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? *?t ?4?t? 0^ s> ovweano ? # j' . ? w |s ? AHrn*r nm candidates. ? Two of a Kind. Ws.^ we know of nothing just now V*uld bo of mor? Interest to nouth Car oil elans than to hesr Qov. Cols U Blesse end the I. W. W. Iced* St. Joser rt J. Kttor, on joint debate [ before, say. two or three thousand Wears as ef the red ribbon?Journal) Carolina Spartan. aesndlac by Ssnisb. Thors as no discounting the farmers' popularity with ths politu lana?dur awe s campaign year. Senator E. D. ?mit a. hows vor. remembered the faxmsaa during several off years. Which is doubtles* responsibls for his toed standing now among the rural voters.?-Hoc It HiU Herald. 4 Not to Has Fsoe. Asywsy. Nobody who really knows Cole L Stesse, and really knows Lewis W. Parker ImIIsyss for ths thousandth sort of s second that the aforesaid Colo U Blosse, will face to face with Mr. Parker, say those things about him witch he belched forth in the anoottSeT st Woodslds last night. A sufficient commentary on that speech wss fsriiishsd by one who heard it. After, la ths most demagogic way Blosse had tried to Influence passion sgalnej Mr. Parker because he hsd by hard work succeeded In life a little more than those who sre new working; for ths company of which he ta ths highest employe, the governor said ho would like to talk about Sera tor Smith, but did not like to Ulk sbout s man behind his back. One la the audience st this point tutad "Mr. Parker is not here end you talked about him."?Greenville Pled most. , Why Doss Blesse Rem? (J reap wood Journal thinks the gov? ernor la on ths run. At least, he leaves ths stood after speaking und does not Walt to hoar what Jennings snd Pol? lock have to say about him.?Rock Hill Hamid. t AJrondy Got It, feines tho governor has turned turkey' kg very natural to suppose that he ?H1 got It In'the neck ? Greenwood Journal. t ' Qov. Blesse and Msj. John Q. Richards havs been given some pret? ty hard knock* for their attempts to dgoooO) prejudice by criticising the J9 primary rules, and ws think all loom have been deserved, but this ons frees Tho Sointsr Item is about tad soundest srgument we have seen jrwt: ] "Join 0. Richards. Blesse and fMmmej rave over tho disgrace it Is for Bs Hlfierate man to make his mark OS) the enrollment book, but they tail td show thai It Is a greater dis? grace than for ths same man to make hut mark on his bank check or on a Seed estate title, mortgage, note or other legal paper. Ths fact of the ?antler Is oseh snd every objection to the - personal enrollment require? ment Is ths rottenest sorf of dema gegueiw and Is as silly as it Is false." ?very sensible man knows that the now primary rules were sdopted pure? fy and' eoleiy to Insure sn honest] election and that there was no inten? tion whatever to disfranchise the la* boring.? the poor or the illiterate man. If this were the case why sre tho newspapers, nearly sll of which sre opposed to both ths governor and Msj Richards snd Mr. Him me, cry? ing sloud every day for everybody to register before July 19th. It's a] great pity the governor. Maj. Rich srds snd Mr. 8tmma do not really werk for ths welfare of the class which |hey claim, without the shad? ow of truth to sustain them. Is op pressed.?OrOsnwood Journal Wwapnperw Not Running. Tho candidates are wasting their time In abusing the newspspers None of tho newspapers are running for, osBce this year?Anderson Mall. ; Manning at Beaufort, la tie gubernatorial race Richard 1 Mansies stood out In ths front runk Judging/ from the applause and cheers' which greeted the speaker In his short shposltlon of the platform on which |s is running?Beaufort Cor responoVnc lo ftpartanburg Journal. Poor Richards. Alas poor Richards'?Anderaon Mail. Ward Snrce r'.nrollina Cooandltoe Met. The vVard Three Rnrolllag Commit too met Monday afternoon and ( heck Od the enrollment agalnat the poll Hat off lilt. All who voted In Ward Three then and have not enrolled so far ware listed, the committee will ascertain If thsy sre still residents of tho word, snd If they are their mem? ory WIM be jogged so that they will hove no o? caslon to say "wall, I in tended to but 1 forgst It " i?i mm iwm. cncmrt noijmcRors, but* wo se RfTJl S DISORDER AT MEET ING/ Jennings not In Usual Form? Pollock Has Dispute and Warfen Word? with Number of Audience? Blouse end swim Btoth Conrnimt. Laurens. July 22.?The record breaking crowd of the campaign came to Laurens today to hear the sena? torial candidates, there being ap? proximately 4,500 persons present. In consequence