The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 18, 1906, Image 4
? jit SEatclnnaii at?* Smd?pii
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1906.
The Sumter Watchman was founded in
1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The
Watchman and Southron now lias the com?
bined circulation and influence of both of
vhe old papers, and is manifestly the best
advertising medium in Sumter.
Avoided By Clean Men.
The estemed Sumter Teem said re?
cently of the candidacy of Mr. R. L
Manning: "He is'the candidate whose
position is a guarantee that he will
give the-state a clean, honest and busi?
nesslike administration. "It is not in?
cluded in Mr. Manning's record, excel?
lent as it is, that he has at any time
managed a State dispensary, and until
ft is demonstrated that a State dis?
pensary can be honestly conducted,
one must be pardoned for refusing to
accept sanguine predictions about
honest administrations. If the term
"administration" means only the per?
sonal acts of the Governor, the Item's
prediction is safe enough, for every?
body is sure of Mr. Manning's integri?
ty just as everybody is sure of Govern?
or D. C. Heyward's. But if the word
is to be used in the broad sense, in
the sense akin to "terms of office,"
the prediction is more than hazardous.
We have no idea that Mr. Manning
himself, even with the Rayzor-Man
ning-Tillman . bill enacted into law
would stake his reputation that the
State dispensary would be honestly
conducted or voluntarily in advance
assume the whole responsibility for its
conduct.
By the way, it is strange that high
minded gentlemen devoted to the be?
lief that the State dispensary is the
*T)est solution of the whiskey ques?
tion," and therefore a boon to society,
nave not offered to take over the man?
agement of the concern-in order to
demonstrate that it can be honestly
conducted. If, for example, such men
as Richard I. Manning, Thomas M.
?iaysor and Francis H. Weston com?
posed the board of control, they could
demonstrate whether or not the insti?
tution can be properly conducted. If
the institution is what they profess to
believe it is, it is worthy of the ser?
vices of the best men.
Membership on the board of control
ought to be regarded as a place of the
highest' honor and as the stepping?
stone to the governorship and other
posts of dignity if the advocates of
the system are right in their preten?
sions. It is just at this point \ha.t the
?dispensary argument breaks down.
The Item sincerely believes that the
-dispensary is an excellent thing if
rightly managed and persuades itself
that a statute could be contrived by
which any rogue could press the but?
r?n and honest operation of the ma?
chinery would follow; but we doubt if
the State of South Carolina contains
money enough to tempt the Item's ed?
itor to risk his own good name in as?
sociation with the thing under any cir?
cumstances.-News and Courier.
Mr. Manning is making his cam?
paign for governor on a broad and
conservative platform, which we take
ior granted the editor of the News
and Courier has read, although, so far
>as we are. advised the platform has
never been published in the columns
of that paper. This platform closely
?tates that on the .dispensary issue Mr.
Manning stands on the Raysor-Man?
ning bill and outlines the important
provisions of that bill. Among the
reforms in dispensary management
contemplated by the bill was the im?
mediate abolishment of the State
Board of Directors and places the re?
sponsibility for the management of the
State dispensary in the hands of the
commissioners under the direction of
the governor and supervision of a leg?
islative committeee. Mr. Manning
nor no. other man of his standing
would consent to serve on the State
Board of Directors under the present
law which the opponents of the dis?
pensary refused to repeal when they
had the opportunity of so doing by the
enactment of Raysor-Manning bill,
which remedied the defects in the
law and would have gone far toward
wiping out graft by ridding the system
of the $400-a-year directors and
hedging the purchase power about by
graft-proof regulations. The oppo?
nents of the dispensary system plainly
indicated their belief that the best way
to kill the dispensary was to permit
the management to remain unreform?
ed and -as corrupt a? possible. Mr.
