The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 14, 1895, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14,1895.
The Sumter Watchman was founded
in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866.
The Watchman and Southron new has
the combined circulation and influence
of both of the old papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising medium in
Samter.
EDITOBIAL HOTES. |
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The first duty on next Tuesday is to
ote.
Vote the joint ticket. All of the
men are good and representative men..
Elect them aod Sumter County will be
well represented.
After all it looks like there will be
bu. one ticket in Rich land county.
None cf the prominent men can be in
^^duoed to run.
The election of Judge \Valiace by
the Democrats of Union county will be
creditable to them, and will contribute
much to the strength of the Constitu- [
tional Convention. We trust Judge
Wallace will he elected.
Some of the negro politicians in this
county are telling that the negroes are
goiog in with the Tillmaoites. They
have said that they are advised that it
will be folly for titem to antagonize the
Tillmanites, who will control the State
aod make all laws for thirty years to
come. Mow this is not idle rumor, for
three men, who have been told sub
stantially the same thing by negroes of
some influence, are our informants.
Aod these three men are all Reformers,
so there can be no grounds for a charge
' that the reports have been manufac
tured. What do the negroes mean to
do, and with what Tillmanites do tbey
propose uniting ? Are the Tillmanites
the "otner parties" with whom the
committee should consult before filling |
out the negro ticket?
At first we paid no attention to the
repot :s that reached us, but when one!
person after another oame with the !
. i
same story from different sources, we
decided to ventilate the matter and see
who wilt take up the task of explaining
what is on foot.
If there are any Tillmanites in Sum
ter County who will unite with the
negro Republicans to defeat the ticket
now in the field, we would like to know
their names. We do not believe there
are fifty white meo in the county, not to
say fifty Tillmanites, who form less than
half the white votes, who would sup
port a joint ticket composed partly of
negroes aod of white men. * It would
be political folly and political suicide
for aoy white man or set of white meo
to support such a fusion ticket.
It is the height of folly for the ne
groes of Sumter county to antagonize
the ticket nominated by the white peo
ple, for this ticket is composed of men
of ability aod influence, who are pledg
ed to use all their influence towards the
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adoption of a constitution that will bear
equally upon every man, regardless of !
color, aod that will guarantee honest
and fair elections. If the negroes de
sire or expect more than this they are !
more than foolish They should see at !
a glance that the men we propose send- j
iog from Sumter county will be able to
influence the adoption of, their views,
where a ticket elected by negroes would
be absolutely powerless. If the negroes
of Sumter county bave any sense at all
and wish to serve their own interests,
they will keep out of the fight, if there
is to be a fight, at the general election.
Mayor Strong was elected by the
people of New York City for the ex
press purpose of reforming the many
abuses existing in the various depart
ments of the city government. The
Mayor went to work as soon as install
ed in office to carry out the refotms
demanded. As one of his chief assist
ants in this work he selected Mr.
Theodore Roosevelt to be chairman of
the Police Commission. Now the
subordinate baa become a bigger man
in the public eye than bis superior, by
his stringent enforcement of the laws
is he finds them on the statutes. He
has enforced the laws so stringently
that even Mayor Strong, reformer
though he is, has requested him to let
up, hut let up he will not, and he goes
on enforciog the laws as he finds them.
Tbe election of tbe joint ticket for
the Constitutional Convention, it is now
plainly seen, cannot be accomplished
1 without work, and active work at that,
by those who support it. There is oo
doubt about tbejoint ticket being the
choice of a large majority of the white
voters of the county, and from
this condition tbe greatest dan
ger of defeat is to be appre
hended. When there is so great a
preponderance of public sentiment in
favor of a candidate or Ret of candi
dates, over-confidence aud apathy too
often follow, and these lead inevitably
to defeat. In this campaign there is
too much at stake for tbe idea of defeat
to be tolerable, and with the ticket that
bas been placed in the field, so satisfac
tory to a majority of the Demoorats,
there is no excuse for defeat, if the peo
ple vili bat take the proper interest on
election day aod vote. We must poll !
the full strength for the joint ticket, j
and the true democrats of the county
should work every day between now i
and election day to make this possible.
Tbe address to the Straightout Demo- j
crats signed by Col. J. D Blandiug i
and others should be carefully read aod
even more carefully considered by those
who now do not intend voting tbe joint
ticket for the Constitutional Conven- j
tion. The situation is clearly stated ?
without exag?ration, and tbe result of a
general refusal of tbe Straightouts. who |
were opposed to th*? division, to vote tbe j
full joint ticket is not stated at all too ;
strongly.
