The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
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GREENVILLE BANKER RESENTS
Words OF GOV. BLEASE
CREATES Tense FEELING

j. ". Norwood, Wealthiest Banker
of His County, Goes for Blease,
But Officers Seize Him While He
Struggles to Reach Blease-Asked
Governor About Mcintosh Matter.
While three thousand persons
watched with still breath, expecting
to witness a fisticuff, perhaps the
shedding of blood, one OF the leading
bankers Of South Carolina, J. Will
kins Norwood, of Greenville, strug-
gled frantically to break away from
number of men holding him and
personally resent what he considered
an insult offered him by the Gov
ernor of the State. Cole L. Blease,
during the senatorial campaign meet
/ ing Saturday.
This furnished the only real SEN
sation of the campaign so far, and
| for a while it seemed impossible to
avert serious trouble. Several Off
GERS were seen to reach for their
pistols, but so far as could be OBJ
served in the pandemonium that
reigned for several minutes no wea-
pon was drawn. Mr.. Norwood was
finally overpowered and taken from
the speakers stand. The situation
was extremely tense, the excitement
and high feeling spreading to the
big crowd around the stand, but for
tunately the incident passed without
any real damage being done.
The trouble started while the gov
ernor was speaking, when Mr.. Nor
wood, who was on the stand at the
rear, asked, How about DR.. Mcln-
tosh?" The governor replied:
"When I get to Columbia will ask
DR.. Mcintosh on the stand and then
answer the question, not behind his
back, like coward like you"
Mr.. Norwood then made an effort
to get to Gov. Blease, hurling an
epithet at the executive while en-
deavoring to break from the hall
dozen or more men who seized him
Sheriff Rector and Mayor Marshall
we're also on the stand and appeared
to be using their best efforts to. avert
clash, and perhaps e tragedy. SeV'
eral men were heard to make threats
Of shooting. The governor remain
ed where he had been speaking, anc
by his side were State Detective E. F
Hammond and several others who
it was said, were also officers.
Mr.. Norwood's question, "HoV
about DR.. McIntosh?" was prompted
by a statement issued by DR.. ]. H
Mcintosh of Columbia, denying thai
|he had recommended pardon Of
parole for r. A. Richey Of AbbeVllle
which matter Gov. Blease exhaustive
lly review at the meeting in Able
vile, when he read a statement from
| DR.. Mcintosh, who had examined
Richey while in the Penitentlary
In his last statement DR.. Mcintosh
Ideclared he not only did not recon-
mend the pardon of Richey, but tina
lhe had stated in his first certificate
THAT he believed Richey was feigning
After the candidates had spoker
there were many calls for Mr.. Nor
wood, who came to the front of tht
lstand and in simple manner related
Ibis version of the affair, saying tha
I"If what DR.. Mcintosh says is true
Blease is what we all know him t.
be-a dirty, infamous liar" HI
then bitterly arraigned the governor
Isaying Newberry is the home OF the
Gov. Blease and DR.. Mcintosh, tha
I"Blease can't go into the home O.
DR.. Mcintosh" and the latter "woult
mot enter the home Of Blease".
He said that any educated mar
who was supporting Blease was
dirty skunk. He made further re
marks bitterly denouncing the gov
ernor and his followers, saying
This fellow Richards running fol
governor is a prince of hypocrites.
81 happen to know that He de-
clared every man GreenVlIIe In
terested in selling blind tiger Liquor
was tearing his shirt for Blease anc
Rector.
! Mr.. Norwood is president of the
Norwood National Bank of Green
Vile and is interested in banks in
other places. He is said to be the
second largest representative ol
banking interests in South Carolina
and is a brother of Joseph j. Nor
wood, the we'll known banker of Co.
lumbia. Greenville has no citizen
more prominent than ]. wilkins Nor
wood and many expressions OF re-
sentiment were heard from Greenville
people that Gov Blease's reply to
Mr.. Norwood was insulting and un'
called for.
The crowd was anti-Blease by
three to one, according to County
Chairman NJ. Mills Mooney, who pre-
sided, and Of whom the governor
spoke in high praise during his
speech. The meeting began at l
o'clock, all the twelve cotton mills
around Greenville having closed at
noon, so as many operatives as desir-
ed could hear the candidates. Sew
era1 hundred of them marched to
the park, where the meeting was
held, behind the Blease banner, and
when the governor, who spoke sec
ond. concluded, most Of the march
ers left the grounds with him. The
lineup appeared to be the same as
in other cotton mill towns, the farm
ers foI Smith, the mill men for