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&i)t a&tij)iMn at? Jbntljnm. W-jgp-NESDA'S, JUNE 19, 1901. The Sumter Watcfiman was toundec ia I860 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has tb? combined circulation and influence of both of thc old papers, and is mani* festly the best advertising medium in Stinter. ISSUES IN NEXT ELECTION. Interview of Representative Rich? ardson, Leader of Democrats in the House. "Washington, June 18.-Representa? tive Richardson, of Tennessee, leader / of the Democrats in House of Repre? sentatives, and Chairman of the Demo? cratic Congressional committee in the last 'election, has given ont an inter? esting interview in regard to the is? sues that will be at stake in the elec? tion of 1904 and, to a lesser degree, in that of 1902. Of these he put the tariff first, calling attention to discord in Republican ranks on this question, resulting from the Babcock Tariff bill and the violent attacks made on its author by the American Protective As? sociation. He says: "The tariff ques? tion which the Republican party declar? ed a few years ago to have been settled finally and forever in favor of high pro? tection, will be found to be very press? ing in the next Presidential cam? paign. Trusts, the offspring of the Republican policy, have ? grown so great that they overtop the parent and Dame Protection can no loner conceal them at her back by spreading her skirts or enveloping them in the black smoke of the favorites. Even the trusts themselves demand something more than simple home products to feed on, and the most robust of them are looking for an open way to foreign markets. Within the very ranks of the Republican party there is discon? tent; at the continuance of the system which shuts us out of our proper place in the world's commerce. There is a reluctant acknowledgment that the old Democratic tariff doctrines furnish means to open markets for our pro? ducts. It may be clearly seen by one who looks ahead that the tariff ques? tion will enter into the campaign of 1904 as an important issue and that the Democrats will be found standing where they have always stood." Next Mr. Richardson calls attention to the danger to the Monroe doctrine through our expansion policy, ex? plaining why the Administration should "have been so pusilanimous in regard to Germany's suspected design to buy an island from Venezuela for a coaling station. It will be remem? bered that when this was mooted the Secretary of State declared that the Monroe doctrine probably did not .cover such cases. Mr. Richardson ?says: ':The jeopardy in which the Monroe doctrine has been placed through the shortsighted policy of the McKinley Administration is likely to attract very wide public attention and may even become an overshadowing issue. I do not know whether it is fully realized by our people that the citation over the Monroe doctrine at this time is due'to the fact that the Administration is seriously em? barrassed by the anticipated purpose of foreign governments to acquire coaling stations in the proximity of L South and Central American ports. "'Prior to our adventure in the Fkilipines and before we had become a * world power, ' to use the term as the advocates of Em;, i re use it, the-, desire of foreign governments to estab? lish bases of supplies within the sphere of American republics would have occasioned no serious embarrass? ment. There were no doubts excited by foreign entanglements and compli? cations of conflicting policy. There was no question of our right to object and it was silently acknowledged by ail the world. But the new policy of the Administration has placed this government in such a position that to maintain sovereignty over remote isl? ands the United States must acquire tho right to establish coaling stations "within the sphere where the influence of foreign powers is recognized. How <&an this government deny to other porsv-rs a privilege within the sphere covered by the Monroe doctrine while it seeks a similar privilege within their dominion? This is the question whicii v-mbarrasses. "Tate Administration does not know lhjD.Y' CP .refuse privileges similar to those it must ask : yet to grant them would be at least a modification of the Monroe doctrine and would threaten our stability as a nation, through per? mitting the establishment of bases of supplies at our very ports, from which foreign powers could operate against us in time of war. Worse than an 1 abandonment of the Monroe doctrine, this would place us in the position of not being strong enough to defend it or to defend ourselves with certainty from attack!" Mr. Richardson takes little interest in the President making now going on, saying: "In the discussion of can? didates it must be borne in mind that we have the Congressional campaign of 1902 to reckon with before we enter sspon the business of President making in 1904. Oat of the earlier contest may grow conditions which will indi? cate more clearly candidates available for the Presidency. The only excuse for the discussion at this time of can? didates for 1904 seems to be found in the eagerness of some men of more or less prominence to begin a canvass in their own interests." Try the new remedy for coativecssa, Cbam qeriain's Stomach ard Liver Tablet3. Every box guaranteed. Price, 25 cenia. For sala by D rA J China. DeWitt's Little Early Risers search the re? motest part of the bowels an i remove the mounties speedily with DO discomfort. They are famous for their efficacy. Easy to take, never gnpe.