Manning and those who think as he
does s^ek to purify the dispensary
and hereafter to have it operated on
a busings basis by honest men. When
it is put on this basis by the enactment
of the Raysor-Manning bill there will
"be no difficulty in obtaining the ser?
vices of honest men of established rep?
utations as business men to manage
it. So far as reports go Mr. Tatum,
the present commissioner has not
even been suspected of grafting, and
if there bad been a shadow of ex?
cuse the Investigating committee
would have stacked bis record, and
we have no doubt his services could
be retains.! tt desired. Insofar as the
editor of The Item is concerned, he is
not seeking any pblic office or govern?
mental job and is not likely to be
asked to manage the dispensary, nev
ertheless if it is any satisfaction to the
News and Courier he will state for its
information that the editor of the Item
cannot afford to work for $400 a
year and will never touch any position
that offers but two alternatives-star?
vation or grafting--to a man not pos?
sessed of a great deal of public
spirit and an Independent income suf?
ficient to his needs. But if the editor
of The Item wanted a public job he
would as quickly accept one in connec?
tion with the business management of
the dispensary when operated on a
business like basis as any other. We
believe that the dispensary can as
honestly conducted as the office of the
State treasurer and Comptroller Gen?
eral and there would be just as much
honor in holding one position as the
other.
Card From Mir. Joel E. Brimson.
To the Editor of the News and Cou?
rier: !
Your fairness in dealing with me in
the past gives me to know that it was
not your purpose to misrepresent the
campaign meeting in Sumter, yet the
report by MT. H. G. Osteen is so mis?
leading that I ask space to say a few
words by way of correction.
Mr. Osteen admits that "Joel E. ?
Brunson was received with much ap- j
plause," and had he looked over the
audience he could have seen that the
cheering came from the sober, Chris?
tian people of the county, and not a
word of it from the noisy dispensary
supporters. It came from men who
will vote as they cheer..
When Mr. Osteen says Mr. Jones
drew a comparison "unfavorable to
Mr. Brunson" in the matter of voting
the dispensary out of Sumter county,
he, should have known that Mr. Jones
was talking to an audience that knew
his statements had no foundation in
facts; for Mr. Brunson had signed the
petition to hold the ?lection and had
offered the committee in charge of the
work to speak at any time and place
to aid in the removal of the dispen?
sary.
I know, that Mr. Osteen edits a little
dispensary sheet in our city and is
wild in his support of Mr. Manning,
but I gave him credit for more sense
than to write of Mr. Manning: "His
reception demonstrated what was al?
ready well known, that the votes that 3
other candidates receive in Sumter !
will be few and far between." It is a
slander of the Christion element of
the county to claim their support \OT
Mr. fanning, or any other man, who
stands as the representative of the liq?
uor business in its vilest form-the
dispensary.
I hope that Mr. Osteen will give this
a place in the columns of the Item
and if he wishes to oppose my election
that he cease to pose as a friend and
make his fight against me in an open,
manly way. Joel E. Brunson.
Sumter, July 13, 1906.
The most charitable view to take
of the above tirade is that Mr. Brun
son's political fanaticism has tempo?
rarily unbalanced his judgment, and
we are willing to give him the benefit
of that construction.
Mr. Brunson's effusion needs no re?
ply at our hands,, except to resent Mr.
Brunson's mean insinuation that we
have posed as his political friend.
We have endeavored to treat him
with the courtesy due a gentleman
when we have business or other deal?
ings with him, but he knows, and if
his political aspirations have not rob?
bed him of all candor, he will admit
that we have never given him the least
excuse to suppose that we would sup?
port him in the race for governor.
He knows, as everybody else knows,
that we have supported Mr. Manning
from the outset, and have done so
openly and without attempt at eva?
sion or concealment. As to slander?
ing the Christian element of this com?
munity: The primary will prove how
Sumter county will vote, and on the
morning after Mr. Brunson will know
more than he does nov/. Mr. Brun?
son's card proves conclusively that we
are correct in our belief that, not?
withstanding the fact that Mr. Brun?
son is a consistent and zealous prohi?
bitionist and an excellent citizen in
private life, he is altogether unfitted
for the office to which he aspires,
lacking as he so palpably does the
broadmindedness, fairness and good
judgment that the chief magistrate of
a State should possess.
