The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-06-19
Id. JENNINGS ATTACKS
SMITHS SCOTTON RECORD.
Second Meeting of Campaign
at Orangeburg.
HE WAS FIRST SPEAKER.
Concludes With Strenuous At
tack o, 'Hvernor BIease's
Paruon Record.


ParGon Record.
Orangeburg Special to Columbia
Record, June 1S.-The second meet
Ing of the senatorial campaign was
called to order this morning at IL
O'Clock in front OF the county court
house by Thomas M. Raysor, in the
absence of Adam H. Moss, the county
chairman. Mr.. Raysor requested
that perfect order prevail and urged
that respectful attention be paid to
the speakers.
l.. ID. Jennings of Sumter was the
first speaker and he Immediately
launched into the cotton record of
Senator Smith and defied the Junior
senator to show any single thing he
had done to raise the price of cotton
"but sit in the senate"
"I will show you the rise in the
price of cotton is due to the law of
supply and demand and not to Sena-
tor Smith, exclaimed the speaker.
When Mr.. Jennings attacked Sena-
tor Smiths record on the non-pas-
sage of the bill for standardizing cot
ton, which was passed over because
the cotton exchange promised to put
the provisions of the law into effect
on April Is, 1915, the audience re-
peatedly called the name OF Smith.
Mr.. Jennings said senator Smith
magnifies his services in helping to
raise the price of cotton in the effort
to be reelected. "If l were not in
this race and Mr.. Pollock we're not
In this race, and it we're between
Senator Smith and Governor Blease.
i would not vote for Senator
Smith, but 1 would work for him."
said the speaker
Mr.. Jennings deprecated factional-
ism in South Carolina politics, and
urged the election OF a man who is
not partisan. He voted and work
ed for Judge Jones for governor in
1912 because he believed the election
of Judge Jones was for the best in
terests of the state.
Mr.. Jennings, in vehement Ian
guage, approved the new rules gov
erning the primary election. He
claimed that the old club rolls con-
tanned so per cent more names than
there are voters. He said that the
rules will prevent fraud. Mr.. Jen-
nings concluded with a strenuous at
tack on Blease's pardon record, say
Ing that $4,000 jurors were better
judges of the guilt of a convicted
criminal than one man. He criti-
c1sed the governors action in turning
loose over 1900 criminals, the ma,
jority of them negroes, to go into the
rural districts" where your good wo-
men are unprotected.
POLLOCK ON THE AGGRESSIVE.
w. p. Pollock of Cheraw, the next
speaker, telling of his marriage to
an Orangeburg girl and speaking of
the action of the Orangeburg delega-
ton in endorsing Senator Smith.
said:
II have never voted for Governor
Blease and never expect to, thank
God" The speaker said that many
people In all sections of South Caro-
lima are of the eyopinion that neither
Blease or Smith are qualified to fit
tingly represent the state in the fed
eral senate. THAT is why came
out"
The speaker answered the COVER
nor's criticism that he voted against
the separate coach by saying that he
might have cast his ballot against
putting partitions in passenger cars
to separate the races, but he is the
author of the present separate coach
law.