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The Sumter Watchman wak foti ?D IStO and the TVwe Southron ia ] The ?Paie?TK-an a?c? Southron nev the combined circulation and infin of both of the old papers, and is n festly the best advertising medial] Sam ter. _ ------? EDITORIAL NOTES. Ho? did John Gar j Evana I that he would be called upon to eal the Dispensary Law. W. D. Evans sold out lock, s and barrel to Tillman. No wp! Tillman is not afraid of the Aliianci The platform of the organized De oracy ol Son th Carolin* is a thing p admired for its al Mn clading'eatboiici John Gary Evans bas pledged h self to know no faction io the disent of the duties of bis office, if eta Governor. The Irby Executive Committee in Columbia. The following Campa Committee was appointed : J. L. Irby, O. R. Lowman, J. A. SH C. M. Efird, D. E. Keels. We advise the politicians of San County, big and little, to cut oat ! preserve the platform and constitnt published ia the Watchman and Sou ron to-day. They will want them I years hence. The majority of the Conservatives the State are so plainly opposed to l nomination of a State ticket that cannot noderstaod the obstinate p sistence of the men who have favor nominations. The constitation of the Democra party, as ameaded by Mr. Appelt Clareados, ia the recent Conveatio rescues the clubs that did aot poll a vc of twenty-five or more, in the last P mary. The Samter delegation spoi in favor of the Appek amendment. The meetiog of Democrats held < Monday in response to the call of tl Carwile Committee numbered thirteei It was decided to take no action, o account of the small attendance and tl evident disinclination of the Democra of this county to join the Carwile mov ment. If is but a jost tribute io say th; Editor Ball, of the Columbia Journc by his calm and unbiased discassion < the nomiaation project, did more tba any other single man io defeat it. H kept cool and stated the facts as the ?ere, and the people were convinced. John Gary Evans's speech before tb nominatsog convention evoked very lit ti? enthusiasm. It began tamely ao< lacked ?nap aod vim to catch :he crowd His defense of the platform was ver; ingenious and showed that he ha< loaded himself for the effort. It wa an excellent speech, notwithstanding th. tame insipid opening. The Augusta Chronicle a few day since contained a half column articlf in reference to the Game Cock Carnival The Chronicle urges the business met of Augusta to take part in the Cami val, and thus build np a business con? nection with Sumter. Augusta is awake to thc opportunity, and will soon begin to draw trade from this section of South Carolina. The race for the Railroad Couimis sicnersbip was chock foll of jockeying and the Reformers showed themselves as willing to chisel one another as they have been to chisel the Conservatives. The number of votes in the final count was snspiciousiy large, and coupled with the remark of a reformer makes us ponder on the ways and by-ways of reform. The Reformer said : "I ketch ed ou to the racket, aod if they'd kept ou-would have had more votes than there were delegates in the con? vention M Gov. Tillman has gotten into bot water with some of his Edgefield constituents by commuting tbe death sentence of Carpenter, the murderer, to imprisonment. Gov. Tillman in ac inter? view gives good reasons for the com? mutation, the strongeet of which is that the jury recommended mercy and sent a written statement, signed by nine of the jury, that it was not their intention j when rendering the verdict that Car- ; neuter shouid hang. Yet the two Atkin? sons, who were likewise recommended to mercy were hanged in Winnsboro last Friday. We are glad that good sense asserted i itself in the Re-organization Caucus and | that the supreme folly of making oom- j mations was not committed. The hot spur Conservatives and the Butler J crowd, who were seekiug to make use of the hotspur sentiment, have seriously in jared the Conservative cause. With the first class the mistake was of the bead, not of the heart ; with the second' it was cold-blooded ca 1 salarion. They failed io their effort to gain the support of Reformers, and failing in this they tamed asa dernier resort to those Conser? vatives who are. always ready and anxious to fight Till ru aD ism without re? ference to expediency, time or place. We are gratified at the result, and we believe that the future will prove the wisdom of making no nominations. NO%OM?N?TI?NS. The Convention of Conservative Democrats who favor. ,tbe: reorganization of the party which was to-have been held last night did not