The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-07-14

that in 76 he had also d.nned the
Red Shirt.
He advocated government aid for
building roads, and thought tAe gov
ernment should come to tie aid Of
weak country schools.
He was asked what Smith had cost
South Carolina in weight. He said he
found that the biggest thing Smith had
ever done was to take on so pounds OF
meat in five and half years for which
We had paid $4,000, which he calcu-
lated at $1,000 a pound, and at that
rate, ne said, he was not surprised
at the high cost of living. He said
that Smith would talk cotton, cotton,
cotton just as Blease would talk
"buck niger He said Smith did not
put up the price OF cotton but Sully
and Brown did, and tdat if Smith
were the wonderful man he claims to
be he would have kept up cotton to the
price Sully and Brown put it. He said
Smith, he would admit, had done the
best ne could.
But that wasn't much" came a
voice from the audience
NO, that wasn't much said the
speaker.
He referred to the great men South
Carolina had had in the senate in
the past, and compared them with
Smith, but said that while he con-
sidered Smith weak he would suffer
his right arm to be cut off before he
would vote for Blease, and if it came
to a choice between the two he hoped
taat Blease would he buried forever.
Smith. re said. was regarded as a
joke in Washington but he considered
Blease a bad governor He attacked
the governors pardon record Wig
orously, the attack being received with
cheers for Blease and cheers from the
wearers of the cotton blossoms.
AS Mr.. Jennings had done, he de-
voted most of his address to an at
tack upon the governor. Jumping on
the governors assertion that he would
keep out foreigners WHO would com
pete vita home labor" he read the list
of foreigners, as he termed them,
enrolling in Charleston, which list he
mas been reading on practically every
stump, and referred to the appoint
ment of Mr.. James Sottile as MEM
Der of the governors staff, saying that
in a military review the people OF
South Carolina would have to pass be-
fore "little sawed eff Dago Who
would be standing by the side Of the
governor"
He predicted that Governor Blease
would be sent back home after this
year.
He was asked if he was working for
Smith or for votes. He said that he
was not in the race for anything but
the interest Of the people of South
Carolina, but he predicted that there
is not a big-mouthed Bleaseite here to-
day who will stand up four years
from now and admit, That they voted
for Blease."
He urged the people not to go to the
polls and endorse the damnable re-
cord of Cole. l.. Blease.''
He told of mis- early struggles.
He said he was holding 100 bales
of cotton from last year on Smiths
advice, and was sorry Of it. He at
tackled Governor Blease for appoint
ing Harrison Neely, a negro, as his
chauffeur, instead of giving the posi-
ton to a white boy. He concluded
amid shouts for Blease and some ap-
plause for the speaker.
He was presented a basket Of flow
ers.
Senator E. d. Smith.
said the trouble with Pollock was like
Lincoln said about the steamboat on
tae Mississippi the boiler so little and
the whistle so big, every time it blew
it stopped.
He wanted to state that he had been
chided and attempted to be ridiculed
because of the stand he had taken in
the United States senate for the far
mers of his State. He said he had de-
voted all his time to them why? Be-
cause, 'hey fed, clothed and shod the
world" "Ald we (the farmers) prU-
prose from now en-" he said, "to put
in our pockets our share of the wealth
we make. The reason #e have never
oo+ oovubora &c hooauSa We believed