of the shakeup at [Greenville last Saturday, many voters came here today from adjoining coun? ties expecting another tilt. Long be? fore the hour for the meeting to be? gin the natura) amphitheatre out in the grove where the meeting was held had been packed. The meeting was boisterous, but there was no excite? ment, although the governor sild that It had been rumored that he was to be assassinated here today. Reminding his hearers that there was nothing between him and lb* man who would shoot, the governor urged that "If the assassin is here, let him do his dirty work." The nearest approach to disorder was when w p. Pollock referred to thf Union Republican ticket of 1890, which ticket contained the name of J. P. Gibson of the governor's staff. One man in the audience branded this ras a lie. At this tense moment severer po? licemen hurried about the man, who kept repeating: "It's a He and he knows It." The Cheraw candidate's reply waa: "A man can't come to my face and call me a liar unless he's willing to take the consequences." Harking back again to the assassi? nation Idea, the governor said that a newspaper yesterday in an editorial had Invited the assassination of the chief executive. "If I should be killed," the govern? or added, "more hearses would be called for the next day than for many years." The cause he represent? ed, he explained, w>uld still go on. Reporters and edl' *<rs came in again for a scathing assault, most of them being placed in the "Ananias club." "The reporters and two-thirds of the editors," he said, "would be In hell before night," 1f adjudged a* Ananias and Baphtra were. Mr. Pollock got the brunt of the heckling today when he was making bold assaults on the governor's rec? ord. The leaders were In small groups, end kept up "team work" in raising an uproar When a particular point wee being emphasised,' or the "climax of an argument Was ap? proached Sheriff John Owens referrea to these ' as "intruders" from Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood end Spartan? ner* counties. * * Calling directly to one particular squad, he reminded them that they did not belong to Laurena county and beaee were not needed as yell leaders. The sheriff also said that he did not believe that there would have been any disrespect shown to any speakers had there been no Invasions from other counties. George A. Browning, who acted as chairman in the absence of W. C. Irby, who Is a candidate for governor, said that these were also strangers to him. Gov. Blease was the first speaker today and began with the quotation: "Those whom the gods would de? stroy they first make mad." He said the antl-Blease forces were defeated, and In substantiation cited three cases where men have recently become enraged. One, he said, at Whit mire, when a mill president invited the governor "to go below;" another at Anderson, "when another man with a gun climbed on the stand," and a third at Oreenvllle last Saturday, when J. W. Norwood attempted to get to the governor after having been de? nounced as a coward by the chief executive. No Blease man, the governor con? tinued, had yet tried to aa.usslnate Senator Smith. If any one of the three, he went on, had been a Bleaso man, the cry of anarchy would have gone up and the man would have been put In Jail. In discussing assassination the gov? ernor said that he had no fears of being killed, and added that though a Methodist he was a fatalist to the ex? tent of believing that there la a cer? tain way nnd a definite time for every man to die, which cun not be evaded by the machinations of man. Another report was being circu? lated In I*uurens county, tho govern >r added. This was that the negro Fred Klledge, convicted In I<uurenx county ln )*0H on the charge of assault with Intent to ravish and getting a sen? tence of 20 yeurs, hud been pardoned. This, the governor said, was a char? acteristic campaign lie, as the peni? tentiary records would show, he chnm nd. that the negro died May 6, 1912. Newspaper reporters were liars, the chief executive charged, were paid to lit* and If they didn't would lose their Job? Warning the audience not t > believe anything that appeared in ! 