Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-26
SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN
Candidates Still Hummins Away at
Records and Things.

After the Walterboro meeting Mon
day, Governor Blease left the cam
paign party with the intention of
skipping the appointments at Beau
fort Jasper and Hampton, and getting
into the scrap again at Barnwen to-
day. His reasons for this, of course,
were the facts that there are only
comparatively few white voters in
Beaufort and Jasper, and there was
business in his office that required his
personal attention. Messrs. Smith,
Pollock and Jennings spoke at all
three Of the meetings which the gov
ernor skipped, and continued to fol-
low about the same lines as at previ-
Gus meetings.
At Beaufort, Mr.. Jennings attacked
Governor Blease's pardon record, and
said that when he reached the Great
Piedmont" he would go into the mat
ter more extensively, touching also on
the records Of the other candidates. He
promised that If his voice held out he
would expose the governor all over
the state" He ridiculed the idea that
Senator Smith had anything whatever
to do with the advance in the price OF
cotton, and also belittled Smiths law
to require samples Of standard cotton
grades to be kept at every public
weighing platform. He said the sam
pies referred to could have no practi-
cal bearing upon the buying and SELL
ing of cotton, as even the government
could not compel cotton buyer to
handle cotton that he did not want to
handle.
Mr.. w. P. Pollock said that he had
entered the race because neither
Blease, who had disgraced the state,
nor Smith, were competent to repre-
sent South Carolina in the senate. He
claimed that his political record was
clean, and that no man had dared try
to criticise anything he had done po-
litically. He jumped on Smith for not
having the courage and patriotism to
attend the recent state convention to
which he was elected. He also went
back at Governor Blease again, refer
ring to the famous Portland Ned in
cident, and suggesting that Ned prob
ably had a suit Of the governors
clothes, when he escaped from the
executive office.
Senator Smith told how since he has
been struggling so long in the senate
with IS lawyers he had hoped that he
was to have only one piece Of law
of them. He defended his patronage
record, saying that he selected for Of
flee, only good Democrats, whom he
had been glad to endorse. He describ-
ed his efforts as being directed to the
task Of helping the farmer to better
and fuller enjoyment Of the wealth
which his labor produces. He said the
high cost of living was due to extor-
tionate freight rates, and described
the people of Washington as hungry
for products that were rotting in the
fields of the farmers because OF the
ineficiency of transportation facilities.
There was only short meeting at
Jasper on Wednesday. the campaign
party having been delayed by a rail-
road wreck.
Hampton Meeting.
At the Hampton meeting yesterday,
Mr.. Pollock devoted his speech main
ly to criticism Of Governor Blease and
Mr.. Jennings devoted his batteries
against Senator Smith. Senator Smith
defended at length the influence he
claims to have exercised in the ad-
advancement Of cotton prices.
Mr.. Pollock said that Governor
Blease no longer had any coat tails
on which place hunters could swing,
for the reason that he and Jennings
and Smith had pulled them off. But
he still has a shirt TAIL" shouted some
one from ,he crowd. And we will
soon have that" said Pollock. Mr..
Pollock said that the governor Is now
on the run and prophesied that on
August 25 he could not carry single
county in the state.
Mr.. Jennings ridiculed Senator
Smiths alleged connection with the
price Of cotton and said that II Smith
only gets the votes of those who be-
lieve his claims in that direction, there
will not be as many votes altogether
as are usually cast by Hampton
county.
Senator Smith gave the record Of
cotton prices for a number of years
back and showed the steady advance
that had been scored. Replying to
the argument Of Mr.. Jennings that the
price Of cotton was regulated alto
gether by supply and demand, the
senator said that the Sumter man had
his spelling wrong-that he should
have said. supply and de man."