The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-19
DID NOT TAKE: SERIOUSLY
ATTACKS ON HIM
BLEASE WAS MAD
Said Crowd of Farmers Was Try
ing to Howl Him Down.-Jen-
nings Warns Up.

Orangeburg. June Is Citizens of
Orangeburg were less patient today
here with the United Stutes
senatorial candidates than they were
yesterday on "Hell's Half Acre. a
Souhriquct which B. X. Tiliman once
applied to The Calhoun county com
nunity Thomas NJ. Ruysor. who
presided In the abacn>l OF the
County Chairman, Col Adm, II. Moss.
pleaded for Il Inspeci III .ra,i"c for
all the candidates. and Rev. J. l.. Nc
Lees. Presbyterian minister, prayed
that there might he harmony and
peace
However. l.. d. jennings and w. p.
Pollock, both amateurs In the cam
phigninE game charged al the very
outset that the claim set up by e.
ID. Smith That he was responsible for
the advance in the price OF cotton,
was absurd
In the audience there were probab-
ly l.200 voters. most Of them cotton
planters and friends of Smith and
mus dccrying of Smiths eff
forts. got under the farmers skin.
As consequence. there was bully
ragging and heckling. and at times
the speaker had TO walt for the de.
lisive laughter and pungent sarcasm
to subside to make themselves heard.
PERSONALLY. l have nothing against
Smith," thundcred jennings. "No,
you Just want his joh." someone In the
crowd retOrted.
Smith Growing FIeshy.
While Pollock was speakinp. he
called the attention OF the voters to
he fact that Senator Smith had adj
ded fifty pounds TO his ayoirdupois,
within the last five years, in which
time he has received $4,000 salary.
That's rather costly meat, isn't It.?
| When you get hog, fat, Kill him and
salt him down. Don { carry him into
another season" The joke got over,
but some wag In the crowd caused it
TO rebound by adding. ''It will cost
more than that to put 30 pounds on
yol;' carcaas." =.
Thus the puts ana 1abs were BAN
died back and forth, with the chair
man occasionally rapping for order.
GoVernor Blease was the last of the
speakers. he was greeted with ap-
piause, but before this had subsidized,
| The Smith boom was again at It's
| flooded crest. The governors OPEN
| ing remark was II heard before I
got here this morning that was to
be howled down, go AHEAD l have no
objection to your showing that you
are not gentlemen. I expect to be q
gentleman myself"
Wouldn't Hear viease.
Chairman Raysor then urged that
the Governor be heard, but before
tho speaking had gotten under way
the threatened rain set in and the
crowd had to adjourn to the court
house. Here again the speaker had
some difficulty In getting ON his feet,
but when he did get Off, his followers
| whOoped him up as he "cussed" the
| newspapers. particularly the COlum-
bia State. for "niisquOting", him, and
boasted Of his victory two years ago
over newspapers. bankers, corpora
| tons and republicans" and defended
llis pardon record. was proud OF the
| fact that In Columbia last night he
! extended mercy in behalf OF CAL
noun county convict and said that he
wasn't done yet. but did not specify
| date for the jail delivery.
"If You like 1t. you're my. friends,
II you don't, you can't help It," he de-
clared.
Senator e. d. Smiths speech was
largely duplication OF that made on
yesterday at st. Matthews. He dis
missed the charges preferred against
his record as most amusing" "Its
passing strange that the Jump In the
price of cotton should be so sudden,
and that 1t should be, the very time
that my efforts were In some measure
being crowned with success. Strange,
isn't 1t? Was 1t a coincidence? They
tell you that the law OF supply and
demand has brought all this about.
| Why Is II that we are are not only
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