The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-07-03
TOGA ASPlRANTS HURL. NEW
RULES ABOUT AS FOR.
ENSlC DARTS
PLACE FOR BLEAsE
Sumter Gladiator Suggests Part
nership With Sottile For the
Governor After Canvass
Special TO The Intelligencer:

Special 10 The Intelligoncer:
Lancaster. July 1.-The six hundred
voters who aatent1etf the campaign
meeting here today were more en-
phatid in their choice Of candidates
than we're those at Chester yesterday.
Governor Blease was the first spek-
er. and group OF animated followera
directly In front of the porch on which
the speaker was standing cheered the
governor Justify when he was intro
Quoted. They were equally bolster
Gus when the governor made his GUS
tomary scathing denunciation of the
new primary rules and took his for
enstc swings at "nigger'' "nigger,"
"nigger." Mr.. Jennings bitterly as-
sailed the governor concerning the
asylum, episode. churacterizing the
trial of Dr. Eleanora B. Saunders az
"a proceeding such as has never been
held in civilized country before"
Has New Job.
This speaker suggested new job
Tor the governor today as the COVER
nor promised one to Senator Smith
yesterday
''Mr Blease yesterday at Chester
said that he'd go back to Newberry
and work again In the livery stable
before he'd apologize for or explain
any word lhe, had ever uttered or any
thing that he had ever done, ! sug-
gest" continued the speaker that he
go to Charleston and go into pnstner-
ship with james Scottile the Kings OF
Blind tigers, the colonel on his staff.
The governor would then have a better
business ~ E. .l Il
This speaker aldo took ssnator
Smith fto. task fog bis fa tlliEe 10. m:
dict BIeaseiBm rs IS X &
How long will he keep silent" the
speaker asked II don't know wheth-
er he endorses Blease's record or not.
He hasn't yet said anything In this
direction. / believe that its his duty
too to show that Blease is not fit to go
to the United States Senate. How long
will he continue to make only that
cotton speech which we heard six
years ago. and which any parrot could
ynake by. going around with the cam
paign"
Primary Rules.
Mr.. Pollock spoke of the new pri-
mary rules and said that he had no
apology to make for helping to frame
them. II stood shoulder to shoulder.
with those who wanted every honest
voter In South Carolina to vote once
and just once" He then read the list
OF "furrtners" taken from one OF the
Club Rolls Of Charleston, a general
admixture of Greek Hungarian and
italian names.
These are the scaim OF the earth
the. riff-raff that DRIFT into Charleston
and herded together and were voted
like sheep by Vincent Chicca and
James Sottile" Mr.. Pollock explained.
"They don't know a word of English
they can't even sign their names.
They haven't a dollar. Yet they are
the kind that come In from Augusta or
bordering counties on election days
and kill the votes OF honest farmers"
It WAS while Mr.. Jennings was de-
Tending the primary rules and ex-
planning that 1t was the undesirable
fraudulent vote that was tS be dis
franchised. when some on called out
''the5 were all on yoar side. we didn't
need them
''Well, we changed the rules to keep
these out. then why should yea OBJ
1ect II they were all on your side,'
Mr.. Jennings retorted.
Smith Spoke Last.
Senator Smith was the last speak,
er. He had been twitted earlier In
the day by each speaker. saying that
the Lever cotton excf lnge bill had
teen substituted Cor q. Smith bill.
The senator made q good point by
reading the agrociated press dispatch
that the scrate declined to accepted
The Lever Bill as .eubstitu.e; the sem
ator also sw ept the audience when he
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