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THE TK?? SOUTHRON, Established Jurie, IE65
SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 29, 1903.
New Series-Vol. XXII. No. 39
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mm SCANDAL
Senator Stone Tries to Explain
and Genies Charges.
BRYAN ALSO MAKES A SPEECH
0? HIS IDEA QF DEMOCRATIC
POLICY.
Kansas City, April 20.-United
^States Senator Wm. J. Stone address?
ing the convention of the Missouri
democratic Press association, today
made an elaborate explanation of his
connection with baking powder legis?
lation and enforcement of the State
pure food laws and bitterly denounced
the daily newspapers of the State,
which, he declared, had "hounded"
i him outrageously. . N
Wm. J. Bryan had been announced
as the principal speaker of the after-1
noon. He was received enthusiasti- !
cally and spoke as "a country editor
to country editors." He declared that
throughout the country he found deep
and growing dissatisfaction among the
_ Republican voters with the policy of
the national administration and ex?
horted his hearers not to "make the
Democratic party so much like the
" Republican party that it would be
easy for Republicans to get into it,"
but to keep it different, so that in
time of stress the peonlo would turn to
the Democracy for -^?liverance. Prais?
ing the State of Missou-?? for its pros?
ecution qi .4?e^tect?n^ opuses, he
said: "T&e federaTgovernment seems
to be afraid to enforce the criminal
law and prefer the use of injunc?
tions."
Mr. Bryan spoke with earnestness of
the hostility of most of the large daily
papers to the Democratic party and
said that some of the professed Demo?
cratic papers of the east "did more
harm in four years of apologizing for
the Democratic platform than they
could undo in four months of a cam?
paign when they supported the
ticket."
He closed with a reference to the
Missouri legislature* scandals and call?
ed for the punishment of every offend?
ing official
Congressman-elect C. M. Hitchcock
of Omaha spoke briefly, and then
Senator Stone was introduced and at
once took up the bribery investigation.
The senator, who labored under in?
tense excitement, protested against
the persecution to which he had been
subjected by the "scavengers" on the
press who used "assassin's methods."
fie shouted: "Before God I fear them
cot; I laugh in their faces and spit
apon them."
Senator Stone declared that he had
no part in the passage of the anti
alum law of 1899 and did not know
for nearly a year that it had been
enacted. ?s a private attorney he had
asaisted in the enforcement of the
State pure food laws and in 1901,
when it was proposed to repeal the
anti-alum law, he wrote an argument
against repeal, but he did not visit
Jefferson City.
"I swear to you I never spoke nor
wrote to any member of either house
of the legislature concerning this
matter but what i have told you," he
declared.
He said he hoped every guilty man
would be uncovered.
In closing his address Senator Stone
said: "I hope God will wither my
hand, palsy my tongue and bum my
heart in the flames of hell before I
will intentionally dishonor any posi?
tion which the people of Missouri as?
sign me." ,
TWO MORE INDICTMENTS. .
Jefferson City, Mo., April 20.-Sen?
ator Matthews and Chas. A. Smith,
who were indicted by the grand jury
for accepting bribery in connection
with the baking powder legislation,
today gave bonds in $3,000 each for
their appearance before the United
States circuit court in the July term.
They each say they are innocent of the
charges.
The; indictments charge them with
receiving bribes from D. J. Kelly of
Sl/OOO each to vote against the al nm
bakng powder bill, as members of the
criminal jurisprudence committee of
the senate in the Forty-first general
assembly two years ago.
A Great Sensation.
There was a big sensation in Leesville,
Ind., when W. H. Brown, of that place,
who was expected to die, had his Jife saved
by Dr. Bang's New Discovery for Con?
sumption. He writes: "I endured in?
sufferable agonies from Asthma, but your
New Discovery gave me immediate relief
and soon thereafter effected a complete
cure." Similar cures of Consumption,
Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Grip are
numerous. It's the peerless remedy for
all throat and lung troubles. Price 50c, and
$1.00. Guaranteed by J. F. W. DeLorme,
Druggist. Trial bottles free.
Call and pet a copy of Pupils Pot?
pourri. H. G. Osteen ? Co.
CLEVELAND THE MUM.
Bot Spseoh o? W. J. Bryan at
Kansas City.
THE EMEHOCR?TIC CANDIDATE
For The Presidency Denounces
Ex-President Cleveland And
Other Eastern Democrats as
"So-Cailed Harmonizers."
