The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-06-26
SHORT MEETING
HELD IN JASPER
Train Delay Maeks Speak
ing Brief.
NO SPECIAL FEATURES.
Usual Lines Followed by Candi-
dates, Who Address Small
Crowd.

ty had little opportunity to take the
pedigrees of the trio of candidates
who angled for votes az Ridgeland to-
day. A wreck on the Charleston 4
Western Carolina railroad detained
the party in Beaufort until 1880 in
the afternoon.
or the 700 persons who had como
to town early in the day to hear each
aspirant discuss the different issues,
not more than 800 remained until I
o'clock when the speaking began.
Then each speech was limited to
20 minutes. While the people from
the country were patiently awaiting
the arrival of the train from Beaufort
r. M. Mixson, who is opposing Con
gresham ]. f. Byrnes of the second
district, made a brief address to the
Jasper county voters. This candidate
slightly muddied the waters of Ser
ator Smith by springing in advance
one of his pet jokes as L. d. Jeu-
nings did at Beaufort yesterday. IN
the brief hour here today the canGI-
dates had small oportunity to lie
velop any new angles 20 their CUSTOM
airy speeches.
Mr.. Jennings, who has been walk
ing with hobnail boots over the chief
executives neck discussing the par
don record, did not even mention the
narnn
HAS NO MACHINE.
Mr.. Pollock said if elected that it
would not be be due to political ma
chine like the governors, built up by
political appointments or like Sena-
tor Smiths based on the free distri-
button of pumpkin seed which would
not come up"
The speaker again referred to the
wide open blind tigers in Charleston
and the reckless disregard for law
which he said honeycombed the city.
Mr.. Pollock reminded the people here
as he did in Beaufort yesterday of the
bar Charleston had which he said was
in full operation last Sunday, run
by the dago, Sotille," a member Of
the governors staff.
What" this speaker continued,
has the chief executive done to bet
ter the condition? If it's all right for
Charleston, why wrong for the people
here in Jasper county?"
This precipitated a volley of ques-
tion from the audience, some of
which were: What were you doing
there?" why didn't you swear out
IA warrant? You were a citizen of
South Carolina.
The speaker brushed MS queries
aside by answering that he didn't
have to go into the bar TO see wnaU
was going on; that he was not citi-
zen of Charleston county nor ALL offic-
er sworn to, enforce the law.
oMITH'S Usual SPEECH.
Senator Smith made his usual
speech setting forth with as much
detail as the time would permit his
efforts to have fair contracts bet
ween the stock exchange bears and
the cotton producers, also of the
struggles he had to put Uncle Eph-
rain in the picture" his characters
tic way of saying that he has place /
the farmers on the same basis in the
new banking and currency law as the
bankers and the broker.
The senator elicited much applause
when he said that he was running in
the race like a negro's cavalry mule
when the driver had forgotten the
stopping word halt" He was pre-
sented with a bunch of beautiful
flowers, which he said would not be
used at political funerals but some
would be pressed in memory of those
who mace heroic efforts to get to the
United States senate.
Mr.. Jennings said he didn't believe
that he was talking to people that
could be fooled. mo one with an
ounce of sense" he said, believes
that cotton jumps up every time Sen
ator Smith sits down."
Most of his time, however was Civ
en- over to frank discussion of the
new primary rules, which, he said,
"are of more Importance TO all fac
tions just now than what Senator
Smith says he has done or the price
of cotton.
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