The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-07-28
JENNINGS LAS1LS
BLEASE'S RECORD
ASStILS GOVERNOR BITTERLY IN
LEXINGTON.
CHIEF Executive Admits Tint Sharp
is State Chairman OF His POlit-
ical Organization.

Y
ical Organization.
The State.
Lexington, July 24.-'Tne campaign
meeting here toady was marked by
the most severe arraignment Of the
governors record during the cam
paign. The vitriolic utterance was
from Mr.. Jennings, who spoke direct
Iy after the chief executive, and sever
al parts of it were in answer to state
ments made by Gov Blease.
Abiding to Messrs. Jennings and
Pollock, the governor said: when
men appear on the platform and spew
out filth against a gentleman, l don't
notice them l never pay any atten-
ton to these who put tAemeslyes on
a plane with John T. Duncan and
Barney Evans
In replying to this Mr. Jennings
said ne would suffer lis hand to be
paralyzed and his tongue TO cleavo 70
the roof of his mouth before he would
speak TO a man with suca record
IS that Of the 6 vernon. He hoped his
wife and children would desert him il
he did, he said.
During the last three and one-halt
years. the speaker went on, "tae
present governor mas made the filth
lest ana most diabolical record ever
made by a white man in South Caro-
lima. He has debauncbed the State
worse than Scott, Moses and Cam
berlain of Radical times combined.
1Ehis record, he concluded, was "as
lthy as the nest of carricn crow" ,"
W. P. Pollock, though not as scath-
in his denunciation today as usual
truck singing blows at hose who
tempted to confuse the speaker and
huffle his words when holding up ''in
%its hideous nakedness" the governors
record.
4 Pleasant Prospect.
One man from Columbia, who kept
talking after the Cneraw candidate,
was told that on August 25 the Blease-
ties would be buried with their faces
downward.
This he explained would be done so
"if you scratch out you'll scratch out
in hell
Another was told: "Holler nov,
but two years hence, like Peter O. old,
you'll confess, 4 never knew him.
Senator Smith today was asked to
discuss the record of opponents Tc
this his ereply was that he was in the
campaign to take care Of his own
record.
81 am not going around to ha.s
out the rotten sp-ts in the charac-
tiers of other men," he added. Il
haven't started campaign Of Wifi
cation and abuse. l am not here to
hold up the pitiable allure Of any
po9r human being, but here to hold up
E. D. Smiths magnificent success.
TIE speech Of the governor today
was characterized by an unusual ref
erence to The State, though the gov
ernor apologized to the crowd for
making it, expressing the hope that
lightning would not strike him while
he did so.
81 want to thank The State for be-
ing fair to me. and l hope rne light
ming won't strike me while l do" He
then added, Il want to thank Tne
State for being fair enough to print
this morning the full report on the
Richey case"
Sharpe His Chairman.
Another departure from his Gus
tomary speech today was the open
statement by the governor that State
Senator W. H. Sharpe of Lexington
county was chairman Of the Blease
State organization. The governor ex-
Francis H. Weston is attempting to
machine. with representative from
each county composing the execu-
tive committee The county sub