WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1894. The Sumter Watchman was founded io 1850 and the True Southron in I860. The Watchman and Southron now hs? the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papera, and is mani? festly the best advertising medium in Sumter. EDITORIAL NOTES. The interest manifested in the Reel Squads by all classes of yooog men and boys is very gratifying. We trust that time will not stale their enthu? siasm. . The persistence with which the reformers are poshing the metropolitan police iniquity is bul slight encourage ment to those who have been simple enough to hope for peace. John L. McLaurin is setting the pace io the race for Irby's Senatorial shoes, but John Gary Evans is right after him, with the entire Gary, Till? man and-so-fort h influence at his back. Irby may have a little somethiog to say about his successor himself wheo the time comes. When the Constitutional Convention has provided that the election managers 1 shall be the sole judges of the qualifi? cations of voters and that these managers shall be appointed by the Governor, South Carolina will be reduced to the oon d irions of a rotten- borough. belong * ing to a certain ring or family clique. The Laurees Advertiser remarks that Mr. Manning's Australian ballot MW "is the very thing needed, sod therefore it stands no chance to become a law.'* A very correct, but not grati? fying commentary upon our law makers. The friends of Ex-Governor Till? man should railroad a bill through both Seoate and House changing the name of Ben Perry to Judas, or some other name. Judas is suggested as it is a favorite with Ex-Governor Ben. . The erection of a commodious and comfortable passenger depot and shed will be a very decided and deserved improvement. . Sumter merits the new dep.?t for there is a great deal of travel to and from and through the city, and the comfort and convenience of the travelling public should be the first consideration of the railroads. Again we have to thank Railroad Commission? er Thomas for discharging his official duty in such a mao uer as to directly benefit Sumter. Tbe stir that was created ia the House of Representatives Thursday by Mr. Duncan, of Newberry, ia his effort to have Mr. Thomas, of Rich? land, condemned for asking a very proper explanation from the State Treasurer, did not speak very well for the ultra refawmers. The bitterness that was displayed was extreme and the effort that was made to intensify this feeling showed very plainly that there are those who do not desire any dimunition of partisanship aod ill feeiiog, aod- that if it is left to them there will be no return of peace and harmony. Some of the reform leaders recognize the fact that bitterness has been the motive power of the reform movement and they fear that if it is permitted to die out the movement will laoqoish aod die. Therefore no opportunity is allowed to pass unused when bitterness can be excited. The all wool aod a yard wide reform press has bulged the chases and broken the shooting stick in the effort to thoroughly abuse one Ben Perry, a cer? tain disreputable fellow, who has made certain unproven charges against Ex Gov. Ben Tillman. As we peruse the expressions of horror that such a debas? ed wretch as Perry should cumber the earth, we wonder whether the ali wool and yard wide recollects when Perry was a great counsellor in the house of Benjamin and Refawm, and was chief scribe of the Refawm organ in the Piedmont. The Atlanta Exposition will be the greatest advertisement that city, aod in cidentily the South, ever had. The show will be magnificent, unless there is a failure in some of the plans, and j there will be a great crowd of people from the North and West, who will j come South principally to investigate : with a view of removing to this section, j The movement southward is just begin- j oing and the Atlanta Exposition will stimulate it to a great extent. The ex? hibit made by the various States, will undoubtedly have an influence on those who contemplate coming South. South Carolina should have a representative aod creaditble exhibit, and the Legis? lature should make provision for such j an exhibit before adjourning. The proposition to give seventy-five thousand dollars to to the Three O's railroad Company to assist io the ex? tension of the road from Camden to this city will most certainly be met with a refusal. We cannot afford it in the first place, for we are an unpoverished people groaning uoder the burdens already npon us. The experience of other places that have voted bonds to promote railroad construction would deter us, even were we able to make so munificent a gift to the railroad company. There is no knowing how soon rival lines will combine and leave us more firmly in the grasp of a monopoly than ever before. Darlington's experience with the Charleston, Sumter & Northr ero railroad is a case in point. She gave $80,000 bonds to the road so that Darlington would be independent of the Coast Line. Where is she to-day? Absolutely tn the possession of the Coast Line, and no hope of escape. What beoefit did the gift of ?80,000 bring to Darlington? About three years' freedom from the sway of the f^ast Line. The benefits never equal the expenditure in the oases we are familiar with; and under the existing circumstances it would be nothing less than extravagant folly for the town? ships of Sumter,: Providence, Rafting Creek and Bradford Springs to bond themselves