tu MI m
Peace Reigns Among
Ohio Republicans.
KICKERS WEBE SQUELCHED.
Bushnell and Foster Promptly
Laid on the Shelf.
HOV A?J5 THE MIGHTY PALLEN
Whilom Leaders Not In Sympathy
With the Administration Succumb
to the Power of Hanna-Foraker's
Meek Demeanor-Magnanimity of
Cr ?svenor-Promotion of Mr. Dick.
A Marvelous Platform.
[Special Washington Letter.]
"Peace reigns in Warsaw:" is one of
the most famous messages ever. sent
out into the world, but it was the
peace of death. "Peace reigns in Ohio!"
among the Republicans, but it is the
peace of death to all who are not en
rapport with the administration. A
few angry protests, a few feeble strug?
gles, a few groans, and the dark wa?
ters of Lethe rolled above the heads of j
Governor Bushnell, "Calico" Charlie
Foster et id omne genus. It was trag- !
IcaL but not unexpected, for .lugger- \
naut is merciful compared with the ?
Ohio Republican machine. "lianna In .
Full Control!" was the headline in a !
friendly metropolitan paper in great ?
Jealously carrying around in the tail
pocket of his famous Priuce Albert
:*oat. They wrestled with the Athens
warrior all night, but as Aurora was
i purpling the east he emerged from
! the committee room red eyed, but vic?
torious! The pesky kickers never suc
! ceeded in changing his handiwork even
j a little bit. The general not only got
bis platform, but he goes to the City
I of Brotherly Love as one of the Big
! Four. In fact, he is most of the Big
i Four. Of course the Cheerful, hand
j some Dick goes along to help the gen?
eral. And as there will be four seats
provided in the convention hall for the
Buckeye Big Four and as General
Grosvenor can't occupy all four with?
out straining himself,and as even Gros?
venor and Dick combined cannot oc?
cupy all four without ?danger to their
anatomies, they permitted Senator Jo?
seph Benton Foraker and Governor
Nash to go also. As Grosvenor and
Foraker walk in side by side, arm in
arm, with a smile upon their faces and
j the rancor of years in their hearts,
I they ought to be photographed as "the
j Heavenly Twins," and it ought to be
I done by the instantaneous process, for
no man can tell how soon they will be
at each other's throat again. Ambi?
tious and far aspiring statesmen would
do well to ponder the history of Joseph
Kenton Foraker and be wise. Only
a few years ago he was more in the
public eye than any oilier Republican
Everybody expected him ro ene day be
nominated for the presidency. Now
he meekly accepts a position as dele?
gate at large to help renominate the
man who gobbled his mess of White
House porridge. General Charles Hen?
ry Grosvenor is a much maligned man.
He is accused of being implacable, and
yet now, when at the height of his
glory, he permits Foraker to have some
honors-Foraker, who. when, he was
?-HB SUMTER WATCHMAN, Kjtabiuhed April, issu. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TREE SOUTHRON, Established June 3 5*6
Consolidated Au?. 2,1881.
SUMTER. S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY 9, 1900.
New Series-Yoi. XIX. No. 41
black letters, cs though there wa?
something startling or uovel aboui
that. We might as well be surprised
by a telegram from the bottomless pit
announcing that "satan is running
things down here!"
Tempora mutanturl Times change.
Indeed they do. Some years ago Char?
lie Fester was a congressman of re?
nown, then thrice governor of Buck
eyedem. then secretary of the treas?
ury-always in the elder day a prime
favorite with Ohio Republicans; not
"without presidential aspirations. At
Jeast he was one of the War wicks who
pushed John Sherman ol? his presiden?
tial stool on a memorable occasion at
Chicago and set James A. Garfield up
in his stead. How John must snicker
in his sleeve as he sees Mark insert
his poisoned dagger under Charlie's
fifth rib and turn it around! Tiyrou
was a great philosopher. " Sweet is
revenge!"
How are the mighty fallen! This
same ex-Congressman. ex-Governor.ex
Secretary of i bo Treasury. ex-War?
wick. ex-Aspirant to thc White House
Charles Foster could nor. even procure
himself to be elected a delegate to the
Philadelphia convention and gave forth
a feeble but ironical squeak about not
ilesirinq; to interfere wi?:! "the most
beeile::* slate prepared in Washing?
ton.*' Alas anil alack, that so amiable
a statesman should IN- disposed of so
unceremoniously!
