The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-30
ESDAY, AUGUST 80, 1915.
State CAMPAIGN EADS,
CLOSES WITH MEETING AT
WINNSBORO.
Governor Gives High Tribute to Hood
-Blease Makes Bittcrest of
Speeches.

WinnsborO, Aug. 26.-The State
campaign, begun in Spartanburg more
than two months ago, was brought to
a conclusion in Winnsboro todav with
crescendO effect, Cole L. Blease
making the bitterest speech of the en-
tire tour. The meeting was held with
In sight of the bullet Scared stairs on
which Sheriff Adam Dubard Hood.
Raleigh Boulware, Clyde Isenhower
and Jules Smith, a negro prisoner.
were shot to death, June IA, 1915,
when the negro was being brought to
trial, from criminal assault upon a
white woman, and it was about this
fatal tragedy that the ex-governor
wove his arguments on the alleged
lawlessness which he says is so ram
pant over the State. Language en-
ployed by the speaker was so often
sive that many of the women in the
audience retired beyond earshort. A
letter said to have been written by
Sheriff Hood was read in which it was
explained that the negro would have
to be protected at all hazards and
delivered to the court; otherwise
Gov. Manning would withdraw the
ofiicer's commission. 1t was on the
basis of this letter that Mr.. Blease
laid the crime to Mr.. Manning. hold
ing that il Blease had been governor
the crime could have been avenged
outside the court, and the lives of the
offlcials, who had sworn to uphold the
law, would have been saved.
Gov. Manning paid the dead sheriff
beautiful tribute in his speech, and
later in the day placed on the dead
mans grave the flowers he received
in Chester yesterday. In speaking of
the tragedy, Mr.. Manning said:
I'm your own county of Fairfield,
within few feet of the place now
stand, the first clash came, and your
sheriff, the brave Adam Hood. gave
up his life in the discharge of his
duty. His example is one that we
shall treasure as a proud example of
fconfase anu.s 3 sftN6de. fet as siiosi
his memory dear and his example one
that we shall treasure always, if we
are true to our ideals and traditions. {"
In speaking of his efforts to enforce
the laws of the State, Mr.. Manning
continued:
The paramount issue of this cam
paign, 1 reiterate, is whether we are
to have enforcement Of our laws or
whether the DEGREES of our courts
and the verdicts of our juries are to
be set aside by the arbitrary will of
one man. Our laws can not be en-
forced without intensifying the feel
ings of those opposed to them. \ The
conditions that existed when 1 came
into office were marked by lawless
deeds and violations Of law. I prom
ised to enforce the law by every power
given me under the constitution and
laws of the State. I called upon
sheriffs and other peace officers to
enforce the laws without partlality,
but with firmness and vigor. I know
we'll what that meant and so did the
officers"
Gov. Manning was the first CT the
candidates for governor to speak to-
day and left Immediately for Column
iba. Mr.. Bleese, later speaking to the
audience. said that Gov: Manning
hasn't mentioned my name on this
campaign nor resented anything the
ex-governor had said" Mr.. Blease de-
nounced the governor as "a liar and a
coward, something which has not been
ventured previously on the campaign
and was not tried today until Gov.
Manning had departed.
r. A. Cooper told the people they
had heard much of lawlessness. Dis
regard for law, he argued, was a dis
ease, the antidote for which was edu-
cauon. The speaker outlined a plan
to raise the standard Of the common
schools which would carry all pupils
through the second college year. He
also advocated the opening of all State
institutions to every ambitious boy and
girl. these to be educated at the eX-
pense of the State, and the funds to
be returned by the young men and
women when they are out of college.
John Madison DesChamps said he
was prohibitionist. and believed if
st. Paul We're living now he would
revise his advice ''tO take a little wine
for the stOmach's sake" and would
urge the use of water instead Mr..
DesChamps also advocated woman
suffrage. "The refusal to grant equal
suffrage is relic of barbarism," he
said.