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V TOLOiE LI 1, XOTBER r.o. >EWK$KRY, S. C., 'ITESDAY. .fi'LY 11. 1?U. TWICE A WEEK, 11.56 A YEAS. Senatorial Cai r* Were In Ne\ GOVERNOR BLEASE WAS i ON MIS NATIVE HfcATflj AND WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY RE-1 CEIVED BY HIS PEOPLE Senator Smith Also Giren A Cordial j D?i>An?;An?Ro<J Rihhnnv Vit? llTTtCJ/HVu A?VU ^ ? -v With Cotton Blossoms. The candidates for the United States senate spoke in Newberry on Friday. Interest throughout, the State centred in this meeting on account of the fact that this is the home county of Governor Blease, and reports had been Jg * ;"' . ^-'.y:,::^ : ..' --ft circulated Throughout the State tr.iat the governor had weakened in his own county. These reports were put at ^ rest on Friday by the enthusiastic reft^ ception \vhich the governor rtceived, ! g? notwithstanding tbe fact that for I lifcSk 1 mm several days prior to the meeting it ( ^fnac been rumored that there was an ; ip organized effort on tie part of the ' anti-BIease forces to perfect ^ demonBp strati n which would make it appear j K- to the State at large that his home county had "gone back" on the goverThe four candidates for the L'uited B Stot-3s senate came to Newberry on the early train on Friday morning. 1 A number of Governor Blease's sup- j porters, wearing badges with the in- ' scription, "iFor United States Senator, j Cole. L.. Blease,'' mei tne train, auu > gave the governor a rousing reception. The supporters of Senator Smith wo were present wore cotton blossoms. This was Che order throughout the day j. ?the. governor's supporters wearing! the red badges and the anti-Blease people wearing the cotton blossoms, j The phrase "anti-Blease people" is j used advisedly, for the reason that both Messrs. Jennings and Pollock, candidates for the United States sen-* i ate, wore the cotton blossoms. A line of march was formed, and there was some rivalry between the ^ * supporters of Governor Blease and Senator Smith. The meeting was attended by about 2,500, and Governor Blease was en tnusiasucany received wnen -ne came upon the stand during the address of Senator Smith, and received the major part of the applause of the meeting. J Senator Smith was heard quietly, but! was liberally applauded when be con-: i ndidates vberry Friday I : nluripd. Messrs. P:llock and Jennings, | wiio devoted their addresses not to j their own plat orms, but to an attack j upon Governor Blease, were frequent-! ly interrupted by spontaneous ap- j plause for the governor, intermingled i with occasional cheers for themselves. I 'Senator Smith was taken to the meeting in a wagon driven by Mr. John H. "Wicker. He was sitting on a bale of cotton?which afterwards j became an issue in the meeting?and on the wagon there was a banner in- I scribed, "Show Your Love For The Farmer By Vcting For Smith." Senator SmitL when the wagon reached the stand was carried to the stand on the c)i of i'.~.is smmorters. ^ j r'^. - 1 B In front of the SuntJh cotton wagon i was a Blease banner, inscribed, "Vote ' For Blease, The Working Man's j Friend.*' Governor Blease did not arrive at the meeting until aear the close of Senator Smith's speech, and then gave Senator Smith ten minutes cf his time, the governor heing at his home. In ?his address the governor did not refer to -his opponents in the race. The Meeting in Detail. Tae meeting was called to order by County Chairman Jcs. L. Keitt, and a short prayer was offered by Rev. J. J. Long. The first speaker was Mr. L. D. Jennings, of Sumter, who foegan by saying it gave him great pleasure to see the r\ r\ ino + a at'a t* tHD CULlUil 'uiuaouilid picuunuuttic v**\, red ribbjn. Ke was interrupted by applause tor Biease. He then said he' hoped each candidate would be given a respectful -tearing. He took up the matter of the new Democratic party rules, saying he had been a member of the convention which made cnose ruies. "Aren't you ashamed of them?" he was asked from the audience. "You have to vote under them whether you like them cr not," he said, and those wearing the cotton blossoms appliuded him vigorously. He went into a detailed defense of the new rules. He said all he tad to say to thQse who did not approve of the rules made "by the last convention was that if they wanted to vote for Blease or anybody else, they had to vote under those rules,, and "they can't help it." He deplored the fact that fhere J were two factions in this State. He | I f contended that z od men. i,clie. ing j they were 011 t'.ie side of the people; | were lining up with "the blind timers j ai d race track gamblers of Charlesion for b]ease." O11 the other hand, be said, there was a faction, which was lined up for law and order, and he j asked, which side do you stand on? "We stand if-cr Blease," was the shout which answered him. "For raysel'f, I stand for law and order," he said, and he was applauded, the applause being loudly mingled "with snouts for "Blease." He attacked Governor Blease's paronH li a H CQilino* Qt i cwi u auu nuu "ui u *-* w f times being applauded by the wearers of the cotton