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huian BEATS CKWBKNOR VO OLD PET STORY. OF FEATUIES i Makes $5,000 Offer—Pol Gownwr-SmlthWrtl lUeeired—Govern or Leaves Stand | While Voice Stoats “Stay ai Take Your Medicine”. The campaign meeting at Abbe- Tille Tuesday ■waa one continuous chain of unexpected features. The governor himself afforded the first, when he gave practically bis entire time to a discussion of the parole of A. Richey, wjho was convicted for mutt upon bis 13-year-old adopted daughter. Though the governor cos muted SO of his'allotted 35 minutes in reading letters and other msnu- .. scripts on which the parole was t>as- ed, he said this was neither an ex planation nor an apology. Nor was It, he said, to be consid ered as a reply to anything that had been said on the stump by opponents, though this case was the high light U) the Greenwood meeting last Sat urday. He did this, be said, In an swer to certain resports that had been circulated in Abbeville county, and If it had not been for this, he would not have come to Abbeville. The governor said that Richey, 4 though technically paroled, was out \on a $5,000 bond, and that he could be reincarcerated at any time, and would be when his health so improv ed that It would not Impose a bur den on the State to keep him in the penitentiary. Mr. Jennings added another fea- ture when he read editorial comment ""TrtHirThCTdTYvnTeTJnqufrer to the effect that Messrs. Jennings and Pol lock had entered the campaign ac cording to a carefully prearranged plan to help Senator Smith and that the selfish motive behind it was "probably money—expenses paid from some other source, and a good bonus In addition." The speaker that If the author was a gentle- bs would furnish the proof as <e-the prearrangement or retract it with the same publicity. Mr. Jennings declared that other wise the writer would show himself a liar. The charge about money he denounced bitterly. The mayor of Sumter offered to withdraw from the race, and in addition to subscribe $6,000 to the deaf and dumb insti tute at Cedar Springs If the editor win furnish proof of his assertion. Mr. Pollock, In raking through the “records" agaia, mentioned another iber of the governor’s staff. This discovery, according to the Cheraw candidate, Is the son of the man who owned the Kingstree paper on which James L. Sims of Orange burg, as a young man, set type. It for t^ils work that the governor >usly objected to Mr. 81ms’ appointment as United States mar shal, and over which he has gnashed his teeth on many stumps In the present campaign. The speaker called for the first band primary. After subjecting the governor's record to a severe grilling, be asked that all those who Indorsed /hat record to show their hands. The speaker said about 15 shot up. When asked that all those who did not ap prove to raise their hands, there was general fluttering of hats and wav- arms while the grove behind jurt house echoed with ap- Jnator Smith was the first speak- jd was well received and gener- jplauded. He made his usual P 01 ^ V defense of his record, wlth- candidatenlogy for working five and factionalisnr* ^ Interests of the t-ed in spif l,re WGre many l)ur8t8 °* applause in response to tel^yj^rlate Jokes. When he had ludea he was presented with the Ique gift of the campaign, which a last year's cotton stalk of rank Mrth, with all the long staple locks ig low from the burrs. There wan much applause when this was passed up to the stage. Senator Smith began by saying that there had been some comment upon “Cotton" Smith, “Boll Weevil’’ Smith and "Cyclone” Smith had done nothing. If he hadn't, he said, he was thankful that he was there when the doing was done. He then read the letter from Senator Smith of Georgia to the Greenville Piedmont, disclaiming any credit for the Smith cotton bill, whom the governor had said*was the authorr "Senator Smith introduced the original bill,” the let ter ran. "and if any one has given me the 1100*8 share of the credit (for amending and supporting the bill on the floor of the Senate), I regret it. Too much credit can not be given ybflr own Senator E. D. Smith. He then discussed a measure now In the committee conference, which when it becomes law within the next 'few days, will compel cotton dealers ,d«tt?er the same grade .of cotton real! for., ^Wheo.yp ag or or you $o to Jail In con- ' to aaid, in explanation of of the cotton brok- goods and then deliver “dog toll” or any available “Junk”. The governor spoke directly after Senator Smith. Ha began by saying that arrangements had been made for loan of $350,000 to replenish the depleted State treasury. The rate of interest to be paid la S 1*3 per cent., the lowest, he fold, at which the State had ever been able to borrow funds. Qg this decreased rate his vetoes of the appropriation bills, he said, had become an economic advan tage. As soon as the governor bad fin ished speaking he left the stage, but only a scattering few trailed after. As the chief executive stepped down there were repeated calls: “Stay and take your medicine, governor.' 