The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-07-25
ITINERARY IS HALF OVER
MEETING AT CHARLESTON FIN
ISHES HALF OF CAMPAIGN.
Former Governor and Peoples Af1ict-
ed With Neuritis of the Feet.
Pep Introduced by Pollock.

senatorial campaign next Wednes-
day, the itinerary sliding into the last
half after that date.
Six meetings will be held during
the week. These will be: George
town, Monday; Monck's Corner, Tues
day; Charleston, Wednesday,; Walter
boro, Thursday; Ridgeland, Fri
day, and Beaufort, Saturday. The
meeting in Charleston will likely be
held in Hibernian Hall Wednesday
evening, and considerable interest at
taches. The meeting in Beaufort is
usually held at night, and an effort
is being made to hold the meeting
Friday evening instead Of Saturday.
that the candidates may gain day
for the weekend trip to their homes
in the northern half of the State.
The territory to be covered this
week has been lost by Blease in the
last three campaigns. In the heated
partisan race of 1912, Judge Ira B.
Jones's majority in the six counties
was more than 1000. The vote
against Blease, in the sextette of
counties four years ago, when he
made the race for United States sem
ate against E. D. Smith was 1851.
This lead over Blease was materially
reduced two years ago, by Charles
ton, where several hundred voters
switched. But the vote fo- the ter
ritory covered by the six counties was
retained in the Manning column.
Peoples Yet Missing.
Official business" "circumstan-
ces" and inability to attend" have
been given by Thomas H. Peoples as
his reasons for not canyassing with
the senatorial party last week, after
Senator Christie Benet and w. P.
Pollock, opposing candidates, led
him to the ''bar of public opinion" at
Florence and smashed his defenses
in attempting to get from him a re-
pudiation of Blease's war utterances
at Pomarla and Filbert, as published
in the Charleston American and the
Yorkville Enquirer, or an unequivo-
cal answer as to whether Or not he
would vote for Blease after the ex-
governor had made such statements.
It was at this same meeting tha.
N. B. Dial. candidate for the long
term, branded Blease to his face as
disloyalist from the crown of his
head to the sole of his feet" which
stigma the ex-governor did not resent.
The only answer Mr.. Blease had was
that he had not come to Florence to
make a speech and with this an
| nouncemenr to the crowd he left the
court house and has since that time
been camoufaging in other parts of
the State.
May Have Neuritis.
This was the first day Senator
Benet and w. P. Pollock unmasked
their batteries in the campaign, their
canvass for the short term beginning
in Florence, and wherever the sena-
torial party travels the deadly affect
| iveness of the first days fire is the
! main topic of conversation. Barber
shop gossip is that both Mr.. Blease
and Mr.. Peoples are suffering with
neuritis in the feet and are possibly
away consulting specialists.
Abandons Campaign.
Mr.. Blease has declared his Inten-
tion of abandoning wholly the SEN
atorial campaign as arranged by
the State Democratic executive COM
mittee, fearing that he would be set
on by thugs, were he to attempt to
make the regular meetings. This
has given the people of the State
another cause to convulse with laugh
ter. The man who sat handy with
magazine pistol six years ago. while
the ex-governor Laid on his traduc-
ers" is now languishing in the federal
penitentiary in Atlanta for disloyalty.
Peoples has said he would not re-
! canvass the territory covered when
canvassing the State as candidate
for governor from the opening Of the
State campaign until his announce
ment as a candidate for the United
States senate. Should he stand by
his declartion and also not attend
either of the three first meetings this
week, he would not join the party
before it reaches Anderson, August
IA, when only seven counties remain
to be visited. Should he become a
member of the party at that time, he
would visit with them seven counties
with a heavy voting population. They
are: Anderson, Oconee, Pickens,