The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-08-25

w. y. W. WdlcH charm ana cNdIn,
some fruit and flowers.
l.. D. Jennings was the succeeding
speaker He scathingly denounced
the governor as "tae pretended pro-
tector Of womans virtue" 1t was
pointed out that the governor couldn't
face the music when his record was
under fire "The governor always
turns and runs like a cut all cur"
Mr.. Jennings charged, and added: Il
want MIN to understand that I'm re-
sponsible for what l say here today
and hereafter"
The mayor of Sumter emphasized
that all the blind tigers and race track
gamblers were tearing their shirts for
the governor. The only man he saw
the governor "wining and dining with
when the campaign party was in
Charleston" was with a man who mad
pleaded guilty to the charge of bribery
and pal da fine OF $4,000
"I mean jim Farnunl,'' the speaker
added, though it would take 20 tons
oS dynamite to blow Cole Blease up
to the plane of citizenship occupied
by Jim Farnum"
1t was at this ,juncture that Mr..
Jennings told the audience that Glenn
West, negro, ''the most notorious
blind tiger in SUMTER was in the
crowd with Blesse badge on. "He
was pointed out to me-" the speaker
said, and added, 81 saw him with my
own eyes and seeing is believing" l
saw him, too, came back chorus,
others saying, "Over there he is now."
When talking of the pardon OF
portland Ned" Mr.. Jennings asked
if the governor had taken the yegg-
man to his office for lecture on mo-
rality, when the pardoned mai made
such mysterious disappearance from
the governors Office. That was one
thing the governor would never be
able to explain, the speaker said.
This candidate then launched into a
discussion Of the Emmerson and
Richey pardon cases, to illustrate the
governors "pretended protection of
the womanhood of South Carolina" :"
Newspaper reporters were liars, Mr..
Jennings explained, when they wrote
anything about the governors record,
"Mr. Pollock and 1 discuss his record
every day, and he has not yet stayed
on the stand and called US liars, but
has to run every day." he said. Con-
tinuing, ne said: 1--WE admit the
charge by the governor that we are
'spewing out filth for the governors
record is the direst kind of filth"
At the conclusion of his speech, Mr..
Jennings got large basket of cut
flowers from Sumter friends and sew
eral large bouquets.
The Same Speech.
W. P. Pollock, the last speaker,
varied his speech little from that he
has made on practically every stump
throughout the State He referred
to the trio o., "colonels" on the gov
ernor's staff, these indicating the gov
ernor's inconsistency as to "Repub-
licanism'' and "Dagoism." The Che
raw man recited his pardoy, "Old
King Cole,' for the last time in the
campaign and drew applause wnen
reading the list of challenged "fur-
riners" in Charleston, provoking
laughter as he pronounced in his
staccato voice the peculiar foreign
names.
Mr.. Pollock said that there were
100000 good men in South Carolina
who ''knew Cole Blease was liar
when he charged that I had been
hired to go into the campaign to help
Smith"
The Cheraw candidate almost Gre
ated a panic of mirth when he told
the crowd that the governor 'romped
over the State two years ago bride
less and riderless.' He then added,
"But I'm the man who's taken the
ease out of Blease. I've put bride
on him. I've got curb bit in his
teeth and am popping the spurs into
his side, driving him back to the liv-
cry stable in Newberry, where he be-
longs"
Mr.. Pollock was we'll received and
was urged to continue when the time
limit had been reached.