The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-08-05
SHOOTING. AFFAIR
CAUSES SENSATION
GREAT TENSENESS IN SENA-
ToRlAL RINGS ON ACCOUNT
OF THE SHOOTING.
DOCTOR DENIES SIGNATURE
Mcintosh Says it Was Clever Forgery.
Governor Offers ReWard-At lau-
rens, Lexington and SaIuda.

rens, Lexington and Saluda.
The overshadowing event in South
Carolina politics during the past week
has been the shooting Of DR.. ]. H.
Mcintosh, a prominent physician Of
Columbia. This event created quite a
sensation, as 1t came at a time when
there was great t%enseness in the at
mosphere as regards the senatorial
situation. The relationship came
about by the divergence of statements
Of the governor and DR.. Mcintosh in
regard to a certificate read by the
governor last week in Abbeville In
which DR.. Mcintosh is said to have
advised the governor to pardon Rich
ey, the Abbeville man who had been
sent to the ~penitentiary for commit
ting a heinous crime against his four
t~een!year-old daughter. The governor
stated that DR.. Mcintosh signed the
statement, and DR.. Mcintosh denied
the authenticity of his signature, in a
statement given Out to the press, and
In which he stated that not only had
he told the governor that Richey
should not be released but that he
was feigning paralysis. At the Green
Vile meeting, MT. J. w. Norwood was
dubbed a coward when he asked the
governor in regard to the Mcintosh
statement, and the governor stated
that he would ask the physician to be
on the stand in Columbia at the meet
ing to be held there, when he would
read the statement and ask DR.. Nc
Intosh if he did not sign it. This
meeting was held Thursday, and early
Thursday morning DR.. Mcintosh was
waylaid on his way home from the
Knowlton hospital and shot, the
wound, however, proving not to be
serious, but sufficient to prevent his
appearance at the meeting. DR.. Nc
Intosh gave out a statement imme-
-diately after he vas shot saying that
= the man who did the shooting said
in escaping, "Now you wont bother
Cole tomorrow" The shooting prov
ed a sensation all over the state, and
J. w. Norwood, of Greenville, offered
a reward Of five thousand dollars for
the apprehension with proof to con-
yict of the man who instigated the
shooting. ~.
Governor Blease read the statement
at the mseting in Columbia Thursday,
expressing regrets that DR.. Mcintosh
had been shot and that he was un-
able to appear; that were he present
he would ask him If he signed the
statement after inspecting the sigma
ture. He offered to give a hundred
dollars to anyone who proved that the
physician did not sign it.
Statement by Or. Mcintosh.
DR.. Mcintosh Saturday afternoon
gave out a statement in which he
stated that he had not signed the
statement, that it was a clever for
, gerry of his signature, and that he had
given the governor no statement up
on stationery Of the Knowlton hos
pital. the statement as read by the
governor being upon stationery OF
the hospital.
The candidates have only two meet
fngs this week, one at Edgefield Wed
nesday and the other at Aiken Thurs
day. ....
At Laurens.
At Laurens, where the first meet
ing OF the past week was held the
friends Of the governor were in the
majority. He vas carried on the
shoulders Of his friends and received
an ovation. This was n of the fea.
lures OF the week, and the reception
accorded the governor were marked
by much enthusiasm at all Of the
meetings. At Lexington he was plac'
ed. in a wagon upon which sat six
pretty girls leading a procession OF
several hundred people. The same
reception was accorded him at the
Saluda meeting Saturday, while al
the Columbia meeting he received
several tokens. Six little girls pre-
scented him with boquets Of flowers.
Senator Smiths friends have like
wise been active the past week in
staging. receptions for their calfdi'
date, and at all Of the meetings he
was placed upon a bale Of cotton LEAD
by a number OF farmers on horseback
The attacks Of w. P. Pollock upon the
record Of the governor has also beer
a feature Of the week, the speaker
receiving the attention OF his hearers
and much applause. L. D. Jennings
also made vitriolic speeches against
the record Of the governor, and al
Lexington stated that he hoped his
wife and children would leave him
IL he ever grasped the hand Of Blease
this being said in answer to the state
mentof the governor that he did not
speak to him and Mr.. Pollock on OF
of the stage.
Meeting at Columbia.
BY far the most interesting meet
ing of the week was the one held al
Columbia. People from all over the
state had come to the capital city In
the expectancy Of seeing something
"break'' rs the governor had promis
ed at the two meetings held last weel
to answer the statement Of DR.. Nc
Intosh. in regard to the Richey state
ment. There was q tenseness In the
New South Wales Prosperous.