Harmony and Hanna.
It was Harmony and Hanna or Ila)]
na and Harmony with a big. big H.
And some poor half luny Bushnellites,
with a timidity that, is astounding,
tried to put a spider into the dumpling
of my revered and gentle friend from
Athens, General Charles Henry Gros?
venor! Too bad! They even endeavored
-impiously, as I believe-io alter or
amend or curtail or augment the plat?
form which the general had kindly
and self abnegating concocted in
"Washington and was laboriously and
governor, took from him vi et armls a
nice, juicy, little piece cf pie-I say
vi ft a rm is. far i crrtn'n f!:st the
i general would never relinquish an
I piece of pie, great or small, in an,
j other way. Now he heaps coals of fir
I on Foraker's head by permitting hie
j to be one of the Big Four.
Rank of General Dick.
Another thing on which I congratu
i late General Grosvenor and Field Mar
j shal Hanna is the deftness and oas<
? with which they promoted Hon.Charle:
j Dick from the comparative obscurity
; of a political colonelcy to the rank o
! "general." 1 hail "Generar' Dick!
. am always pleased to see any fellov
; representative climb the ladder OJ
fame. Particularly am 1 gratified tc
see Hon. Charles Dick mounting high
One of my most agreeable recollections
is of another Mr. Dick; not an Ohic
; Republican Dick, hut Mr.Charles Dick
? ens' Dick. I formed his delightful ac
? quaintance in the pages of "David
; Copperfield" of immortal memory. Ile
is an old friend; he lingers with cue:
i he was not a prominent statesman, as
i is Hanna and Grosvenor's Dick. In
j deed his whole stock of philosophy ap
: pearcd to be t<> recommend people tc
take a bath-to be washed clean-a
! performance which Mr. Charles Dick
; could recommend with profit and good
! conscience to his Republican brethren
: in Ohio and. truth to tell, everywhere
els?-.
I But. while tin' Associated Press dis
! patches mate it clear that Hanna and
I General Grosvenor promoted lion.
Charles Dick, as aforesaid, by some
such formula ns "Kneel. Colonel Dieu:
: rise General Dick'*' they leave one
i point in mystery, and that is whether
H<?n. Charles Dick is Brigadier General
i Pick. Major General Dick, Lieutenant
General Dick or full General Dick. 1
I wish <?eiier.il Grosvenor, who is fertile
; in resources, would vouchsafe us a hill
i
of particulars as to General Dick's ex?
act rank. It would save trouble and
1
i would enable a seeker after truth to
: estimate somewhat approximately at
least General Dick's perquisites, for in
this day of liberal "allowances" to gen?
er?is it truly must bc that a full gener
er a ^.""tenant jreneral or even a
n'iajof general will be more munificent?
ly "allowanced" than a paltry briga?
dier; but, whatever particular species
of general Hon. Charles Dick now is,
I suggest to General Grosvenor, the
great keynoter, that he go into this
campaign with the thrilling battlecry
of "Dick and liberty forever!"
McKinley*? Fusrlemnn.
I have one poignant regret touching
the Philadelphia convention, and that
is that for one brief, halcyon moment
I cannot control the divers and sundry
brass bands which will make the wel?
kin ring on that occasion. li' I were in
charge, just as General Grosvenor, the
real leader of the Ohio Big Four ap?
peared, followed by Senator Foraker.
once fondly called "Little Breeches'*
by his admirers and denominated "Fire
Alarm" by those who loved him not, I
would have all the bands strike up
"Lo, the Conquering Hero Comes!*'
General Grosvenor's going to Phila?
delphia as chief fugleman is in keeping
with the eternal fitness of things. He
helped to rock the cradle of the Repub?
lican party, and no one is better en?
titled to follow its hearse. By long and
distinguished service in the cause of
McKinleyism he has achieved "the bad
eminence" of being chief mourner at
its funeral.
The Ohio platform is as remarkable
for what it omits as for what it con?
tains- that is, it would be remarkable
if it had been made by any other set
of men on top of ground except Ohio
Republican platform makers. I put
in this saving statement because it
will be remembered that in 1S9G the
Ohio Republicans put such an amaz?
ing and enigmatical financial plank in
their platform that it remains an in?
soluble marvel to this day.
