The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-15

POPS IT TO HIN
POLLOCK INJECTS NEW CHARGE
AGAINST GOV. BLEASE.
REPUBLICAN ON STAFF

Cheraw Man Holds Up Old Ticket OF
1880 on Which He Reads Name OF
J.P. Gibson, Who He Declares is
Now One of the Members Of Gov.
EIease's Personal Staff.
At the seventeenth meeting Of the
senatorial campaign at Union Wed
nesday, W. P. Pollock of Cheraw, a
candidate, injected a new charge into
the race when he held aloft for in
spection of the 1000 voters assembled
the Union Republican ticket Of Marl-
boro county for 1880 and read there
from the names Of several negroes
running for Office and that OF ]. P.
Gibson, candidate for the House of
REPRESENTATIVES. Mr.. Pollock declar-
led that this J. P. Gibson is J. Pres
ton Gibson OF Bennettsviile, who, the
speaker said, Gov. Blease appointed
as a member of his military staff.
There was concerted effort on the
part Of group of men in front OF
the stand-supporters OF the COVER
]nor-to heckle and hold Messrs. Jen-
nings, Pollock and Smith, but each of
the speakers succeeded in making his
speech regardless Of Interruptions.
About fifty Bleasites, wearing red
badges, were massed directly in front
of and close to the speakers stand,
and it was with considerable diff
Guilty that the speakers were heard.
They persisted, however, and when
his time was up had covered about
the usual ground in criticism of the
governors official acts during the
past three and half years.
After Senator Smith had gotten
into the swing of his speech-al-
though enunciation was difficult on
account of the hoarseness of his voice
the heckling soon subsided and the
speaker was given a respectful and
attentive hearing. There we're few
interruptions of the speech Of the
chief executive.
Senator Smith wen outside Of the
regular routine of his speech to an
swer certain charges made by Gov.
Blease against the senator's record.
The speaker denied he was member
of the Haskell convention, explained
the reason for his vote on the bill to
pay to the family of lynched man
$4,000 and said that negroes retained
government positions because they
stood competitive examinations under
the rules of the civil service. In
speaking of the negro question, Sen
ator Smith said:
"The man who says that advocate
political or social rights for the ne
gro tells a falsehood and he knows
it." Judging from the amount Of ap-
plause given the various speakers,
Senator Smith was by far the favor
ite.
Mr.. Pollock was the third speaker.
He held up the pamphlet containing
the Walterboro speech of the chief ex-
ecutive which Gov. Blease has distri-
buted over the State, a voice cried:
eve don't believe what we see in
the newspapers"
"Pardner, if you had as much
brains in your head as you have
mouth, I would ask you to get up
mere and make speech" was Mr..
Pollock's gentle rejoinder.
The speaker then commented on
the clause in the governors Walter
boro speech which stated that the
decisions of the judges based on the
verdicts of the juries should be up
held, by saying that this was the
"hugest joke" Of the chief executives
career. He then told Of the pardon
record, and said that more than 800
conyicts granted executive clemency
are negroes.
The speaker then held up a worn
ballot of the Union Republican party
of Marlboro county for 1880 when
James A. Garfield ran for governor
and read the following names:
"W. A. Haynes, negro, presiden-
tial elector from the First district;
presidential elector from the Fourth
district, Wilson Cooper, another ne
gro; for congress from the Seventh
district, Samuel Lee, another negro;
candidate in Marlboro county for the
House Of Representatives, J. P. Glib
SON."
"J. Preston Gibson, one of the
names on the ticket, is the man whom
Gov. Blease appointed on his staff
man who ran on the Republican
ticket in 1880 along with negroes y
said Mr.. Pollock.
After saying that Gov. Blease has
been the greatest "friend the negro
buck has ever had" because Of the
chief executives pardon record, Mr..
Pollock stated:
"Cole Blease has had you people
blindfolded for long time, but
thank God, the blinds are being SHOW
ed aside and the scales are falling
from your eyes, and the people of
South Carolina are coming into their
own."