The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-08-26
TERRIFIC ATTACK
JENNINGS SPEAKS The PLAIN
LANGUAGE OF CAMPAIGN

POLLOCK BACKS HIM Up
Jennings Offers One Hundred Dollars
liz He Can't Prove What He Has
Said Of Blease-Poncck Offers
Scathing Denuncistion OF Governor
Blease While Crowd Approves.
The introduction of Mayor L. D.
Jennings of Sumter Thursday was
the signal for tumultuous cheering,
which soon reached the point of an
ovation. He said it gave him great
pleasure to make his last speech OF
the campaign in his home city. He
said that In the campaign party We're
s Senator Smith, Mr.. Pollock, three
newspaper men and telegraph oper-
ator, all of. whom he found to be gen
tiemeR. that there was another, in
the race, who for the first time while
: he Jennings} was on the stand,
made an offensive reference to him
! and that he denounced the "contemp-
tible cur" as "dirty liar"
Mr.. Jennings said Gov. Biease had
gone all around the State surround
ed by bunch of gunner" paid by
the State Of South Carolina, think
ing he'd run over everybody, but
that when he got through telling
about the governors record the
S Bleasites would be ashamed to hold
their heads up 'sin decent company
Mr.. Jennings said he had seen
where the governor said that the
names OF himself and Mr. Pollock
shoulda't be mentioned in decent
company, but that when he told the
crowd some Of the men he had seen
fhe governor with they would see
that the latter was not good enough
60 associate with the lowest convicts.
He said that at the first few meetings
he gave the governor the time OF
day, until he saw him in Charleston,
with man who had pleaded guilty
to bribery and paid a fine of $4,000,
..so wit, James S. Farnum."
The speaker said it would besmirch
the name of Judas Iscariot to men
fion it in the same breath with that
at Cole l.. Biease. He said that ne
aroes had followed the governor
from the meeting in Manning; that
he had in his possession a circular
: boosting the governor. which was be-
ing distributed by negro. and that
he himself had seen the most noto-
rsous negro blind tiger in Sumter
county, Glenn West. wearing a red
Blease badge at Sumter.
.eThis thing that calls himself a
man" said Mayor Jennings. claims
he's protector of womanhood, but
q bigger lie never has been told. He
said he regretted that it was neces-
sary for him to have to get to "such
low level to reach Blease and his
record and that with the records
.sof Jim Farnum and Portland Ned
it would take 20 tons of dynamite to
blow Blease to the level" Of these
{ two.
He asked if the governor was such
protector of womanhood why
didn't he keep the man who ruined
the home Of old man Drake in peni-
tentiary? No. birds Of q feather
fock together, and Emmerson had to
20 free," this in referring to the well
s.known Anderson. case. In speaking
OF the liberation OF r. A. Richey Mr.,
Jennings said, ..this man who tried
Ito speak to decent people signed a
parole turning Richey out.
"We admit" said Mr.. Jennings,
s.the charge OF the governor that
wsre going about sweeping out filth,
and that some parts of its shouldn't
be mentioned except in the pits of
! hell" He said the governor had not
only made dirty record, but had
actually gone upon the stump and
faIsifed records, citing Solicitor Bon
hams statement that he did not pros
ecute Allen Emmerson and recon-
mended the pardon merely as
friend of the Emmerson family
Mr.. Jennings said if the Eleasites
of Sumter county, who know him.
viii come TO him after the campaign
is over he would make them pres
ent of S1e0 if he could not prove the
truth of his assertions regarding the
governors record.
He said sthat some people believe
the governors statement that the
newspapers have lied on him, but
that he zCJennings) and Mr.. Pollock
have told the governors record from
stump to stump, and that the exc
cutiveedid not have the courage to
stay on the stand and tell them they
lied, because, said the speaker, the
governor knew that, Notwithstanding
.'the presence on the stand Of his
gunner, we would break his mouth
! if we got killed" He said he had
psRed that the governor could not
tell the truth Of his record, and
.sthat's why he doesn't notice Mr.. Pol
lock or myself
Mr.. Jennings declared he would
say, what he had said to the gov
ernor, that "any man who says I've
received anything or been promised
anything is low-down, contempt
ible liar; that all the governor
could say about him was somebody
hired me to enter this race" and that
II he had received a cent for making
the race ''I hope God will strike me
dead
t,n ronoiva6 pvarC