The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-07-10
MARKS
UNION MEETING
Senatorial Aspirants Have Elk.
citing Time.
SHOUTS FROM THE CROWD
Audience Listens Part of Time
But Does Not Confine Itself
to Using Its Ears

Union Special to Columbia State,
July 8.-The United States sena-
torial campaign meeting here today
was marked by siege OF the most
persistent Interruptions of speakers
that has occurred since the campaign
opened.
Last Satur6 \ at Spartanburg
there was q concerted effort to howl
one OF the speakers off his feet. In
Union today three of the four speak
ers we're subjected to similar grill
ling interruptions from a small but
noisy group that harangued the
speakers and kept up a ripd fire OF
discourteous remarks throughout
the speeches of both Messrs Jen-
nings and Pol tx and far into that
of Senator Smith,
For the first time the governors
friends stayed today after the chief
executive had had his say. On every
stump, the policy of Governor Blease
is not to appear until the time has
arrived for him to speak, and TO
leave the stand promptly when he
has finished.
Today the governor left as usual,
but his supporters remained behind
I to hear both Messrs. jennings and
Pollock apply the gaff to tn egover-
nor's record 1t was their bold as
saults that caused the limited num-
ber to fret and bristle and squirm.
EASIEST FOR SMITH.
OF the three subjected to these in
Interruptions, Senator Smith had
least to resist. This was occasioned
by the fact that the senator refrained
today, as he has on every other
stump, from any discussion of the
and utterly ignored the governors
record. The attacks which were di-
rected against him were in the main
due to a hostile attitude and were
not provoked by any particular re-
mark by the speaker After much
tackling the senator finally struck a
sympathetic chord and carried the
audience along with him by telling
jokes, aptly illustrating the ques-
tions under discussion This was the
second time that the senator has
had to face hostil audience in the
beginning, and then emerge in unan-
imous favor with a chorus of pleas
to continue speaking.
A NEW EXHIBIT.
Mr.. Pollock also added a feature
when he held up for the audience to
inspect the red spread-eagle Repub-
lican ticket of the Garfield-Arthur
campaign in 1880. This explosive
contained the names OF several ne
gro candidates for Republican leec-
tors and Congress from different dis
tricts in the state and that OF j. p.
I Gibson, a candidate from Marlboro
county for the house of representa-
tives "and appointed a members of
1.-THE governors staff"
Governor Blease, wno spoke first,
said that he and his lieutenants had
held a meeting last Monday, when
reports as to the general situation
from all parts of the state were CON
sidered. Conditions are such. he
lsaid, that there exists in his mind no
doubt as to his promotion from gov
Iernor to United States senator on
August 25. "These reports" he
added, were not from blatherskites
or from those who like to hear them
selves talk, but from those VINO
spoke in 1910 and in 1912. when
everything seemed to be organized
against us"
The governor again today strucl,
at the newspapers.
When the governor was pilloring
the members of the state Democratic
convention and charging that the
new rules were only to deceive our
crowd" some one anticipated the
speaker and said, Its rascaIly."
IT'S downright thivery," the gov
ernor retorted. "Rascally doesn't
} express It."
The rules are wrong, otherwise
they would not be defending them. .
dthe governor added.
2 The governor said that he didnt
believe that there was voter in
Union county who would believe that
one, man could raise OF lower the
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