The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-22
FEATHERS ON Legs
POLLOCK SAYS GOVERNOR PLAYS
TURKEY AT MEETINGS.
DOOGES HIS own RECORD

Cheraw Man Says Blease Won't Stay
on Stand and Hear What Others
Have to Say-Says His Conscience
Pricks Him for Hitting a Dead
Corpse so Hard.
The first half of the senatorial
campaign concluded Thursday with
the Walhalla meeting, Oconee being
the twenty-second county visited. The
meeting was marked by the charge
by W. P. Pollock that Gov. Blease
had feathers on his legs. This speak
er said that he knew all along that
the chief executives record was bad,
but that he did not know until the
campaign had opened that the gov
ernor's lower limbs we're trimmed
With feathers. This, he said, in expla-
nation of the governors failure to
stay on the stand while the other
candidates are speaking.
Mr.. Pollock further explained that
he didn't attack any man behind his
back. He added, however, that
though the governor played turkey
and ran away, such action would not
deter him from holding up the gov
ernor's record IN all its nakedness.
Senator Smith added feature
when he read an affidavit from c. P.
Moorer of Dorchester county, saying
that Senator Smith was in st. George
the night the Haskell convention was
held. Mr.. Moorer also made oath
that he reminded Senator Smith the
next morning that the newspaper re-
ports were that the senator was a
delegate to the convention and that
he then asked hom he could be in two
places at the same time.
Gov. Blease declared that he would
not be a candidate for the United
States Senate in the general election
if he is defeated in the primary. He
stated that he had already pledged
himself to abide the result of the
primary.
L. D. Jennings, the first speaker,
explained the new primary rules, say
ing he had not heard them denounc-
ed by anybody but certain candidates.
He asked why had the anti-Blease
people changed the rules if, as charg-
ed, they benefited by the alleged
frauds committed in 1912? He said
that then both sides cried fraud; that
the anti-Blease crowd changed the
rules, and now the governor and his
friends were denouncing them.
The speaker sorely regretted that
there were two factions in the State,
he said. On one side the race track
gamblers and blind tigers were try
ing to line up with them enough good
people that the government might be
so conducted as to insure to these
lawbreakers' benefit. He did not be-
lieye that there we're more than 3d.
900 of these blind tigers, gamblers
and all other classes who hold the
law in utter disregard in the State.
1t was his purpose in this campaign
he explained, to open the eyes OF the
other $4,000 who had been hood
winked into believing that this -ele-
ment represented the cause Of the
people.
He said he was satisfied that if Gov.
Blease went to the Senate about the
first thing he would do would be to
introduce a bill to turn all "buck mig
gers" ont of the federal penitentiary.
He predicted that the governor will
be beaten so badly on August 25 that
he'll wake up in China or some 9TH
er uncivilized country, where he
ought to be-"
Mr.. Pollock began by saying that
he was completely exhausted by cam
paigning in Anderson Wednesday,
where he played the "salamander' IN
digging a hole in the sand. putting
"Cole" into it, and then packing the
sand in on the governor. He said
that his conscience was beginning to
prick him, as he was now kicking a
corpse.
Mr.. Pollock said he was sorry the
governor would not sit in the stand
and hear his record discussed; that
not until the campaign opened did he
know the governor was feather leg
ged", and that the governor knew his
record was so bad that he couldn't t
hear it and keep his face, but turns
turkey and runs away.
The speaker excoriated the COVER
nor's pardon record, not numbering
the pardoned convicts, but measuring
them by the carload, of which there
we're - or Is, he said. He answer
ed the governors charges Of negro
Republicanism by pointing out that
there are two Republican tainted
members on the governors staff, and
one "Dago", who he had understood
had only recently made application
for naturalization papers.
Senator Smith said that when he
attempted to organize the farmers in
1904 he was told that it couldn't be
done; that he couldn't get them to-
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