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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."
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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
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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. If the race is arranged a
large crowd will go up with the Del?
gars and help the Camden folks cele?
brate the 4th in proper style.
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