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WEDNESDAY, PCT. 24, 18 The Sumter Watchman was forj io 18*>0 and the True Southron in ] The Watchman and Souihrcn not the combined circulation and i nih of both of the old papers, and is n fes tl j the best advertising mediar Samter. EDITORIAL NOTEST" The Constitutional Coventioo undoubtly increase the poi! tax to $ 1 A Constitutional Convention at OOO per day will be an expet luxury. Brayton is ?stumping the distric Johnston's interest ; and it is our o ion that the largest Republican vot years will be polled. Reform that' rejects the Austra ballot law and favors a property qt Scat ion for suffrage is not reform tyrannical discrimination dire< against the misfortunes of the poor. Where will the children of the ? be educated when the free schools destroyed by the Constitutional Coo\ tion removing from the Constitu? the two mi} 1 school tax ? If the business men of Scruter not build a warehouse for next s ease tobacco crop they will regret it. Our tr is being diverted to Darlington and Fi euee already, and more will go ev year. The success of the Carnival was v gratifying to the Watchman and Son ron, first because it was a large adv tisement of Sumter and our peop second because the Carnival was I development of aa idea first advaoc by the Watchman and Southron. The Rock Hill Eerald say "Governor Tillman and Senator Ir will speak at Ridgeway next Saturda It is probable they will be met Major Woodward and Dr. Samps Pope. If so. a lively meeting may looked for." The jory which sat io judgment < the case of Bladdoo the dispensai Constables m orderer, was composed tea Till man iles and two Conservative Since Gov. Tillman professes to be ai able to understand the verdict, he shoo call upon the ten to explain. Gov. Tillman does not profess to be fool, but, if taken seriously, one woo! conclude that he wished to create son such impression wheo he proclaims h inability to understand a verdict of mai slaughter against one of bis constable for shooting a running mau ia the baot The promoters of new counties shoul be required to file a copy of the map < the proposed new county with th Clerk of Court of each of the coontie from which territory will be cot off. 1 would enable interested parties to fin out how they would be affected, witbou going to Columbia. The Reform Campaign Commute met io Colombia Monday Dight, chai rm ai Irby, J. A. Sligh, Wilie Joaes, C. M Efird, 0. R Lowmao and D. E. Keel were present. Chairman Irby said, ii speaking of Dr. Pope's candidacy "that Dr. Pope would not receive 10, OOO votes in the State. He said tba he did not believe ooe county would b< carried by the independent candidate He didn't know 'what the man wai after.' " The orders of Chairman Irby that the Constitutional Convention "No,J ballots sent here are not to be dis? tributed, is another high banded piece of business Why were they printed if not to be distributed ? Is this just another job to swell the coffers of the weak bot willing ? Of course the official organ job office will be paid for having printed the ballotte. It would be interesting to know how many of those ballots were printed and paid for, and will not be distributed. Every democrat should look up his registration certificate and have it ready for election day. There should be no chances lakeo, for there is too much at stake for any democrat to fail to vote. That Constitutional Convention must be defeated, and we must vote for Stokes agaiost Johnston In the Congres? sional race white men will have but a single ?question to decide, and who to vote for will be settled. Which, Stokes or Johnston, will represent white su? premacy ? Stokes of course, and we i must vote for him. There is no ques- j tion of democracy involved, for Stokes ia no more of a democrat than Johnston ; although he made use of thc democratic organization to obtain thc unwilling support of those democrats not tainted j with populism. As has been said before, a white supremacy populist is to be pre? ferred to a social equality Republican. The advocates of a Constitutional Convention argue that it would only cost about ?50,000. The sum would serve to give one hundred aod twenty five boys, or about fon* from each coun? ty, a four years' course in the State College at Columbia or Fort Hill. And it would do a vast deal more good -for' the State if devoted to the education of