The card of Mr. Joel E. Brunson.
which appears elsewhere, would be
more effective were its tone less harsh
towards Mr. Hubert G. Osteen, the
News and Courier's Sumter corres?
pondent. Whatever Mr. Osteen's pref?
erence may be in the race for gover?
nor, we are sure, and all who know
him are sure, that he did not con?
sciously color his dispatches in favor
of or against any candidate. While it is
possible that, without any intention,
Mr. Osteen's bent of mind may have
influenced his Report, it is equally pos?
sible that Mr. Brunson, knowing Mr.
Osteen's altitude, may with sincerity
! have taken for granted that his report
could not be fair and so have judged
that it was not fair. Neither Mr. Os?
teen nor Mr. Brunsen is the sort of
man to knowingly depart from fair
methods of procedure.-News and
and Courier.
Mr. J. Fraser Lyon's reply to the
bitter personal attack made upon him
by Senato:: Tillman in the speech de?
livered ir. Columbia Monday night is
calm, dignified and marked by a re?
straint that is remarkable from a man
of the spirit Mr. Lyon is reputed to
possess. Mr. Lyon must breed back
to Quaker stock for his rejoinder to
Senator Tillman is a perfect specimen
of non-resistance when assaulted; it
is a veritable turning of the other
cheek to the hand of the smiter.
* * *
The Thaw murder case is being
exploited as persistenly by the New
York newspapers and the great news
gathering associations that have their
headquarters in that city as was the
Nan Paterson trial. The prominence
that is given to such scandalous crimes
is a reflection on the good taste of the
public and the agencies that pander to
this vitiated taste.
* * *
The News and Courier wants to
know how Mr. Manning and other
candidates; who oppose county dispen?
saries reconcile this attitude with the.
plan to_ select county dispensers by
popular vote. The News and Courier
has evidently failed to accquain: itself,
with the provisions of the Raysor
Manning bill. Mr. Manning stands
squarely on that bill which does not
provide for the election of dispensers
by popular vote.
* * ?
If all of Mr McMahan's radical sug?
gestions were adopted the tax levy
would have to be greatly increased to
pay the cc st of the experiments. The
item of experimental farms alone
one in each of the counties-would
require the expenditure annually of
anywhere from one to two hundred
thousand dollars, not to mention the
initial outlay for equipment of those
farms. An experimental farm was
established, in Darlington some years
ago, only to#be abandoned after a
big pot of money had been spent, but
Mr. McMahan seems to have forgot?
ten this experiment.
\ ? ? *
Atlanta has broken loose again.
This time it is endorsement of Folk
and Jerome for the Democratic nom?
ination.
* * *
Neither Senator Tillman nor the
newspapers that are harking back to
the bltterr.ess and passions of the 9O's
are doing the people a service. Many
things were said and done then in the
heat of political strife that were al?
together wrong and inexcusable, but
the airing of these old grievances now
serve no good purpose and can but
revive feelings that are best buried
forever. Conditions are changed and
there are new issues before the peo?
ple, and we had best apply our ef?
forts toward the settlement of these
questions rather than the threshing
over of old straw.
? * ?
Peter Finley Durne, (Mr. Dooley)
the man who wrote "Alone in Cuby"
and made President Roosevelt's his?
torical romance covering his Cuba ex?
periences look like thirty cents, dined
with the president by special invita?
tion a few days ago. We wonder if
they discussed the Cuban campaign.
. . *
The rae-i for Governor is narrowing
down to Manning and Ansel, and the
voters may as well make their choice
in the first primary. Complimentary
votes are not worth the ballots they
are printed on. The issue is not dis?
pensary or no dispensary, but State
control of the whiskey evil or some
sort of local option, high license com?
promise yet to be agreed upon by the
anti-dispensary element. Mr. Ansel
says he will get off the fence when he
is governor, and this statement which
he is reported to have made at
Georgetown, we take to mean that
he will favor any sort of measure that
he thinks the anti, dispensary forces
can agree on.
The State does not agree with Mr.
Manning's views regarding the dis?
pensary. We do not agree with Mr.