'tfie newspapers, the'"governor pre? dicted his election August 25, basing .Its certainty on reports which he has been getting that many men who did not support him two years ago, would vote for him this year. "If I were as certain of belnp saved as I am of going to the United States senate," the governor continue!, "then I'd never pray for myself again, but only for my friends, as I'd be safe." Again today the string of race prej? udice was much harped on, and this drew applause from the strong Blease following In the audience. Laurens, he said, was a sure enough white man's county. "A nigger," he added, "could no more ride tea mall In Laurens county than a keg of pow? der last' in heU.'' This; he explained, would not be al? lowed without him as governor, and he was sure it would not with him in the governor's chair. ' The governor got two large baskets of flowers, which he said he would piece on the graves of Thomas B. Crews and John M. Cannon. L. D. Jennings developed an attack of ptomaine poisoning last night and was not In his best form today, nut got an attentive hearing. The wholesale granting of pardons, the mayor at gumter said, was under? mining the system of trial by Jury and was responsible for general dis? regard for the law. "For ages," he continued, "men's minds were active in discovering best methods to try criminals. The plan which the combined wisdom of our forefathers agreed upon was trial by Jury, the court being presided over, by a Judge, supposed to be learned In the law. Do you think that betten than the present situation now exist? ing In Bouti Carolina?" he asked. The getting up of a petition, Mr. Jennings explained, was due only to the efforts of some lawyer, who was representing the convicted man. For this, he sale!, the lawyer was paid, and he* did not blame the lawyer. "It's his business," he added. Mr. Jennings pointed out that four more years of the present policy would produce a state of affairs simi? lar to that Iq Mexico. Many In the audience etouted their disapproval of this by answering in the negative. "There will be an absolute dis? regard for law," the speaker retorted, "and that's exactly the trouble in Mexico." In the course ot his speech the gov? ernor had mv.ch to say about taking the negro out of civil service, and predicted much as to the hemp and limb method of destruction. The Sumter candidate said that he, too, did not believe that the negroes should hok. offices in South Carolina, but that ho did not agree with the chief executive ae to the shotgun and hemp rope plana of getting rid of the negroes. . When th? question was put to the audience, "Would you take part in hanging a man who was delivering mail In Laurens county?" there were many answers in the affirmative. The proper way to prevent negroes from holding these Jobs, the speaker explained, <?ras by repealing the 14th and 16th amendments, thus disquali? fying the negroes as to citizenship. Then they could not apply for civil service examination. It was further pointed out that sen? timent was growing in both the North and the West against the negro. The time, Mr. J innings added, would soon come when the South could look to these to help nullify these amend? ments, but this could not be hoped for tf men are sent to Washington who are unfriendly to the present na? tional administration and at logger? heads with the different departments of the government. In concluding, Mr. Jennings said that If the governor should go to the United Status senate, the first resolu? tion he wo ild introduce would be a measure to compel the president to release all negroes from the federal prisons. Mr. Pollock threw down the gaunt? let to the administration forces from the opening sentence of his Speech. Plucking a white cotton bloom from aA "E. D. Smith prolific" stalk that had been seen brought to the stand for the senator, he said that ho pre? ferred the white bloom, the emblem of purity aid of the South's pros? perity, to the red badges. This brought numerous retorts from the audience, la which the speaker re? plied: "It is better than to the tagged liko you to keep from getting lost." In the coarse of hlB speech the gov? ernor said that 2,600 Blease badges had been distributed, while his fol? lowers were begging for more. Mr. Pollock predicted that there wouldn't be f?00 on the coats, If tho audience would listen to him. At Greensllln last Saturday, the red-typed, spread-eagled I nlon lte publlean ticket of Ifiso, on which the name of J. P. Olbsob appeared as a candidate for the legislature from Marlboro county, was torn Into shreds by some political enemy. Today, when the Cheraw cundldate held up the fragmeate le the crowd, one in the audience branded,the charge against jIt, Gibson as "a lie." k This was the only time during the day that there was any semblance of disorder beyond that of persistent heckling of Mr. Pollork throughout his speech, and for a brief interval directed against