The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-06-30
The THREE OPPONENTS
ASSATL GOV. BLEASE
THE THREE CANDIDATES. MAKE
COMBINED ASSAULTS.
About 12OO Voters Gather for the
Meet-ing-SOme Interesting
Features.
The State.

time since the United States sena-
torial campaign opened, the governor
was placed on the defensive today by
W. P. Pollock, who has been persist
emily hammering at the governors 8
pardon record. The governor has been
out of the running for three days
missing the Beaufort, Hampton and
Jasper county meetings, and when
he returned to BarnweH today, ne was
loaded with repr0aches. He had hard
ly begun his speech before he had
to launch into an explanation of the
pardon of the yeggman sometimes
known as portland Ned" who dis
appeared from the governors Office
This outlaw, the governor said, was
not portland Ned" but one James
Johnson instead, who had the alias
of the widely notorious safe blower.
He also read letters from a United
States marshal and federal district
attorney, saying that there were no
outstanding warrants against the
convict at the time clemercy was
granted.
The governor made his customary
bitter attack on the newspapers, des2
ignating certain reporters as liars.
He characterized the new primary
rules as "a dirty, contemplate piece
of thievery, which Portland Ned and
all his associates would not be guilty
Of E. D. Smith, he sid, was Re
publican, and no friend Of his.
Go For His Record.
Though in a distinctly Blease terri
tory, Messrs. Jennings and Pollock did
not let up on their denunciation of the
governors pardon record. 81 expect
to place the governors record on ex-
hibition from every stump IN South
Carolina" Mr.. Jennings said, "and
the detectives running around with
the party can't scare me off the
Stage.
Mr.. Pollock said that ne had heard
niger, niger, niger" until ne was
thoroughly disgusted. That's all the
governors got, and if my memory
serves me correctly, l believe it
was only few years ago that the gov
ernor himself was a trustee of a negro
college in Orangeburg.
Senator Smith, who has been COM
pletely ignoring the charges by his
opponents. today answered the state
nent made by the governor that Mr..
Smith, when a member Of the legis-
lature, had voted for, bill to indem-
nifty the family of a negro. who had
aeen lynched, to the amount Of $4,000.
In answering this accusation, Senator
Smith read article s, section :, Of the
constitution OF South Carolina, which
makes this provision. The constitution
was written, the senator explained, by
Senator Tillman and his Reformer as
sociates, back in 1895, "the very heg
day of the power OF the common
people"
Many Voters There.
Approximately 1900 voters attend
cd the meeting and each candidate
was cordially received. The governor
got welcome similar to that extend
ed by Barnwell on former occasions,
Senator Smith, too, was favorite, and
when the governor asked for min
ute at the close Of ,Mr. Pollock s.
speech to answer charge by Mr..
Pollock, it looked as if the governor
would be howled down by calls for
Senator Smith. The governor waited
patiently a minute and then exclaimed
that he knew what he Vas doing. Il
asked permission from the chairman,
and l also got Senator Smiths per-
mission to make a brief reply he
said
wv. H. Duncan. the. presiding Off
Ger, said that this permission had
been granted, and that The governor
should have an opportur;ty to make
reply, regardless Of their disapproval
The boistreousness then subsided, and
the governor was allowed to explain.
Immediately upon his arrival in
Barnwell today the governor was
handed a petition Tor a pardon, he
said, bearing 81 signatures. Among
these, he asserted, were so anti-Blease
men. '1That shows the kind Of traps
they set for me- If were to grant
the pardon, then they'd run around
and attack me for granting it. It
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