Marconi's notion that he can estab?
lish communication with the people of
Mars. According to our belief it is
about as. practicable to conduct a
fraudless, graftless State dispensary in
South Carolina as it is to converse
with inhabitants of the canal planet.
But our disagreement with Mr. Man?
ning and our sincere regret that he
has. what we believe to be, chimerbal
ideas about the possiblity of reform?
ing the South Carolina gin mill, do. not
warrant as in entertaining the least
sympathy for attacks on the honesty
or sincerity of his legislative record.
That wi! fitand the noon-day light,
and it is Dut fair and honest to say so.
-The State ' / i
The opinion of the attorney general ?
more than ever convinces us that the I
Lyon committee has sold us a gold i
brick and that Mr. Lyu:, wants to get
paid for it before the people discover j
the swindle.-Florence Times.
Those who wish to vote in the p-i- I
mary election should apply at once to i
the secretary of their ward club and j
have their nnmes enrolled. There is j
plenty ol' time but there is no use in j
utting it off until the last moment. I
DISPENSARY AFFAIRS.
Faying thc Suspended Whiskey Bills.
Tatum Says the Dispensary is Sol?
vent.
Columbia, July 12.-Liquor claims
are still being ordered paid, repudiated
or suspended, pending investigation,
by the board of directors of the State
dispensary, in session here, and bills
considerably in excess of $250,000
have been ordered paid.
Mr. M. H. Mobley, clerk of the
board, said this morning that he
would not give out the names of the
firms whose bills had been . ordered
paid, nor the amounts of their claims
until the whole batch of claims, had
been passed upon by the board. Some
of the claims have been paid prompt?
ly and others have been paid in part,
the unpaid items being under investi?
gation still, but at the present meet?
ing the board has ordered paid only
the bills of those companies repre?
sented in person or by counsel at its
meetings. As his reason for not giv?
ing out the payees and amounts of the
bills as they are ordered paid, Mr.
Mobley said that an unjust impression
would be created with regard to
houses whose claims have not been
paid. Doubtless in most cases their
'bills are all right, but they have not j
been personally pressed before, the
board, and have ~ot, thei afore, been
considered yet at all. He will be ready
to hand copies of the entire list to the
newspaper men shortly.
Says Dispensary is Solvent.
In reply to allusions to the financial
condtion of the dispensary, ,Mr. W. O.
Tatum, State dispensary commission?
er, today forwarded to the editors of
the State and The News and Courier
a card dn the following terms:
"To the Editor: Please give this
card as prominent a place as you have
the charges of insolvency of the dis?
pensary.
"I wish to say to you and to the
public that we have nothing to hide,
and that I am getting the figures to?
gether that I believe will convince any
reasonable, unprejudiced mind that
the dispensary is in better condition
than it has ever been. I wish to make
this statement full and therefore will
have to ask for time as it is no small
job to get even a synopsis of the fig?
ures in a three million dollar business.
"W. O. Tatum, Commissioner."
Tlie Delineator for August.
-A wealth of suggestion for the new?
est Summer gowns is to be fom:i in
the August Delineator, which is in?
teresting, not only from the stand?
point of fashion, but for its reading as
well. Among the fiction of the number
is the second installment of "The
Chaffeur and the Chaperon," the de?
lightful motor boat romance by The
Williamsons, authors of many auto?
mobile stories; also two entertaining
short stories by Carroll Watson Rank?
in and Marvin Dana, Carolyn Wells
contributes the "Rubaiyat of Summer
Khayyam," written in her inimitable
style. Clara E. laughlin tells the
story of the life of Rembrandt, whose
pictures are held invaluable in the
world's best collections of art, and
Gustav Koobe writes of the famous
civil war song of the South, "Dixie,"
and its composer, Dan Emmet, the old
minstrel. In the Campaign for Safe
Foods, Mrs. Abel contributes a chapter
on "The Market Inspector and the ar?
ticles. There are numerous articles
devoted to the interests of the home
The Kitchen, House Furnishing, Nee?
dlework and Dressmaking; and the
csildren's pages include a variety of
features having for their purpose the
entertainment of young folks.
