The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-06-30
ASSA|L GOVERNOR
Y''HEN He RETURNS
Opponents Greet Him With
Reproaches at BarnweIl.
MANY HEAR SPEECHES
About 1900 Gather for Meeting
Which Includes Number of Rath-
er Interesting Features.

er Interesting Features.
Barnwell, June 26.-For the first
time since the United States sena-
torial campaign opened, the governor
was placed on the defensive today by
w. p. Pollock, who has been persist
emily hammering at the governors
pardon record. The governor has ben
out of the running for three days,
missing the Beaufort, Hampton and
Jasper county meetings, and when
he returned to BarnwelI today he was
loaded with reproaches. He had hard
ly begun his speech before he had
to luanch into an explanation OF the
pardon of the yeggman sometimes
known as Portland Ned" who dis
appeared from the governors office.
This outlaw, the governor said, was
not Portland Ned" but one James
Johnson instead, who had the alias
of the wildly notorious safe blower.
He also read letters from a United
States marshal and federal district
attorney, saying that there were no
outstanding warrants against the
convict at the time clemency was
granted
The governor made his customary
bitter attack on the newspapers, des-
ignating certain reporters as liars.
He characterized the new primary
rules as "a dirty, contemplate piece
of thievery, which Portland Ned, and
all his associates would not be guilty
Of" e. d. Smith, he said, was a Re
publican, and no friend of his.
GO FOR RECORD.
Though in a distinctly Blease terri
tory, Messrs. jennings and Pollock
did not let up on their denunciatior
OF the governors pardon record II
expect to place the governors re.
cord on exhibition from every stump
in South Carolina" Mr.. Jennings
said, "and the detectives runniul,
around with the party can't scare me
90 the stage"
=. Pollock said that he had heard
"ger, niger, niger until he was
thoroughly disgusted. That's all the
governors got, and IL my memory
serves me correctly, believe II
was only few years agothat the gov
ernor was. himself a trustee OF neg.
TO college in Orangeburg."
Senator Smith, who has been com.
pletely ignoring the charges by hi.
oppoents today answered the state
ment made by the governor tLat Mr.
Smith, when a member of the legis
iature, had voted for a bill to indem
nifty the family OF a negro, who hat
been lynched, TO the amount of So,
600. In answering this accusation
Senator Smith read article 6, section
6, of the constitution of South Caro-
lima, which makes this provision. The
constitution was written, the senate
explained, by Senator Tillman anC
his Retormer associates, back il
1895, "the very heyday of the powe
of the common people"
MANY VOTERS THERE
Approximately 200 voters attend
ed the meeting and each candidat
got welcome similar to that extend
ed by Barnwell on former occasions
Senator Smith, too, was favorite
and when the governor asked for
minute at the close OF Mr.. Pollock
ute at the close OF Mr.. Pollock
ute at the close of Mr.. Pollock
speech to answer a charge by NJ
Pollock, II looked as II the governo
would be howled down by calls 10
Senator Smith. The governor waite
patiently a minute and then exclaim
ed that he knew what he was doing.
asked permission from the chairman
and also got Senator Smiths pei
mission to make a brief reply" h
said.
w. III. Duncan, the presiding of
Ger, said that this permission ha
been granted, and that the governc
should have an opportunity to max
a reply regardless Of their disapprt
val. The boisterousness than subsic
ed, and the governor was allowed {
explain.
Immediatly upon his arrival
Barnweli today the governor wt
handed a petition for pardon, I
said, bearing 81 signatures. Anon
these he asserted were so anti-Bleai
men, "That shows the kind of traI