The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
Great Issue of Campaign
IS App!audcd To-day
ASPIRANTS FOR SHORT
AND LONG TERM SEAT
Pollock, Brnct, Rice and DiaI Address
IotrrS-Kcynotr Of All Addresses Is
Loyalty to the Government.


The announc cmcnt by County Chair
nan W. II. Nicholson in opening the
senatorial campaign meeting at the
court house ;his morning that the
French and British had captured H.
00O prisoners (tnC number has been
increased since that hour) and untold
material may haze had something to do
With the applause that greeted c;cry
UttcrAncc OF american loyalty in this
"'ai', bu; the addresses themselves no
IoNM wO"ll have brought forth iust
~ manv cheers because the war and
nc war only is the subject that Will
strike a responsive chord in Grccn-
wood these days.
Bctwccn 800 end eco men and Il
few ladies'. heard two candidates for
the short term and two for the Ions
term and listened almost in silence
when tho names OF two abscntcca
were noted. This almost si!cncc
WG5 broken when Chairman Nicholson
announced Cole J.. Bicasc as Il speak
CT and SOMEONE vcnturcG the remark
Hes dead" The only other reference
CT BlCa$c that camC from the audi
cncc was heard when Pollock was
and an auditor urged, Give it to him."
The meeting. comparatively speak
Ing. WAS quiet due perhaps to two
facts, ono TO the extremely hot weather
which saprnd energy and the other to
a lack Of hcckling which has come to
be a part OF the meetings in this sec
ton. Each speaker was given ap-
plauSc, the only Interruptions Of the
day. and Mr.. James Francis Rice. the
portly "cnt!smtn from Anderson, who
speaks in piping voice with cracl;
in it, drew several sidc-splittcrs from
his hearers. He didn't discuss tho
System" but he did discuss The sys-
systematic way in which the people Of
South Carolina have debarrcd rich
men from The Y. S. Senate"
Mr.. Dial. who "aa the last speak
or. began MS remarks too late for this
issue Of The journal.
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wood with Il friendship OF four years
STANDING and tho esteem in which he
IS hcld ny the people Of Greenwood
CcnAty was evidenced by tho liberal
applause accorded him when he was
Introduced as the first speaker EIc
recalled his pleasant visit here in
i3!l and the kindly and maGniIccnt
treatment OF friends which later cam,
IN ian&ibl" way in lhc recent of
silver loving cup presented for his
'rrV!cc3 to the State during the cam
pa@n OF that year. lie declared that
he would ever hold it as one of his
fondcst treasures.
Mr.. Pollock said that a month ago
ne had no idea Of being in a political
campaign this year. but the hand of
death was laid upon Senator Tillman,
thus changing circumstances and he
then decided to enter the race for the
short term and preach the doctrine
OF loyalty throughout South Carolina.
lie paid fine tribute to the statesman
ship of Senator Tillman and was par
ticularly praiseworthy Of the great
WORK accomplished by the late South
Carolinan in his work for greater
navy.
The speaker then launched into an
cEcoriatiOn Of former Governor Blcasc
the very thing that perhaps major
ity Of his audience was looking for
He declared that there was one can
didatc for the long term who had pro-
claimed his political principles
through The Charleston American,
that miserable. dirty, pro-Gcrnan
sheet whose editor is John p. Dis
Grace, who had refused TO canvass
:, the Stale with the other candidates.
This candidate. said Mr.. Pollock, has
commended this same newspaper for
the truth, and yet one Of its editors
has been convicted Of conspiracy to
sink the Lcbcncfcls. the German yes
sci sunk in Charleston harbor, and
another, John y. Grace. was enabled
to get the sheet" back in the mails,
after being denied it twice, only by
promising that he would no Siongcr
sit in the EDITORS chair. This same
candidate, the speaker ontinucd, last
July and August made speeches op-
posed to the Democratic party, OPP
posed to the President Of the United
States, the cOmmandcr-in-ch chief of
the United States army and navy, and
opposed to the whole American pco-
pie. Il Is. therefore. no injustice to