A CARD.
To the Voters of Sumter County:
I beg to call the attention of the
voters of Sumter county to my card
among the list of candidates for the
office of County Superintendent of Ed?
ucation in the approaching primary
election. I have placed it there by
the advice of my friends in the said
county where I have always lived and
by those in the city of Sumter where
I expect to live after December 1st,
1906. and I beg to say to those friends
and the public that if they do not see
me around as often as my opponents
it is because I am honorably bound to
Messrs. Parrott and Stuckey to look
after their share crops, etc., on their
place where I now live and cannot,
therefore, absent myself, as much as
I desire to meet the voters of Sumter
county before the coming primary.
But I refer those who do not know me
to the banks and business men of
Sumter with who I deal to ascertain
whatsover they desire to know con?
cerning my personality. I wish the
office for the honor it confers, and so?
licit the suffrage of my friends and
the voters of Sumter county for the
same. Feeling that I am capable of
filling it and pledging myself to do so
with all my integrity if elected. I am
respectfully, Charles Pinckney.
Dalzell, S. C., Route 1. d6t w2t
If Sumter has baseball next season
the grounds should be nearer the bus?
iness part of the city. The park is too
far out to walk three or more times a
week and the attendance is not what
it would be if the park were in town.
SHIP MAXY XEGROES.
Xew Orleans, July 15.-The work
of a remarkable city house cleaning
party, which last night placed 150 ne?
gro mee and womeu on board a pas?
senger train st Lake Charles, La.,
and shipped them ont of the town and
parish, is told tonight in a dispatch to
the Picayune. They were placed on
the same train with the body of a
negro who last week shot and killed
the city marshal of Jennings, La.,
and who subsequently died in jail at
Lake Charles from wounds received
while attempting to avoid arrest.
Shortly before midnight the negro
tenderloin, known as the "hole in the
wall," was invaded by several hun?
dred white men, including some mem?
bers of the State militia on their way
to the^ annual State encampment. The
dispatch says:
"Jiouse after house was visited and
the inmates, not being given time to
dress, were taken out and turned over
to a guard." The motley group was
marched under guard of pistols to a
water tank about a mile from town
and a passenger srain was stopped and
the negroes put on board and their
fares paid as far as the parish line,
memberr, of the guard riding that far
with them Some of the negro women
were shipped away in their night
dresses.
The dispatch says that care was ta?
ken in the raid not to deal unfairly
with the negroes and" that when no
weapon was found on one of then, if
he could prove his identity as a resi?
dent of Lake, Charles, he was not mo?
lested.
NOTICE.
Campaign Meetings, Filing Pledges,
Assessments, Etc.
Pursuant to the resolution o%. the
County Executive Committee, meet
ings of the county campaign are here?
by called as follows:
Privateer, July 31st.
Wedgefield, August 3d.
Shiloh, August 7th.
Mayesville, August 10th.
Dalzell, August 21st.
Graded School Square, Sumter, Au?
gust 24th, at night.
Sumter, Court House, August 25th.
The following assessments were
made by the committee:
State Senate, $15; House of Repre?
sentatives, $10; Auditor, $15; Treas?
urer, $15; Judge of Probate, $10; Su?
pervisor, $15; Superintendent of Edu?
cation, {?10; Magistrates in county,
$2.50, in the city of Sumter, $7.50.
Assessments must be paid by 12
o'clock m. of July 28th.
The following pledges must be
Sled: \
1. Pledge with County Chairman
or Secretary to abide by the result of
the primary, etc., etc., being the usual
pledge. This pledge must be filed by
12 o'clock m. of July 2 S th.
