The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-08-15
CHANGE SPEECHES At DILLON
CANDIDATES ATTACK EACH OTII.
ER ON DIFFERENT GROUNDS
IN ADDRESSES.
Audience Listens Attcntively and Gives
Speakers Excellent Attention
Jennings and Smith in Good Form
--Blease Draws Away Few When
He Stops Speaking-Smith Favor.
tic.

Dillon. Aug. 12.-In their speeches
here today, United States senatorial
candidates broke away from their GUS
tomary shamble. each OF the four
injecting some particular high lights
OF interest in his arguments for Dill
lon county suffrage.
Gov. Blease, the initial speaker, be-
gan by heaping the usual abuse on
newspapers and reporters, and In this
connection read a letter from the cir
culation department Of The State in
which the offer was made to send
the paper on one months trial gratis
The governor would see that the
United States government found out
who was paying for this. he prom
ised.
The chief executive made another
striking departure when he made g.
direct criticism of the new banking
and currency law. Faovritism would
be practiced. he prophesied, when this
was put in operation.
When l.. d. Jennings was intro
duced, he warned the people that it
was time that they should sit up
and take notice. He had never heard
of any Democrat, he said, who had
charged Woodrow Wilson with dis
loyalty to the people. The gover-
nors charge, he said, was an in
clination toward Republicanism. The
president, he went on, would have
never signed a bill which was not de-
signed for the benefit of the masses
of the people.
w. F.. Pollock said that he did not
believe Senator Smith had raised the
price Of cotton. He was equally en-
phatic in his disbelief that the gov
ernor was responsible for the increase
OF taxable property in South Caro-.
lima during the last three and one
half years. He was worth a little
more himself, he said, but this was
due to the fact that he had kept
working.
Senator Smith today answered the
governor as to appointments. When
In the Piedmont, the governor charg-
ed that the senator had neglected
the lawyers there when it came to
the appointment Of q United States
district attorney. The farmers were
likewise overlooked when q United
States marshal was needed, he claim
ed. A duplication of these charges
is being made in applying them to
the Pee Dee.
In offsetting this at the Dillon
meeting today. Senator Smith ex-
planned that the appointment Of
James i. Sims as United States mar
shall was by Senator Tillman. Fran
els II. Weston was made district at
torney, Senator Smith urged, be-
cause of his faithful fight with e. D.
Smith in 1904, when Mr.. Weston
reached into his own pocket and paid
expenses all over the country in or
ganizing the cotton growers.
Internal revenue, the senator said he
could not say much. He had created
tho office, he explained. only to wake
up and find man slated for the job
as soon as this was done. He was
only cutting his eye teeth then as to
securing appointments. When he was
reelected. he added, he would know
better how to GO about It, and would
be In a better position to get his
share. In making the one appoint
ment of district attorney, he too. had
only stood by his friend, and by the
friend Of every other farmer as we'll
There were Appropriately 1000
persons at the meeting here today,
which was held in the high school
auditorium. Many ladies were in at
tendance. these being as enthusiastic
as the male pOpulace, and the lines
Of partisan cleavage were definitely
cut.
A. B. Jordan, county chairman,
presided, and the Rev. A. G. Buckner
offered the invocation. The best of
order was maintained, there being
only one or two slight efforts to heckle
the speakers. 1t is doubtful If
throughout the entire campaign the
speakers have had a more thought
full hearing. or have been more
heartily applauded when telling blows
were struck.
throughout the campaign It has