Kansas City, Mo, April 21.-Wil?
liam J. Bryan, speaking this morning
to the toast "Democracy," at the
banquet given by the Democratic
Jackson County Club and the newspa?
per men of Missouri complimentary to
Senator William J. Stone, at which
the addresses did not begin nntil af ter
midnight, bitterly araigned Grover
Cleveland and 'his supporters, who are
making the plea for harmony among
Democrats. The assembly was made
np cf representative Missouri Demo?
crats and the remarks of Mr. Bryan
met with enthusiastic favor with his
hearers. He said in part :
"We invite' all who have strayed
from the fold to come back if they so
desire brit we want them to stay in
after they come. We have had- enough
of Clevelandism in the Democratic
party. We had four years of Celve
land and after his administration was
over we found ourselves weaker than
we had ever been before because we
had been betrayed These so-called
harmonizers, Cleveland and his fol?
lowers, showed their nearness to Re?
publicanism by deserting us in our hour
of greatest need and supporting the
Republican party. The Democratic
party won a great victory in 1892,
which gave our party a great oppor?
tunity, but Grover Cleveland betrayed
the Democratic party and it carried
the burden of his administration
through two national campaigns, and
there was not a plank in either plat?
form that was such a detriment to me
in those campaigns as that burden was.
"Cleveland had the best opportunity
to redeem the Democratic party ever
offered to any man since the time of
Andrew Jackson, but instead of being
true to his party he disgraced himself.
As a party we must stand true to
Democratic principles, and if we do I
believe that Democratic victory will
some day come and it will be here to
remain when it comes.
"He is of the highest service to his
fellows who can give the highest ideal.
There has been a lowering of ideal
in this country. Money is talked
about morning; noon and night.
Commercialism is the curse df the
country today, and it has debauched
our country. The foreigner has come
to regard the American simply as a
money maker, and we give cause for
the belief that we put nothing beyond
wealth' and that money is .ruling the
country with an iron hand. There
never was a time when the people were
more ready to accept Democratic prin?
ciples than today. I would not give
one Democrat who really believes in
Democratic principles for a whole
barnyard full of Democrats and com?
promisers who pretend to be Demo?
crats.' '
Senator William J. Stone said in the
course of his remarks : "We are apart ;
let us get together. The platform is
the creed of the party and the man who
does not subscribe to it does not be?
lieve in the Democratic party.''
Speaking of next year's convention
? he said: "There will be no abandon
! ment or reorganization, and no man
unworthy to hold up the old Jefferson
flag, will be named, and if he is God
pity- us, for fie will be defeated."
TAR HEEL BIRDS WON.
The chicken main yesterday at
Wrightsville ended most gloriously for
North Carolina and most disastrously
for South Carolina, as the Tar Heel
fowls cleaned" the Palmetto State
? birds up in fine style. The main con?
sisted of nine fights and six of these
were won by the chickens owned by
the Clinton and Warsaw poultry asso?
ciations. The other three were won
by the chickens of the Marion, S. C.,
association. Great interest was shown
in the fights, which were witnessed by
a large crowd of sports. The main
also attracted many chicken fanciers
from different points of the state, and
from South Carolina, The chickens
brought to the main by the rival asso?
ciations were of the very finest breed
and numbered about fifty.
Another main has been arranged be?
tween the same two associations for
the Fourth of July at Wrightsville.
Wilmington Messenger, April 18.
Building and Loan Taxes.
Columbia, April 21-Messrs W. D.
Melton, John P. Thomas Jr., and C.
J. Shannen, as a committee represent?
ing the building and loan associations,
had a conference today with Comp?
troller General Jones. The committee
went over the whole situtaion with
Mr. Jones and explained the position
and contention of the building and loan
associations, and that they were not
trying to dodge any taxes. The com?
mittee had another conference in the
afternoon with Mr. Jones, which
Assistant Attorney General Townsend
attended.
No announcement is yet ready as to
the final determination of the matter,
but the expectation is that there will
be a perfect understanding as to ex?
actly what is taxable and what is not
under the building and loan plans.
A Thoughtful Man.
M. M. Austin, of Winchester, Ind., knew
what to do in the hour of need. His wife
had such an unusual case of stomach and
liver trouble, physicians could not help
her. He thought of and tried Dr. King's
New Life Pills and she got relief at once
and was finally cured. Only 25c, at J. F.
W. DeLorma's Drug Store.
CONSTABLE HOWIE SUSPENDED.
._
Given Vacation o? Ten Days for
j Raiding Trenhoim Residence.
! CHIEF HAMMET MAKES HIS REPORT
To Gov. Heyward After Visiting
Charleston.
Columbia, April 21.-Governor Hey?
ward today finally settled tbe Char?
leston difficulty. It has been a source
of annoyance to him and .he has un?
dertaken to do the right thing by all
interests and to all concerned and
hopes that this will be the end of the
incident and that he will never again
have occasion to have such a thing to
occur again. He has again made his
position perfectly clear, if that ware
really needed, and he has hit right
out from the shoulder in what he'has
done and had to say in concludng the
whole matter.
