The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
MANNING, c, WEDNESDAY. JULY 29. 1914

be better citizens" he told the jeer
ing Blease men. He said those who
didn't read were generally the one:
who didn't want the truth told them
"How about Blease being expelled
from the South Carolina college?'
asked voice
THAT is personal, and I do not in
tend to be personal with any one, ant
1 will not allow any man to be. per.
soal with me-" exclaimed Mr.. Pol
lock.
In another shot at the Blease men
the speaker said: Red badges stand
for Socialism, Nihilism and anarchy
You poor South Carolinians who wear
those red badges are deluded and en-
slaved. In the last few days. 500
wearers of these red badges OF Social
ism have torn them off and trampled
them underfoot after they heard the
record of Cole Blease.''
eff I end this campaign with the
consciousness that I have aided my
State I'll feel amply repaid" he stat
ed, saying Smiths record was too
veal to stand upon and Blease's too
bad to run on, but for Gods sake if
you have to vote for one, vote for
Smith and reject Cole Blease."
He then detailed, amid the howls
of the hecklers, how the governor had
shown throughout the State the pic
ture of negro children and a white
teacher in a Benedict college. cata-
logue.
"Why did the governor not tell you
that he was trustee of negro col
lege at Orangeburg?" asked the
speaker.
Mr.. Pollock told of the governors
claim at Laurens that some one was
trying to assassinate the chief execu-
tives. The speaker then said that
latter an attempt was made to assas-
sinate a good woman's character at
the State Hospital for the Insane, a
midnight assassin tried to get rid Of
DR.. Mcintosh"
Mr.. Pollock said that one of the
gunner, a Lefty Louis" a 'Dago
Frank" "Gyp the Blood or Whitley
Lewis" may slip up behind a candi-
date and shoot him in the back, but
tbere would be other good citizens to
step in and take his place, so that
'the liberties of the people will not
be destroyed by the bullet of the mid
night assassin"
Senator Smith was received with
great applause For some minutes
he stood surveying the vast audience
and started out by saying that he was
not making a special plea to any
classes, but he had no apologies to
make for what he had said and tried
to do, for "the man on whose should
ers rested the burden of civilization !.
Then followed a technical and il
Eliminating sketch of the money situa-
ton, bond issues, gold and silver and
how and why, in his opinion, the
South was in the financial palm Of "a
few financial pirates of the East.
Following financial history down to
1907 he held that panic was due
largely to the desire of few to con-
troll Tennessee coal and iron. The
"damnable artificial laws" that made
this panic possible were punched good
and hard and led on down to present
day issues.
While explaining the money issue
as would Bryan or some other expert,
the thousands sat quiet and waiting
for a catch phrase at which to whoop
or sneer. The first break in the utter
harmony between speaker and audi
ence came when he spoke of the great
work of Woodrow Wilson in working
to secure the passage Of the reserve
banking law. He got laugh when
he spoke of the fifty-odd lawyers In
the Senate trying to run things and
the few farmers letting the lawyers
think they were the whole thing.
Then he told how he discovered in the
new banking law that too little time
was allowed on farm and saw mill
paper He made the point, fought it
out and won his fight for more time
for farmers paper. He spoke of his
interview with President Wilson
along this line and of his insistence
in the Democratic caucus for six
months time for the farmers paper.
He wrote with his own hand Section
13 OF the new currency law, which
gives the farmer six months time on
his notes.
Gov. Blease, the next speaker, made
several side remarks to some who in
terrupted him. To one of them the
governor said, "If anybody starts
SOluSluluS iOCS VI SOu WILL UC SG1 iSo
out, for We are here prepared" To
those who were Kissing the governor
paid his respects. ''I'll make you SC
sick you'll have to hunt DR. McIn-
tosh,' he called to another.
In taking up the Richey case Gov
Blease read portion of his typewrit
ten copy of his speech at Abbeyille
This is what he said:
81 will not read you certificate
One of the gentlemen who signed il
has just passed to tie great beyond
A man who has done more perhaps
for the alleviation of human suffer
ing than any man OF his age that has
ever lived in South Carolina; mar
who stood, as a surgeon and physi
clan, the equal of any, and man O.
the highest moral character He i:
dead and can not speak for himself
but here is what he said:
HTba otbor cionor Dr 1amec II