This time they practically ignore the
Porto Rican tariff bill and the princi?
ple, "The less said the sooner mended,"
but if they suppose that by playing the
role of ostrich and, hiding their head
in the sand, they have shifted discus?
sion as to that question, they are reck?
oning without their host. They will
have to debate that question, never fear,
and to explain the president's change of
mind and heart and Mr. Chairman
Sereno E. Payne's lofty somersault and
the mental acrobatic feats of certain
other Republican statesmen.
Great Acrobatics.
lt was, however, when they struck
the trust question that the Ohio plat?
form builders achieved their greatest
success in acrobatics. I don't know
whether to give General Grosvenor
credit for this, as the press reports say
it was "added to tbe platform brought
from Washington." However that may
be, I regard it as a gem. Here it is:
The Republican party of Ohio stands committed
to legislative and executive opposition to the
threatening combinations of capital that seek to
restrict competition and stifle independent pro?
ducers. We invite within our borders the capital?
istic investments that are material to the indus?
trial development of the state and the largest em?
ployment of labor, but we insist that injurious
combinations shall be forbidden and so called
trusts shall be regulated from time to time and
be so restricted to guarantee immunity from hurt?
ful monopoly and assure fair treatment and pro?
tection to all competing industries.
I defy any mortal man to tell what
it means\ It appears to be an attempt
to be all things to all men, thereby
hoping to win some, lt makes one diz?
zy to try to fathom it. People not im?
mune to the vertigo and apoplexy will
leave it severely alone.
Self Nominated Boss.
There is one thing about the recent
Ohio Republican convention to which
I wish to particularly call the pro?
found, prolonged and prayerful atten?
tion of Hon. William Eaton Chandler,
senior senator from New Hampshire,
as well as adviser in general to the
universe ann to the Republican party
in particular. It is the miraculous
manner in which Hon. Marcus A. Han?
na "effaced" himself. It will be re?
membered that some mouths ago Sen?
ator Chandler informed Senator Han?
na by an open letter, public interview
or some such document that the best
way to insure success for the Republic?
an party was for the former to "efface
himself." At that time I pointed out
to the Granite Mountain statesman
and philosopher that he was "seeking
the unattainable" after the manner of
Boston transcendentalists; that invent?
ing perpetual motion, extracting moon?
beams from green cucumbers, binding
Its odor to the lily or th' -a to slum?
ber still}*-all this was dead easy
easy as falling off a log, and a slippery
log at that-compared to the job he
had undertaken of inducing Senator
Hanna to "efface himself." The task
of Sisyphus and the labors of Hercules
were holiday performances when
brought into competition with the
work of effacing Mark or of inducing
that illustrious patriot to "efface him?
self." Now. I am in position tc say to
Senator Chandler. "I told you so."
Mark did some "effacing" at Colum?
bus, but by what must appear a strange
process to Senator Chandler it was the
other fellow Mark "effaced" and not
himself. Mark doesn't object to doing
political murder, but he draws the
line at political suicide. It isn't re?
corded that Mark's great prototype,
the Old Man of the Sea. destroyed him?
self. Au contraire, as our Gallic friends
would say. Sindbad gave him the coup
de grace. I guess Senator Chandler
has read that entrancing story.
Mark challenges admiration by the
open manner in which lie practices in |
the last year of the nineteenth cen- j
tury-if not the lirst of the twentieth- i
that some men-most men- are born |
into this world to be ridden and oth- I
ors-very few-are born, hooted and
spurred, to ride the many. Mark is
the self nominated hess rider.
Bainbridge Wharf ( ol lapses.
BAINBRIDGE, Ga., May s.-The Plant'
system wharf here collapsed Saturday I
morning. The crash came at un early
hour and only an engineer and a negro
were on the wharf. They narrowly es- i
caped with their lives. The wharf was
heavily laden with freight, which caused j
the wreck. [
A VISION BY AN EX-CAN?
DIDATE.
Campaign Reflections From
Deep Down in the Soul
of Guv.
