The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-07-08
SUMTER. s. G., WEDNESDAY JULY 1914
DISORDER At GAFFNEY.
ABOItTIVE ATTEMPT TO HOWL
POLLOCK DOWN.
Acrid Exchanges Between Speakers
and Members OF Audience Feature
OF Session.

Huilncy, July O.-fO inc llTSt tllnC
since the campaign opened there was
q concerted and directed effort to
the Cherokee county meeting today.
The speaker was w. p Pollock, the
candidate from Chcraw, Chesterfield
county.
1t was placing the non-enfOrcement
of the laws in Charleston directly at
the door of tho governor that pre-
cipitatcd the first confusion, and ask
ing of the members Of the audience if
they wished to be lined up with the
king of blind tigers of Market Street"
on the governors staff
When the first hiff of the gather
ing storm hao blown over, another
gust swept down on the speaker when
he began to flay the governor for the
part he had taken in the trial Of Dr.
EleanOra B. Saunders. It was only
by skilful tacking. stinging replies and
the assistance Of the remainder Of the
crowd that the speaker was able to
resist these onslaughts and fairly beat
his antagonists at the game.
The governor, too, was showered
with derisive questions and was sub-
jected to numerous rebuking utter
ances. One of the hecklers he called
y liar" and "darned fool" and told
him that if he had justice he would
IN all probability be in the pen:ten-
tiary for stealing.
There were approximately 500
voters at the meeting today. The
speaking was held in the court house,
which did not accommodate all who
wished to hear. In the audience were
Sam J. Nichols and Solicitor Albert T..
Hill. both Blease leaders in Spartan
burg county. Il. A Dobson, the coun-
ty chairman, presided, and the Rev.
II. a. Knox offered the prayer at the
opening.
Mr.. Pollock was the first speaker.
He discussed his legislative record.
saying that he was the first to labor
for State aid for weak country schools
ard also wrote a Jim Grow car bill
practically as the present law now
stands.
The man from Cheraw then took
up the records Of two Of his oppo-
ncnts and said that Senator Smiths
record was too small to stand upon
and the governors too bad to hold up
any good man.
When the speaker charged that the
governor was responsible for the
nOn-cnforccmcnt of the laws in Char
lesion and that nc was trying to line
the good people of the State up with
Vincent Chicco and james Sottilc. the
EIcasc forces became incenscd and
piled the speaker with questions.
why weren't you at church," one
asked. when Mr.. Pollock referred to
the bar in Il Charleston hotel, which
nc saw in full operation the Sunday
the senatorial party spent in Charles
ton.
Another rctOrtcd: I'D just as sooit
be lined up with them as with mig
gers"
However, it was not until the trial
of DIR. Saunders was under discus
sion that the distur5ers got in full
sway and persistently whoopcd and
harassed the speaker.
When the asylum investigation was
taken up, y. w. Hardin, who was a
member Of the investigating commit
tee, arose and asked if the governor
throughout the report did not say that
DR.. Saunders was innocent.
The speaker answered in the affirm
ative, but proceeded to read from the
record what the governor had said
about the decent women leaving the
asylum if they knew the talk that
was going on, and also cited the find
lngs Of the committee that DR.. Saun-
ders was eXoneratcd from all insin-
uations and innucndocs and all allcga-
tons, which report was signed by Mr..
llardin. 1T was at this stage that
the hoWlinE was most intense and the
speaker had most difficulty i'm warGinC
off the hccklcrs.
When senator Smith was intro
duccd he reminded the Cherokee au-
diencc that he received the greatest
majority six years ago ever given 10y
the state TO any one for the office.
You'll not get ii this year." some
one called out. The senator evidently
recognized his aCCuSCr as not being
from the farm.
Just wait" the speaker said, Shak-
ing his f"rCiingcr at him, Just wait
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