Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-26
THE SENATORIAL SWIRL
South Carolina Situation as Viewed
Across State Line.

That senatorial contest next door
appears to embOdy as various q mix
ture of ingredients as any mince PIE.
BY their entrance, MesSrs. POLLOCK
and Jennings, the two non-proles-
sionalS. first incurred resentment LOT
their seeming presumption from some
of Senator Smiths friends. Then II
began TO be said by some Blease men
that they were out to help Smith.
In reality. each of these bold anna
teurS is fighting for his own hand, so
far as all appearances go. Their
chief trouble, we should say, arises
from the fact that they are two in
stead of one. thus dividing those
voters who want neither Smith nor
Blease. And there are many such
voters. if we may trust some observ-
ers. The Greenville Piedmont be-
lieves that they are fairly numerous
in every county in the state. Re
gardleSs of the motives of their candi-
dacy." submits the Piedmont, "Messrs.
Jennings and Pollock had moral as
we'll as legal right to do what they
are doing Either one would make
fully as good a senator as Smith or
Blease, for they have equal ability ana
far less egotiSm. They are both goou
speakers men who can hold thelr
own on the stump. And they strike
AT Sllllln DIS "tll GS DAS"SN- 'AN
blows they are landing on him are
not love-taps. If they only made war
on Blease, we should say the sure ef-
feet of their entrance into the cam
paign would be to make Blease's cleo
ton to the senate inevitable. the
public would not stand for crowding
of Please" In view, however, OF
these candidates duality the Pied
mont comedies that the second race
l. H.
Please unless some such surprise as
that attending the nomination of Gov
ernor Hayward without previous po-
litical record shall befall. If this
probability materializes, further com
plications may transpire.
Candidates Jennings and Pollock
both say plainly that, while they con-
slider Smiths cotton pretensions RI
diculous and his senatorial statue
far from towering, they would as be-
tween him and Blease, vote for MIN
every time. On the other hano'
Smith has apparently avoided declar-
ing his choice among his opponents.
He is standing solely upon his claim
that he has been q wonder-worker for
the cotton farmer; it may be recalled
that he made his entrance into the
senate through the now detunct
Southern Cotton association ana mas
ridden this same horse ever since.
We have noted as among the Leading
campaign rumors by whomsoeVer
started, a story that mill presidents
were desperately combining against
the cotton senator to defeat him ere
he boosted the price of the staple to
unprecedented heights. Senator Smith
with more reason. also claims part
credit for the agricultural features of
the new currency law. His failure to
commit himself outside of his own
candidacy suggests to the Yorkville
ENQUIRER this possibility: IF Senator
Smith fails to assume the same atti-
tude toward the governor as do
Messrs. Jennings and Pollock, and the
second race should happen to be be-
tween Governor Blease and Senator
smith. it is quite probable that many
supporters of Jennings and Pollock
will vote for Rlease on the ground
that Smith was against them on what
they conceive to be the real issue.
We hardly suppose they would say
Governor Blease was for them, yet
they may indeed act just this way be-
cause they consider his opponents
lacking in courage. The whole busi-
ness is a net work of tangles, as we
intimated at first-Charlotte Observ-