We note the candidates are string?
ing out and getti?g ready for busi?
ness, and we'll notify 'em that the
voters are organized and are ready
for business. Come oat and come on
ye afflicted bretberen, afflicted with
what the doctors might term scabies
mamilla, which is a biennial epidetn
ic that regularly attacks the comma
Bity, more or leBS severely, and is
simply an itching desire to quit
plowing and to suck at the public
pap. The candidate stage of this
affection is quite serious, tho' never
fatal. The most serious and trying
stage is after you are completely
cured. (Those patients who are per?
mitted ever to get a taste of the pap
are Dever cured.) The cure consists
in wading into a stream called Pri
mary creek There are three of
these creeks Most of you eiHicted
brethren will receive your cure in the
very aidge of the first stream, and,
for your consolation, we'll state that
you'll be the most thoroughly cured
and will not probably ever contract
that type of scabies any more during
your natural lives-and be 68?fe after
death Others will wade in more or
less deep before they are healed and
restored to their right mind A few
may be able to cross over, and this
only aggravates the symptoms for a
little while, and until they reach
second Primary creek and still fewer,
may be, will have to paddle a little
in the rill called 3d Primary, but
most of you will be prone to stand
on the windward banks and sing,
"On Primary's stormy banks I stand
and cast a wistful eye, Ob, bow wist
ful !" Well, we don't blame you, for
that pap is mighty sweet diet-we
sucked at it once, io the long ago,
and still say "You may break, you
may ruin our hopes if you will, but
the flavor of that pap will bang
around still '' Well, you are a
mighty sweet set, a mighty promis
?Dg (?) job lot of suckers, you are, i
and you'll find a mighty promising
(?) assortment of voters just "a lay?
ing for suckers" Mind what we
tell you. You remind us much of a j
pack at a fox hunt, only you are of I
all breeds e..d qualities Some of I
you have already broke cover and
given tongue to that resonant "(a)
n-o-u mc e !" and are spread over
the field, some after big meat and
some only "smell a rat" of an office
somewhere, others are still in the
woods trying to strik some more or
less hot little trail and then they'll
also break cover and "(a) n o-u-n-j
c e !" Then soo? we'll blow you all
up and the timbre of your voice will
change to that shrill yelp, "ability, j
ability, ability." Some of you, per?
chance, will want to be sent to the
state boase when that other institu?
tion across town might be more ap?
propriate and more beneficial to yon
-and to us (We think this last
suggestion will apply to a large
portion of the recent occupants of
the state house Bill Arp says "the
Georgia legislature is composed of
240 members-mostly fools"-and
there are others. Others of you will j
offer for Bro Nash's place, and itch
to sign yourself CC CP and G j
S , and haply don't know what it
signifies, and possibly your concep
tion of the duties is some undefined
idea that they will consist in furnish j
lng Bro Brad well with plenty ot ink
and stub pens and your own portion ?
will be only to pose your osborn com i
and digoitaty in front of the judge's
bench and iearn to say "Youwiiiwell
andtrulytryandtruedeliverancemake,"
and so forth. Well, Bro Nash might
not be selected as a model for a j
statue of Apollo, but his oshum and
dignitaty and suavitu in mode has
passed satisfactorily and coropensa
torily thus far. Some of you may
possess more physiognomical pul
chritude, but then do you know the
difference between a riniry fashus
and addimus protestatio), or words
to that effect ? Others of you will
want to be sheriff, and we bet you
don t know how to handle a double
back action brass rifle howitzer can
non if Simon Cooper was to rise
again ^ome more of you would
like to draw Bro Rembert's sup sal
arv and lick pot luck among the
patrons. Yes, and there'll be some
more of you wanting Bro Ad Moses'
enoes (and sox, too, we reckon) and
be quite anxious about killed people,
and heart failure and congestion of
the gizzard aud sich, and you'll
promise ' to the best of my ability,"
et cetr3, and wouldn't know how to
proceed to bold an inquest over a
dead letter-perhaps And, Oh ves,
there'll be some more of your pack
that'll be yelping on the trail of
county supervisor, which you opine
you'll (a)Dorn better than Marion,
and you'l? be making us gilt edge
promises, like the voters are going
to make to you, and assure us that
we'il all have "a hard road to travel"
ii you are allowed to grade and work
"em Well, we are going to tote
fair and give you a hard road to
travel," too-the day after the pri
maty. But, Oh, you'il have a daisy
time 'twixt now and then, for you'll
find the whole community affected
with an epidemic, too, an epidemic
ol broad guage emile, and they'll
feed your critter on the most succul?