Senator Smith. Expressing thq possibility of his not being elected, Mr. Pollock added, "But I know Cole Blease won't." "I bring you a mensage frcul the 24 counties we have vis.ted," he explain? ed. "From the cocst to the Blue Ridge mountains the voters are sing? ing the funral dirge of Cole L. Blease and the womer, (Sod bless their hearts, are chanting it as they fall in line." he continued. This speaker got much applause when he had fin? ished. Senator Smith returned to the cam? paign, today with ha voice greatly improved. |s H? began his speech by telling those about him that he had worked for" the farmers five and one-half_ i years, and paraphrased the "governor I by saying that those who didn't like It could lump it. ? "That's the man Blease has got to defeat," some one called'out from far up on the embankment, r "Pm the man he'd like to defeat;" the senator came bacic, "but he'll never do it," he added, while the crowd sent up a deafening yell. Hfa competitors were challenged to suy -whether they Intended to do any? thing to advance the" price of cotton, in the event one were elected, If the senator had done nothing, as charged, and If no man could do anything, i "If .you propose to sneak' off like a whipped "cur and leave'the markets to be' manipulated by Wall street gam? blers, get up and say so," the senator commanded. "If that's your doctrine, get Op and preach It," he went on, "and you'll not get enough votes to know that you were in the race. At one time it appeared that the senator would have as much difficulty in making himself heard as his pre? decessor had. Senator Smith re? minded (he chairman that it was not fair f?r a half dozen men to prevent the majority of the people from hear mg the speakers. The little group of disturbers soon dispersed, and the speaker was allowed to proceed with? out further interruption. Gov. Blease had displayed a re? vised copy of Senator Smith's cotton exchange regulation bill. The chief executive charged that all of this bill had been cut out with the exception of tho number of the bill and the en? acting words and that 'Congressman Lever's bill had been substituted. In reply to this Senator Smith said that Congressman Lever, in his re? port with the returned bill, said that the language was changed, but not the principle of the measure. "That makes no difference," Sena? tor Smith added. "I started the work. I introduced the original bill and there's some honor in that." An Infamous letter was being cir? culated. Senator Smith said, charging him with dereliction in connection with the immigration bill. He had just had a talk this morn? ing, he said, with a representative of the Junior Order of American Me? chanics, and these were entirely satis lied with the work that the Senator had done in this direction. "Whether I'm reelected or not, I shall be sen? ator until March 4, 1915, and in that time rto opportunity will be allowed to go by to try to put this measure oh the statute books." Senator Smith said that the Smith voters August 25 would be as "pro? lific" as the fruit on the stalk of cot? ton brougi. to Laurens for the sena? tor today. "And you can't head these voters off," the speaker added in conclusion. The meeting tomorrow will be in Columbia. The party goes to Lex? ington the next day, with Saluda, Edge field and Alken counties next ad? vanced upon. * - m ii. M l II .i II FREIGHT RATE DECISION. ., f. * - - Washington, J lly 22.-*-The decision in the five per cent advance rate case will not be made today, was the an? nouncement of the secretary of the In? terstate commerce commission. A re? port is current that the decision will be handed down Saturday but it has not been confirmed. fCARBAJAlJ-CARRANBA CONFER? ENCE. Washington. July 22.?Representa? tives of Provisional President Car bajal will meet Gen. Carranza at Sal ttllo, probably next week, to discuss the transfer of the Mexican govern? ment to the constitutionalists, It was announced at the state department to? day. The ttrnzllian miniHer at Mex? ico City will arrange for the actual tranafor of authority to the constitu? tionalists. A dispatch to Monterey states thnt den. Curranza has left there for Tamplco. New Orleans, July 22.?Mrs. Fan? nie Collom, aged 28, formerly p??st mistress at Phoenix, Miss, 1h held here charged with the embezzlement of a thousand dollar* of government funds. ' ~ ?e Governor'* Race, (Editorial Jn New* and Courier. July , 21.) ? Because th? Opinion is everywhere strong thtft Oov. Blease is losing heavily in support and is sure of de? feat it Seems to" have been