The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
Meet in COLUMBIA
BLEASE SAYS NO FRIEND OF HIS
SHOT DR.. M'INT0SH
MAKES FOOLISH THREAT

Tells Audience 'If Anybody Starts
Something Lots of You Will be
Carried Out, For We Are Here Pre-
pared'-Pollock and Jennings Ad-
yertise the Record of Gov. Blease.
eve would report that we find Mr.
Richey suffering from marked neu-
rosis, that the same closely Stimulates
a true paralysis" is what Gov. Cole
L. Blease Thursday read at Columbia
from what he said was the original
certificate handed him by Mr.. W. R.
Richey signed by Drs. James H McIn-
!tosh and A. B. Knowlton on their ex-
animation of R. A. Richey, the Able
vile man, while he was in the peni-
tentiary and prior to his being par
oled.
The governor read the whole GER
tifcate while the 5000 people who
packed and jammed the Columbia
theatre listened closely during the
tense moment. This was in answer to
the published statement from DR.. Nc
Intosh that he and Dr.. Knowlton had
agreed that Richey's paralysis was
feigned.
DR.. Mcintosh was not on the stage,
but wGs lying in Knowlton's lnfrm-
ary, where he was taken for treat
ment early Thursday morning after
having been shot by man who held
him up on Marion street and who fed
over the Presbyterian church yard
wall after he had assailed him. The
governor said he was sorry that DR..
Mcintosh was not on the stand and
went on to say that mo Blease man
did the deed" Referring to the
shooting, "Blease has got no friends
who hold men up" he said
Stirred by the attempted assassina-
ton of Dr.. Mcintosh the audience
gathered for the senatorial meeting
under a high tension. Long before
the hour for the speaking to begin the
theatre was filed with partisans Of
all the candidates, and by Il o'clock
| every seat was taken AID every avail
able inch of standing room utilized
and many were unable to get in.
United States Senator E. D. Smith
was given an ovation which lasted
several minutes and received good
attention during his speech. Gov.
Blease was Justify cheered by hun
dreds OF his followers in the theatre,
but was Kissed and howled at by his
opponents, there being long intervals
at times before he could proceed with
out interruption.
l.. D. Jennings and w. P. Pollock
arraigned the pardoning record of the
| governor in bitter terms and ex-
coriated those responsible for the
trial of DR.. Eleanora B. Saunders
before the asylum regents last De-
cember All through their speeches
they had to contend with the jeering
cries of disapproval and the neckling
of the Blease followers, but they
went after" Gov. Blease with gloves
off and received warm applause and
cheers from his opponents.
Gov Blease was not on the plat
form when L. D. Jennings of Sumter
was introduced. Mr.. Jennings took
up the record of Gov Blease. The
yelling of the crowd momentarily
drowned the speaker "I'll not be
stopped by anything that you do"
stated the candidate. I'm going to
tell you about the record Of which
the governor says he's proud of which
you Bleasites should be proud" The
speaker turned to a discussion of the
governors pardon record. Il don't
know what the governor calls a prop
erly signed petition; he says that he'll
grant pardon upon the presentation
of a properly signed petition" Mr.
Jennings cited specific cases. He
could make himself heard with diff
Guilty because of Interruptions from
the crowd.
Mr.. Jennings then started addi-
J tional cries by saying that the heck
lers can howl now for they won't have
a chance after August 25; as Blease
will be defeated.
Mr.. Jennings, applying the epithets
''sap heads to the hecklers, said he
knew them; that they had been fol-
lowing the campaign and making the
dis:ur Dances.
In speaking of Blease's claim that
the governor would turn out the ne
gro mail carriers if he gets to Wash
ington-'which he won't do'-MT.
Jennings said the governor could not
do it. The speaker claimed that Jen-
nings, if elected, would try to have
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments repealed, not .'tie the negro at
the end of the hemp rope, like Gov.
Blease.
"He will try and turn all the pris-
oners out of the federal prisons -
: claimed Mr.. Jennings.
: II wonder if any of the crowd hol-
lering has a wife, daughter and a
mother" said Mr.. Jennings
'I have cried voice.
Then how would you like to have
those two letters written about
them" exclaimed the speaker. refer
ring to the trial of DR.. Eleanora
B. Saunders.
Mr.. Jennings claimed that the two
. letters were written to make places
for the political henchmen of the gov.
: ernor.
81 W. P. Pollock of Cheraw. the sec
ond speaker, prefaced his speech with