The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-20
CHANGE TACTICS
. IN SENk|T6IF|CHT.
GOVERNOR STATES THAT HE
WILL SEEK ONLY TO
HOLD HIS OWN
LESS MUD THROWN
Aggressive Speech of Day Was
BY Candidate L. D. Jennings
at St. George
LESS MUD THROWN
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
ST. George. June l9--Campaign
meetings In Orangeburg and Dorches-
ter counties stand out In bold and
striking contrast. icstei".ny IN
Orangeburg sixty per cent ri all for
ensic thunder might have Lcc. proper
ly labelled annthcma." "BilIingsgate
invectivc." and crushing ridicule and
abuse. Today there was an abrupt
change In tactics,
During the night all arms had been
staok ked and horns drawn in
In the future the governor will only
seek Ito hold the majority he nlreuGy
has" anu not attempt 10 decDy the
rriords OF the other candidates. In
explanation he said: IL mako no
cLlrges, but ii l were to prove con-
c!Chivcly the most desreputabls thing
against Senator Smith, there are peo-
pic in this audience who would vote
far him anyway. They are pre1udiceI.
they are not even open to reason.
Therefore. Ill seek to hold the ma
jority which l have already"
Newspaper reporters. too, are not
TO be vilified from plntforms in the
event they misquote him, or not fully
quote him. but are to be reminded In
private, and asked to correct the state
nlents in the next dispatches.
The governor was not bitter today
In hiB attacks on Senator Smiths re-
cord. The worst the senator got, was:
II don't believe there Is a T single
voter III this audience with little
enough sense to believe that
one man is: responsible for the ad-
vanced .priees. s. IS thought
that by keeping SENATOR. Smith in
Warrington cotton would 90 TO 2n
oents pound, then III Withdraw from
the race and do ulI that / Z could to
re-elect him. II Senator Smith SO con-
trolls the market, why back In 1911 did
lie advise you to hold your cotton for
10 cents when you were getting II
and IL cents? Some Of you held and
took 8 cents in consequence. What
was he doing then? II he's respOn-
sibie for the price of cotton, who's
responsible for the increased cost of
mules. of shoes and clothing and
other commodities?'-
Costly Fat Again.
Mr.. Pollock, too, refrained from
slashing the senator for what he had
done In Washington, but this speaker
did lay some part of the high cost of
living at the junior senator's door by
reminding the voters OF Dorchester
as he did the Orangemen yesterday
that 1t had cost tho government $1,000
IL pound 10 fatten up Senator Smith.
The burden Of the Cheraw mans
speech was: you don't want any man
elected to the United States senate
through the fundamentally of federal
appointments. Neither do you want
to elect man through the instrument
tality of appointments made In South
Carolina, or through the potency Of a
political machine. You don't want to
select man who Is out OF joint with
your national party. You don't want
to send there man who can't work
in double harness. On the other hand
you do need man who has the sym
pathy and support OF his leader and
colleagues. II he Is to be of any direct
benefit to the state he represents"
Primary Supported.
l.. d. jennings made. the only ag-
gressiye speech of the day, but there
was little OF the caustic acrimony In
this. The mayor OF Sumter vigorously
defended the new primary regulations
as embodied In the recnt law, which
81 helped to frame.'' And this was
not done to cheat the poor man out OF
his vote, or as the governor asserts
"a piece OF trickefy to fool my
friends" s-.,E xxx 80
"You have to go to, the polls to vote,
then why would you object to .sparing
the time 1t will take to register? All
you have TO do is to go there and reg
lister once, and you are qualified for
voting the balance OF your life. When
You are dead. you ought to stop. That's
Just why the rules were passed. Be:
fore the changes were made a dis.
honest man might go to the graveyard
and take the name OF John Smith, who
was killed in the Battle of Manassas
In 1861. and vote, some other dishonest
man under the name. The law, my
friends, was not to cheat the poor man
out OF his vote, but to protect the bal
lots OF the honest voters, when they
had been polled.p b;
During the last few minutes of his
speech. Mr.. Jennings cut trenches In
the governors pardon record. and re-
GREETED that he had SO brief time to
discuss that which 1t had taken the
governor four years to make. 'I,ont
be deceived by petitions. why ut this
stage IA South Caroline you, could get
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