get beyond the caucus stage.. The entire night was spent in caucus, discussing the question of .renominations. No reporters were admitted .and the. reports in the Slate, Courier and Register of this morning were made up from information received from those who withdrew from the caucus.. The caucus contained about 164 delegates, representing Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Chester, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Coller?n, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Florence, I Georgetown, Greenville, Hampton, Horry, j Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Marion, New- j berry, Ocooee, Orangebarg,. Pickeos,. .Rich? land, Spartanburg, Union, Williamsburg and York Counties. . It is said that eighteen delegations reported that their counties could not be carried ; thirteen.that their counties could be carried ; four doubtful. The motion to make nominations was car? ried at 2 o'clock by a vote of 123 to 90. The delegations began withdrawing from the ball, and nothing had been done up to the time the press reports closed. The following tells the final result : Special to the Watchman and Southron. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 26th.-At 4.30 this a. m. Tbs Convention adjourned without making nominations. An organized fight is to be made agaiost Constitutional Conven? tion. . The withdrawal of various delegations caused the failure to nominate. _W. W. BALL CONVENTION OBSERVATIONS. The Convention nominated John Gary Evans and was satisfied, tbioking Tillman smiled approval. The Convention was clamorous for a speech from Tillman and showed plainly that the words of the nominees were regarded but as words, idle words. Gov. Tillman did not wish to make a speech and did not do so. Nothing was to j be gained and be did not wish to ran the risk ef losing anything. He is shrewd ; and be knew the.Convention was too abject to be insulted by his disregard of *iti wishes. Mr. H. R. Thomas does not owe bis nomi? nation to John Gary Evans and bis friends. The hard work they put in against Thomas on the floor of the Convention proved this. Mr. Thomas was near the point, at one stage, where his defeat would have been accomplish? ed by tbe Evans crowd 'had it been possible to bold what they had gained. Larry Gantt could not work his block game on the Convention as easily as he did the dispensary confidence game on the pro? hibitionists. Dr. Wycbe, the self-esteemed orator from Frog Level, obtained greater satisfaction from his own remarks than did all the other dele? gates collectively. His smile haunts me still. The Convention had that precious infantile capacity of being provoked to ringing mirth by little things. It was a real pleasure to stand quietly by and note the waves of laughter sweep across the ball and the loud guffaw drown the he! he! he! and the ha ! ba ! ha ! provoked by St. Julian Jervey's j slip in addressing the Convention as "gentle- j men of the jury." I love to see simple-? minded, light-hearted pleasure. None of the j laughers took the slightest note of Jervey's argument. Their lips were curved for the next laugh and their eyes alight with expec? tation of the next chance to he! he J he! ha ! ha ! ha ! haw ! haw ! baw ! And the wire pulllers ; and the manipula tors. In the early part of the day see how j little knots of men gather in the corners and tbe recesses of the windows. See one earnest faced, intense, low-voiced mao is talking to the three or four, or one man be has cornered. He is the wire-fixer. Those be is talking to are the head men of the various delegations. He is feeling bis way, urging, promising, pleading, pledging. He was plural io num? ber and all were not working for the same man. Some candidates who "bad the nomi? nation" a week ago, and did uot have it when the voting ended must thank these same earnest-faced men. See them later on passing up the aisles, down the aisles, then on this side of the house, then on that, whispering first to one man and then to another, active, vigilant, as earnest-faced, as low-voiced, a3 intense as ever. The wires were being pulled. Later still ; the vote is being taken ; some candidate has received votes that some one, or two or three of the earnest-faced men did not anticipate, they move more rapidly from one delegation to another, they are more intense and lower voiced than ever. More pledges are taken, greater promises made. The Wil? liamsburg delegation has voted; the result, quickly footed up, surprise? some of the workers; it is against their mun. How ihey tug at the wires. Tbey tire pulling