The prospects at present for the prize J
fight between Corbe? aud Fitzsiuamons ;
at Dallas, Texas, are very good. There
has been more or less talk of prevent- ;
ing tbe fight by legal interference, but
no definite action has been taken. The j
men who are managing the fight are con- j
fident that they will not be interfered
with, and are paying very little att?n- ;
tion to the talk of tbe Texas officials.
They obtained the best legal advice be
fore selecting Texas as the battle
ground, and now think they have the
law on their side.
Honest elections and tbe maintenance j
of the public schools, will have able
champions and hard fighters in the !
Convention,
\ !
Tbe Mississippi plan for limiting the
suffrage will not be acceptable to a ma
jority of South Carolinians. It is not
democratic, and will give tbe poli- ?
rical party in power the means of per- ?
petuating its tenure indefinitely by
meaos of fraud.
If George Tillman owes his nomina
tion as a delegate to the Constitutional
Convention to bis relationship to B. R. j
Tillman, to whom is John C. Sheppard
indebted for bis nomination ?
Col. Mike Brown, of Barn well has
gone to work in a practical way tc in
duce immigrants of the best class to j
settle in this State. The first party
from Chio?go have arrived and others
will follow before fall. The first colony j
will coosist of ?ne hundred persons,
and they are expected to settle in Barn
well County, along the line of the Care
lios Midland Railroad. Some of the;
colonists are mechanics from Pullman,
and are very desirable citizens.
If the caucus rule does not prevail !
to the Constitutional Convention, the
ring Reformers will not be able to force
the adoption of all the schemes they
may purpose incorporating in the new ;
Constitution. Without an iron clad j
caucus rule the ring leaders will be j
powerless to counteract the influence of:
tbe able men who go to the Convention
pledged to use their best efforts to frame
a constitution that will be worthy of the
! State of South Carolina.
! A man with an unamiable?not to say |
; mean wife?would want to leave Selma,
Ala., if he should happen to live there, j
All women would not be so lenient and
I thoughtful in their treatment of their
; husbands as Mistress Klviry Smoke.
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The Atlanta Constitution is raking
! Hoke Smith fore and aft because he j
I has changed his views on the financial j
? question since 18i)2. If the Constitn- j
: tion is to be accepted as authority, a
man has no right to alter his views on ;
j finance ; if he has said the hors*1 was ?
; forty feet high he must stick to it
Mr. L D. Je?nions is a candidate
! for election as a delegate to the Consti
tutional Convention. He is also one of
' the commisMOoere of election appointed
by Gov. Evans. Mr. Jennings has a
right to aspire to a seat io tbe Constitu
tional Convention ; he also has the
right to servo as an ejection commis
sioner; but we content- ihat he may not j
be both candidate commissioner!
al Ods and the same time. For him to
be both commissioner and candidare
would make him a judge in his own
case, and this is not admissible. To
go a step further, we do not believe that
it was the proper procedure for Mr.
Jennings to take part in the appoiDt
Mient of managers of election io bis
dual capacity of commissioner and can
didate. His having done so, even
should he resign from the board of
election commissioners between this
date and the 20th instant, would bolster
up a oootcst should one be made.
No white man can be excused for
not voting on Tuesday.
SELL IN SXJMTEB.
The tobacco warehouse will be opened
for the sale' of tobacco on Thursday,
Aug 29th. A large number of buyers
will be present, and nothing has been
left undone by Manager Brogdon and
the Board of Directors that will con
tribute to the success of the tobacco
market in Sumter. The warehouse is
large, well lighted and cooveoient of
access, and, beiog situated by the side j
of the railroad track, the handl'iDg of i
tobacco for shipment will be greatly
facilitated.
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There is one regulation adopted by I
the Board of Directors that will prove
of great benefit to tobacco sellers, and j
which they should give due coDSidera- j
tion before deciding to sell their crop j
elsewhere. The regulation referred to j
is that Manager Brogdon has been in- ;
struoted to permit no lot of tobacco to '
be knocked down to a buyer for less'than ?
the market value, but must buy it for
the warehouse at the best price the pre
vailing quotations will permit. This j
regulation is a real aod valuable pro- j
tection to sellers oo this market aod will !
j
save them a great deal of money dur- j
iog the season. The men who compose
the Sumter Tobacco Warehouse Com
pany are much more interested io the
growth and development of Sumter
than io making money out of the
warehouse busiuess, aod they would
much rather have a great deal of to
bacco sold here with very little or oo j
profit to themselves, as a compaoy, tbaD I
to make a larsre amouot from the ware- i
house from comparatively small sales. ;
The tobacco plaDters of Sumter aod J
adjoiniog couoties will fiod it their in
terest to briog their tobacco to Sumter
for sale, for here they will receive the |
very highest market prices for every
pouod they have. Wheo the tobacco
has been sold, they will be io ooe of!
the best markets in the State for all of j
the necessaries and luxuries that they
may wish to purchase.