taken for granted, by Bhtt-Bleaseites, at least, that trie election of an ariti-Bleaseite as governor is certain also. We wish that it were, MM unfortunately, as matters now Stand, it is not. It fa entirety possible f?f Governor Blease to l?se by a substantial majority in ( Rftr race for the seriate and aft the same time for A Blease candidate for governor to be assured of election to that office. ' Moreover, as the situation appears to be shaping up at pTesent, there is serious danger, we think, that this very thing may happen. The risk lies in the fact that it looks now as If the anti-Blease vote is likely to be split all to pieces while there Is a strong probability that the Blease support witl be' centered upon two of the Blease candidates. If this should happen, the result Would be that white the anti-Blease people might outnum? ber the Bleaseites very considerably the second race-for gover-nor might not be between a Bleaseite and an anti eieaseite but betwen two Blease ites?asy Richards ahd Irby,- or Richards and Simms. * ? It would" not* be the first time In South Carolina politics that such a sad mischance had wrecked the hopes of a seemingly triumphant majority. In? deed, I is scarcely overstating the e-^se turkey that under the primary sys smu this sort of thing has been the rule rather than the exception. Take the-senatorial contest of lit02 as an example. In that year there were four candidates from one faction and two from the other. The voie stood on follows: Elliott.13,658 Evans.17,893 Hemphill. ..13,261 ? Henderson.. .. .. ..13,771 Johnstone.. . . . ,. ..13,566 Latimer.. ..22,871 The four, candidates from the so called Conservative wing of the Dem ocratic party polled a total of 54,246 votes, or 13,382 votes mote than both Latimer and Evans,. the Reform fac? tion candidates; but because the Con? servative vote was pretty evenly di? vided among four candidates forty thousand voters out of ninety-six thousand were enabled to name the United States senator. The illustration was not quite so clear in the senatorial election of 1908, for factional lines ? were not drawn so closely in that year; yet a study of the figures reveals very much the same results in the con *test of 1902. There were seven can? didates. The vote stood as follows: Evans,....27,584 Grace.. .. .. ...... 1,499 Johnstone. ..13,656 Lumpkin., .. 4,361 Martin...6,802 Rhett., .. .. .. ....22,422 Smith., .. ... ..30,013 It is not a matter susceptible of proof, but citizens familiar with the conditions which existed at that time will generally agree that Mr. Evans and Mr. Smith each drew practically his entire strength on the first ballot. There were 4 7., 241 voters(who in the second primary had to choose between candidates neither of whom was as acceptable to them as some third can? didate would have been. It is some misadvantage of this sort whlch; we fear in the governor's race this year, unless the anti-Blease vote can. be reasonably well concentrated on . some one of the candidates avowedly opposed to things which have made the administration of the present governor notorious. It is true that there are nearly as many Blease men in the race as there are anti-Blease men; but there is every reason to believe that the Blease forces will concentrate upon two of the Blease candidates and let the rest go. They can do that. Blease has lost strength but the elements which are for him are cohesive and organized. They will vote as their leaders say vote. , ~ , If this plan is followed?and for our own part we do not doubt but that it will be followed?there is a possibility that two of the Bloa-te can? didates may each receive upwards of or better than 25,000 votes in the llrst primary. Js there any anti-Blease candidate for whom that many votes can be figured out in the first primary as things look now? We don't believe it. There is every chance for the nntl ^Blease' forces?the forces of reform and progress?to name the next gov? ernor in the contest this summer, but It will be an easy matter for them to forfeit that chance if they con? tinue to proceed a.s tbey are now proceeding upon the theory that an anti-Blease man Is sure of election and that they can afford to scatter their votes about as they please in trie first primary. Dr. and Mrs L. C. Munn have re? turned to their home at Lunar, after a Vlsll to Mrs. Jessie Bradford, on Eaut Liberty ?licet. BROWNiNG MAKES REPLY. . 