The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-07-24
LAURENS CROWD
WAS BOISTEROUS
No VERY SERIOUS DISORDER Al
MEETING HOWEVER.
Pollock Exchanges Warm Words Aud.
itOr Who Undertakes to Interrupt
His Speech.
The State.

His Speech.
The State
Laurens, July 22.-The record
breaking crowd OF the campaign came
to Laurens today to hear the sena-
torial candidates, tAere being ap-
proximately 4,500 persons present.
In consequence Of the shakeup at
| Greenville last Saturday, many voters
came here today from adjoining coun-
ties expecting another tilt. L5ng be-
.ore the hour for the meeting to be-
gin the natural amphitheatre out in
tie grove where the meeting was held
had been packed. The meeting was
Aoistelcus, but there was no excite
ment although tle governor said
that it had been rumored that he was
to be assassinated here today.
i Reminding his hearers that there
was nothing between him and tae
man who would s2oot, the governor
t urged that "if the assassin is here, let
him dohis dirty work
The nearest approach to disorder
was when w. P. Pollock referred to
the Union Republican ticket Of 1880,
which ticket contained the name of J.
F. Gibson of the governors staff One
maa in the audience branded this as
lie.
At this tense moment several po-
licemen hurried about the man. wao
kept repeating: 1T is a lie and he
knows it."
The Cheraw candidates reply was:
"A man can't come to my face and
call me liar unless he's willing to
take the consequences"
Harking back again to the assassi
ration idea, the governor said that
a newspaper yesterday in an editorial
had invited the assassination of the
chief executive
81. should be killed." the g,crn-
or added, more hearses would be
called for the next day tan for
many years" The cause he represent
ed, he explained, would still go on.
Reporters and editors came in again
for scathing assault, most of them
being placed in the "Aaanias club"
'@The reporters and two-thirds Of
the editors" he said, would be in
hell before night" if adjudged as
Aranias and Saphira were.
Mr. Pollock gQe the brunt OF the
leckiing today when he was making
bolu assaults on tae governors rec
ord. The leaders were in small
groups. and kept up team work in
raising an uproar when particular
point was being emphasized, or the
climax of an argument was ap-
preached
Sheriff John Owens referred to
these as "intruders" from Anderson,
Greenville, Greenwood and Spartan
nurg counties.
Calling directly to one particular
squad, he reminded then that they
did not belong TO Laurers county and
hence were not needed as yell leaders.
The sheriff also said that he did not
believe that there would have been
any disrespect shown to any speakers
i, lad there been no invasions from
other counties
George A Browning, who acted as
chairman in the absence Of w. c..
Irby, who is a candidate for governor,
said that these were also strangers to
him
Gov. Blease was the first speaker
today, and began with the quotation:
Those whom the gods would de-
stroy t.ey first make mad
He said the anti-Blease forces were
defeated, and in substantiation cited
three cases where men have recently
become enraged. One, he said, at Whit
mire, when a mill president invited
the governor "to go below another
at Anderson, when another man with
a gun climbed On the stand" and a
third at Greenville last Saturday,
when J. W. Norwood attempted to get
to the governor after having been
denounced as a coward by the chief
executive
No Blease man, the governor con-
tinued, mad yet tried to assassinate