-J S Hoghaoo & Co. BUT ONE PLACE. The merchants of Springfield, Mass., have decided that the best and most profitable means of business publicity is the newspaper. In order that they may be able to buy more newspape space they have agreed "not to adver? tise in any way but in the regular j publications. " The day is past when merchants of experience question the utility of ad? vertising their business in the news? papers, but many progressive and wide awake men still cling to the idea that signs on fences and trees in the coun? try, on calendars and bulletin boards in hotel wash-rooms, and other schemes of like character are good investments. The merchants of Springfield, Mass., have grown beyond this stage of de? velopment, and have reached the con? clusion that the only advertising that is really valuable is newspaper adver tising. Advertising has long since passed the experimental stage, and the live merchant would as soon think of do? ing without a clerk as without his advertisement in the local newspaper. -Augusta Chronicle. Tax Assessors Must be missioned. Com Columbia, June 17.-Township boards of assessors and commissioners must be commissioned by the govern? or. The attorney general has advised the secretary of state that it would be an incomplete compliance with the law to dispense with formal commissions. The constitution and the act of 1901 provide for such commissions. Saturday the secretary of state wrote to the clerk in each county urging that the new law be complied with. The letter says ?D part : Consequently I would advise and request that you have prepared at once and mail to me a complete list of all township assess? ors or township commissioners (not county commissioners) who have filed their oaths of office with you, and I will have commissions issued and mailed you for them. The oath is prop? erly to be filed with you, under the act of 1896, and should not be for? warded here. The attorney general further advises that I cannot issue commission until after the oath of office has been subscribed and filed ; hence the list of assessors on file here cannot be used, but there can only be commissioned those who have complied with the law by filing their oaths with you, and whom you certify have done so to this office. MURDEROUS TEACHER. Dothaa, Ala., June 17.-Prof. W. A Rankin, until Saturday assistant to the principal of the Dothan public schools, today shot and killed George R. McNeill, principal of the schools and then turned the revolver upon himself with fatal effect. Prof. Ran? kin was one of Principal McNeill's as? sistants last year, but on Saturday night, when a new faculty was elect? ed Prof. Rankin was dropped from the list. Yesterday Prof. Rankin tried to have the matter reopened, but with? out saccess. Meeting Prof. McNeill this morning Mr. Rankin killed him. Prof. McNeill leaves a wife and three children. Rankin is unmarried and came here from Bell Buckle, Tenn. He put the blame of his defeat for reelection on Dr. McNeill. Dr. Mc? Neill went to the college building at 7.30 this morning. It is supposed that Rankin was waiting for -him, as the shots were heard a few minutes after. There were no wit? nesses to the tragedy. "When the firing was heard a number of people rushed to the school building and were horri? fied to find Dr. McNeill's body in the main hall with blood flowing from several wounds. Prof. Rankin was found in his private room with a bul? let hole through his head just behind the temple. Prof. Rankin was engaged to marry a popular young woman of Dothan. The Agricultural Outlook. Pisgah. June IS.-From the present outlook the crops are rather discourag? ing, but no one need think that all will be lost. Corn as a whole, is be? yond redemption, for the time to work it is about passed and it is literally drowned out. Some late can be plant? ed on stubble land, and that may make a crop. Very little peas will be sown for forage, as the seed is not here to sow. Cotton is a wonderfully recupe? rative plant and I see no reason why it should he a failure like corn. A short time of dry weather will bring it out and with the natural richness of tbe soil a crop will be made, and as the business of our country is based on it I hope we can keep agoing. I have seen cotton worked out in July and make a crop. The condition of the planters alng th?* Water?-*' river is pitiable- They have lost all where the freshets cover. The big freshet in the river now is the sixth one since March. The largest number in as short a time ever known. J. K. D. If i<-oi-:e on ii knew V7t.at we Knew ar-.ou* Kodol 1> f^fCr-!