in the second choice delegates. New workers are called in, they rush swiftly from one delega? tion to another, and the delegates begin to change their votes ; the changes come so rap? idly that the tellers lose count ; the changes still piie up : ativ* the workers still work and the pullers pull and tug. At last it is done, a clamor is raised to have the chair announce the result, belated changes-whet? unfavora? ble to the side strongest in workers-are drowned out by noise; the chairman ar. nduaces the vote, declares the nominees, and it is done. The manipulator breathes a sigh of relief, or regret, as the case may be. The platform, which was evideotly built to get in on, bears evidence of painstaking care with reference to the uses to which it will be put. It was nicely typewritten and came to the convention in the pocket of a very nice gentleman. When the committee of builders inspected it one plank was found rotten, so it was knocked out and the rcmainiog planks hammered together. ? plank in endorse? ment of the Republican platform tras omitted, inadvertently no doubt, but I fear that this may offend those Republicans who accepted the invitation, of the Irby Committee and voted in the recent primary. I base my fears cn very good grounds. I observed several Republican delegates wagging their beads in a manner that indicated disapproval. To be able to part your name in the middle with Gary is worth much more than any con? ceivable quality, virtue or ability, and the thing next to this pearl of great price is to be able to trace kinship to a Gary, or nativity to Edgefield County. A combination of the three is a loo loo hand. Alas for Jonah not Pony, Yeldell, be was from Edgefield right enough, but be could not trace the kinship. If the prayers of the righteous availetb much, what shall be said about Brother Whit? man. He prayed on every stump, "for the Lord's sake vote for me," and in the conven? tion he received ten votes ! Ts ten votes much ? if so, Bro. Whitman is endorsed. And bj the way, Hell Gate did not explode It was observed that every single oue of the original Tillman' ticket that went into office in 1890, solely because the people wanted them to ruo, were either on hand asking a longer lease of office and public pap, have received, are, or have'recently been candidates for bet? ter paying positions. One of the speakers, an Evans or a Gary, or perhaps it w*s an Evans, who is a brother to Gary Evans, said that this was the last con? vention of the Democratic party of South Carolina. I observed to myself that it assuredly ought to be the last of the kind, and silently prayed that this convention might mark the end of this so-called Democratic party, and that true Democracy might soon arise to take its place. . Does your best girl like candy ? Maillard's is the best at R. M. & L. W. Jenkins'. Mr. J. H. .Winburn, Sumter's Photographer, will return from the mountains in a few days, and will open a splendid Photograph Gallery under the best light that bas ever been in the city. MM I I - Bncklen'8 Arnica Salve. The Beat Salve in the world for Cats, Bruiser Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter. Chapped Banda Chilblains, Corns and ail Skin Eruptions, and positively cures mPiles, or no paj required. Jt is guaranteed to give per- ; feet satisfaction, or money refunded. ?rice 25cents per box. For sale by Dr. J. F. W. De Lorine * Cotton Market. SUMTER, S. C., Sept. 26, 1894. Receipts for week ending Tuesday 25, 1,500 bales. Market weak, with downward ten? dency Middling 5f. CHARLESTON, S. C. Sept. 25, 1894. Market quiet, demand moderate, sales for day 375 bales. Middling 5{. Notice. Highest cash price paid for cotton seed. All who bave seed for sale or to exchange for meal or feed will do well to see me before sell? ing. I am an old buyer and can give the ppople great advantages. Give me a call at office on Liberty Street or at C. S. & N. R. R. Respectfully, W. B. BOYLE. HOLIDAY NOTICE. OUR STORES will beclosedon MONDAY and WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1st and ?Oth on account of holiday. J. RYTTENBERG & SONS. Sept 26. RICE, RICE, RICE. We solicit consignments of ROUGH RICE IN ANY QUANTITY. All consignments milled and reshipped or sold promptly. Rates moderate. WEST POINT MILLS CO. Sept. 26. Charleston, S. C. P?BLTC NOTCE. LICENSES. CLERK AND TREASURERS OFFICE, SUMTER, S. C., Sept. 26, 1894. ALL PERSONS "engaged, or intending to engage, in any calling, business, pro? fession or occupation within the limits of City of Sumter, for which a License is re? quired by terms of An Ordinance of City of Sumter dated 24th day of July, 1894," are hereby notified that all Licenses were due and i payable on 1st September instant, and must ! be paid without further delay. Further in? dulgence will not be granted. 