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IBESt?ESBAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1906. 'Icke Suinter Watchman was founded in ^850 and the Trut Southron in 1866. The ' W<s?jsJxmaAi and Southi^on now has the com ' Visaed circulation and influence of both of ifesaoid papers, and ig manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. 6 .^re do not claim that the definition ahoily accurate, but our idea is .sifctu: a lynching is the unlawful kill <tag: io! a criminal, who, if given a 1er l^sC. ?fcria?, would be convicted and ?afcKged or imprisoned for life, "While a plain mob murder is the kili ?Sssg- by two or more persons, of a man ?ar woman abused of crime, but 'trat?se guilt is not established beyond ^sgaeszion. ' , * * . 32? you want to obtain a correct ss?ss. of how good Manning's chances ??? election are, just keep tab of the SSamtic appeals of the Columbia .vStaie and Charleston News and Con? ifer's wild and hysterical exhortations '2$& ?he anti-dispensary voters and ^?3*57 other sort of voters, to rally to .~&rseTs rescue. They know full well ^fibat a large majority of the voters the State have declared against .Ansel's "India-rubber platform" and .tfeerr only hope, and a faint one at -'?feaz, is to claim everything in sight ?fcr Ansel and discourage the oppon of the plan to destroy the dis? pensary system at any hazard from -?kazrticipating in the second primary. * * * The News and Courier calls on tSse *'friends of righteousness,, to fly "Sa ?he rescue of Ansel-the amiable .sad. ?oarat?mous champion of the pro *3b?5tftien-Brkie-law-blind-tiger - high i3teense-?ny-old-way .of letting ..the CSs?acr devil do as it pleases. This sort *3? .stuff shows how badly rattled the -Assel crowd and its newspaper ?tt^x?firp?ece are just at present. A -reel man, with decided views and cccrage to maintain them? looms in their field of vision, and the 23?g?2.i terrifies them. . . ? ^FOQT years ago candidate Martin SP. Ansel canvassed the State for Gov ? y?m-or and on every stump he pro <?s?!sied in clarion tones his belief in =S2e> dispensary. He then thought 'everybody in the State favored the ^cSs?*e::tsary. Two years ago .the ' same , **2acxiidate Ansell was sorter betwixt "^aatd ibe?ween dispensary ansi Brice law. Eighteen months ago the Brice j -Sasr lever was at its height and som3 :3$?&Qple thought there was a regular *3B8ai wave of sentiment against the * ^cSspensary. There was where Can |?54ai8 Ansel got off the fence and "-?sams:. 'out -brave and strong against . *'3&e oispensary and in favor of local '^Op?i-o?. and everything else you might TX&2015JXL Tire :passii-g of the Brice /-few -wave left Candidate Ansel in a / '^asoisi unusual predicament for him j 3t2*L "diroughout the campaign just "a?c?&e? he hits given an artistic exhi CoTii-sn of how to preserve an uistable ' T<eQitU5brium on a shaky, siretcbv "ndia ^T^??sber .platform, while tal g a Cbeag. "but cotmmiting himself to noth -??fc3r dj?fin?ie. He favored local option '.SCHcne months ago, but a few months . ;'3?r?or he was as strong a dispensary '-2Se? >?s; any man you could find. At ?f3?peco???t he has a platform made up ' ??3. .sorts of odds and ends that ex . ^c*2y suits the News and Courier, but ^^?xeu he realizes that only one-third ^?sae/ voiers of South Carolina think ex saaet?y .os he says he thinks, we greatly S&ssr Sae will be found hunting a place <Ka. "thu Rayscw-Manning purified dis S^ezs?ry platform. There is nothing ?seing amiable and unanimous! ?2ftr. Asssfcl is an excellent gentleman ^?? &?s character is above reproach, ????: is too amiable and his political ?s?i?i3532Ls are too flexible for the i?jP????.. -.cmergenc3'. The State needs 3S?E SESEE. *c2th a firm will at the head of ?t?fioes, and Richard L Manning is the "Satzart . . . believe firmly that if the State -<$3??psx??ary is abolished and a patch ^am?L-syttcm, made vp of county pro ???^sfcsn, 'county dispensaries and high 5?Ss?xz?svt -dispensaries under individual ''TilWiit'r' ff. Substituted therefor, it will "r*s i&a ?- short time before the liquor T?tjaz2??J?: *rill be as firmly cntrentched -tt S&s&Cbt ?Carolina as it was prior to j W? prefer the State dispen- j tf>>~:l>e county dispensary or high j ^ttyiT^f .?rtstcm, because it is easier j - ^??^C.vrol <>ne iT-tate dispensary board ! . - ihir'y -or forty county dispen- j * * * ^3t?