As has been already noted Chief
Hammet was detailed to Charleston to
make a thorough investigation of the.
whole affair and to report on the con?
ditions that he found in Charleston,
and especially to look into the raid on
the private residence of which com?
plaint was made. Chief Hammett has
made his report and, as a result of
this report, Division Chief Howie has
been suspended for ten days for grave
lack of discretion in raiding a private
residence in which there was no pos?
sibility cf illicit liquor being stored.
But for the unfortunate instructions
issued by Chief Hammet-which do not
relieve him from censure also-the
affair would have been more severely
dealt with. That Chief Hammet was
unfamiliar with the streets of Charles?
ton, and was ignorant of the fact that
he was ordering Chief Howie to raid a
private residence, mitigates Chief
Howie's offence to a large extent in
the opinion of the Governor. This
conclusion has been arrived at after a
thorough investigation and a careful
consideration. Chief Hammet's re?
port included a statement that the
blind tiger situation in Charleston
had been materially improved by
Chief Howie's work and there is pros?
pectively more improvement.
There will be no cessation of a vig?
orous enforement of the dispensary
law in Charleston and elsewere. Gov?
ernor Heyward intends to do all that
he legitimately can for the proper en?
forcement of the dispensary law in
the State, but this does not mean that
he will countenance the invasion of
homes, unless the fact is positively
! known that liquor is being stored
there in violation of law.
No one deprecates more than does
Governor Heyward the unfortunate
occurrence which has made this action
necessary, and in the further enforce?
ment of the dispensary law the
thoughtless and unnecessary invasion
of any home will be carefully guarded
against. But Chief Howie and all
other constables must recognize that
the law must be enforced.
Governor Heyward has had many I
letters and interviews upon this inci?
dent in Charleston and he has under?
taken in an honest and sincere way to
do full justice and place the responsi?
bility and to see that a similar occur?
rence will not occur again.
Chief Howie will be notified of his
suspension for ten days and that some
other officer now on the force will be
placed in Charleston for the period
covering the suspension, after which
Chief Howie will resume his work in
Charleston.
True as Holy Writ.
Stop the ignorant, senseless agita?
tion for negro suffrage. Let the South
alone. When the negro is deserving
of citizenship he will get it, and
quicker in the South than under the
same conditions he would in the
North, for the Southern people are
mere patient with the black man than
are those this side of Mason and Dix?
on's line ; they have a keener sym?
pathy for the race. Let the South
alone and it will work out the race
problem.-Evansville Ind., Courier.
Perhaps the most successful lecture
we ever heard in this country was
delivered by Josh Billings. He said
to me shortly before his death, in 1885.
'11 am not only delighted, but astonish?
ed at the vitality of the old 'lektur'
which I have read for the last twenty
three years on the road. In the first
place, every line of it was published
in the New York Weekly and the
Poughkeepsie papers ; then it was pat
in three different books; then it was
put into more than 100 newspapers as
I have delivered it ; then I have read it
in every city on this continent that
has 15,000 people, and in hundreds of
towns that have not 2,000 people, and
it never has had anything added to it,
but much cut away from it ; and it
is now read from the same book it
was first written in; and still the
brave old manuscript fights a good
fight. I read it six nights in Cali?
fornia in the last seven weeks and
got $750. It seems to me there must
be some sand in the old words. "-New
York Press.
The Government is to begin the con?
struction of irrigation works in five
localities, the Sweetwater dam,
Wyoming; Milk River, Montana; the
Gunnisoon tunnel, Colorado : Truckee,
Nevada, and Salt River, Arizona.
The cost of the five plants is estimated
at $7,000,000 and they are expected to
furnish water for 000,000 acres.
\lakes a Clean Sweep.
There's nothing like doing a thing
thoroughly. Of all the Salves you ever
heard of Bucklen's Arnica Salve .is the
best. It sweeps away and cures learns.
Sores, Bruises, Cats, Boils, Ulcers, Skin
Eruptions and Piles. It's only 25c, and
guaranteed to give satisfaction by J. F. W.
DeLorme, druggist.
EVERY FARM HOUSE TO QO ON MAP.
Detail of Rural S/laii Delivery
Experiments.
