The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-08-05
SPEAK At AIKEN
LARGE CROWD HEARS THE SENA.
TCRIAL CANDIDATES
PERFECT ORDER PREVAILS
Jennings and Pollock Assau the Rec
ord Of Blease, Who In Turn As
sails Smith, Who Had Spoken Be-
fore Him in Explanation of Bis
Work for Farmers

: fore Him In Explanation OF Bis
Work for Farmers
Aiken furnished model meeting
Thursday. There was no heckling
!; and every one of the four candidates
for United States Senator was given
respectful hearing. Mayor Gyles
had announced that perfect order
would prevail and policemen scat
tered throughout the crowd were suf-
fcient warning that any unsuly dis
play would be checked.
| The sheriff sat on the stand and
i the chief Of police was there also,
and signal from these was enough
to stop any unnecessary disturbance.
The mayor made splendid presid-
ing officer, and Aiken gained many
compliments on the fine spirit dis
played the 5000 people hearing ev-
Iery one attentively
| Possibly the most cosmopolitan
crowd that has heard the senatorial
candidates during the summer was
modified at Aiken. Every hamlet
from Lexington to Augusta contri-
buted its quota of political forces.
The Charleston train brought In
others equally partisan from towns
between Williston and Bamberg, and
from Salley to Anendale. In the ag-
gregate there were between $500 and
5000 voters in attendance, which was
possibly the largest crowd Of the
campaign, with the exception Of that
at the Laurens meeting.
L. D. Jennings was the first In the
lists. He deplored the fact that there
were two factions in the State. OF
one of these, the governor was the
leader, he said, whether consciously
or unconsciously. On this side we're
all the blind tigers in the State, not
| vote of which he expected to change.
It was his purpose, ne averred, to
open the eyes of the good people
who had been unwillingly lined up
with these.
Mr. Jennings answered the COVER
nor's statement made Wednesday
that he had saved the State $4,000
by virtue Of vetoes in the appropria-
tion bill at the recent session Of the
Legislature. One Of the big items In
this, the speaker said, was the sal
aries of two stenographers at the
asylum investigation last winter, ''the.
whole record Of which the governor
would have liked to veto and send
down to Hades."
In painting the governor as the
pretended protector Of woman's vir-
tue," the mayor Of Sumter cited the
Emerson case in Anderson, where
the father was slain in defense OF his
daughters honor, and told Of the
procedure of the trial Of DR.. Flea
nora B Saunders.
After his lambasting Of the gov
ernor on his pardon record Mr.. Jen-
nings severely arraigned him for his
actions in the DR.. EIeanora B. Saun-
ders case, telling the governors fol-
lowers "To take this thing home with
you and ask yourselves if you would
like to have such letters written
about your daughter as the governor
wrote about DR.. Saunders"
'tI don't believe there is a man in
this audience with a white skin,
though his heart be as black as hell.
will holler for Blease after hearing
the record in this case," said Mr.
Jennings, going on to say the Saun-
ders t'trial' was worse than that OF
| Christ before Plate.
Received with cheers, W. P. Pol
lock told of his entering the fight to
stop law1essness and enthrone order
in South Carolina, citing his service
in the general assembly and as pres
idential elector in voting for William
J.. Bryan for president. He said he
could guarantee that Mr.. Jennings
and Smith would live up to their
pledges, but ri can't say as much for
| Blease, for when you people noEi-
| mated him along with q man for
Master here he violated his oath and
appointed Oliver as master over an
other man who lad won over two
opponents" this causing the audi
ence to cheer Mr.. Pollock.
He praised President Wilson and
said Gov Blease was antagonistic to
the national administration, was crit
icising the national leaders, opposing
Senator Tillman and "out Of joint
with everything but his own magni-
fed ego." He told the Blease men
that "the scales were falling from
their eyes, and to those who were
cheering "Hurrah for Blease," Mr..
Pollock said: Don't cheer. boys,
the poor devil is dying"
Mr.. Pollock bemoaned the fact
that the Mexican war didn't material
| ize. If it had, the speaker explain
ed, the governor would have led the
South Carolina troops into Mexico.
The troops, he said, could then have
dropped hack, leaving the governor
and his little 'Dago colonel to the
tender mercies Of the MeNcans.
"They may have thought they
would close Dr.. McIntosh's mouth by
an assassin's bullet, but he was saved
to deny he signed the Richey certih-
cate" exclaimed the Cheraw man,
saying the truth could not be kept
from the people. He again referred
to the demonstrations for Gov. Blease
| at Saluda and elsewhere as funeral
professions.
"Blease has pardoned every crime
in the decalogue," began Mr.. Pol
lock, in his merciless arraignment Of
Gov. Blease. "It's treading on dan
gerous ground" he continued, "of
granting pardons on petitions, saying
/ it was a menace to the poor man as