* Cote, it wonid bi? und ic r.e*r:j ev-r. h obieboid, aa Iber- f.-iv p?o pie wio ?o not suffer fro a) a feelicg ci full? ness aitsr belching, flatulence, eour 5,ocich cr **;e br^sh, c-tucrd by \c?\^ci tion 0: ?yeprpji?! A {'r<-pira;io:> such a? K'jdo; Di f-p- K=:rt Co* ?r, *'r.;rh, *vitb ti o aie r.>m tb.- 8-oroach v? i ; ri:?e3' your food, cet gainly cir't ht'.p .* z> >cu xooj?- J S Bogasen ?t Co. /. . A MAY LET CHINESE IN. Minister Wu Using His Pull Against Chinese Exclusion Law. 2 Washington, June 17.-Has the ad? ministration promised the Chinese minister to use its influence to prevent a reenactment bv Congress of the Chi? nese exclusion law, which will expire next May? That question is deeply interesting the labor organizations and others who are working in favor of a prompt reenactment of the law by Congress. There are several sus icious circumstances. The Chinese Minister, who has more pull with the administration than any other member of the diplomatic corps, is openly work? ing against reenactment, and officials connected with the administration have been saying that the sentiment on the Pacific coast is much more fa? vorable to the Chinese than it was when the exclusion law was enacted. It is not probable that the administra? tion would dare to openly favor he I throwing our doors open to Chinese j immigration, but it is feared by the friends of enactment, that it may al? low ;Senators and Representatives to infer that failure to reenact the Chi? nese exclusion law would not be dis? pleasing. Boss Platt's new Commissioner of Patents has evidently taken "'public office as a private snap" for his motto and thereby he is likely to get himself and the administration in hot water, unless some of his superiors in office are wise enough to make him with? draw his outrageous order, suspending hearings before himself and the assist? ant Commissioner of Patents for the months of July and August, thereby delaying for two months the business of every inventor whose case requires a hearing. The business of the U. S. Patent office is conducted at a large profit to the government and the idea that any official, even the President himself, should assume the right to suspend any branch of that business for as long as the sixth of a year, is ridiculous, and this arrogant Commis siner of Patents canont be taught too soon that the U. S. Patent Office is not his private property run for his per? sonal comfort or convenience. Senator Martin, of Virginia, who is in Washington, on official business, said of the work of the State Consti? tutional Convention, now sitting in Richmond : ' ' The question of Suffrage is a difficult problem, but I feel that the Convention will be able to solve it to the stisfaction of the greater portion of conservative Virginians." "Teddy" has made a bid for the support of the - ' nigger' ' delegates to the Republican National Convention, by appointing a "nigger" his messen? ger-this is the only appointment at the disposal of the Vice President, al? though Senators told him that it was against precedent to have a "nigger" messenger around the Senate. Those who know the sort of arguments re Sni red to get the "'nigger" votes in a Republican National Convention, re? gard "Teddy's" bid as a joke. The tariff fight in the Republican party is already on. Senator Aldrich,. Chairman of the Finance Committee and of the Republican Steering Com-, mittee, and. who wields a greater, in?u~: ence with the Republican .Senators, than any other man in the Senate, led the fight which resulted in hanging up all the administration reciprocity treaties in the last Congress, and he is leading the new fight. He has served notice on Mr. McKinley that no treaty with the new government of Cuba, which is to be established as a result of the unconditional acceptance of the Platt amendment by the Cuban Con? stitutional Convention providing for tariff concessions on Cuban tobacco and sugar, will be ratified by the Sen? ate: also that the fight against the ratification of the reciprocity treaties already negotiated would be continued. This is flying directly in the face of Mr. McKinley's constantly repeated declarations, in favor of reciprocity, and means a hot fight in the Senate, which may later figure in the Congres? sional campaign of next year. Mr. Al? drich is not the sort of man to go off half cocked ; hence the belief that he is assured of strong republican back? ing. Proved Her Nationality. Recently a bent old lady entered the book department of one of the Salina street stores, and upon being asked what she wished to see, made reply in what the clerk judged to be an un? known language. A second inquiry proving no more satisfactory the clerk excused herself and went in search of one of her colleagues who is of German descent. "Oh! Miss L-," she entreated, won't you come over to my counter for a minute? There's a poor old Ger? man lady there and I can't understand a word she says." Miss L- followed and, pausing be? fore the stool .on which the would-be customer was seated, inquired in her sweetest tones : ""Are you German?" The ""poor old German lady" raised her handerchief to her lips and evi? dently extricated something from her mouth. Then bending a look of the utmost scorn upon the clerk, _ she ex? claimed, in a rich and unmistakable brogue : "German, is it? Indade an' I'm not, but I've got a new set of false ta the, bad scran to thim ! And now. if you piase, will wan of ye wait on me?'