20 per cent, penalty will be added after 1st October proxi? mo, and in cases of further neglect or refusal the further penalties prescribed by said Ordi? nance will be enforced. Bv order of City Council. C. M. HURST, Sept. 26-2t. Clerk and Treasurer. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER. By T. V. Walsh, Esq., Prolate Judge. WHEREAS. DK. T. R. KELLY made suit to rae, to grant him Letters of Ad? ministration of the Estate of |and effects of HKNKY S. DICKERSON, late of said County and State, deceased, These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and Creditors of the said Henry S. Dickerson, as aforesaid, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Pro? bate, to be held at Sumter Court House on October loth, 1894, next, after publication thereof, at 1? o'clock in the tbreuoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 2()th day of September, A. D., *18??4. T. V. WALSH, Sept. 26-2i. Judge of Probate. To Cure ?TheE|rache J^f \T. <^^^3*^^^\ ?\?0^ Saturate a piece of cotton fcSS*-*3^ V Jj?^^ with Pain-Killer and place ^^i0r it in the ear. The pain wiU _?=S?[ quickly cease. Tb cure tooth ,, -?s?^M ache, place the cotton in the hollow of the tooth, and bathe the face with jr FM-OLLB This good old remedy will cure any ache or pain that ever attacked the old or young. Every household should have a bottle of Pain-Killer with which to meet such emergencies. Sold everywhere. The quantity has been doubled but the price remains the same. PERRY DAVIS & SON, Sole Proprietors, PROVIDENCE, R. L STILL BETTER FOR YOUR ? R. W. DuRANT & SON, ?THE OLD RELIABLE.? -Are DOW prepared to Offer Lower Prices than Ever. CALL FOR WEAT YOE WANT Our Stock is Complete. We have added to our immense Stock of Hardware a large line of PAINTS, OILS, ETC., ^^^p = Harness, Saddles, Great Bargains in Leather, &c., Guns, Pistols, etc. -HEADQUARTERS FOR Powder, Shot and Shells (loaded and empty.) Engine Supplies, Belting, etc. Headquarters for COOKING and Heating Stoves. WARRANTED. IT'S SETTL.EB, That the place to buy your (woods at is the old reliable house of J. RYTTENBERG & SONS. We are closing out the balance of our Spring and Slimmer goods for Cash, re? gardless of Cost, and now is your oppor? tunity to secure bargains, if in need of anything. Our Fall and Winter Stock has com? menced to arrive, our buyers in Europe and New York are sending them in by every train- Our Mr. M. G. R. has just returned from Europe, and you can look for some great bargains in goods this sea? son. Just arrived, direct importation of CHINA AND JAPAN MATTING. We have the benefit of the reduced TariiF on them, and the price is One-third less. Keep your eyes on this place as it will con? tain great announcements from time to time ?this season. We are in the Race to Win, I and we are in the "Saddle." You know what I that means, Respectfully yours, JA RYTTENBERG j SONS, j N. W. Cor. Main & Liberty Sts., Sumter, S. C. ! New York Office, 84, West Broadway. j Hay Presses. We are able now to offer the cheapest and best portable Hay Press ever put on the market. Bale your hay; it becomes more marketable and more valuable.; Baled hay looks better and sells quicker. Henry lt. Bloom, Sep 5. Main St., Sumter, S. C. How Are You To-day? This is the place you are looking for* Yes, it is true that we are selling goods cheaper than ever, WE HAVE TO. Our buyers went to market earlier than usual, when the crop outlook was better than for years, and bought accordingly. Consequently our stock is loo large and to be sold, must be sold close. That is good for you. but rather hard on us. It was better for you in more ways than one. You see the jobbers did not look for such a large trade as they have had, conse? quently there were not enough goods to go around so those who went early to market got the choicest goods at the bottom prices, while those who waited, found the stocks all pick? ed over, and prices had gone up. WE HAVE A LAR6E AND PAR? TICULARLY NICE LINE OF li; Pants Goods, Dress Goods, | Shoes. Iii If you are a Farmer call on us for Sugar Bags to Cover your Cotton Bales. It weighs two pounds to the yard and sells for lit rnore than half the price of Jute. As usual we are leading in FAMILY GROCERIES. Soon to arrive: New Sour Kraut, Dill Pickles, Imported Bologna, Swiss Cheese, Dutch Herring. These goods will be here this week sure, DOCKER & BULTMAN. Ssp 12-x.