-'^Instete State is apologizing; rJt? %x? ^rfevrfs for not supporting ; ' ??&??.Z.X>S/J&. The drift ot* the apologetic . ?jggfifcvesa? is that it would very much \ ?SEfce **> support Mr. Manning, but it j , itself so tar.aled u:? with the ; ?&Q3rt ?sSSon to the ??pe-ssary that it j <SBsaBS&S& even endorse an honest man's ? ?^aaAc?? endeavor to purge a State! '..?^aor. of corruption and guaran- , honest administration in fu- ; Saco Ix ieems that the State deems S ?fecessary that it shall eppose Mr. ZMbB&?ZLg to save its face and make ;s boast of undeviating con.-ist i 'fighting the dispensary. .? * * . it the dispensary system-the manner of selling liquor, or the State control of the liquor traffic, or the graft and corruption that has at? tended the management of t'ne State dispensary that the Columbia State opposes? * * * The day before the primary thc Columbia State published on its firs; page, a dispatch from its Charleston correspondent asserting that the blind tiger element of that city was fighting Ansel and supporting Man? ning and Blease. The small vote that Manning and Blease received, compared with -that of Ansel, proved that the statement above quoted was unfounded, unless there has been a heavy death rate among the blind tiger element in Charleston recently. While the Columbia State was apolo? gizing for not supporting Mr. Man? ning, it should have apologized for publishing the Charleston blind tiger campaign story. * * * The News and Courier sayp that the dispensary, has been a wall about Charleston's progress and that if Charleston people know what is good for them they will vote for Ansel. The inference is plain that it will be good for Charleston to defeat Mr. Manning, who is pledged to an honest and rigid enforcement of the dispen? sary law. ANSELL'S ONLY HOPE. The gifted political editor of the News and Courier, penned the fol? lowing pathetic appeal to Mr. Man? ning, after seeing Ansel's defeat written in the returns from the pri? mary: MAKE IT UNANIMOUS. Why not make it unanimous, Mr. Manning? Ansel is a very good man ?and will make an excellent governor. He has filled a number of positions of public trust with entire satisfact? ion to the people and great credit to himself. The election Tuesday showed that a very considerable number of the people of South Caro? lina would like to have him fill the office, of Governor. They trust him for his integrity and his patriotism. They know that he has never be? trayed a trust and that he is devoted with his whole heart to the best in? terests of his State. Those who voted for him Tuesday will vote for him again at the next primary, if another primary shall be required to determine whether or not he or Mr. Manning shall be the .Democratic candidate for Governor at the elec? tion in November. It will be neces? sary for Ansel to gain only nine per cent of the votes that were cast for the other candidates Tuesday to make his election sure; it will be necessary for Manning to increase his vote at the election this week by more than twenty-six per cent, to as? sure his elecion in the second pri- , mary. Ansel will go into, the next primary with a very great advantage civer his opponent, and nothing but a miracle can prevent his success, and the day of miracles, in Democratic politics at least, is passed. Mr Manning could . make the situation very much easier , by declaring, after Tuesday's elec- . tion returns have been canvassed by the State Democratic Committee, that he will not run out the race at the second primary. It would be a . very unusual thing in the politics of the State, but it would be a very7 big thing for Mr. Manning to do. Make it unanimous, Mr. Manning. MANNING SURE TO WIN. We believe our fellow townsman, Richard L Manning, will be the next governor of South Carolina. We be? lieve he will be nominated in the sec? ond primary by a substantial majority over M. F. Ansel, who received the largest vote of any of the candidates in the first primary. The belief is not a mere hope, inspired by our well known partiality for Sumter's candi? date f -r governor, but a well consid? ered conclusion, which has been reached after a careful analysis of the returns and a comparison of the present situation with conditions after the first pri m any in previous elec? tions. Mr. Ansel represeni&d throughout the campaign the anti-dispensary ele? ment; he was and is the chosen champion of those who are bent on ' the