The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-07-14
ONCE MORE IhBY
fLAYS RICHARDS
But Few People GatEer 1t Edgeiie!d
Thu>e, However, Being Liberal
In applause.

The State.
Ed2edeid, Jay l1-Again today W,
c. Irby. il. aayed John 6. Richards
on account o.t-e recent announce
ment OF his conversion to Blease.sn.
MI Iroy further charged that Nr.
Richards and Mendel /, SmitA showed
the white Gather by agreeing not to
go to the last State convention as
DELEGATES. When he spike, Mr. Rich
ards characterized as untrue any as
sertion that he had ever been guilty
OF political cowardice.
\ very small audience, watch dis
tributed its applause generously,
heard the candidates.
B. E. Nicholson, State senator from
Edgefeld and county chairman, In
troduced the candidates. The Rev. NJ
D. Jefferies, pastor of the Baptist
church, offered the Invocation.
Fixed the Benches.
After few of the candidates had
spoken, the temporary seats for the
audience on the public school grounds
broke down. Chairman Nicholson
sent for some real carpenters to hN
them up. Volunteer carpenters from
the audience, among them some OF
the candidates, assisted in the repair
inc of the seats and the meeting con-
tinued merrily.
William NJ. Hamer, who spoke first
among the candidates for lieutenant
governor, said that he did not vote on
the resolution in regard to the regis
nation of DR.. S. C. Mitchell because
he had just been elected to the board
cf trustees and knew nothing OF the
events eliminating in the retirement
OF DR.. Mitchell as the mead OF the uni
vel lsity
i A. Hunter was vigorously ap-
pIauded when ne referred to his ser
vice on the last legislative committee
to investigate che State Hospital foI
the Insane
"One Confederate soldier ought to
receive as muca money as another
asserted B. Frank Kelley.
1T is a sure sign that | am lead
ing in this race when all TIE ether
candidates attack my record, averred
Andrew J. Bethea. the last of the can
didates for lieutenant governor to
speak
Some OF the bolstered seats col
lapsni as ain after tie candidates TO-
lieutenant governor finished speaking.
Chairman Nicholson adjourned the
meeting tcr dinner.
Candidates Tor Governor.
TIE candidates for governor began
spealing after dinner, Charles Carroll
Simms leading off.
.sWe have too mucl legislation in
South Carolina" declared Mr. Simms.
'Why does The State single me cut
from among the Blease candidates
and say that am not fit to be gov
ernor?" asked Mr.. Simms 'Irby,
Richards and Mulla'ly are all tarred
with the same brush.
Mr.. Simms denied that he was a
member of the Haskell convention, as
charged by W. P. Pollock, candidate
for the United States senate.
Mr.. Pollock is going around fight
ing everything like a swapping turtle,
trying to de eat the Blease party as
re calls it, said Mr. Simms. ut
would pay him better t1 take care OF
his own campaign, but I believe ne is
simply running for exercise.
Charles A. Smith said that he
thought that his services in the past
to the State made him the logical man
10 eject SONSCuOI- ne al 1 dlSAASU VIZ
lators of the law in unsparing terms
and promised to put them out OF bus
mess if ne were elected governor.
is there more money at hand than
We need now for school Purposes?''
asked Lieut.. Gov. Smith in the course
of his speech in which he said that
the time had not come for compul-
sorry education.
usss A Clean Campaign.
81 an striving 10 make a clean
fight in this cam paign," said Mendel
L Smith. There is no Office Witn1n
the gift Of our people that [ would
seek to attain over an attempt to IN
lure the reputation or character OF
any man. am making this race with
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