Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-31
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The estimates Of the crowd at the
senatorial campaign meeting at All
ken, yesterday, run as high as five
thousand. The Blease element was
largely in the majority. The speeches
were about the same as heretofore.
There was some heckling but not
great deal.
p. H. Lesesne and DR.. M. NJ.
Rice will make a second race for
the position Of alderman Of the Co
lumbia city council on next Tuesday.
The vote of the four candidates for
the position Of alderman on last
Tuesday was: P. II. Lesesne, 773;
NJ. NJ. Rice, 649; Frank Hart, 1872;
U. r. Brooks. Jr.. 95. The vote was
very light.
- The feature of the state campaign
meeting at st, Matthews. yesterday,
was the speech of Chas. Carroll Simms,
calling Manning to task for his sudden
injection of factionalism into the fight
after he had all the while been pre-
tending to deplore factionalism. He
said that the only purpose Of the elm
ination meeting was to make bank
er (Mr. Manning) governor, and ne
said that the candidate Of the Columbia
conference would never be elected to
the SOVernOrSllp.
- Columbia, July 90: Governor Cole
l.. Blease passed before a motion pic
ture machine in front Of the Capitol
yesterday morning. Several profiles
were taken before the west wing of the
state house, and then the governor
strobe toward the camera, accompanied
by his office force, shaking hands on
the way with a man who came to meet
IL L., oh I'D Of oil NIL
made the pictures of Governor Blease
this morning. Governor Blease, says
Mr.. Blanchard, has agreed to pose be-
fore the motion picture machine at the
governors mansion, as well as at the
capitol In addition to obtaining pic
lures of the states chief executive in
his official and domestic homes, an ef-
fort will be made to take several char
acteristic attitudes of the governor
while on the stump, during the re-
manning meetings of the state sena-
torial candidates.
There were about one thousand
people at the senatorial campaign
meeting at Edgefield last Wednesday,
and the meeting was more or less
noisy. There was plenty of partisan
ship in evidence. Senator Smith made
his usual speech and was received
with applause. Messrs. Pollock and
Jennings devoted themselves mainly to
attacks on Governor Blease and dis
cussed the Mcintosh shooting affair in
way that was intended to make votes
against the governor. Governor Blease
paid his respects to the proposed
elimination conference. He said it was
contrary to the rules Of the party and
if there was concentration Of the an
ti-BleaSe faction under this call it
would mean a distinct violation Of the
rules. He said, however, that he did
not believe the people or the candi-
dates would stand for anything Of the
kind. He said that while he had not
yet gotten definite information from
the enrolment, he had reports from
precincts that had given heavy ma
jorites against him two years ago
which now show an enrolment Of less
than the vote that was polled and he
predicted that the new rules would
lose for the opposition that made
them both the senatorship and the
gOvernorship. The governor referred
to rumors that he would lose in An
derson county, and by way of refuting
the rumors read a telegram from Josh
Ashley saying that his majority there
would be greater than it was two
years ago At the conclusion Of his
speech, Gov. Blease got in his au-
tomobile and left the meeting followed
by many of his friends. Mr.. Jennings
the next speaker, waited until the au-
tomobile had gotten out Of the crowd
and then explained that he had always
been taught to be silent during the
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