blossoms, but frequently being interrupted by questions and being reminded that the governor had acted upon petitions, and frequently being interrupted 'by applause for Blease. When requested by some one in tne audience to taiK aoout something else and to state his own platform, 'he said that Governor Blease had said he (Governor Blease) was proud of his own record, and the spaeker was going to help the governor present the governor's record to the i people. He told the, crowd they c ^uld interrupt him now and applaud for Blease, out that after the election "RImco wouldn't know hp hnrl been I in the race." He said t?:at it had been told him since he had been here that Governor Please would not even carry his own county. "That's what they said two years agV was the retort, and there were shouts for Blease mingled with "No's" front the wearers of the cotton blossnm s He devoted his whole address to an attack upon Governor Blease, charging among ether things that the governor should not be elected because, the speaker alleged, the governor was not in sympathj* with the iWashington administration. When interrupted by applause for Blease, he said that tae governor was a clever gentleman personally, but that he was only attacking the governor's record. He denounced as false a report w'Mch he said -be had heard that he was going to withdraw in favor of Senator Smith. He said he was in the race to the .finish. He said if he could succeed in defeating Governor Blease in this race he would "thank the Lord : and be satisfied."' He said he would j:in the torch-light procession if either Smith or Pollock shoulri he elected. and fhat he would be happier to see Blease defeated than himself to go to the United States senate. He was presented with a bouquet of flowers. The next speaker was Mr. W. P. Pollock, who began by saying that te was glad to be in Newberry, and glad that he knew a g:od many Newberry people. ' Do you know Cole?" te was asked. The speaker retorted that it was his misfortune to have known the governor in the South Carolina college, in the legislature, and as governor. His statement was received with applause for Blease mingled with applause fcr the speaker. He wanted the people to go to the polls and cast their vote for tte man that would best represent the people. "tPhat's Blease," was the shout from ttie audience. He said the shouts from the "Bleaseites" reminded him of the famous saying during the Spanish-American war, "Don't cheer, boys the poor fellows are dying.*' Shouts for Blease and shouts from the wearers of the cotton blossoms greeted his retort. ^Annfnr ^mirh'c rami hp said toe weak for anylbcdy < stand upon, and Blease's was too bad. He said, that the Blease 'forces had adopted the red as their color?"the color of the socialist, anarchist, ?.nd the color of the Unio-Republican back in 1880." He reiterated the matter as to Col. J. Preston Gibson, of Bennettsville, charging that while the governor had attacked Mr. Sims, of urangeDurg, tne appointee or senator Smith for United States Marshal, for setting type en a Republican newspaper in radical days, the governor had appointed as a member of his staff J. P. Gibson, who was on the "mixedbreed"' Union-Republican ticket in 1380. "Maybe we got the red trom trie Red Shirts of '70," somebody in t'ae audience told Lli- speaker, who said that in "7he had also d lined the Red Shirt. He advocated government aid for building roads, and thought the government should come to t:.e aid of weak country schools. Hp was nskprl what Smith had cost South Carolina in weight. He said he found that the biggest thing Smith had ever done was to take 011 50 pounds of meat in five and a half years for which we had paid $">0,000, which he calculated at $1,000 a pound, and at that rate, he said, he was not surprised at the high Cost of living. He said that Smith would talk "cotton, cotton, cotton," just as Blease would talk "buck nigger." He said Smith did not put up the price of cotton but Sully and Brown did, and that if Smith were the wonderful man he claims to be he would have kept up cotton to the price Sully and Brown put it. He said Smith, he would admit, had done the best he could. j "But that wasn't much," came a voice 'from the audience. "No. that wasn't much/' said tae speaker. lie referred to the great men South Carolina bad had in file senate in the past, and compared them with Smith, but said that while he considered S'mith weak he would suffer his right arm to be cut off before he would vote for Biease, and if it came I to a choice between the two he hoped j tfiat Biease would he buried forever. | Smith, he said, was regarded as a joke in Washington but he considered Biease a bad governor. He attacked the governor's pardon record vigorously, the attack b?ing received with cheers for Biease and cheers from the wearers of the cctton blossoms. As Mr. Jennings had done, he devoted most of his address to an attack upon the governor. .Tumping on the governor's assertion that he would keep out foreigners w*jo would "compete with heme labor," he read the list , of "foreigners," as he termed