The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
FLAY HIN AGAIN
BLEASE CROWD HEARS HIN Lam.
BASTED AT LAURENS

No Love FOR A GUTTER
Pollock Says Brave Men Are General
Unwilling to Stand Up and Take
Their MISUNDERSTANDING Aids ii
Terrific Arrangement Of the Nine
Hundred Negro Pardons.
At Laurens Wednesday Gov. Blease
received a warm welcome. The wear
ers of the red badges were more mum
erous than those who wore the cotton
blossom emblem adopted by the fol
lowers of United States Senator E. D
Smith, but both of these carried of
much applause.
L. D. Jennings was given good re-
ception, but ". W. Pollock had to
fight his way in the face Of hostile
crowd Of the governors followers,
who, seemingly, were not wanting to
hear the Cheraw man. He, however,
held his own and mercilessly fayed
Gov. Blease, raking especially his
pardon record.
There amt white man in Lau-
rens county fool enough to believe Ed
Smith can raise the price of cotton,
stated the governor, making fun OF
the senator's work along this line
He again attacked the appointment
of District Attorney Weston and
Marshal Sims, calling the former a
Haskellite .'just like Smith, and the
latter he attacked for working on a
negro Republican paper in Recon
struction days. The governor claim
ed credit for borrowing the S350,0OO
| for the State at 8 1-2 per cent. in
terest and cited this as proof of the
statement that South Carolina had
prospered under his administration.
L. D. Jennings was received with
cheers and at once launched into an
argument Of the comparison. Of trial
by Jury with the pardon record of the
governor, getting good attention by
his appeal to the reason of his hear
ers. He told of the ease with which
it was possible to get up a petition
for pardon, but asked if it was "rea-
sonable" that 1900 men could have
been locked up in. the penitentiary
who ought not to have been there.
He said that if the next governor was
life Gov. Blease South Carolina
would be in a worse fix than Mexico
The speaker said that he did not
believe in the "shot gun method" of
getting rid of the negroes now in the
employ Of the government, but advo-
Gated the repeal by congress of the
| fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
He impressed upon his hearers the
necessity Of electirg a senator who
would be in harmony with the presi-
dent, and could get through the re-
peal of the amendments by concilia-
tory methods. He said the governor
in his denunciation of the negroes
did not tell about his turning out
90O", and in reply to question from
the crowd asked if those turned out
had "done anything since. Mr.. Jen-
nings related where a paroled convict
from Charleston had been sent back
for thirty years for crime, and charg-
ed that a safe-cracker who was parol-
ed had been sent back from Spartan
burg for robbing safe. He said
1000 people had signed petition for
the pardon of Adam Emerson and
1000 signed a petition not to par
don him, and yet he was let out.
"Tell 'em about it," advised one IN
the audience
Don't you reckon the first thing
that Blease would do if he got 60 the
Senate would be to try to get a reso-
luton through congress asking the
president to turn all of the negroes
in the federal prisons out?" asked
Mr.. Jennings, amid laughter and
cheers.
w. P. Pollock had to contend with
a large part of the Blease followers
all through his speech and frequently
the chairman had to ask them tc
maintain order. He mercilessly fay
ed Gov. Blease in his pardoning rec
ord. He chose the cotton blossom as
the emblem of law and order and II
reply to a sally from Blease mar
replied: Its better than being tag
ged with a red badge like you to keel
from being lost" telling the croWc
that red badges can not intimidatf
white South Carolinians," the B!eas'
men jeering him.
When one auditor told him "Col
ey's going" Mr.. Pollock shot back
Eyes, Coley's going back to Newberr!
to work in that livery stable" Tt
another's question, Where are yo'
1 going?" he answered: Going owe
South Carolina to open the eyes o
such as you Mr.. Pollock defended
the appointment OF Weston and SIM
and said that Gov. Blease had namet
the son of the editor negro Repuoll
can paper at kingstree on his stat
and appointed Col. ]. P Gibson, an
other member, and that Col. Gibson
ran on the Republican yellow tick
ct in 1880.
''It's a lie," came from a strong
lunged member OF the audience o.
the right, while those around tn
stand roared and the chairman an
Sheriff Owings appealed for order
cts a coward who stands back an
insults gentleman on the stand,
said Mr.. Pollock, while to those VII
coiS. 81 know