Within two years a roan standing in
Indianapolis will be able to ' pnt his
finger on every farm honse in Indiana
-that is, on the map, says the In?
dianapolis News:
This is one of the details of'the
rural mail delivery experiments that
the Government is working out in In?
diana. If in this State, where the
experiment is tried first, it is found
to be practicable to locate every farm
house and keep a constant record of
its changes in location and the build?
ing of new houses, it will only be a
few years when a person will be able
j to put his finger on any farm house
in the country. The work, now be?
ing quietly done in an upper room in
the Majestic Building, is the begin?
ning of one of the most interesting
records the Government has ever made.
The announcement is made from
Washington that every farm house in
Indiana is to be reached by rural
mail delivery carriers within two
years, which means that the work of
locating every house in the State will
be completed in that time.
Since April 1 seventeen Indiana
i counties have been supplied with
rural mail service. In fourteen of
these the work of making a complete
record of the rural districts has been
completed. Every farm house and the
population of the country districts
have been set forth in carefully pre?
pared maps, which locate all roads
and indicate their character-wheth?
er dirt or gravel, good or bad.
These beautiful maps are rolled up
and filed away in the. office of Super?
intendent F. B. Rathbone, of the
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan district, located in the
Majestic Building.
So complete is this information, by
counties, that the 41,997 farm houses
in fourteen of the seventeen coumties
have been located down to their very
acre.* It is found tbat the rural popu?
lation of these 41,997 homes is 216,565
persons. Information can be had con?
cerning ages and sex. The following
is part of the information compiled
for these counties :
" The measurements of roads, both
gravel and dirt, in counties whose
records of this kind have been thus
far left vacant are being made now.
The statistics for the maps of Gibson,
Posey and Delaware counties, whose
complete county service was instituted
by experts from Washington, are now
being^compiled in Indianapolis, and
they will be complete in a short time.
It is not known yet how valuable
these complete records will be. There
are many ways in which the maps,
when completed for the entire State,
can be used with very great effect in
.promoting business, and they will be
very valuable for the information of
tile public, if the Government decides
to give that inforoiation by a repro?
duction of the maps.
One Jackey's Prayer.
Admiral "Bob" Evans tells this one,
says the New York Times.
"Among the 'jackies of the Ameri?
can fleet that did business at Santiago
was an extremely pious cliap-a lad
from Vermont. We had been telling
him all along that each day would
probably witness the long-looked for
battle between the American and the
Spanish vessels. When he prayed that
night he placed special stress upon the
plea that the vessel upon which he and
his comrades-in-arms were serving
might escape disaster, saying, among
other things :
" 'Oh Lord, shield us from the shells
and other projectiles of the enemy ; but
if any shells and solid shot do come
to our vessel I pray Thee that they
may be distributed as prize money is
distributed-mostly among the offi?
cers."
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident, is narrated by John
Oliver, of Philadelphia, as follows: "I
was in an awful condition. My skin was
almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated,
pain continually in back and sides, no
appetite, growing weaker day by day.
Three physicians had given me np. Then
I was advised to use Electric Bitters; to
my great joy, the first bottle made a de?
cided improvement. I continued their use
for three weeks, and am now a wall man.
I know they robbed the grave of another
victim." No one should fail to try them.
Only 50 cents, guaranteed, at J. F. W. De
Lorme's drug store..
Extended and painstaking experi?
ments with formalian injections "in
animals suffering from inocluated
septicemia in the laboratory of the
New York health department show
conclusively that formalin, the recent?
ly vaunted cure for blood poisoning, is
more injurious to the normal blood
cells than to the bacteria whose pro?
ducts are poisoning tae blood.
The Commercial Cable Company
now promises to celebrate the Fourth
of July by the completion of the cable
between Manila and Honolulu. The
company kept its pledge with refer?
ence to the line between San Francisco
and Honolulu within a few days, and
it will exert itself doubtles to make
its present pledge exactly good, so as
to promote a fitting celebration of the
glorious Fourth in the islands.
Good Advice.
The most miserable beings in the world
are those suffering from dyspepsia and
liver complaint. More than seventy-five
per cent, of the people in the United States,
are afflicted with these two diseases and
their effects ; such as sour stomach, sick
headache, habitual costiveness, palpita?
tion of the heart, heart-burn, water
brash, gnawing and burning pains at the
pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated
tongue and disagreeable taste in the
mouth, coming up of food after eating,
low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist
and get a bottle of August Flower for 25
or 75 cents. Two doses will relieve you.
Try it. China's Drug Store
Fill out this blank, mail or deliver it in person to T. B.
Jenkins, Jr., Sumter, S. C., and your name will be entered as
a competitor in our Big Word Contest, which will close on the
First day of May, 1903, the contest to be,decided by the fol?
lowing rules : Anybody will be allowed to compete. No re?
strictions as to age or sex. The competitor who shall make
the largest number of words from the single word
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