1 Answer? Pastor Swilli's Article and Again Attack* Pastor Ku*sell. Editor SumteY Pally Item. A clipping from your paper of Jur.e 30, entitled the "Photo-Drama Defended4* has just come to my atten ion. The artlrle 1? signed "Pastor Al? fred L Smith.'f'so Orte would natur? ally judge that Mr. Smith Is not only a RusseTltte but* a preacher of that faith, since his title is'similar to Pan tor Russell's. It is to" "be hoped that Pastor Smith obtained his ecclesiasti? cal title in a much more satisfactory way- than Russell did for nobody seems to know how Russell ever be-r came "Pastor" Russell except that he Jlist assumed the title. Mr, Smith objection to my criticism of the photo-drama "Creation"?espe? cially where I referred to parts of it as "being weak and ludicrous." He reminds me that two million people have seen it. No small wonder that so many have seen it. it's a free 3"how and .greatly advertised and there are two million more who will ptob ably see it but that won't make it any better. Both Pastor Smith and Dr. Young of Columbia closed their replies to my critic ism by reminding me of the fact that the Chicago Board of Censorship pronounced these pic? tures the finest Chicago had ever wit? nessed. That certainly makes me sor? ry fOr Chicago. Just let any ordinary bible student look at the pictures of Noah in the photo-drama. Poor old fellow He is dressed in a three quarter mother hubbard and with a mOp of hair that looks like a corn shock tied in the middle. It made me feel sorry for the Noah family to see them henling into the ark a bunch of animals that, reminded one of a stranded one-ring circus. Again, for illustration, look at Abraham and Issac on their way. to the sacrifice. Isaac has about enough sticks to build a crow's nest and when he gets the altar ready it looks more like smoking a rabbit out of a hole than anything else. But every person to his taste, as the old woman said who kissed the cow, so we'll pass from the pictures to Russell. Pastor Smith holds that it is unfair for me to criticize Pastor Rus? sell's good name and character and regards such criticism as "false and malicious slanders." My reply is that when a man puts himself up for a tar? get he must expect to be shot at. If Pastor Russell is a great religious leader and claims, as he does, to be that "faithful and wise servant" re? ferred to In Matthew 24:4 6-46 then we have a right to expect him to practice what he preaches. We want to sett what his religion does tor him before taking it too seriously. Pastor Smith says that I reveal a woeful lack.of knowledge of the teach ings of Pastor Russell. Neither am L familiar with the teachings; of Rous? seau for the reason that hi* life is re pellant to me. However, let anyone who haa Russell's Studies in Scrip? tures, volume 2 entitled The Time is at Hand, turn to pages 246 and 247 and simpi / read the chart. Just look at It. Jesus Christ camo to this world as Bridegroom in Oct. 1874. He as? sumed his power and title as King in 1878. The Millennium begins 1914. Now who knows thi^? Nobody but Pastor Russell. This is a fair sample of Russellism. WhnUs-the use of my digging up all hin errors? Let's look now at this man who claims to have all this inside infor? mation concerning the secrets of heaven.. Pastor Smith compares Pas? tor Russell with the Master who, when he was reviled ,revi! *d not again. This comparison is very unfortunate when we see Pastor Russell sueing the Brooklyn Eagle for the handsome sum of 1100,000 and having the civil court of New York decide against him. Mr. W. T. Ellis, the edltor-a-Meld of "The Continent," interviewed Pastor Russell after Russell had made a world tour investigating the mission? ary work of the churches. Mr. Ellis says that any. school boy with a knowledga of world geography could riddle Russell's supposed investiga? tion. He merely made a little sight? seeing scamper around the world and then came back and tried to discred? it the work of 20,000 mission? aries which involves an expenditure of tWenty-AYe millions of dollars. If Pastor Smith is interested in knowing something about Pastor Rus sells* private ehraraeter I refer him to two phampletg published by chaa. c Cook, 160 Nassau Street, New York, "Some Pacts and More Facts" and "All About one Russe!'." In the first named book Rev. J. J. Rosa shows very conclusively that Russell liwd about sex oral things and also he tells about Mrs. Russell's reasons for di? vorcing her husband. Raymond Rrowning. 1416 Richland Street, Columbia, ? C. (Mr. Rrowning in an itinerant evangelist now stopping In Columbia and has letters of reference us to bis sincerity as a Christian worker.? Editor.) Miss Maggie Ard >? visiting friend* in Flursnce.