The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-08-20
SENATORIAL QUARTETTE
SPOKE HERE SATURDAY.
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Tor WnaJ Cney nave u sell, Dul III
having to pay high prices for what
they must buy. He made his daily
attack on Senator Smiths record
and said that he would continue to
pardon criminals if his friends petit
toned him to do so, but made it
plain that no anti-Bleaseite need ap-
ply for any favor.
During the course of his speech
Governor Blease attempted to show
by the reading of statistics that du-
ring his administration there had
been a decrease in criminal convlc-
tions and lawlessness.
JENNINGS.
Governor Blease was followed by
Mr. L D Jennings. who in his charac-
teristic manner lambasted the Gov
ernor's record, declaring the EXecu-
tive unfit to be king of the negroes
in Africa, much less to be Governor
of South Carolina" and reviewed
the Richey and Emmerson cases, de-
nouncing the Governor for liberat-
ing these two convicts.
After referring to the crowd that
left with the Governor as that
yelping gang from Florence" Mr.
Jennings lost no time in launching
his usual attack on the Governors S
record. He said the reason why the
Governor turned out so many ne
groes from the penitentiary was be-
cause some white man waSted the
negro and the Governor. wanted the
vote of the white man and the white
mans friends; that Senator Smith
needed no defense against any
charges falling from the lips of Gov
Blease.
Answering question by one of
the Bleaseites in the audience, MIR
Jennings denied charging that all of
Governor Blease's following were of
the lawless element, telling his ques-
toner that all the lawless are for
the Governor and that lined up with
them are many good men whose
eyes have not yet been opened. MIR
Jennings declared present conditions
in South Carolina equally as bad as
those of '76; that he had never heard
of Scott, Chamberlain or Moses re-
leasing from the penitentiary a man
who had slain a father while the
latter was defending his own home,
this being in reference to the par
doning of Emmerson.
MIR Jennings answered the Gov
ernor's claim to a decrease in law
lessness by exclaiming: Why, it's
become joke in South Carolina to
convict man." and turning direct
ly toward Solicitor Stoll, he asked,
DO you suppose your Solicitor
would trouble himself to prosecute
a blind tiger?"
Senator Smith, Mr. Jennings said,
was a frst.rate politician. He has
fooled a lot of farmers into believ-
ing that he has raised the price of
cotton, "but he's had no more to do
with it than gnat." However, ne
added, the Senator needs no defense
for anv of the charges made against
him by the Governor.
Mr. Jennings created much laugh
ter when be asked where the Gov
ernor would be if it were not for
the pardoning power of God. 1t is
a favorite expression of the Govern
or to say, in defense of his pardon
record, that All the Smithites would
be in hell before night if it were not
for the pardoning power of God"
Mr. Jennings said that just prior
to the opening of the Senatorial
campaign it was apparent that there
would be only two men in the race.
and that he felt it his duty to tell
the people of South Carolina about
the black record that Gov Blease
had made, ,and that in order to do so
he had to become candidate. 1t
was not so much the office ne want
ed, nor did he care for the money
there is in it, but he wanted to put
an end to Bleaseism, which IS
worse than Radicalism. He thought
conditions in this State today are far
worse than they were in 1876.
WP POLLOCK.
MIR Pollock was the last speaker,
and despite the fact that the audi
ence had stood listening for over
two hours to the other candidates,
he was received with applause and
listened to with close attention by
every anti-Bleaseite. Once or twice
the speaker was interrupted by a
group of Bleaseites, who scattered
and ran when Policeman J H Epps
left the speakers stand and made
toward them.