The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-08-07
SENATOR SMITH
IS GIVEN OVATION
About 1000 Hear Candidates at
Camden.
SMITH THE FAVORIATE.
kershaw County Farmers Carry
Banners Promising Him Over
whelming Majority.

1000 persons heard the senatorial
candidates here today. Farmers of
Kershaw county made for Senator F.
ID. Smith another of those noisy DEM
onstrations which are becoming so
characteristic of the party campaign.
Senator Smith was drawn to the
grove today by an eight-mule team.
The senator was propped high up on
three bales of cotton and surrounded
by shouting partisans, each holding
aloft a precinct banner which guar
anteed an overwhelming majority
for Senator. The fire laddies joined
in the procession and drove a pair
of prancing horses in front of the
Cotton" Smith turnout, waving
their hats as they clung to the fire
lighting apparatus Several hundred
dust-choked people logged along in
trail cheering and waving their
hats.
\ demonstration was also made
for Governor Blease. More than 100
voters marched up to the grove be
hind a banner with the dual inscrip-
ton: For United States senator
Cole. Blease," and For governor,
John G. Richards"
Interest today conferred chiefly
about the proposed cotton convention
two of the speakers, Senator Smith
and w. p. Pollock, gave much of
their time to discussing the threat
ened continuation OF the demoralized
condition of the cotton market. Sen
would propose would be that the
gational government lend money di-
lrectly to the farmers, at the lowest
possible rate of interest, the national
banks accepting the cotton as a
pledge and this be held until the
market again becomes normal.
Mr. Pollock suggested that The
United States buy up the surplus
cotton, as did Brazilian government
when the price of coffee so declined
that planters could not afford to
raise the product.
Another feature of the meeting to-
day was the positive announcement
by Senator Smith that he did not
vote for Judge Haskell in 1890. He
did not support Mr.. Haskell, he said,
because he did not think the move
ment a wise one, though he had
/ grievously offended two uncles be-
cause he did not vote for Mr.. Has
! kell, as he could prove, he added.
. Tr u-hn
terly arraigned machine politics in
South Carolina He charged that
such political organizations as the
governor boasts of cost great sums
of money. Thus, however, was the
most degrading influence. Next to
, .ne freedom of the press and the
freedom of speech, he added, was
the freedom to go TO the polls and
vote like a man, and not with rings
in their noses, to tie TO a political
machine, where all individuality and
independence of the voters is lost.
Pardons, this speaker explained.
were granted by the chief executive
without any particular concern, eX-
T ttpl dS IL ptISOudl ldNOI, WHICH WAS
extended by the governor to his
lawyer friend pardon brokers.
a large portion of the governors
speech today was given over TO an
effort to discredit the charges that
Bleaseism has been an economic dis
advantage to South Carolina or that
1t has been responsible for any so
called reign of lawlessness." The
chief executive had prepared table
of statistics showing that the amount
of taxable property in South Caro-
lima had increased year by year as
much during his own administration
as during that of former Governor
Ansel. He also read a statement of
figures compiled from solicitors re-
ports. tending to show a decrease in
the number of prosecutions and con-
victions.
In answering this, MIR. Jennings
said that the decline could be eX-
planned by the Wholesale pardoning
of convicts. People, he said, had
found it useless to impose upon the
state the expense incident to trying
and convicting criminals.
"In Sumter county" he added,