The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-07-31
Large Hal! Overfiowinq with
Hearers.
LETTER OF LATE
SENATOR READ
Dial, Pollock and Benct Make GriIIinu
Attacks on I}lcaSc. Pollock Reads
Letter from Late Senator TiILma,
ENcoriating BleaSe as ~ Traitor e.,
His Country and God.

His Country and God.
Charleston, July 2l.-llibcrnian Hal
was iammcd TO ovcriiowng tonight
with an audience that chccrcd itsel
loarsc in !2s ponsc to Dat:;oltc utter
anccS o. candidates for the United,
S'a,cs senate. 1t was hy far tht
mcsi tuhulcnt CROWD which ha; ye
come within the path Of the senatorial.
party.
The splendid audience and its mos.
positive rejection Of 4 candidate whose
patriotism has been brought in Ques-
ton was characterized by W. r. Pol
lock as "GharlcSton'S answer to thai
propaganda which has been going ou
through that dirty sheet, the Charles
ton American, which said that thous-
andS would 80 out to hear that arcl.
traitor and base enemy Of South Caro-
lima, Cole H. l}lCasc, and would not g
out to hear decent people" making thy
regular itinerary as arranged by the
State Democratic executive committee
The meeting was characterized b.
many as ono of the best ever held in
Charleston. In the audience were be-
tween 500 and 700 voters, many Of
these representatives Of Charlcston's
best citizenship in civic and business.
interests.
Dial, BcnCt and Pollock were re-
ccivcd with prolonged demonstration
and every sentence in dcnunCiatiOn OF
BlcasCs loose war talk and every ref
crcAcc to the Charleston Americans
unpatriotic attitude prior to the wa.
and its scmblancc OF patriotism now
characterized by Scnator Bcnet as
"mcrc camouilagc" was followed by
spontaneous bursts Of rounds OF ap-
plausc and choruScS Of shouts. There
was no scmblancc Of Blcascism de-
tccted
James Francis Rice spoke under
pressure. lie afforded the crowd con-
siderable amusement with the logic he
brought for his election. Several times
there were calls to get the hook"
and once his words were almost lost
in the shricking whistles the uproari-
Gus crowd set up in opposition.
Candidates tonight made some di-
vcrgence from their customary trend
of arguments. Senator Christie Benet
made a powerful plea against the sup
port of Blcasc. because of the char
acter Of the paper which is upholding
his candidacy. The government found
it necessary to shut the Charleston
American out Of the mail because OF
its diSloyal utt FRANCES and one mem
bcr of the editorial staff had been sent
to the federal penitcntary. The
crowd backing Bleasc could not be
trusted, said Mr.. Benet, who read a
number of editorials from the paper
in which the war was characterized as
"Wilson's war" and that congress
when standing at the parting Of the
ways, when the question had to be
determined definitely whether there
was to be war or not, The American
said congressman would be bought
with patronage and the people
fooled"
w. p. Pollock was no less scathing
in his arraignment Of the paper which
disgraced the name "American', be-
cause Of its anti-Wilson policy. The
disloyalty Of the member Of the edi-
tOrial staff, who was sentenced to the
pcnitcntiary, was also emphasized by
Mr.. Pollock. along with that Of W j.
Beard. another Of Blease's followers
now in the penitcntiary, and that OF
Albert Orth. The quartet would not
be complete "until Cole Blcasc is
pccrng out Of the bars Of the pen
itcntiary, where he ought to be un-
less he is hanged to lamp post"
Blcasc and his bunch of hireling
had picked up poor little Tom Peoples
race and put him in the short term
senate race" said Mr.. Pollock. Since
Peoples wilted at Florence when call.
ed on to say whether or not he wo,D!
support Blasc for the United States
senate, "hc has been lost, strayed or
stolen"
Senator Denct also challenged Mr..
Peoples to come back into the cam
paign "If Mr. Peoples doesn't like
what we've got to say about him, lie:
him come back. | want him to come
back on the stump and I warn him
that the people Of South Carolina hate
a gutter" Mr.. Peoples would either
get back on the stump and denOunce
Bleasc suttcrances, or he would be
suspected OF disloyalty. "You can al
ways Judge man by the company he
keeps or the company that keeps him."
n. b. Dial took occasion to reply to
,, today's Charleston American charges
that he was g corporation lawyer and
also the question as to his Democ-
racy. There's no taint on my Democ-
racy," Mr.. Dial said Back in 1890
Judge Haskell ran as an independent
candidate for governor Judge Haskell
was as brave man as ever lived. !
have no condemnation Of him, but
did not support him for governor and
urged him not to run"
in answer to the charge that he was
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