2. Pledge with Clerk of Court in
conformity with the provisions of an
act of the General Assembly, entitled
"An Act Making Certain Offences in
Primary Elections Misdemeanors, and
Prescribing Penalties Therefor;" ap?
proved March 6th, 1905. The pledge
required by this act must be filed by a
candidate before he enters upon his
campaign, and requires all candidates
at the conclusion of the campaign and
before the primary election to render
to the Clerk of the Court a statement
of all money spent or provided during
the campaign for campaign purposes
up to that time, and immediately aft?
er the election a statement of all mon?
ey spent or provided in the primary
election- The pledge required to be
filed with the Clerk is of equal im- |
portance as the party pledgo required
to be filed with the County Chairman,
as the failure to comply with the pro?
visions of the ?ct above referred to !
renders the election null andi void as !
to the candidate or candidates failing
to file the required pledge, etc.
All clubs which not re-organized as !
yet, will please do so at once, send
name of Executive Committeeman to
the undersigned, appoint a committee
to correct and revise the club lists.
Executive Committeemen who have
not as yet done so, will please send
to the undersigned the names of three
managers of election for the primary
at their respective clubs.
All pledges under the resolution of
the Executive Committee must be filed
and assessments paid by 12 o'clock
m. of July 23th, 1906.
JOHX H. CLIFTON,
i
County Chairman.
H. L. B. WELLS,
Secty. Ex. Com. 7-13-3tlaw
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CANDIDATE'S CARD.
For Auditor.
I hereby announce myself-a candi
date for Auditor of Sumter county,
i and pledge myself to abide the result
of the Democratic primary.
Robert Muldrow.
I hereby announce myself a candi?
date for County Auditor, subject to the
?ction of the Democratic primary.
J. D. Wilder.
For Judge of P' eba te.
Duly appreciating the generous sup?
port of my fellow citizens of Sumter
county in the past, I respectfully an?
nounce myself as a candidate for re?
election to the office of Judge of
Probate at the approaching primary
election and will abide by the result
of said primary
Thos. V. Walsh.
For Congress.
^ I hereby announce myself a candi?
date for the Democratic nomination
for congress from the seventh con?
gressional district, and pledge myself
to abide the rules and regulations of
the Democratic primary.
A. F. Lever.
For County Supt. of Education.
I hereby-announce myself a candi?
date for the office of County Superin?
tendent of Education, subject to the
action of the Democratic primary and
pledge myself to abide by the rules of
the same. Charles Pinckney.
I hereby announce myself a can?
didate for reelection to the office of
County Superintendent of Education,
pledging myself to abide by the rules
of the Democratic primary.
S. D. Catav
For the Senate.
I hereby announce myself a candi?
date for State Senator from Sumter
county, subject to the rules of the
Democratic primary.
John H. Clifton.
I hereby announce my can<iidacy
for State Senator for Sumter county
subject to the rules governing the
Democratic primary.
A. K. Sanders.
For the House o? Representatives.
I hereby announce that I am a can?
didate for the House of Representa?
tives, subject to the action of the
Democratic primary, pledging myself
to support the nominees and abinde by
the result of the same.
George W. Dick.
For Supervisor.
In announcing myself a candidate
for re-election to the office of county
supervisor I desire to thank the citi?
zens of Sumter county for their lib?
eral support in the past and pledge
myself to abide the result of the pri?
mary. W. H. Seale.
For Magistrate.
The undersigned at his own urgent
request has consented to become a
candidate for Magistrate in the Sixth.
Judicial District of Sumter county and
if elected will endeavor to serve the
people to the best of his ability. He
pledges himself to abide by the rules
and regulation of the Democratic pri?
mary. H. C. Bethea.
The many friends of Mr. W. R.
Brown nominate him for the office of
Magistrate of the Sixth District and
pledge him to abide the result of the
primary.
I hereby announce that I am a can?
didate for ofl?ee of Magistrate at Sum?
ter, and I need every vote I can get.
I ask that you give me your votes and
I pledge myself to give you my best
service and abide by the results of the
primary^ H. L, B. Wells.
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HIGH LIVING
is an everyday affair with those who
eat at our restaurant. The best of
food is served at a modest cost.
GOOD EATING
and our bill of fare go together. Well
fed men dine he::e because they get
what they waTit and as they want it.
It's a pleasure to pay for good foodi
That's why we have so many good
palpons.
THE SUMTER RESTAURANT,
Y. E. Brimson, Proprietor.
3-21-6m