The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-07-24

MARION AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
tTTEIiANCES OF SENATE
CANDIDATES.
Senator Bcnct and Mr.. Pollock Con.
tinuc To Prod Ex-Governor for War
Talk.

Marion, July 19.--Candidates foi
the United States senate got q splen
did hearing here today. The meer.
ing was attended by nearly 400 voters
comprising crowd of enthusiastic
supporters of Woodrow Wilson and
men whose loyalty has not beer
brought in question. The boldest at.
tacks yet made on Cole l.. Blease dur
ing the campaign were turned loose
today in continuous hail of powerful
! explosives, and if any man in the
crowd would cast his vote for Bleas-
when the barrage was lifted he failed
to stand when called for a show O!
cOlors.
| In every county visited by senate
rial party this week the crowds have
teen called on for a show Of hands
or other tangible evidence of prevail
ing sentiment. Results have been
most reassuring, and the enthusiasm
OF the voters in taking a positive
stand against Blease as to casting
their ballots would indicate that
Bleaseism is being hammered out as if
Ii were malignant and infectious
disease. The eradition in the trail
o. the senatorial party seems COM
plete.
The smallness of the crowds attend
ing the meetings i'm the Pee Dee may
be attributed in a measure to the busy
season i'm curing and marketing the
highest priced tobacco crop the State
has ever grown. The crowd today
was FAR i'm excess of what was en-
pected, as there was n heavy down.
pour of rain just at the time the meet
ing was scheduled to begin.
Mr.. Rico has attached to himself
the soubriquet "Bobtail," by using his
own candidacy as striking parallel
to the race made by "Bobtail," the
horse little known, but the winner OF
the highest stakes. He expects to
surprise the people in the same man.
ner as they were swept into the REALMS
OF wonderland by the unheraided race
result Blease, the Anderson county
candidate says. is giving n great en-
hib!tion Of gall in calling himself a
Democrat and "bobbing up i'm the
bushes here and there, pulling off ir~
regular political tricks" If the peo-
pie of South Carolina are not all good
loyal Americans, it is high time. Ger
man sympathizers were becoming
fewer day by day, he was pleased to
say, and ii was up to the people to
see that pro-German sentiment was
stamped out wherever it appeared.
Mr.. Rice got round Of applause
when he quoted Ambassador Gerard's
reply to the kaiser. reminding the
Prussian war lord that there were as
many lamp posts in America as there
were German sympathizers.
n. =. Dial believes that President
Wilson is n great mar and the Marion
audience joined i'm heartily with him
today when he cited the negros esti-
mate Of the president to substantiate
his belief. The negro's arguments
that Mr.. Wilson was the greatest pres
ident the country ever had were that
"he had added an hour to the day and
had taken all the railroads from the
companies and given them to his SON
in-law.
In answer to MIR. Blease's assertion
that he is the leader of the Reformers,
the old following Of Senator Tillman
in South Carolina, Mr.. Dial today re-
minded the voters that prior to his
death, the late senator had written
To every county chairman saying that
il would be national calamity for
Blease to be elected to the United
state senate.
There were only two kinds of peo-
pie in the United States. those for
President Wilson and those. for Bill
Kaiser. Mr. Dial said he had nothing
to explain to the voters here TODAY as
to his attitude on the war. neither
would he have to explain to President
Wilson if he were sent to the United
States senate. The president wou al
know he had his support without Mr.
Dial having to say so and the presi-
dent would also know that he was n
thorough American senator without
being told.
w. Il. Pollock Of Cheraw told the
voters they could get rid of partisan
strife by standing four square to the
world and for Amcricansm and Chris
tianity. But they could not stand for