them, enrolling in Charleston, which list ne j. has been reading on practically every f. stump, and referred to the appoint- j ^ ment of Mr. James Sottile as a mean- , ber of the governor's staff, saying that . in a military review the people of \ . t 1 South Carolina would have to pass be- j ^ fore a "little sawed' eft' Dago \flio . J would be standing by t'.ie side of the . governor.". ] He predicted that Governor Blease j ] would be sent back home after this v*ear. ,j He was asked if he was working for Smith or for votes.. He said that he . . I was not in the race for anything but ! the interest of the people of South Carolina, but he predicted that "there is not a big-mouthed Bleaseite here to- , day who will stand up four years from now and admit, t'.iat they voted tor Blease." He urged tbe people not to go to the polls and "end:rse the damnable record of Cole. L. Blease." He told of his early struggles. He said he was 'holding 100 bales of cotton from last year on Smith's advice, and was sorry of it. He attacked Governor Blease for appointing Harrison Neely, a negro, as his chauffeur, instead of giving the posi '-'i- t TT- ,, ^ tion 10 a. wiine uoy. ne wuciuucu amid shouts for Blease and some applause 'for the 'speaker. He was presented a basket of flowers. Senator E. D. Smith. said the trouble with Pollock was like Lincoln said a;bout the steamboat on t'lie Mississippi the boner so nine auu the whistle so big., every time it blew it stopped. He wanted to state that lie had been chided and attempted to be ridiculed because of the stand he had taken in the United States senate for the far- ' mers of his State. He said he had devoted all his time to them. "Why? Because. 'hey fed, clothed and shod the world." "And we (the farmers) proprose from now en," he said, "to put in our pockets our share of the wealth we make. The reason "^e have never got anywhere is because we believed that other men, when it came to legislation. had more sense t* i we had; ? /-wh/vrvcin cr conseuueuiiy v>e uavc uccu other men to go the the State and naticnal legislatures." He attacked the laws made by lawyers. "Take a lew drawn by a lawyer," he o?Jd. "Tt began with a 'whereas,' then there was a (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2). LYNCH NEGRO WOMAN : FOR MURDER OF CHILD thi th ROSA RICHARDSON IS HANGED ve AM) SHOT AT ELLOREE. th wj Twelve-Year-Old Girl is Murdered byjan >egro Woman >Vho Confesses to ^ Deed. ex The State. WJ 'Elloree, July 12.?One of the most re brutal crimes ever perpetrated in etj Orangeburg county, committed midway between here and Vance late yesterday a<fterncon in a dense bay near ja the Two 'Chop public road, was in brought to iignt tms morning wneii the body of little Miss Essie Bell, 12year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell, was#discovered after an ^ 13. all night search, foully murde/ed and carefully covered by the confessed murderess, Rosa Richardson, a negro woman about 35 years of age. A grim 11 and horrifying spectacle it witnessed Pc today in that community. The body oi little Essie with her head beaten Cj into a pulp by a lightwood knot lies n' prepared for burial in the quiet home at of Daniel Bell, wuile 200 yards away Ac i rear the scene of the crime swinging to a tree is the body of her murderess, Rosa Richardson, riddled with bullets. W Guilt was established, the murderess con:essed and a volley fired, in a short time. Thirty negroes who gathered near the scene of the crime would have fired the volley if permitted, and went to console the ^rie--stricken fam-1 ^ ,? * n I vi< liy. wane rne crime nas cast a all over the community and hundreds of people have gone to t'ae scene, there a was no race feeling whatever evident. | } ? The murdered girl yesterday after- j 0 i ig neon went to graze the family cotf j in a field on the public road a short; / rsi distance from the home, which was i bidden from view by a dense field of pa corn. Just in front of this field on S1^ , ..i XV the ounosite side of the road is tne j home of Rosa Richardson, the negro [ murderess. Daniel Bell was reading i ^ , . i f]a ?is newspaper and the mother, Mrs. | Bell, was leafing with one o:' her sons j lrj C :o board the afternoon train at Vance \ * tor Charleston. Mr. Bell was absorbed in reading and presumed that little lassie had gone to the station with her j ^ mother and would return with 'her j a brother. When the young man return-, th( 3d home without his sister, Mr. Bell j ru inquired for Essie and the young J thi man told his 'father that she had gone da to graze the cow when he saw her last. Mr. Bell immediately gave the alarm and searching parties were n0 formed. The whole community was w* scoured. ru Rosa Richardson was suspected of vu luring the girl in the woods for crimi- tlr nal purposes and she with her sister were held during the night by some of the searching party. Srae told several disconnected stories which indi- te] cated her guilt. a'? A message reached Elloree during a? . , _ m; the night that the girl was missing i I oil and the penitentiary bloodhounds were ; wired for but it was