2 This was answered by: “He can’t afford It,*’ which drew much applause. When It was remarked that few were retiring with the governor to the hotel some one called out: "I bet all thoae came over from Anderson.” Mr. Jennings said that Senator Smith had brought about what he bad done for the price of cotton so much and had talked about It so much that he actually believed that he had done these things. “But you are entitled to have some one In th6 Senate who has more than one idea,” he added. In discussing the governor's atti tude towards the Charleston situa tion the mayor of Sumter said that he did not expect to change one blind tiger or race track gambler’s vote, but that he did expect to open the eyes of the people to the fact that this class of people are trying to de ceive them Into believing that they represent the cause of the people. Mr. Jennings made sport of the gover nor’s claims that he would turn out the negro mall clerks when he got to Washington. “He can not do thli,” the speaker explained, “until he has repeated the civil service laws, and all the sena tors In the South can’t do that.” The only way, he said, these negroes could be deprived of these jobs would be to repeal the fourteenth and fif teenth amendments, thus depriving negroes of citizenship rights. "Which Is the most harmful,” he said, "a few mall clerks passing through the State on trains and earn ing an honest living or 900 convicts turned loose In your community, criminals of every conceivable type’” Mr. Jennings drew a laugh from the audience when he reminded them that the governor had repeatedly said that he had nothing to explain yet came to Abbeville and consumed his entire time explaining one case. In discrediting the idea of Richey’s broken health, the speaker said: “Charles F. Morse, in the federal pris on in Atlanta, convinced the people that he waa nearly dead. Now be is In the North still robbing the people." Mr. Pollock, henceforth, will bold almost a unique place In South Caro lina politics. The candidate from Cberaw came to the defense of the newspapers of the State and denounc ed as cheap demagoguery the attempt to create prejudice through attacks on the newspapers,' The speaker said: "I am tired of the cheap political demagoguery that has Bought to array class against class. I am dlaguested with the abuse of the newspapers and the newspaper men. A free press Is essential to free government, and my experience is that the newspaper men—the editors and the reporters—are as fine a class of our citizenship as any we have In the State. It Is through the news papers that the people are Informed of what is going on. "Then turn on the white light of truth, and It Is only the demagogue that wishes his real self kept from the view of the people. It is only he who abuses and vilifies the news papers. But such abuse will not de ter the newspapers In rendering a patriotic service to the people, be cause Journalists love their State, and are as fair and patriotic as any men, and they are doing their full share to bring about a better condi tion in South Carolina. I say all honor to the newspapers for the work they are doing.” ■■■■ w ♦ ♦ SHOT IN SALUDA. PAMDE FOR SMITH , - 'I ANDERSON FARMERS LED THEIR CANDIDATE TO STAND. Justifiable Homicide Occurred There Last Saturday Night. Joe Abney, alias “Boy” Abney, was killed by W. S. Adams, a young white man of the Owdom section of Saluda county, at a negro supper Saturday night. It was brought out at the in quest Sunday morning that the white man and the negro became Involved In a dispute and that the negro went home and secured his shot gun, and that the killing was done in self de fense. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was "justifiable homicide". A single barrel shot gun, loaded, was found lying beside the negro, as were several loaded shells and a bot tle of whiskey. The wife of the dead man stated that her husband came to the house and got the gun and went into the trunk, where he kept the shells, and that he came and went in a hurry. 1 Marines Ready for Service. Seven hundred marines are assem bled at Guantanamo, Cuba, ready for *mmediate service in the revolution- **7 A®™ 1 republic, Haiti and S&ntoJ indifference and cited his record in Turning Aside . From Cotton Speech Senator Telle of Voting Money to Family of Negro Lynched, Says He Voted 1 for Separate Apartments and Defends Appointments. A feature of the Anderson meet ing Wednesday- was a pageant In honfir of Senator Smith. When the time arrived for the speak ing to begin, a pageant of eleven wagons twice circled the court house, with the senator on the first, perched high up on two bales of cotton. An other of the train bore the'"hoe bri gade,” each occupant being armed with one of these deadly goose-neck ed weapons. One man, acting the part of a clown, rode barebacked a dusky mule, plastered with samples of cot ton from Its nose to the end of Its tail, the man himself wearing a mask of 4 cotton whiskers and a coat cov ered with splotches of lint. A brass band of 12 pieces occupied another wagon, and crashed out lively airs as the parade went by. In the other wagons were farmers, their wives and daughters, there being in all 89 men and 23 women. Four mounted scouts led the procession, each bearing a banner Inscribed, “The Farmers’ Friend for the Senate, E. D. Smith.” Gov. Blease, who was the first speaker, made hls characteristic “Haskelllte” and negro Republican charges, and said that he had no fears of any crowd that Joined hands with "free niggers”. He said some people may say that It Is a horrible thing for the governor of a State to dvocate lynching. “But if I were not governor,” he went on, “I’d go along and help. And as long as I'm gov ernor I don’t intend to do anything to keep them from It.” L. D. Jennings spoke after the gov ernor and began by reminding the audience that the Blease forces had often consoled themselves by saying that all the fraud of two years ago was on the “other side”. He then aseked: “Well, if all the fraud was on the other side two years ago, why should the Bleasltes complain when those rules are so framed that now there can be no fraud’” This candi date assured the Anderson people that he had never gone Into any fight that he didn't stay in to the finish, and the governor’s charge that there would be withdrawing did not apply to him. Mr. Jennings drew much applause when he discussed the appointment of James