The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-06-30
OPENS Up
On ASYLUM INQUIRY
The Senatorial Candidates al
Winnsboro.
GOV. BLEASE is ABSENT
Pollock Reads "Innuendoes and In
situations Against DR..
Saunders


for the United States senate spoke to
200 voters of Fairfield county here
today.
The meeting was called to order
at 1880 O'Clock by j. e. Mcdonald,
county chairman.
w. p. Pollock, the first speaker,
preambled on his speech as follows.
IL believe 1 can say TO you, after
looking into the faces of the people
of the lower section of the state, 1
think can truthfully say that the
people are awakening as they have
not been since 1876, and L believe
they are going out of the stable of
iniquity that we have had in this
state for the past four years."
POLLOCK INJECTS PEPPER.
When Mr.. Pollock attacked the cot
ton record of Senator Smith there
were many cries Of "Blease! Blease."
Mr.. Pollock injected pepper into
the campaign today by reading from
the volume reporting the asylum in
yestigation relative to Miss Eleanora
Saunders, and attacked Governor
Blease as uttering "inuendoes and in
sinua tions" against her character. He
read abstracts from the book, page
"a, oil the hearing dated September
IL, 1913.
He read a letter from the chief eX-
ecutiye to DR.. Babcock which advised
the latter to let Dr.. Saunders go
quietly"
why go quietly?'" asked Mr..
Pollock. The speaker then praised
Miss Saunders as being a good physi-
clan and a woman Of high character
One who had sprung from the com
mon people. He said:
! II ask you not to endorse Governor
Blease and his appointees who drove
this woman out of the asylum and
broke her heart"
Mr.. Pollocks new attack on Gov
iernor Blease took the crowd and
there were cries from the audience
for him to continue.
Senator Smith, the next speaker
made one of the most eloquent
speeches on cotton and it's Legislative
problems which he has delivered
since the opening of the campaign.
Calling the lawyers "denizens and
habitues of the court house." Senator
Smith answered the assertion that hC
had no record in the senate by say
ing:
II may not have had much sense
and came out of cotton patch, but
by gum, made that crowd sit VI
and take notice."
Senator Smith. saying that he hat
been referred to as "a joke" claimed
that he had been informed tina
there is a letter in existence from
New York which says that SmitL
must be defeated at all hazards"
''This does not look like a joke,
he said.
In reply to Governor Blease's CLAIM
made at st. Matthews, that Hok
Smith of Georgia is the author of tn
.h''l ro~hlating the cotton exchanges
Senator Smith read letter to Tn
Greenville Piedmont from the Geor
gia senator which says: II wish t
say that give the full credit to Sen
ator F.. ID, Smith. He introduced tn
originaI bill and I supported it on tn
floor of the senate"
BLSASE is ABSENT.
Chairman Mcdonald read a te
grom from Governor Blease, who wa
: scheduled for the next speech, whic
said that the chief executive coul
not be present because of "the pre-,
sure of official business"
, I'VE don't want him; let Smit
. take his time" were cries from a
I lparts of the crowd.
3 JENNINGS ATTACKS SMITH.
l.. ID. Jennings, the last speake
: began his speech by attacking sen,
1 tor Smith and said he did not war
s the votes of any man who believe
J, that Smith was the cause of the ris
in cotton prices; because they al
: unintelligent"
o Mr.. jennings charges precipitate
r a good deal of good natured hecklin
S in favor of Senator Smith, who ha
4 the great majority of the crowd.
e The speaker then paid his respec
TO Governor Blease's pardon recor