one hundred aod twenty-five of her soap, than if it were devoted to paying a mooth'* salary to delegates to a useless Convention -Neics and Courier. Bat educate the sons of the real poor is just what the Reformers do not want to do, if one is to judge from their proposition to remove from the Constitution the two mill school tax clause. In the West where wheat is a drug on the market and corn is used for fuel, thousands are dependent oo the public for daily bread. Io the South where the market is glutted with cottoo, aod the cry of overproduction is abroad, other thousands have barely sufficient clothes to bide their nakedness. Wheo such cooditioos exist in a country, the people are filled with unrest, and the spark is all that is required to set off the magazine of revolution. We are face to face with a condition that cannot continue. We cannot bear much more than we already have upon us, aod, unless there is means of relief, we greatly fear the consequences. The. last Georgia legislature did noth? ing to distiogoish itself. The forth? coming one will have abondant oppor? tunities to improve opon the record of its predecessor, and it is to be boped that the opportunities will be taken advantage of. If it will pass a general registration law, improve the election law by the adoption of the Australian ballot system or some modification of it that will iosare absolutely honest elec? tions, and send a sound money democrat to the federal senate, it will have made a good record. Aod there is no difficulty in the way of doing either of the things mentioned. The above from the Savannah, 6a., News can be recommended almost with? out change to the consideration of the General Assembly. Mr. H. R. Thomas has written another letter for publication in the Watchman and Southron, which is given tn another column. This letter ta much more sensible than the one published last week, and we are coo strained to commend portions of it to the careful reading of all white meo, aod thinking negroes, as well. He bot reiterates, aod enlarges, on what bas already been said in this paper. A white supremacy populist is much to be preferred to a republican, who bas always affiliated with the force bill aod social equality wiog of that party. between Br. Stokes and Capt. T. B. Johnston there cao be but one choice for white men and democrats, for while Dr, Stokes is not a democrat, be does represent white supremacy ; which, after all, is the vital issue in this State. This paper cannot wax enthusiastic j over Dr. Stokes, because be does oot bold the political principles that we esteem correctly ; but since the anom olous political conditions existing in this ; State have foisted a populist upon the j democratic party, as it's regular candi? date, we have bad no other intention but to support him ; nor have we be? lieved that the Conservatives would do j otherwise. As a faction we stick to our promises, j even wheo to do so violates our per- j sooal feelings. Such being the case, j we have not felt called upon to do penance, each week for the sin of hav- j ing committed our alliegance to that so- j called Democracy, headed by Irby, by singing the praises of Dr. Stokes, j whose most marked and prominent characteristic is persistence in seeking ? office. Duties are ofttimes unpleasant, aod, j while we are firmly determined to per- j form them to thc letter, it is not by : choice that we would bear of the min all ! their details reiterated day after day. ! Let us hear as little as possible about j Dr. Stokes, thc populist, but keep even j before our mind's eye the choice we ; must make-white supremacy or negro j rule-and the straight ticket will be j voted. David J. Weir and James Orr, both ; white, engaged in a bloody fight near Ridgeway. S. C , Sunday. Each j fired three shots and then tonk up the battle with fists. Weir was shot in the thigh, hand and chiu. Orr was grazed , only. Weir may die. "I would rather trust that medicine than ; any doctor I know of," Sajs Mrs. Hattie 1 Mason of Cbilton, Carter Co., Mo., in speaking | of Chamberlain's Colic, Choleraand Diarrhoea j Remedy. For sale by Dr. A. J. China. Bradstreet says : "With few ex? ceptions the leading features of the bu>inesfi situation this week have been those of continued moderate develop? ment." The business totals do not compare favorably with those of same week two years ago. It is rumored in