L. Sims as United States marshal. He concluded this part of his speech by asking, “Which is the greater offense, to have a man ap pointed United States marshal who had set type on a Republican paper, or to appoint to your staff a man who ran on the negro Republican ticket in 1880, as did J. P. Gibson, on the governor's staff?” W. P. Pollock recalled that the governor had said repeatedly that he would never explain or apologize for a single act he had ever performed or a word that he had ever uttered “Yet," the speaker went on, “he spent three-fourths of hls time yesterday explaining the Richey case.” Mr. Pollock again put on exhibi- Uou hls “mixed” Republican ticket of 1880. He also reminded the au dience that there was on the gov ernor's staff, besides J. P. Gibson, who voted the Republican ticket, the son of the owner of the newspaper on which James L. Sims set type. The speaker got much applause when he referred to “Col. Sottile". This candidate said he had heard that a Greenville cotton mill opera tive had applied for Harrison Neeley’s job to run the governor’s automobile, but had found that “Harrison Neeley was good enough for the governor.” In speaking. Senator Smith said in part: “I was surprised that any Southern man, any South Carolinian, seeing that splendid pageant this morning, should dare to criticise any cause for whom it was inaugurated, because in that pageant there was a combination which should fire the heart of every South Carolinian. In that parade there came into conjunc tion this morning two things that make out State prosperous and glo rious—the silken fibre of cotton, In which there is every store and church, every school house, the comforts and convenience of every home, and wear ing the bloom from that cotton was the pride and glory of South Caro lina, her immaculate and matchless womanhood. I want no grander em blem for my coat of arms than the bloom of the cotton worn by noble South Carolina women, and I thank God that was my badge this morn ing. J Senator Smith tore off the mask of —-4 Columbia.South'Carolina. One of the few Class ydofE< institution. % T*/n*w« * —.7- f,— Colleges for Women in the South,'* rank of honor given - it bribe , Board of Education M. E. 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Bachelor of literature and Bachelor of Sdenoe . are conferred. 1914 Term begins September 24. For Descriptive Catalogue and 1914-15 Announcement, - Addresa REV. W. W. DANIEL, D. D. President, Columbia, S.' Cl ^ogtogo. Three Die in Ante Wrecks. In a series of Sunday accidents three persons were killed and a score ferred by the governor. The first was that he had voted to pey $2,000 to a negro family in the event a I member of that family had keen lynched. “TTilmaa and the reform party of South Carolina wrote that into the organic law of this State, and when I went to the State legisla ture, I ~ twinr S&TemrT oath That i would ‘preserve, protect and defend the constitution of this State’, and so long as there Is law upon the statute books or In the organic law of the State so long, so help me God, I am going to obey that law. I do not propose to perjure myself, and per jure my soul, if some people, a major ity of them, have made a grievious error, for I shall stand by that error, If such It be, until the sovereign peo ple have corrected it. “He said I had voted against the ‘Jim Crow’ car bill. Mr. Pollock, who Is on this platform to-day, had offer ed an amendment, or a stubstltute to have separate coaches for the races. Turn to page 423 of the House Jour nal of 1898, and read the record of the vote of those who voted with Banks Caughmai: when the other substitutes had been laid on the table, to put a division In our ocaches, thus separating the races, and if you do not nd tfihat E. D. Smith voted for the separate coach law I will quit this race. “He called up the question of Mr. Sims’ appointment,” Senator Smith went on. "That was Mr. Tillman's appointment, but' I gladly confirmed him wen It cam? up, because I had promised Mr. Tillman that whomso ever the president nominated for dis trict attorney, as between Mr. Thur mond, whom Mr. Tillman had named, and Mr. Weston, whom I had named, we would confirm, and that I would acquiesce in the appointment of Mr. Sims for United States marshal. I stood for Mr. Weston for district at torney and I won my fight. Mr. Wes ton was my friend. He went from one side of this country to the other, giving hls time and spending money with E. D. Smith, fighting the battles of the people for better prices for cotton, and that Is more than these other lawyers were doing. “When I had an office to give, I gave it to the man who had helped to put shoes on my babies’ feet, who had helped me to put bread In their mouths, who had helped me to clothe their backs, who had helped me put knowledge in their brains, and I da not give a hurrah, whatever else he might be, except a Republican; I do not give a continental so long as when the people called he responded. “I would infinitely rather appoint a poor typesetter working to make an honest living, whose heart was loyal to Democracy, whadn the stug- gle for the necessities 1 for life was working to make an honest dollar, who of necessity had taken a job as typesetter, even on a Republican pa per, in order that he might keep soul and body together, who, even while his heart was breaking his soul was marching with Hampton in that gal lant fight to. redeem South Carolina from the rapine and lust of negro rule, I say that I would rather ap point him than as a colonel on my staff a white South Carolinian who was running on a Republican ticket wjth negroes to keep their heels upon our State.” «ll ■ ■ ■ II II Lightning Kills Negro. 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