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GREENVILLE MEETING WAS REAL SPICV. t (Continued from page 2) appeal to the farmers present and he seemed to have this portion of the crowd with him. At the conclusion of his remarks, he was presented with a minature bale of cotton on a silver salver and a note with the inscription "Greenville county will (five y?u 3,000 majority over all your competitors." When he appeared after the introduction he was loudly applauded. He opened his remarks by statinp that when he appeared in this city six years apo and asked for nomination and election to the United States senate, that he promised to see that the people who made the clothinp and food supply of the world did not go hungry and naked themselves. He said that he was there to pive an acPAiinf Af tttAll l->"'l * ? ? VA uvn ncii IIC uau Ci icu tu ttti ry out those promises. He defied his competitors or any one else to show that he had not done the best he could. He claimed that the farmers now have a better chance than they had when he went to the senate and proceeded to point out several important changes that have been wrought largely through his efforts in the senate. He first took up the immigration question and stated that he was violently opposed to allowing foreigners to come to this country to take the places of the men and women in the factories, because the foreigners, by living at a cheaper wage scale, could starve out the Southern men and wo , men and the dishonest capitalists could put the difference into their pockets. He went on to state that he had made trips into New England and that the foreigners are gradually displacing the native Americans. He promised that if returned to the senate he would continue his work to eliminate that foreign "riff-raff" as he termed them. He showed that through his efforts the "literacy test" had been placed in the immigration bill and now before a foreigner can enter the country he must be able to read and write. ? "I am not willing for the foreigners to come here and take your job at half the price. The mill owners must nay you or they must shut up their mills," he said. "When you elected me to the senate I promised to work for the farmers, if it were not for the farmers there wouldn't be ?nv fnctnrioc if if iuo'i not for the farmers there wouldn't be a single store in town." He took up the currency bill and showed how he had worked for the farmers. He toid how when the bill was being worked on, the framers of the bill had failed to take care of the farmer and he was opposed to the bill as it stood. President Wilson sent for Mr. Smith and wanted to know why he was oposed to the bill. Senator Smith replied: "You haverc't tak?-r care of the farmers." He said that ?vhc:i the bill gets into operation, tne farmer will be ah!-? to borrow monev to the extent of onehalf of the taxable worth of his land BHBMtffl^will be able to get 1t for only 00 days as the framers of the bill at first propdsed and which Senator Smith opposed. When they told me that commerce and agriculture wouldn't mix on such a bill," said Senator Smith, "I told them that since they had to deal with agriculture three times a day they Viorl Krttf???? nlrrt ^ - - ? 11 - ??u taau tUlC UI ilJ^riCUltUrC first." "I wrote that section 13 into that bill with my own hands and when that bill gets into operation a farmer cai. borrow money on six months time and one-half the value of his land." "You cotton farmers are the people upon whom the State rests, you are the people who make South Carolina the grand old State that she is, and though you might not know me personally, rest assured that "Ed." Smith is thinking of you and working for you all the time. You are the people that have built every mill and store and school and you ought to be taken care of." He paid one of the most beautiful tributes to womanhood in general and motherhood in particular, stating that the time had come when the mothers who toiled and dreamed their dreams over their children ought to be looked out for, when thev could make those dreams for their boys and girls come true and that he was in the senate to make those dreams come true for the women and children of South C'aiu lina. He was greeted with tremendous applause at the conclusion of this piece of oratory, the only flowery sentence of the whole speech and one as beautiful as it was true. "I am the first man who ever put a bill through the senate to curb thai gang on Wall street or to put stripes upon them. This dealing in cotton futures and this bill when signed by the president will be a law. I hone that 1 if he signs it and sends vne u gold pen, that he will also send one to my friend Congressman Lever also," Senator Smith, in speaking on the raise in the price of cotton, met with applause throughout