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Makes $5,000 Offer—Pol
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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.”
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Lightning Kills Negro.
John Aiken, a negro farm hand of
Saluda county, was struck by light
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The mule he waa plowing at the time
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