The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-08-11
FLORENCE VOTERS
TURN OUT FREELY
Slight inclination to Play Favor.
iteS-Three of Candidates
Given Flowers.
The State.

The State.
Florence, Aug. 8.-Farm lands OF
the Pee Dee are as soggy as river
swamps and as ploWs must stand idly
gy voters of Florence county turned
aside to the diversion of hearing the
candidates of the State campaign par
ty. AS many as 1000 voters attended
the meeting with little show of en-
thusiasm and slight inclination to play
favorites. Gov. Manning. R. A. Coop
er and Cole L. Blease east received a
large bunch of flowers.
In arguments the candidates struck
their customary stride, following
closely the season old ingredients in
compounding body polite helath pre-
scriptions The administration of
Gov. Manning was a favored target
| for pot shotting, Cole L. Blease again
/ characterizing it is the most lawless
and extravagant since 1876.
Mr.. Blesse was the first speaker and
Immediately launched into bitter at
tack upon Gov. Manning, charging
that his farewell speech as command
er-in-chief of the two regiments of
the National Guard when they were
about to start for; the border was
political rather than inspired by
patriotism or duty. The governor
would have been howled down at the
camp, thespeaker said, if Col. Springs
hadn't threatened courtmartial in ad-
vance. From the 1900 boys gone to
the border Mr.. Blease expects two
thirds as many votes, provided these
are mot purloined by the officers u
he said. He had come directly from
the Piedmont and from information
garnered there he predicted there
would be no second race eff the Pee
Dee gives me the votes it has in the
past"
R. A. Cooper made his usual speech,
pledging impartial enforcement of ali
laws and promising to be the governor
of all the people. ANY man who goes
into Office to be the governor of his
friends only and to punish his enc
mics is not fit to hold Office" the Lau-
rens county candidate told the peo-
pie. Criminals, he declared, would
serve their sentences. He could no.
promise tax reduction, but would at
tempt to give 100 cents for the collar.
The only inspiring element J. M.
DesChamps has discovered in the cam
paing is the rag cheering feature, he
said. He has contemplated the estab-
lishment of a paper manufacturing
plant, and he would engage the can
didate for the fine art of munch;ng
the rags for paper tissue "If you
don't believe South Carolina has beel
held up to ridicule, sneered at, cussed
and scoffed at, go 1000 miles beyond
your border and find out what the
other fellow says" Enough seeds of
anarchy, he said, had been sown in
South Carolina to require so years Of
craftsmanship to eliminate.
John T. Duncan spoke next.
Gov. Manning was the last speaker,
but the crowd had waited patiently in
a sweltering sun to hear him, and
many crowded into the court house
entrance to speake to him when he
had finished.
He had kept his promises of two
years ago, he told the people. He re-
viewed the acts of his administration
relative to the enforcement Of law,
the passage of progressive legislation
and efforts and results to give On
economical administration. The over
shadowing issue in this campaign was
law enforcement, Progress had been
made in this direction and he reviewed
the Charleston situation, where from
a state of brazen violation Of law
strong sentiment for enforcement has
crystalized. No true bills were re-
turned and no conviction had for