his remarks on the subject. He showed how the price 1 of cotton has advanced since he has been working upon the proposition in the senate and showed that the price has advanced from 8 1-, cents to 14 i 1 cents per pound, or some $20 on the bale. "They say that 1 had nothing to do with the price of cotton, that supply and demand raised it, well if I could not raise the price of cotton, how can i ~ they hope to do it?" < He showed how he had had an apKropriation passed for the purpose of aving cotton graded and tested and ; , he showed that an expert couldn't ten i the difference. He stated thai that ] was one of the methods by which the i | i farmer was robbed of his profit and \ that he proposed to see to it that the ( dishonest exploiters couldn't rob the i .farmers in any such style. He was liberally applauded here. ^ In answer to the question of the V fact that the price of food ha J gone / up with the price of cotton, he replied I' that the man who raised the cotton L raised the pea^ and he wislvul the L ptice of both would go still higher. He replied that he had an affidavit to show that he was not in the Haskell convention but was at a Georgia station, "courting the lady who afterwards became my wife, and believe me it was more pleasant work." Senator Smith seemed to have the crowd with him at all times, certainly it was that the applause accorded him was more diversified as to location in the crowd, for the Blease men were all in one crowd of perhaps 700 at one side of the stand while the supporters of Senator Smith seemed to be in all parts of the large assemblage. Governor Blease. The governor opened his remarks with some disparaging references to the "Smith parade," and the bale of cotton. He said he saw but four men in the parade, and that the cotton in the bale was of inferior grade and wouldn't bring three cents on any market. He then claimed that by actual count there were 700 Blease men in the parade. The speaker next referred to Senator Smith's statement that the Smith-Lever cotton futures bill had been agreed upon in conference. He called Congressman, wm was on the stand, and asked him if that were true. "It is not," said Mr. Lever. "But isn't it true that the Associated Press carried the statement that the conferences had agreed?" asked Senator Smith. "It is," replied Mr. Lever. That shows the newspaper lie," said the governor. The governor then attacked Senator Smith's record on immigration. He referred to the immigrants who recently came to Williamston. At this juncture a policeman attempted to arrest a man on the Blease side of the stand, ana tne governor told the officer to let the man alone. "I am tired of these towns tryine to intimidate my men. If they don't stop it, I am going to have my meetings in the country, said the governor. Chairman Mooney was praised by the speaker, who went on to say that Senator Smith cast Mr. Mooney aside in order to appoint Sims as United States marshal, when Sims had "once set type on a nigger paper." It was at this juncture that Mr. Norwood interrupted the governor with the question about I)r. Mcintosh, the reference being to the Richey case. The melee followed during which the chairman, Solicitor Bonham and others tried to restore order. The governor did not speak long after this incident. Mr. Jennings Speaks. The governor left the stand and several hundred of his followers wenr out of the park with him. He was presented with several beautiful bouquets. Mr. Jennings opened his remarks by saying: "I am here to uncover that filthy pile of trash which has been accumulated during the past three and a half years. Open your ears and your eyes, but hold you. noses while I uncover the trash." The speaker then said that South Carolinians a'le rising as they did in 1886, and that ihey would throw off the rule of Bleaseism. In reference ti his exposure of the governor's record, the speaker said, "I will speak out ..hough the heavens fall and hell breaks loose." - ' He told of the Allen Emerson m?e in Anderson county. Erne.son killed Tom Drake, an old man, in Drake's home, and Mr. Jennings said that he was reliably informed that in the face ot' a petition containing more than 4,000 names, including the names of the jurors, asking that Emerson be not released, the governor had nevertheless extended clemency on a petition containing but about 1,000 names. He also spoke of the release of "Portland Ned," the yeggman, and referred to the appointment of J. Preston Gibson, a former Republican as a member of the governor's staff. Mr. Jennings said it was foolish for the governor to talk about ousting the negroes from federal office, since they served under the civil service ruleand could not be turned out. He was asked about the Richey case, but replied that it was too vulgar to be talked