Candidly aod honestly, we are satis- |
fied that tobacco planters who go else- .
where or ship their tobacco to distant
markets, will fare worse by going far- j
ther. Therefore bring your tobacco to i
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Sumter and give the home market at j
least a fair trial.
Vote early on Tuesday aod see that j
every white mao in the neighborhood j
votes also. i
TWO TICKETS.
The determination of the meo. oom- ?
ioated by forty-eight voters io the so- j
called primary electioD last week, to j
carry the contest ioto the g?nerai elee- !
tioo and fight the joint ticket to the bit- j
ter end io the face of the activity of
the oegroes, does oot recommeod them :
to the favorable consideration or the
democrats of Sumter couoty.
Capt. Keels, by meaos of the sup- !
posed power of his position as county j
chairman, has eodeavored ali along to j
preveot a compromise between the two j
factions, aod having egregiously failed I
in this design, oow seems determined to ?
defeat the ticket nominated by those
who have laid aside factional ditferences '
and united for the ge ieral good. He
has used the power of nis position to no ?
effect, and. seeiog defeat stariog him I
in the face, he now conceives the plao
of goiog out amoog the people, aod by I
raking together the embers of partisan j
hate aud bitterness to gain strength for
his unpatriotic cause.
The action of (^apt. Keels and bis co
adjutors in this campaigo has the appear- ,
ance of being oothiog more nor less |
than the outgrowth of ao ovcrweauiog de- '
sire to obtain places in the Constitutional
contention at all hazards. They have
mafie no objections to the ?non on the
joint ticket, and they caD make no valid ,
objections. They have mad<; no objec
tions to the platform of principles
adopted by the Conservative Convention,
so far a< we have heard, and where|can
they find grounds for reasonable objec
tion to that platform ? Do they object
to the principles set forth it: the address
issued by the candidates on the ;
joint ticket "r If so, 1er thein state why.
Id the eyes of reasooable men, Capt.
Keels and his fellow candidates stain]
convicted of placing their personal
desires aod ambitions above the general
good of the body politic, aod endeav
oring to defeat a ticket that is tbe un
doubted choice of a majority of the
democrats of the county. Why do
these men seek to defeat tbe joint
ticket ? Do they believe that they?
candidates of their own volitioo?will
better represent the democrats of this
county than the men elected by two rep
resentative bodies? Do they believe that
they can and will more ably aod accept
ably discharge the duties of delegates
in the Convention thau tbe men on the
joint ticket? If tbey do thus believe,
what weight has their individual opinions
against the opinions of the two bodies
that selected the men who are on the
joint ticket? We put the question to
the democrats of Sumter county :
Will you support the joint ticket, which
represents the will of a majority of the
democrats of tbe county, or will you
vote for the Keels ticket, which rep
resents practicaly nothing, sa', e the
desire of tbe men on the ticket to obtain
a place in the Constitutional Convention
at any hazard? If you decide to sup
port the joint ticket and to work for it,
you will make certain its election ; if
you vote for the Keels ticket, you make
possible the election of the negroes
nominated the other day, for you will
weaken the only ticket that has the
ghost of a chance of election.
The Augusta Chronicle coustrues
"De Bello Gallico'* after this manner :
"Since bicycling Paris donned the
bloomer it looks as though all Guai
were divided into two parts "
Tbe ticket for tbe Constitutional
Convention is composed of intelligent,
educated men who will worthily and
ably represent Sumter County. Vote the
joint ticket and no other aod see that
the ticket you vote has the names of the
six candidates nominated.
Tbe murder of missionaries has raised !
j
two clamors ; one for the conversion of \
the Chinese by means of cannon and j
muskets, the other for tbe transfer of j
all missionaries to tbe home field. We j
greatly fear our domestic heathens j
would prove as difficult to convert with- j
out the use of fire-arms as tbe most
obdorate disciple of Confusciou?. There
are, however, enough heithen foreign
ers in these United States to occupy the
time and atteotioo of all *? American
missionaries in foreigi. lands even
though the worse than bea-1.en Godless
Anglo-Saxons are not considered, aod
no one that knows anything at all deny
that there are millions in this country
who are in need of civilization, educa
tion and Christianity.