* Syracuuse Herald. Huron, S. D., June 16-A cyclone passed over the extreme southeast cor? ner of Beadle county Saturday after? noon, injuring ten people and destroy? ing much property. Washington June 16 -The improve? ment in Mrs. McKinley's health con? tinues and Dr. Rixey said tonight af? ter leaving the White House that he was satissfied with her condition. She sat up in her rolling chair during the day and chatted and laughed with the Presiden and others at her bedside. Anderson. June 1.'? The trial of the contract case against J. S. Fowler was concluded this morning and the jury aft?T being out about iO minutes re? turned with a verdict of not guilty. His case went to trial on an indict? ment for false imprisonment and as? sault and battery <?f a high and aggra? vated nature, the charge of conspiracy having been quashed. This concluded all of these celebrated cases. A Victim of Hypnotism. ; Last Saturday afternoon the police j took charge of a well known citizen of this city, who was apparently too j much intoxicated to take care of him? self. At Monday's session of the May? or's Court a charge of public drunk? enness was preferred against him. Sensational rumors were noised about and a considerable crowd gathered to I hear the case, which developed some interesting features. When told to stand up and plead guilty or not guil? ty, the defendant evaded the direct issue, and asked permission to make a statement. Rising from his seat with the dignity of conscious innocence his hands stretched forth in graceful ges? ture, the prisoner poured his doleful story into the attentive ears of the court and spectators. "May it please your honor, last Tuesday night I went to the Opera House, to see the per? formance of the-one professor Boone -a hypnotist so called presuminly. When he called for several persons to go on the stage I went. I asked Boone if he wanted the audience addressed, and told him if he did L. M. would address it. But he told me to look at j the lights. Saturday I was in Ed? wards' barber shop-the Palace bar presuminly, getting my hair cut-see here judge-" The prisoner turned his head and paused a moment to give the court an opportunity to admire his latest hair cut. "I was in the first chair. He, professor Boone, so called, was in the second chair and Mr. Willie White, son of Mr. A. White, was in the third chair. Your honor knows Mr. A. White? Yes, well his son. I was telling Mr. White about my going up on the stage, and how I offered to address, the ordinance, Edwards whis- j pered in my ear, Mr. L., that man sit? ting next to you is Professor Boone. About that time he-Boone got out of the chair and walked over to the basin and washed his face. He passed his hands over his head a few times, and judge, I didn't know nothin' more your honor, until I found myself, crawling on my all fours on the side? walk, and a policeman had* hold of me. I wasent drunk-ain't been drunk at all. Yes judge I did take one or two little smiles, but not enough to make anybody]drunk. " His honor, smiled incredulously and muttered something about looks to me like an old fashioned drunk." The officer who made the arrest testified that the prisioner, inThis opinion, had been gloriously drunk, and^that be had been seen under similar hypnotic influences many times before the ad? vent of Boone. "Two dollars or"-"Hold on judge, .hold, let me say something. " " No sir, you have said enough, two dollars or four days; next time the punishment will be doubled" . "Thank you old boy-thank yon, here is the two dollars. This is con? taminating beyond vazilities. I sup? pose I can go now? tut; tut. He fell into line and departed. The spectators wiped the tears from" their eyes, and formed a sad proces? sion behind the victim, as they marched out of the presence of the unfeeling judge. A CHALLENGE TO CAMDEN. Delgar Reel Squad has written to the Camden Hose Wagon team for the purpose of arranging a hose wagon race in Camden between the two teams on July 4th. It is not proposed to race for a purse, and the only consider? ation is to be glory. The Delgars believe they can lower the record made by Camden in Newberry and they offer to meet the Camden champions on their own ground and attempt to beat them in a fair race and make better time than ever made in the South before. It is to be hoped that the Camden team will accept the challenge of the Delgars and at no expense to themselves secure for Cam? den a race on the 4th of July between the two fastest hose wagon teams in the South. 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