The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-06-24
Consolidated Aug. 3, 1881.
DlElsE CHANGES TACTICS.
SMITHS PROMPT CALL DOWN AT
ST. MATTHEW'S EFFECTIVE.
Governor Promises tn Sing Different
Tune For the Balance Or Campaign.
VIII Mako No Charges Against
Smith but VIII Try to Hold His
Own Faction I'm Line.

S"assh Ous VIII Try O IaOiu HIS
Own Faction In Line.
st. George. June 19.-Campaign
meetings In Orangcburg and Dorchcs-
ter counties stand out In bold and
striking contrast. Yesterday i'm Or
angeburg. co per cent. Of all the
hustings thunder might have been
properly labeled anathema. billings
gate. invective and crushing ridiculc
and abuse. Today there was an abrupt
change in tactics. During the night all
arms had been stacked and horns
drawn In.
In the future the governor. by his
own announcement, will only seek "to
hold the majority which he already
has," and not attempt to decoy the
friends OF the other candidates. In
explanation he said: II make no
charges but II were to prove con-
ciusively the most disreputable thing
against Senator Smith. there are
some people In this audience who
would still vote for him. They arc
prejudiced. They are not open to
reason. Therefore. I'll only seek to
hold the majority which I already
have" Newspaper reporters. too. are
not to be villined from platforms. In
the event they misquote him, but arc
TO be reminded In private. and asked
to correct the statements In the next
dispatches. he said.
The governor was not bitter today
IN his attack on Senator Smiths rec
ord. The worst the senator got was:
II don't believe there's a single voter
In this audience with little enough
sense to believe that one man Is re-
sponsible for the advance In tho price
Of cotton. II thought that by keep-
ing Senator Smith in Washington cot
ton would go to 20 ents q pound,
t6SKrd- withdraw from the race and
DO all that could to reflect him. "
Senator Smith SO controls the market.
why back In 1911. did he advise you
to hold your cotton for Is cents, when
you were getting IL and IL cents?
Some Of you held, and took s cents
In consequence. What was he doing
then? II he's responsible for the
price Of cotton, who's responsible for
the increased cost Of mules, OF shoes
and clothing and other commodities p
Mr.. Pollock. too. refrained from
slashing the senator for what he had
done In Washington. This speaker
did lay some part of the high cost of
living ut the junior senator's door by
telling the voters OF Dorchester, az
he did the Orangeburg people yes
terday. that II had cost tho govern
ment nearly $1,000 a pound to fatten
Senator Smith.
Tho burden Of the Cheraw mans
speech was: you don't want any
man elected To the United States SEN
ate through the instrumentality OF
federal appointments. Neither do you
want to elect a man through the in
strupnentality Of appointments made
In South Carolina. or through the
potency OF a political machine. You
don't want to select n man who is
out OF Joint with your national party.
You don't want to send there a man
who can't work In double harness.
On the other hand. you do need a
man who has the sympathy and sup
port Of his leader and colleagues, IL
he In to be OF any direct benefit to
the state he represents"
l.. ID. Jennings made the only az
gressive speech Of the day. but there
was little of caustic lcrimony i'm this.
The mayor OF Sumter vigorously de-
Tended the new primary regulations
as embodied In the recently adopted
party rules. which IL helped to
frame. And this was not done to
cheat the poor man out of his voic:
nor. as the governor asserts. Is IL "a
piece Of trickery to fool my friends.
You have To go To the polls to vote.
then why should you object to spar
Ing the time II will take to- register? |?
All you have to do Is To go there and
register once. and YOU are qualified to
vote the balance Of your life. When
your~ dead. you ought to stop. That's
Just why the rules were passed. Be-
for the changes were made a dishon-
est man might go to the graveyard
and take the name OF John Smith,
who was killed In the battle of Ma
nassas. 1861. and vote some other
dishonest man under this name. The
law. my undcccived friends. was not