The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-15
REVIEWS CAMPAIGN
FACTIONS NOT AS DISTINCT AS
IN LAST ELECTION.
THE SENATORIAL RACE
Senator Smith and Governor Blease
Both Expect to Win on First Pri-
mary-Pollock and Jennings Are
Making Many Friends and Attacks
nn RIease Gain Them Votes.
on Blease Gain Them Votes.

The sixteenth meeting of the sena-
torial candidates was held in Spartan
burg Saturday. The coast section OF
the State has been covered, and
portion of the Piedmont has been Wis
tied. The most marked development
in the campaign so far, says VIM. J.
Mccormack, special correspondent OF
The Columbia Record, is the strength
gained by the two post candidates.
L. D. Jennings of Sumter and ". P.
Pollock of Cheraw-who have been
deyoting the major portion OF their
speeches to an attack on the political
records of E. D. Smith Of Lynchburg.
candidate for reelection, and on Cole
L. BIease, governor. Their militant,
attitude and the strenuosity Of their
attacks are winning favor from the
voter. The friends of Senator Smith
say that ne will carry the solid far
mer vote, while the ballots Of the tex
tile workers are conceded to the gov
ernor, yet the claim is made that he
j
men for granting executive clemency
to a large number Of negro convicts.
The proponents of Gov. Blease, on the
other hand, are claiming that he will
be nominated by a majority of from
$4,000 to 10000 votes in the first
primary; that he has retained his vote
Of $4,000 OF. two years ago, and is
gaining additional strength.
fractional lines do not seem to be
SO sharply drawn, nor is partisanship
so rampant as two years ago. When
ne was making The race for the gov
ernorship against Judge Ira B. Jones,
of Lancaster, Gov. Blease was greet
ed by his cheering followers when
ever his train reached by-path or
town along the route. At his destina-
tons frequently he was lifted on the
shoulders of his admirers and rode to
carriage or automobile awaiting him.
How different this year! The chief
executive attracts very little atten-
ton, except among his leaders ct the
various county seats.
In fact, none Of the candidates are
creating sensation. In various parts
OF the State so far Travelled, however,
farmers come quietly into the trains
along the route and tell the junior
senator that they ~are with him" and
viii send him back to the senate.
Gov. Blease's reception was warmer
when he got into the Piedmont.
Messrs. Jennings and Pollock are
making many friends.
The speeches of the governor are
taken up with an attack On the rec
ord of Senator Smith, particularly
that part in which the junior senator
is alleged to have taken in the HAS
kell" convention. The main theme
Of the governor is his continual coz
tention that Senator Smith has fav-
ored the negro throughout his politi-
cal career.
L. D. Jennings and W. P. Pollock
devote the major portion Of their
time to severe criticism Of the rec
ord of Gov. Blease and th " pay their
respects to. the record made by Sen
ator Smith during the five and one
half years he has remained in the
Senate. Both speakers injected new
issue into the campaign at the Wins
toro meeting last Tuesday.
They attacked the .star chamber"
/. trial of Eleanora B. Saunders, M. D.,
former assistant physician at the
asylum, which was held by the board
of regents of the State Hospital for
the Insane on December II. They
have asked the. governor on every
stump since to explain his connection
with the trial. but he has remained
silent, only indirectly referring to it
by asserting that he "will neither ex-
plain nor apologize for any act or
word" Of his since he has been gov
ernor of the State. "My friends don't
want me to apologize and my enemies
can't make me-" he always exclaims
His failure to explain the Saundsfs
matter, it is said, has done, nucn to
hurt his throughout the State.
Senator Smiths speeches have beer
devoted to discussion of his fight
for cotton and an explanation Of his
record in the United States Senate.
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