ent corn tops aud feed you on chick
en pie and water melon and other
beverages and much taffy, and all
Milli
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wool, yard wide, promises. You'll
receive something less than half roil
lioa of the very beat quality of these,
free of cost, only we can'*t warrant
'em not to shrink This is owing to
the dog goo managers of the pri?
mary, who always did have a bull
beaded way of insisting that the
promises must be cbristahzed into
solid votes before they'd handle 'em,
and a half million promises some
times most generally always most
pan out more'n about haif a gross of
votes But you'll enjoy the "pre?
cious promises'*' and melons and
tafiy and free board and wipin' the
baby's nose and lie'n to the women
that that's the way you always do at
home, and epihV the men's breath
with fuss X pop skull ont of a five
X bottle. Yes, and you'll begin to
think that the consolation of a camp
meet'n' aint nothing Iongside the
blessful bliss cf a campaign-until
primary day,-that direful day, when
you'll be reminded of that verse in
scripture which reade, "I said in my j
haste all men are liars,'' and you
won't be in any hurry when you say
it and add some stressful language
not used for Sunday school purposes
And you'll think, too, of "This world
is all a fleeting show," and "I would
not live always," and you'll "Ask
not to stay" any longer, but run
your hands down knee deep into
your racoons pockets and bead for ?
home and pull out that rusty sweep
and viciously knock it off and slap
on a turn plow, and cuss at your
critter as tho' it had been wastio'
time runnin' for office, and dig the
plow in deep, and sorrowfully start
to breaking grass roots and covering
bay, while you dolorously ponder if
you are any kin, now, to yourself a
few days ago Well, may the Lord
help you and bless yon, and, by some
miracle of grace, save you, if possi?
ble Guv.
Wee Nee, May 7, 1900.
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The Work of a Newspaper.
lo a sermon io the First Baptist
cbnrch of Wilmington, N. C., last
Sunday night, from the text : "The
making of many books there is no
end," Rev Calvin S. Blackwell dis?
cussed newspapers as we li as books
Among other things, he declared that
"the printing office is school, college
and university for the brightest intel*
leets of everyage," and said :
"A newspaper office is a school of
unselfishness. No other class serves
a community so well and too often for
so ''Ule pay either in cash or appre?
ciation Every day and night the
newspaper is doing free work for the
general betterment of the community.
If a iawyer was called opon by the
city authorities to do for the city the
same amonnt and no more valuable
writing than that which every news?
paper does free every day the charge
would be $50 or more. If the news??
papers were to cease for a week it
would be as dark and lonesome as if
the pall of an eclipse covered os. and
Wilmington would be to the outside
world practically as though she were
not ?
It is refreshing to hear a man stand
up in the pulpit occasionally with a
practical view of the great work
that is done by the newspapers. For
the most part, preachers think they
are doing their foll duty toward the
press of the country when they
inveigh against sensationalism and
Sunday newspapers ; bot this is
barely touching the hem of the gar
ment of the work of a newspaper,
and Mr. Blackwell has spoken truly
10 what be had to say concerning the
continu?os work that is done for the
town io which a newspaper is pub*
11 eb ed, aod gratitoosly, bot frequent?
ly without the slightest evidence of
appreciation on the part of the com?
monity-Augusta Chronicle
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T| (nt?^Lt- ?*Salubrity, Ga., Aug.?
? ikj^?/]^ 8th, 1S98, writes: Ben- g>
? edicts has certainly gj
2 ?^vr^o^r^ ^een a blessing t<->
? m-" s*Itecn .year?,
^ .Maufeifet IflBk old daughter. She?
?^-*5KaP^ missed four nionths?
^ Two bottles of Beni
edicta have entirely restored her health. C
The monthly periods have returned W
il and arc now painless and regular, ir
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<g or Suppressed Menstruation? Benedicta
j has cured many suffering women and &
*wlll cure you in the privacy of your?
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thens them so that the monthly periods h
q may tx? regularand painless. Headache, F
?^Dizziness, Nervousness, that dragging??
.Sj sensation and those terrible pains In &
?the back, hips and abdomen quickly?
disappear. if*
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A. box of "Monthly *' Reflating Pills to
jv u>.'? i:i connection, is with each bottle |j
jg LADIES BLUE 800K sent free to anv ad- j.
*X dress. A sample box of "MonthIy"*Reg- r
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