It is passing strange that three men
who are self-announced caodidates on
tbe Keels ticket got up in tbe Reform
convention, the day they bad such a
delightful wrangle, and declared that
ibey were not candidates, did not expect
to be and would not be candidates. Aud
at the time tbey made these solemn
announcements no one had publicly
urged theoi to come our anti save the I
State?they were just kinder excusing j
themselves for talking so much, or
something like that, and wanted to con
vince the crowd that they were not
huoting positions themselves. Taking |
a retrospective view of the anti-caudi- I
daey declarations of Messrs. Keels j
j
DuPre and James, we are constrained to
believe that they were posing for the ?
lightning to strike them. When it j
would not strike them they nomi
nated themselves. Alas for
these men who are not candidates
aud >elect public places for solemnly
declaring tbat they are not candidates.
And thrice more pitiable are tbe men
who so declare and bave their solemn
declarations beiieved.
Of e?mrse the self nominated candi
dates en the Keel* ticket will attempt
to dodge around their candidacy after
declaring that they would not be candi
dates by asserting that one of the men
ou the joiut ticket also said he was
not a candidate. There is a vast differ
ence between tbe two cases : All of
the candidates on the joint ticket be
came caodidates by the will of a repre
sentative body of democrats ; Capt
Keels and his fellow candidate* are
seeking election to seats in the Constitu
tional Convention of their own volition.
MANAGERS OF ELECTION.
The following named persons are
hereby appointed managers of the
election for delegates to the Con
stitutional Convention for August
20th, 1895. They will appoint their
own clerk, and in case of failure to
serve, supply the vacancy. They
will call on the clerk of this board at
his office in the city of Sumter not
later than Saturday, August IT, 1895
for blanks, boxes, and instructions to
conduct said election according to I
law:
Corb'ett'a Store?S. M. Jenkins, K. j
E. Welle, George McCutchen.
Sumter C H.?VV. J. Dinkins, R. j
M. Ives, J. Diggs Wilder.
Statesburg?C. A. Mitchell, Wil- !
Ham M. Sanders, W W. Anderson, ;
Jr.
Providence?J. Raffield, Willie j
Boy kin, J. J. Myers, Jr.
Rafting Creek?T. Sanders, J. j
E. Gillis, W. J. Young.
Bishopville?G. F. Parrott, J .
Kilgore, Thomas Barnes,
Manville?E. C. McCoy, W. Jasper
Smith, J. Eddie Stuckey.
Boesards?Marion Dorn, George j
A Brown, J Lesesne.
Mayesville?S. F. Shaw, Henry
McLeod, Robert De*Champs.
Lynchburg?J. I). Clark, W. A.
Talion, T. G. McLeod
Shiloh?R. A. Frierson, J. K.. Mc
Elveen, R. E. McElveen.
Concord?L. E. White, J. M. N.
Wilder, G. W. Mahoney.
Privateer?David E. Welle.fJ. W j
Broadway, II. Dr?ne Tindall.
Smithville?J. P. Westberry, J. M.
Miller, Samuel Robertson.
Wedgefield?B. P. Kelly, J. M.
Mosely, H. C. Cuttino.
L. D. Jennings, Chairman
W. . Crosswkll,
E. J. Goodman.
Board of Election Commissioners
for Sumter county.
Henry L B. Wells,
Clerk of the Board.
Winburn's Studio will be cloeed for a few
"days only, commencing to-day, Aug. 14.
Nervous debility i? a commoo complaint,
especially among women. The best medical
treatment for this disorder is a persistent
course of Ayer's Sarsaparilla to cleanse aod
invigorate the* blood. This being accom
plished, nature will do the rest.
Schedule of Freight Trains.
Tri-Wkkkly.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday:
Leave Florence 6 28 A.M.
Arrive Sumter 9 35 {'
Leave Sumter 11 00 "
Arrive Lanes 3 00 P.M.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday:
Leav* Lanes 9 00 A M.
Arrive Sumter 1 10 P.M.
Leave Sumter 3 30 "
Arrive Florence ? 10
Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave Atkins 8 30 A.M.
Arrive Sumter 9 10 "
Leave Sumter 5 00 P.M.
Arrive Atkins :"> 40 "
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