The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-22
HOLD HAND PRIMARY
POLLOCK BEATS GOVERNOR TO
OLD PET STORY.
NETTING OF FEATURES

Jennings Makes $4,000 Offer-Pol-
lock Roasts Governor-Smith Well
Received-Governor Leaves Stand
While Voice Shouts "Stay and
Take Your Medicine.
The campaign meeting at Able
vile Tuesday was. one continuous
chain Of unexpected features. The
governor himself afforded the first,
when he gave practically his entire
time to a discussion of the parole OF
R. A. Richey, who was convicted for
assault upon his 13-year-old adopted
daughter. Though the governor con-
sumed 80 of his allotted 35 minutes
lin reading letters and other manu-
scripts on which the parole was oas-
ed, he said this was neither an ex-
PLANTATION nor an apology.
Nor was it, he said, to be consid-
cred as a reply to anything that had
been said on the stump by opponents,
though this case was the high light
in the Greenwood meeting last Sat
urday. He did this, he said, in an
swer to certain resports that had
been circulated in Abbeville county.
and if it had not been for this, he
would not have come to Abbevlte.
The governor said that Richey,
though technically paroled, was out
on a $4,000 bond, and that he could
be reincarcerated at any time, and
would be when his health so improv-
ed that it would not impose a bur-
den on the State to keep him IN the
penitentiary.
Mr.. Jennings added another fea-
iture when he read editorial comment
from the Yorkville Enquirer to the
effect that Messrs. Jennings and Pol
Ilock had entered the campaign ac-
cording to a carefully prearranged
plan to help Senator Smith and that
the selfish motive behind it was
probably money-expenses paid
from some other source, and a good
bonus in addition" The speaker
said that if the author was gentle
man he would furnish the proof as
to the Encouragement or retract it
with the same publicity.
| Mr.. Jennings declared that other
wise the writer would show himself
a liar. The charge about money he
denounced bitterly. The mayor Of
ISumter offered to withdraw from the
race, and in addition to subscribe
ls5,000 to the deaf and dumb instf-
tute at Cedar Springs if the editor
will furnish proof of his assertion.
Mr.. Pollock, in raking through the
t"records" again, mentioned another
lmember of the governors staff. This
! latest discovery, according to the
tCheraw candidate, is the son Of the
man who owned the Kingstree paper
on which James l.. Sims OF Orange
burg, as a young man, set type: It
was for this work that the governor
Iso strenuously objected to Mr.. Sims
appointment as United States mar
shall, and over which he has gnashed
his teeth on many stumps in the
present campaign.
| The speaker called for the first
lhand primary. After subjecting the
governors record to severe grilling,
he asked that all those who indorsed
THAT record to show their hands. The
tspeaker said about Is shot up. When
Iasked that all those who did not ap-
prove to raise their hands, there was
a general futtering of hats and wav-
ing of arms while the grove behind
the court house echoed with ap-
Iplause.
| Senator Smith was the first speak
Ter, and was we'll received and gener-
|ously applauded. He made his usual
Ispeech in defense of his record, with
out any apology for working five and
one-half years in the interests of the
farmers. There were many bursts OF
Spontaneous applause in response to
his appropriate jokes. When he had
concluded he was presented with the
unique gift of the campaign, which
was last years cotton stalk Of rank
growth, with all the long staple locks
hanging low from the burrs. There
was much applause when this was
passed up to the stage.
Senator Smith began by saying
that there had been some comment
upon Cotton" Smith, "Boll Weevil'
ISmith and Cyclone" Smith had done
nothing. If he hadn't, ne said, he
Twas thankful that he was there when
1.-THE doing was done. He then read
the letter from Senator Smith of
| Georgia to the Greenville Piedmont
disclaiming any credit for the Smith
cotton bill, whom the governor had
said was the author. Senator Smith
introduced the original BILL" the let
ter ran, ''and if any one has given
me the lions share of the credit (for
lamending and supporting the bill on
the floor of the Senate), I regret it.
Too much credit can not be given
your own Senator E. D. Smith.
He then discussed a measure now
in the committee conference, which
when it becomes law within the next
fou, dave will nomno1 cotton dea1erS
to deliver the same grade Of cotton
as contracts call for. "When you sell
middling, you deliver middling or its
equivalent or you go to jail in con-
sequence" he said, in explanation Of
its curbing power of the cotton brok-
ers to contract for middling or better
goods and then deliver "dog tall or
any available Junk.
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