holding his own and is electing his
kind to Office.
Senator Smith for the 44th time
during the campaign rode into the
discussion of cotton on his old Cav
airy" horse.
The senator eulogized the women
of the farm, who with work distort-
ed hands had labored that her son
might have the chance in life that
she had been denied.
In eloquent language he spoke in
memory of his mother, and said that
You haven't got money enough, am
bition enough to make me forget
those who produce the wealth of the
world" and he pledged himself to
continue to work for the farmer.
The speaker then described the
lack of knowledge of the farmer in
the cotton grades, and he told how
he got an appropriation which result
ed in the standardizing of the grades
OF cotton. The buyers, he said
make a difference of SIS a bale be-
tween '1ow ordinary and mid
ullhB ana "nen Jne staple IS DleaCn-
ed and woven into yarn, an expert
cannot tell the difference between the
grades.
At the conclusion of his speech,
Chairman Clifton presented Senator
Smith with silver pitcher from "'His
Lynchburg friends, who know he has
kept the faith" Senator Smiths
speech was punctuated with cheers
and he was given an ovation at the
conclusion.
GOVERNOR BLEASE'S CLAIMS.
Applause greeted Governor Blease
when he commenced his speech. He
said he was gratified at the reception
ne had received throughout the
state.
GAS this will be the last Official
meeting" said the speaker, "I want
20 warn my friends to stay at the
ballot boxes, not only to cast your
vote, but to see them counted"
He claimed that from 100 to
$4,000 white votes had been stolen
from him two years ago.
He read a letter which said that
Manning is the strongest anti-admin-
istration man in the race, that Man
ming is being strongly attacked, that