Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-03

mount the platform.
| He attacked the governor in re-
gard TO the DR.. Saunders matter;
told Of Dr. Saunders education at
VIII throp college, and of her good
work at the asylum. Yes, he said Il
COMMITTEE of Blease men and anti
Rlease men had indicted her. Yet
the governor said at Chester, he would
not explain nor apologize for what he
had done. If you people can stand for
that, when he refuses to explain, may
God have mercy on your souls
| Mir. Pollock said he was not in the
race to beat BleaSe, but wanted to be
elected himself. He did not want the
position for the money alone; and
said that the man who looked on life
as a continual fight to benefit himself
had poor conception of it. That's
the way most of them look at it,
said some one.
Your governor boasts of his par
don record, and there are some par
dons which are justifiable. His par
don record covers every crime. He
says his friends like ii and you can't
help it. Has it come to the time
when our free people will stand for
this? asked the speaker. He told of
Portland Ned who, he said, had a
hand in a robbery in Fort Mill, and
who was taken to the governors Of
flee and in some mysterious way es-
capped. Three weeks after Portland
Ned was pardoned, safe was cracked
within one hundred miles Of CO.
iumbia Is it not better to have such
men cracking rocks, than to have
them blowing safes and killing the
men who try to catch them? Four
teen thousand jurors have heard the
testimony in these cases and given a
conscientious verdict. Yet the govern
or had set them all aside.
The governor had said great deal
about the rules adopted at the state
convention. The speaker said the re-
port that he, Mr.. Pollock, was men,
ber of that convention, was mistake.
He favored only one vote for every
native South Carolinian. The speaker
charged that mobs Of foreigners had
been brought over from Augusta, Ca,
to vote in Aiken and Edgefeld coun-
ties He said that maybe some for
eigners had been brought from Char
lotte to vote in York county.
He wished to open the eyes Of mill
operatives and said he knew no class
so long as the men were honest. AS
has been the custom since the cam
paign began, Mr.. Pollock read a list OF
names of foreigners who had voted in
cial expression during the reading OF
the list caused much amusement to the
good natured audience.
He charged that Governor Blease
was standing with the foreign element
in Charleston, and referred to the ap-
pointment Of James Sotille, whom he
dubbed a sawed off little dago," as a
member of the governors staff. He
called the especial attention Of the
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this appointment.
The governor is always talking,
"Nigger, niger, Niger" said Mr.. Pol
lock, "and yet he does not tell you that
q few years ago he was trustee of a
negro college" He also touched on the
fining Of the governors negro chauf-
feur in Columbia, and said that it
made a lot of difference whose negro
was fined"
The speaker said that in case he was
elected he would do faithful work to-
wards better roads and education. He
paid high tribute to President Wilson,
and said the people should send man
to the senate who would work in har-
mony with the president. Blease and
Tillman could not work together;
neither would Blease work with Will
son. He said people should vote for
Blease's return to Newberry and the
livery stables.
He said the governors coat tails
had been trimmed so short there were
none left, and that he was hollering
calf rope. The speaker said he was
raising his voice to stop the wave OF
| lawleSSneSS that was sweeping the
state.
When l go 1t Of the state, l am
ashamed, because people know Blease
is governor l blush with shame"
You ought not to do it," came from
the crowd. Il can't help it," said Mr..
Pollock.
"Humph!" retorted his tormentor.
The speaker said he would have no
regrets or heartburns If defeated; but
would feel he had done his duty.
Senator Smith.
Senator Ellison D. Smith was next
introduced to the audience and was
given applause as he began his speech.
candidates usually took up about forty
minutes Of their time in trying to
prove that he had done nothing since
he had been in the senate.
He created some fun at the expense
of Messrs. Jennings and Pollock who
had commented on his increased
weight referring to himself as a thor
oughbred and to them as razor
| backs"
He said that he hoped to have only
a piece Of a lawyer opposing him; but
had come to find out there were three
pieces in the race and two Of them had
suddenly become farmers also. He
said that IS of the So members Of the
United States senate were lawyers.
Messrs. Pollock and Jennings said
they were born on the farm, but as
soon as they attained their majority,
they came to town, became lawyers
and began farming the farmers"
The senator fiayed the lawyers in
the senate, saying they got up long
bills which mentioned parties of the
first part" and of the second part
and yet these same lawyers were par
ties to the whole plot The senator
said he would never fight President
Wilson as long as he is with my
crowd"
Senator Smith spoke at some length
on foreign immigration and said that
| if he had the power he would prevent
immigration from Europe. He said
the surplus lands of America should
be reserved for future American citi-
Zenship and said that so long as he
remained chairman Of the committee
on immigration he would strive to at
| tain tnat enQ.
Until the last few years the farmers
never believed they had sense enough
to attend to their own business, but
always got lawyer to attend to 1t for
Them and then the earnings of year
were taken up in settling with the
lawyer. However, the farmers are
holding their own now.
The senator discussed the new bank
ing and currency act, pointing out it's
benefits to the farmer. 1t is a wonder
the farmers have anything, he said,
because heretofore the farmer had to
have United States bonds gold and
silver as security. These things had
no relation to farming, but were con-
trolled by half dozen Wall Street fl
nancial assassins who caused the
panic Of 1907 in order to get control
of Tennessee Coal and Coke.
Under the new law, farmers can give
any kind of property as security. The
speaker said that he had demanded in
caucus that the farmer be allowed the
same lentgh Of time to borrow money
as it takes to make a crop, and that
the Smith bill gives that right.
| They say l am man of one ideal.
Some one has talked cotton from to
124 cents a pound. Maybe | didn't do
it all, but thank God | was there when
it was done.