of in a mixed audience. The speaker said that if Blease was sent to the senate "I doubt if ten per cent of the representatives and senators would speak to him, as they would not want 4to be so honored.' He then scathingly denounced the treatment of Dr. Eleanora R. Saunders, of the asylum staff. Mr. Jennings was presented with two bouquets and in acknowledging them said: "I had rather receive these as a token from the good people of the state than to be elected to the United States senate by the lawless element." Mr. Jennings received a great applause. Mr. Pollock Speaks. Mr. Pollock was popular with the crowd from the start. He announced in the beginning that he was running on his own initiative and that no oiu else had anything to do with his candidacy. He said that "the record of Senator Smith was too weak to stand on and that of Governor Blease too damnable." The speaker said that all over the state the good people were rousing themselves to the needs of the hour. He said that the men were singing and women f hii nt i no- "Infe I will Cole Blease go." Refefrring to the Norwood incident, Mr. Pollock said: "I have no gunmen to stand between me and a respectful citizen of this State who wishes to ask a decent question. Has it come to the time when the governor of this State must go around with a Gyp the Blood, a Lefty Louis, a White Louie and a Dago Frank? There is not onedrop of cowardly blood in Mr. Norwood's veins," said the speaker amid applause. Mr. Pollock charged that the governor was a coward, that he took men to protect him and that he was so featherlegged that he squaked when thi gaff was put to him and couldn't sla.. on the stand to listen. "I do hate to see a man who has misrepresented his State go about with feathers on his legs," said Mr. Pollock. The speaker then displayed two pictures of Blease. One was in an automobile of the "ego" make. This one the governor thought had started toward Washingotn, but had skidded and gone to oblivion instead." The| other picture showed a caricature oi the governor standing before the closed door of the senate over which was the word "welcome." "That ain't foi me," was credited for the picture ol the governor. A shower came up at this point, bul the crowd callfed to the speaker to gc on. "Nigger, nigger, nigger," said Mr Pollock. "That's what he gives you and yet when he wanted a colonel or his staff he got J. P. Gibson who ir 1880 ran on a union Republican ticket with negroes, one of whom was Wilson Cook a bar room nigger of Green ville." The speaker referred also tc the appointment of Hirsch the "son ol a man who in 1870 was the partner ol a nigger and who worked to defe?*\ the white men." Jim Sottile, "th< sawed ofT dago blind tiger" came ir for his usual treatment at Pollock's hands. The speaker said that Sottilr was not even an American but was the subject of the king of Italy. Sottile is a member of the governor's staff. Some one in the crowd said something to the speaker at this point "Are you a Bleasite, partner?" asked Mr. Pollock and the man replied ir the affirmative. "Then may God havr mercy on your soul," replied the speaker. He referred to a young ladj at Pickens who had thrown down e Blease badge after hearing the recorc of Blease exposed. Mr. Pollock said that the governoi was the friend of the "working mar, on the chain gangs." Here lie excoriated the liberation of the hundreds of criminals, about 900 of whom were negroes. The speaker read tc the amusement o the crowd a list ol names taken from the Charleston clut books, and said that the governor had in 1912 vetoed a bill whifb wnni.i prohibited such dagoes and foreigners from voting in the primary elections, He charged that the governor was trying to line up good men, but deluded men, with the lawless and the dagoes of Charleston. Mr. Pollock read a parody on "Old King Cole" which greatly amused the crowd. He predicted a victory for the anti-Blease forces. "The issue today is not the election of Smith, or Blease, or Pollock, 01 Jennings, but it is the enthronement of law and order." He urged thai men vote conscientiously and thai they be careful in the selection ol State and county officers. "Bury Bleaseism, he said, "so that when w? go outside the State we shall not have to hang our heads in shame when people ask us where we are from." Mr. Pollock said that if the men would vote as they wanted to vote he would be in the second race, and thai he believed he would be in that .:u-? anyway, and if so, he wostid lie the next United States senator. lie kv?l the governor couldn't gee on v?:h Tillman or the administration, !>??t >a? he c( ul?l get on with B^n .V n- v 111 ins own r.onie and "1 in t want the ^ouihern Railway .?? s-iloet, .1 United States senator." 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