Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-07-30
GREAT TENSENESS IN sENA.
roRIAL RINGS ON ACCOUNT
OF THE SHOOTING.
DOCTOR DENIES SIGNATURE
Mcintosh Says it Was Clever Forgery.
Governor Offers Reward-At Law
rens, Lexington and SaIuda.

The overshadowing event in South
Carolina politics during the past week
has been the shooting of DR.. J. H.
Mcintosh, a prominent physician OF
Columbia. This event created quite q
sensation, as 1t came at time when
there was great tenseness 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 heinous crime against his four
teen.year-oid 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, Mr.. ]. w. Norwood was
dubbed 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 II he did not sign It. This
meeting was held Thursday, and early
Thursday morning DR.. Mcintosh was
waylaid on his - home from the
'Knowivo1 hospi.-l and sf~., the
wound, however, proving not to be
serious, but sufficient to prevent his
appearnes at the meeting. Or. Nc
Intosh gave out . statement fmme-
diately after he was shot saying that
the man who did the shooting said
In escaping, Nov you wont bother
Cole tomorrow" The shooting prov
ID . seosakion all over tho state, and
J. ". Norwood, Of Greeavtlls, offered
4 reward OF nvs thousand dollars for
the apprehension With proof to con-
yict OF the man who instigstsd the
shooting.
Governor Blsass Rad the statsmsat
ct tie meeting n Columbia rhursdsy.
sapressinE rssrsts that Dr. McIntosh
Aad besa shot and that. he was ~
che to sopea1; that we're hs present
hs vsull ssk HIN II hs sisasd tAs
stAtsmsus aftsr inspecting The siCna-
turs. Hs e6Gsl to .stvs hundred
Anllan - anyone yAo psovsl chat ~
Vays4e1aa a. oct sign II.
! otsa>msnt BY D.. hsiatssh.
Or. NsIntosh HAsurday sftsrnosa
ave out Q statement In which he
sea.sd tAAt !hs. bad not sisned the
statemsnA. that 4 was - clever for
eery Of kis signature, and that he had
Given The governor no statement up
a etatioasry Of the Knowfton hos
pftal, the statement a. rad By the
sovsrnor be4ng upsa stationery q
che hospital
Tho candidates have only two meet
ings this week. one at Edgedeld Wed
nssday and the. other st Aiken Thur
DAY.
A. LaursnsA
AZ IAuNna. whore the frst meo4.
ing Of the pAst week vas hold the
friends of the governor wefs In the
majority. He v~s carried on the
shoulders Of his friends and received
an ovation. This wss one Of The fsa-
tures Of tho wesk. and the reception
ecoordeA tho governor were marked
by much enthusiasm at all Of the
meetings. At Lexington he was plac-
Cd In . wagon upon which sat ak
pretty girls leading . procession Of
several hundred people. The same
reception was accorded him at tho
Saluda meeting Saturday. while at
tho Columbia meeting he received
several tokens. Six little girls pre-
sented him with boQuets OF flowers.
Senator Smiths friends have like
wise been active the past week In
staging receptions for their arldi-
date, and at all Of tho meetings he
was placed upon q bale OF cotton lead
by Q number Of farmers on horseback.
The attacks Of w. P. Pollock upon the
record Of tho governor has also been
Q feature OF the week, the speaker