Jacksonville that H. B. Plant has bought the Florida Southern Railroad, which rons through 250 miles of the richest agricultural and phosphate country of Florida. The new road with the Plant connec? tions parallels the Florida Central and Peninsular from Ocala to Tamp?. The purchase price is said to be ^"2,000, 000. IN* FOND MEMORY OF ARABELLA S. PHELPS, I Who died August 3, 1893 ] 'Tis hard to realize dearest friend you have gone from us forever; that your tender, gen? erous, gentle heart will throb no more with friendship, warm and pure, Sa#l?ffeese thoughts encompass me, and I am m?re^Jthan ever conscious as the days come and go, how precious was that friend? ship, bow fond the memory which recalls your every kindly deed and gentle work. Taken from ua?in the bloom of youth and beauty, our stricken hearts refuse to be comforted while io our mortal lives there is a vacancy which can never be refilled. With a mind endowed with the choicest gifts of God ; a soul whose loving sweetness was known to ail, and a heart whose loyal friendship and deeds of loving kindness, words can never adequately express. These are the sweet Forgetmenots, the precious Im mortells of yon, which sad but loving hearts take with them through time into eternity. MARY. ADVERTISEMENTS of five lines or less will be inserted under this bead for 25 cents for each insertion. Additional lines 5 cents per line._ TO RJCNT-House on Calhoun Street near C. S. & N. R R. Apply to W. F. B. Hayn8wortb. Sept. 12. FOR SALE-Any part of my large farm in the suburbs of the City of Sumter. Situation healthy and desirable Terms easy. T. D. Chandler April ll-tf. WANTED-Every sick person.in Sumter County to go to Glenn Springs at once and get cored. NOTICE -OF FEDERAL ELECTION AN ELECTION WILL BE HELD on Tuesday, the 6th day of November, 1894, at tbe legally established polling precincts in Sumter County, fora Representative of the 7th Congressional District of South Carolina, in the 54th Congress of the United States. The polls will be opened at 7 o'clock a. m., and kept open without intermission or adjournment until 4 o'clock p. m. At the close of the election the managers shall immediately proceed io publicly count the ballots. Within three days thereafter the chairman of the board of managers, or on? of them, to be designated in writing by the board, shall deliver to R. M. Pitts, at the Sumter Herald office, in the city of Sumter, the poll list, the boxes containing the ballots, and a written statement of the result of the election at bis precinct. The managers shall administer to each person offering to vote, aa oath that be is qualified to vote at said election, according to the constitution of the State, and that he has not already voted in said election. The following named persoos have been appointed to manage said Election by the Board of Commissioners of Election for Sum? ter County, to wit : Smiter. H L. B. Wells, J. Diggs Wilder, R. B. Dinkins. Stateburg. T. W. Lee, Peter E. Mellet, Le val? Jackson. Rafting Creek. J. M. Jenkins, J. K. McLeod, J. C. Gillis. Providence. J. B. Raffield, S. J. Brown, J. J. Myers, Jr. Bishopville. W. H. Hearon, D. E. Durant, W. L Green. Mannville W. K. Crosswell, T. R. McCutcheD, I. Barnett Bossards. Charles Thames, Lesley D. Brown, J. J. Lessesne. Mayesville. Peter Thomas, E. D. Smith, Whitworth Rhodes. Lynchburg. M. L. Keels, * Wm. Tallon, T. F. Cole. Shiloh J. L. Keels, R. W. Chandler, J. K. McElveeu. Concord. J. B. White, Jr., W. G. S. Seymore S. S. Davis. D. E.Weils, J. D. Bradford, R. C. Tindale. Smithville. R P. Weldou, C. F. Evans, R. L. Herriott, Wedgefield. B. P. Kelley, James Caldwell, Jr., F. B. Bradford. Corbett's Store W. E. Green. J. S. Brown, J. J. Shaw. One of the abov? named managers at each box will call upon the board of commissioners tit Sumter on November 3. 1894 to receive ballot boxes, poll list, and instructions, and to he quaiified. I). E. KKELS, R. M. PITTS, SHEPPARD NASH. Commissioners Congressional Election. Sumter, S. C., Oct. 22, 1894. FOR State AM Comity Officers. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF SUMTER. AN ELECTION WILL BE HELD at the several precincts established by law in Sumter County, on Tuesday, November 6, 1894, for the following officers, to wit : Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney-General, Comptroller-Gene? ral, Adjutant and Inspector General, State Treasurer, State Superintendent of Education, three Railroad Commissioners, one Senator, five Representatives to the lower branch of the Legislature, one Judge of Probate, ooeScbool Commissioner, one Supervisor, also, to vote for or against the holding of a constitutional convention. The polls will open at 1 o'clock a. m. and close at 4 o'clock p. m. At the close of the election the managers shall immediately proceed to publicly count the ballots. Within three days thereafter the chairman of the board of managers, or one of them, to be designated in writing by the board, shall deliver to J. M. Knight, Clerk of Board Commissioners of Election, at the Sumter Herald office, in the city of Sumter, the poll list, the boxes contaiqing the ballots, and a written statement of the result of the election at his precinct. The following named persons have been appointed managers of election for State and county officers, etc., to wit : Suinter. J. M. Reams, W. J. Diokios. C. W. Staocill. Stateburg. W. M. Sanders W. W. Mellett. T. W. Belvin. Providence W. F. Hodson. W. S. Boykin. E. F. Borrows. Rafting Creek. B. G. Morris. J. J. Hatfield. Vernoo Keels. Bishopville. W. S. James. J. M. Spears. R. E. Carnes. Mannville. L. L. Baker. W. H. Stuckey. Walter Remberc. Bossards. Geo. Aldeo Browo. T. N. Huggins. J. S R. Brown. Mayesville. S. E. Shaw. W. K. McLeod. C. H. Baker. Lynchburg. J. E. McCoy. , J. B. Tallon. S. C. Kilpatrick. Shiloh. R. A. Frierson. S. W. Truluck. R. E. McElveeo. Concord. J. M. N. Wilder. J. T. Hayes. Washington Mahoney. Privateer. H. C. Cuttino. T E. Hodge. J. S. Dwight. Smithville J. D. Evans. J. E. Barfield. T. M. Bradley. Wedgefield. Geo. Dew. J. C. Brooch. R B. Gamble. Corbett1 s Store. C. Bullock. Edwin Wilson. H. H Corbett One of the above named managers at each box will call upon the board of commissioners of election at Sumter on November 3rd, 1894. to receive ballot boxes, poll list, aod instructions, and to be qualified. J. E. DuPRE, K. E. WELLS, E. J. GOODMAN. Commissiooers State Election. J. M. KNIGHT, Clerk of Board. Sumter, S. C., October 18, 2894. "AN ORDINANCE." Entitled "An Ordinance to prevent the unlawful sale or barter of Spiritu? ous or Intoxicating Liquors ic ithin the Corporate Limits of the City of Sumter, S. C., and to punish Vio? lation of the same." Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Sumter in City I Council assembled and by auuthority of the j same, That from and after the date and publica j tion of this Ordinance, it shall not be lawful ! for any person, persoos or corporation, to 1 barter, or sell, or dispose of, any Spirituous or Malt liquors within the Corporate limits of the City of Sumter ; and any person or per? sons, violating this Ordinance, upon convic? tion thereof before the Mayor or City Coun? cil of said City, may be fined not more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned in the city prison, not more than thirty days for euch offence. Provided: That this Ordinance shall not j apply to sales of Spiritous or Malt Liquors I sold under the Dispensary System of South j Carolina. Done and ratified in city Council assembled j and under the coporate seal of the city of j .Sumter, this twenty-third day of October, A. D. 1894. B. G. PIERSON, Mayor. [SKAL] C. M. HURST, Clerk and Treasurer. FOR SALE. j rpHAT TRACT of land in Sumter County, \ S. C., containing 200 acres, more or j lest, and bounded as follows : North, by I public road from Cit}" of Sumter to C.ine j Savannah ; East, by lands of Jno. T. Baker j South, by run of Can^ Savannah; West, by I lands of Jno. F. Gamble, and of Miles H. ; Plowden ; eame being arable land and now ! under cultivation. For terms apply to CG. MATTHEWS & CO., Cotton Factors, Charleston, S. C. j Liberal advances made on consignments of j ? cotton. Sept. 19~3m. | jftiWi BHfC. HEADQUARTERS DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. SUMTER, S. C., Oct 24, 1SS4. THE COUNTV Democratic Executive Com? mittee is hereby called to meet on Friday, j November 2nd, in the Court Houseat Sumter. I Mangers of State and Federal Elections are j requested to meet the Committee on that day ! and get ballot boxes, etc. D E KEELS. Countv Chairman. E. F. MILLER, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Claremont Mp No. 64,1 F. M, SUMTER, S. C., Oe!. 12, iS94. THERE WILL BE AN EXTRA COM? 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