The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-17
BLEASE AT Manning
SENATORIAL MEETING
BY J. K. Aull.

Manning, July l5.- ~ the first
regularly attended senatorial cam
paign meeting which he has yet at
tended in regular order held here to-
candidate for the United States sem
ate threw out this challenge to the
candidates against him:
II am Democrat, and / am an
American, and any man who says that
l have ever said disloyal word
against this country or that l have
ever done disloyal act against this
country, is a contemplate liar"
In his speech Mr.. Dial disclamed
responsibility for any such charge in
these words: "The ,remarks which
have been used do noS apply to me-.
| have said behind his back whatever
have had to say today" and he
went on to say that he was not in
dulging in personalities and intended
only to present the issues to the pco-
pie.
Compared to the Blease reform
meetings which have been held in
South Carolina during the past sew
eral weeks there were very few peo-
pie here today. The crowd could be
counted by hundreds instead of by
thousands as heretofore.
The death of Senator Tillman
brought Mr.. Blease into the regular
campaign today. 1t was the first time
on the regular schedule that Mr..
Blease had faced his opponents for the
sole purpose of a regular campaign
address. He simply reiterated his
Wagener and Little Mountain speech
es and the real feature of the meeting
was that the other candidates in the
face of his challenge did not today, at
the first meeting, which they had at
tended, renew their charges against
him in regard to his position upon the
war. 1t was another Blease- Reform
crowd. as al! the real crowds have
been throughout the state during this
campaign. MIR. Blease reiterated his
position upon the war in the same
terms which he used at Wagener. as
follows:
,"Whatever | may have said, or
! whatever may have done, the peo-
pie OF South Carolina know that |
have never made them IL promise that
j have not fulfilled. | have never said
that l would do a thing that | did not
40 1T; l have never said that I would
not do thing and then go on and do
it. That everybody knows.
And l want to say this: That when
am elected to the United States SEN
ate L am going to President Wilson
and tell him that here is an American
senator, and whatever is necessary to
WIN this war, l am with him to the
finish.
!! "If it be necessary, in order to win
the war, to break the precedent set
by President Washington, in reference
to a third term, / will support him for
third term, and make speecnes for him
IN any part of the American continent
to which he may wish to 90.
Il go yet still further, and will
say to him, that | will raise a repi-
menG now, or at any time i'm the fu-
ture, If he deem it necessary, of as
true South Carolinians as ever went
on a field Of battle, and resign nv
seat in the senate and lead that reri
ment for the fight of the American
people.
He paid a fine tribute to the late
Representative Lesesne, member of
the legislature from this county, and to
the late Senator Applet. The meeting
here today was real comparative
test OF strength, and it all narfows
down to this, that at his own meetings
Mr.. Bleasc draws the crowds and that
the people are paying no attention to
the other meetings.
Messrs. Dial and Rice made their
usual addresses with the exception of
the elimination of the attack upon Mr.
Blease.