later learned j so that they wer out of* the city. The | cI< suspects were rushed to the Eiloree guard 'house. The local telephone ?a being out of commission, connection t>r was established at St. Matthews. Ca Sheriff Salley was notified and Colum- on bia was asked to have hounds make Th a cross country trip, but before either reached here the body was discovered ot' and a dash was made for the town cni guard house. Rural police, the mag- ?P istrate, the intendant and several citi- th; zens of Elloree who did all they could th? to protect the prisoner were choked w'i and thrown, to the ground by tae ag crowd and held at bay b six shooters, The victim was placed in a waiting w* automobile and rushed to the scene of the crime. The woman was ex- du amined Blood was on her clothing art and other xdences of guilt was es- up tablished. She confessed to the crime an without giving any reason for having committed it. The posse had tracked the little girl and the woman into the Le bay, both tracks fitting the shoes, 3 and the woman was tracked to her in home returning after committing the th< deed. be iThere is no reason assigned (for the thi .3 1 fViof tVia TL-nman was A. a LUUU tuv, M ? ? bad character and had refused to work int for Mr P?eH on whose place she lived, gc On several occasions, it is alleged "ti N? \ ' \ \ it she grew dissatisfied and sullen <i t.:e CJeory is advanced that she rfd the little girl in the woods on q pretext of showing her someing and murdered her to get renge. A negro man was at first ought to be the guilty party but it ic later ehnwn fhat nn nno alco * O 1UV.V/A w**v 11 XL V4.4VAV VliV y connection with the crime and at Rosa Richardson 'nad plotted arfid ecuted the deed alone. Sheriff Salley, of Orangeburg, who is notified of the crime too late, ached1 here thin afternoon ^nd viewi the remains. The body of Rosa ichardson was cut down and buried, hiie the victim of the tragedy was id to rest at Gerizim Baptist church the presence of a large crowd of ief-stricken friends and relatives. Tne community where this crime as committed is composed of steady, w abiding citizens, v/io have always ild themselves against mofo violence. The crime is the'second one comitted in tbat community within the ist seven or eight months. Mts. Sue Cannon, who lived in the Milli? ^ ~~ milat. onror rtomQ Ill SCUtlUll, a*na,j9 \^am^ ?jir losing her life some months ago the hands of a negro woman, wVo i? not yet been apprehended. MILL SHUT DOWN eayers of Monaghan Mill Kefuse to Make Up Time?Parade Under Red Flag. iws and Courier. Greenville, July 10.?Monaghan ' lis, one of the largest mills in this ;inity, and one noted for its welfare partment, closed down yesterday as result of a ^conflict in the rules of 5 Parker Cotton Mills company and the I. W. W., an organizotion which said to have recently gained a tfoot- * Id here. This morning a small parte, one hundred and five persons rticipating, gave Greenville its first jht of an organized body cf the I. W_The body of mill workers, some of 10m were women, marched under ^ United States flag and the red g of the order. They proceeded to lU/xli ?rymnt. *11 'lilt 11 cJ.il U UClU au 1J 1UVVV t r D* rhe trouble arose, it is claimed over 2 refusal cf rhe weavers to make up le lost Wednesday afternoon during thunder storm, w'irich necessitated 3 shutting off of tbe power. The les of the company are that time ;is lost shall be made up on ensuing vs. The rules of the I. W. W., so ite some of t'.iose affected, are that ne shall not be made up. There is question of wages involvd, as those 10 protested against the company's les are paid by the piece for their >rk. They declined to make up time at afternoon. ('lash Came Thursday. Thursday morning, when the opera es came to the mill, the superinndent informed them that they must ide by the rules ct* the company and ;ree to make up the lest time or reain out of the building.- They dened to work under this condition, for two days the mill has beeu Dsed. t* nynA tliot fr?iir nr It id 1 U1UU1 CU IUUU 1VU1 viiiWAMi V nizers from the North will, be ought here in case the operatives^/ nnot win their poUt. There is now e official of the I. W. W. here, mrsday night a meeting was held and is addressed by 'Sheriff Rector and lers. The sheriff, it is said, assured e operatives of his support. The inion was expressed here yesterday _x i x. ? Al-. ^ A ? ? ill DUl tUT LI1C Slid ill ^ aiu'.uuc auu at of other persons not affiliated th the operatives or the mill manement, that the matter could have en adjusted. Those In close touch th the situation say now that the mfcle is not expected to be of great ration. The lcom fibers, who are long the protesters, were granted ?? rtatf vmVa airft UIX lU^ll ow vivki ft w?v ? increase in pay. State Fair to Be the Best xingtcn Dispatch. Hon. D. F. Efird is '*bead and heels work, making arrangements 'for * coming State Fair. Nothing will left undone to make it the best in 3 history of all fairs. Mr. Efird is thrifty fellow and always deeply :erested in agriculture and general od of the State, and is certainly le right man in tbo right place."