The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-08-11


designed as illustrations.
Mr.. Jennings offered to withdraw
Ifrom lie race and to pay $500 to any
man who would point to single mis-
representation OF fact in the charges
preferred against tie chief executive.
There were many calls to continue
when the speakers time had been
consumed.
Welcome for Pollock.
Mr.. P-llock's reputation had pre-
ceded him and this candidate got
rousing welcome when introduced.
After reminding the Marlboro yot-
ers tnat his mother had been born
in Marlboro county 80 years ago, tie,
speaker said that he had no political
machine and did not desire any. He.
wanted to appeal to the reason and
intelligence of the voter and not COM
pei the people to vote for him through
the potency of political machine.
The governor had boasted, ne said,.
that he had the greatest organiza-
ton ever built up in South Carolina.
TIlis candidate, 100, said that the
governor could not be depended upon.
to keep his party pledge and cited
in support various appointments when
anti-aGministration men had been
elected in the primary.
"If he did it once, he'll do it again.,
Mr.. Pollock shouted with emphasis,
and then added, 'for the miserable
leopard never changes its spots"
The speaker warmed to a pitch Of
eloquence when he answered the chief
executive as to the separate coach
vote. He had written the bill, he
said. which was adopted practically
word for word, after the bill providing
only separate apartments in the same
coach had been voted down.
'That man." he continued, "who
tells a half truth and conceals the
balance is worse than the man who
tells a full lie." The governor, ne
added, had been in the legislature for
years and years, and he dared the
chief executive to point to a single
separate coach bill he had introduced
or to an instance when he had opened
his mouth to further tne cause.
When the legislature was struggling
to get an act of this nature through,
Mr.. Pollock said, $le governor was
the representative of the c. N. & :.
railway, and basbing in the Influence
of Ben. Abney, general counsel for
the Southern road, and now living in
the governors home.
The pardon record came in for an
otaeir griilTng arraignment. In con-
Guiding this part of mis- speech, Mr.
Pollock said tlat the governor had
got beyond the ccmmon place stage
of a mixed breed and was "a four to
one' in that be had pardoned more
than 900 negroes and only 800 whites
Two new cases in the pardon record
we're cited by the speaker.
The crowd had followed every werd
the speaker had uttered, and there
was much insistence tat ne contin-
ne when lie had finished.
Needs No AOpOlgy.
When introduced Senator Smith
said he would not insult the intel
ligence of the audience by replying
to the "garbled statements" they taad
heard in the morning. From his ear
liest entry into public life, until the
present time, ,le said, here was net
single act of his bic: needed al
apology. He had come before the peo-
pie on the platform Of seeing to 1t
that the agricultural interests OF the
South had proper consideration. re
had kept the faith, he said, and urged
that the record be searched. His
time lie explained, would be given
over t. a discussion Of the issues which
should be dear to every farmers
heart.
The war situation consumed much
of the speakers time The plan which
The senator will urge when ne gets
to Washington Sunday night is that
:, the machine for the full operation OF
the new banking and currency law be
completed with dispatch. When this
is done, it will be possible for farmers
to mold their crops as they can then
, demand that money be issued on cot