The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-07-23
BANKER DENOUNCES BLEASE.
Addresses Crowd After Regular
Senatorial Meeting.

Greenviile, July 1S.-The tension
which has held the senatorial party
all the way in the tour through the
Piedmont broke today and for few
moments at least converted the po-
litical camp into surging, strug-
Cling, bowling mob. One innocent
enough looking question was the
cause of the explosion, which has
been threatening several days.
When the governor was speaking,
J. w. Norwood, president of the Nor
wood National bank, said to be the
second wealthiest bank in the State,
asked the chief executive:
How about DR.. McIntosh?'
The governors answer was: When
l get to Columbia l expect to request
DR.. Mcintosh to take seat on the
stand. III answer that question then
and not behind his back as coward
like you"
Calling the chief executive a
damned liar" Mr.. Norwood swept
aside the policemen standing beside
the little swinging gates to the in
closed stand and rushed toward the
governor, fighting his way against
other policemen and State detectives
who sprang between them. 1t was
with difficulty that the infuriated
man was forced backward down the
ten-foot steps, it requiring the COM
bined efforts of half dozen stalwart
men to keep him from breaking
through and getting to the governor,
who remained standing in the far cor
ner of the stand, where he was when
he made the statement.
From all sides the audience closed
in and Mr.. Norwood was pressed
back in a struggling mass equally de-
termined to get into the melee. No.
body was badly burt, though many OF
those in the mixup were struck with
fists about the face and breast. Mr..
Norwood had blows directed at him
from all sides, but he was so active
that none was effectively delivered.
The question at issue today was: At
the Abbeville meeting the governor
devoted practically his entire time to
an explanation of his parole of R.
A. Richey, who was convicted of as
saulting his 13-year-old adopted
daughter. When the convicted man
had supposedly developed paralysis
the governor appointed medical
commission, composed of the late Dr..
A. B. Knowlton and DR.. James H.
Mcintosh, of Columbia, to make an
examination. 1t was on the basis OF
these medical reports, along with
others, the governor said at Able
Vile, that he granted the parole.
The governor there praised in un-
eauivocal terms the professional and
manly characters of these physicians.
Since last Tuesday DR.. Mcintosh has
been quoted in signed statement
saying that he believed that Richey
had feigned paralysis and that he had
so said to the governor in his report.
1t was this that led to the disorder
today.
The governor spoke to large
crowd Of mill operatives. at the Wood
side cotton mills last night, and then
told his hearers that the meeting
would be over today when he (the
governor) had spoken.
1.-The meeting will begin at l
o'clock" he said. Senator Smith IS
the first speaker and will talk 45 min
utes. l will then speak for the same
length of time. After that the meet
ing will be over unless you care to
stay and hear lot Of trash
The major part of the governors
followers took the governor at his
word today and treked away When
the governor had finished, the speak
er having but little to say after Mr..
Norwood had been taken from the
stand, but the meeting was not over.
Not only did Messrs. Jennings and
Pollock speak and get enthusiastic
welcome too, but Mr.. Norwood took
the stand after these two had their
say and flayed the governor without
mincing words adding that ne WAS
not talking in confidence.
IF what DR.. Mcintosh says is true
MIR. Norwood began, then Blease is
what we all know him to be "a dirty,
Infamous liar.