to the extent of $75,000. We are all anxious to have a railroad connection with the West, and will patronise a road to the extent of our ability, boc we are of tbe opinion that if it is to the interest of a syndicate to build a railroad they will build it to the point that is most advantageously situated. It would be foolish to imagine that a big road would build a road that would not be beneficial to the system, to secure a bonus of a few thousand dollars. They build roads that will yield a revenue, and if they do bu i id a road to secure a bonus that is the sort of road we don't want and the very kind we cannot af? ford to vote bonds to. If the Three C's people build through from Camden, Sumter will give their road such a support that io a few years will amount to more than double the amount now asked for. We believe that it is to tbe interest of the road to make a connection with the roads that center in Sumter, and when they have fully considered the matter the members of the syndicate will reach the same con? clusion. Grover Cleveland,. President of the United States, is killing Sooth Caro? lina ducks. Now is Ben. Tillman's time. Let him get that pitch fork and head Grover off io Wioyah bay. George Washington Murray received one vote for United States Senator. This will be bot cold comfort to the soo! of George when be reflects on the seat he lost in Coogrees by the redis? tricting of the State. The statement gi van out by Gov Tillman in refatal of the charges con? tained in the Perry letter and similar charges previoosly made, are satisfactory on their face, and on til there is direct and indisputable proof to the contrary it would be much more sensible to leave such charges unmade. The railroad question is again excit? ing interest in this section. The possibility that the Coast Lioe may not be able to consummate thc trade for the C. S. & N. R. R., has, in the last few days, assumed the appearance of reality that makes those, who fear bot? tling ap, hope against what they have j lately regarded as an accomplished fact The Plant System still entertains the hope of obtaining possession, and may yet do so when the road is sold under order ef the courts i Senator Tillman it is, and we congra? tulate him io his hoar of suocess; it is his 60CC888 that we ooogratul&tB and oot [ the mao, for it is by no aid of ours that he baa reached his present position, and his elevation is without our sanction. Yet be is a successful mau and his suc? cess has been won against great opposi? tion, and while we despise the means he has used to attain success, and de? spise the man as heartily as ever, we cannot refrain from applaudin g the success ho has achieved. The effort to kill or seriously cripple the South Carolina College and Citadel is a contemptible piece of work on the part of a few reformers. Both institu tions are worthy of support on account ! of the work they have done and are doing, and not on acoount of any senti mental fancies. These institutions merit, yes merit, a liberal support; and if they are crippled by the reform move? ment an outrage against the intelligence of the State will be perpetrated. Tbe salary cutting mania of thc Reform Legislators bas surprising periods of lucidity-particularly when their pay is concerned. General Butler is a dead duck, and the methods he pursued to retain his seat io tbe Seoate did much towards rendering bis defeat as complete as it proved,, Sam Jone?, io a receot -syndicate letter, comments on the dispensary as follows: I have just returned from a hurried trip through South Carolina. I spent one day and a eight io Sumter. Io company with one of the pastors in the city I visited a dispensary. I went through it. I saw it. The dispensary of Sumter is a nice storeroom in the centre of the city, with all the bottles and demijohns labeled I and sealed sitting upon the shelves. At the front door oh the dispensary there is a place cut off with pickets, someth ing like an insurance or real estate office, about ten feet square. This is the only part of the building the public can enter. Liquor is sold by the dispensary keeper, from a half pint bottle to four gallons and three quarts to aoy invidual. It opens at seven in the morning and closes at six in the evening. There is no loafing, or drinking, or treating within the dis? pensary. As bud as this may be, it is a thou? sand per cant, better than the open saloons with ?ts hangers on, with its young men going to destruction and the.old bums making it their rendez? vous. [ am no advocate of the dispen? sary. I have fought whiskey in all its forms for fifteen years. I fight under a black flaig. 1 show no quarter to, nor ask any quarters of, the whiskey traffic. It has left its scar on me* It has invaded the precincts of the homes of my loved ones and made some of them wear the stripes. I am conscious of thc power of the whiskey trafic. I know how parties and politicians tremble when the whis? key traffic shakes its fist, I know ifs power to lobby, I know its power to buy. Whenever and whenever aoy State io this Union shall have an un purchasable and unbulldozabie legisla? ture, then we shall have laws for the protection of home aud wc will get such legislation as will retire the whiskey traffic, or exterminate it. I know it is a source of revenue to the S'ates, cities and towns, but it is a most solemo fact that whiskey has never paid it? way anywhere. 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