The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23
BLEASE and NORWOOD
COME NEAR TO BLOWS!
WORDS OVER RICHEY PfRDON
CAUSE OF ROW-BLEASE
HURLED FIRST INSULT.

NreellNllle, July 10. "iiiN
three thousand people watched
with bated breath, expecting to wit
ness fsticuff, perhaps the shed
ding of blood, one of the leading
bankers of South Carolina, J Will
kins Norwood, of this city, strug-
gled frantically to break away from
a number Of men holding him and to
personally resent what he consider
ed an insult offered him by the
Governor Of the State, Cole l.
Blease, during the Senatorial cam
paign meeting here today. The
trouble started while the Governor
was speaking, when Mr. Norwood,
who was on the stand at the rear,
asked, How about DIR McIntosh?'
The Governor replied: When
I get to Columbia | will ask DR. Nc
Intosh on the stand and then an
swer the question, not behind his
back, like coward like you" MIR
Norwood then made an effort to get
to Governor Blease, hurting an
epithet at the Executive while en-
deavoring to break from the hall
dozen or more men who seized him.
Sheriff Rector and Mayor Marshall
were also on the stand and appear
ed to be using their best efforts to
avert clash, and perhaps TRACE
dy. Several men were heard to
make threats of shooting. The
Governor remained where he had
been speaking, and by his side were
State Detective E F Hammond and
several others, who, it was said,
were also officers.
Mr. Norwood's question, How
about DR. McIntosh?"'was prompt,
ed by a statement issued by Dr'J H
Mcintosh, of Columbia, denying
that he had recommended a pardon
or parole for r A Richey, OF Able,
vile, which matter Governor Blease
exha,tstively reviewed at the meet
ing in Abbeville, when he read d
statement from DR.. Mcintosh, who
had examined Richey while in the
penitentiary. In his last statement
DR. Mcintosh declared he not only
did not recommend the pardon OF
Richey, but that he had stated in
his first certificate that he believed
Richey was feigning.
After the candidates had spoken
there were many calls for Mr. Nor
wood, who came to the front OF the
stand and in simple manner related
his version of the affair, saying that,
If what DR. Mcintosh says is true,
Blease is what we all know him to
be, dirty, infamous liar He
then bitterly arraigned the Govern
or, saying Newberry is the home OF
Governor Blease and DR. Mcintosh,
that "Blease can't go into the home
of DIR Mcintosh" and the latter
would not enter the home OF
Blease.'
He said that any educated man
who was supporting Blease was a
dirty skunk" He made further
remarks bitterly denouncing the
Governor and his followers, saying:
This fellow Richards running for
Governor is a prince of hypocrites.
Il happen /, to know that. He
declared every man in Greenville
interested in selling blind tiger
liquor was tearing his shirt for
Blease and Rector"
Mr. Norwood is president of the
Norwood National Bank of this city
and is interested in banks in other
places. He is said to be the second
largest representative of banking in
terests in South Carolina and is a
brother of Joseph J Norwood, the
well-known banker of Columbia,
Greenyille has no citizen more
prominent that j wilkins Norwood
and many expressions Of resent
ment were heard from Greenyille
people that Governor Blease's reply
j