destruct: -.", of the State dispen? sary without consideration or regard for what is tu follow. All who desired the destruction of the dispensary sys- , tem were r: ::ied to the support of j Ansei and the most strenuous effort? j were made \ > poll a great vote and : nominate him in the first primary. ! We believe tiiut the effort to poll a c full vote for Ansei i ri the first pri- ' mary was successful. Every indica- ? tion is thai those v. ho wished ! the dispensary system destroyed j voted for Ansel to a HIM, and if he ! holds the vote he received in the first | primary he will be doing well; for j the failure to win with a rush and a ; hurrah has destroyed his prestige to a great extent. But the Ansel people will ask. what about the Brunson vote? The Brun- : son vote is made up of two elements -the personal friends of Mr. Brun- ' son and the sincere prohibitionists, I more-v,*;~.c? . ^.TOOW ?-gr ---M who countenance no compromise with the whiskey evil. The vote received by Mr. Brunson is not an anti-dis? pensary vote in the Ansel sense of the term, but it is an anti whiskey vote. The men who voted for Mr. Brunson in the first primary are mort; apt to vote for Mr. Manning in the sec? ond race than for Mr. Ansel, since if they were desirous merely of a change in the system of handling liquor they would have voted for Mr. Ansel in the first instance. The Blease. McMahon and Sloan vote were all votes for the dispen? sary system in preference to the An? iel proposition to destroy the dispen? sary and go it blind in the future in dealing with the liquor evil, and if these people voted their sincere con? victions then, the last man of them must vote for Manning in the second primary, or do violence to their pre? viously expressed convictions. An analysis of the figures show that the people of South Carolina are against the Ansel "destroy-the-dis pensary-at-all-costs" propoganda by a big majority, and that Ansels' only hope of winning out in the second primary is to convert nine or ten thousand of these voters to his way of thinking. Can he do it? We think not, for most of them now endorse the views that Mr. Manning repre? sents and it is but reasonable to con? clude that they will vote for him. Besides, no candidate in the his? tory of this States, so far as we know,' has ever overcome so great a ma? jority against the views he repre? sents as Mr. Ansel will have to over? come if-he defeats Mr. Manning. The anti dispensary vote has been polled by Mr. Ansel and it is only 39,000; the balance of the 96,000 votes are r^ot county dispensary votes and 0fost of them will go to Mr. Manning. A case in point is the Senatorial election where John Gary Evans lack? ed barely 5M v?tes of election in the first primary? and yet was defeated by about 10,000 votes in the second primary by Joseph H. Earle. The day aiter the first primary Evans' chances appeared far brighter than Ansels' do today, but he failed to win out. Mr Manning's position is well un? derstood throughout the State. He is a sincere advocate of temperance and sobriety. He regards the liquor traffic as a great evil that the State must control and restrict to the greatest - possible extent. He has been convinced by observation that the disp^ .i.-2jy system has not only been productive of good, where prop? erly enforced, but that the system, honestly administered, furnishes the l>est means yet devised for controll? ing th? liquor traffic and minimizing the evils that attend it. Apart from his position on the dispensary issue. Mr. Manning is admitted by all to be peculiarly fitted by natural ability, experience and training as a public servant and as a successful business man to fill the office of Governor in a manner acceptable to all. He will be the Governor of all the people of South Carolina He is a safe man, a conservative ' man, a man of decided convictions, no fence straddler or trimmer, but a man in the broadest meaning of the term. These are our reasons for be- ' lieving Manning will be elected Gov? ernor and some few of the reasons why he should be. CAXXOT SUPPORT MAXXIXG. Mr. Brunson Returns Thanks to thc "Xoble Ten Thousand"-Irrevo? cably Against Liquor Machine. To the Editor of the State: * Through your columns I ask the privilege of extending my sincere thanks to those prohibitionists of the State who voted for me in the pri? mary election. For the good of our cause the vote should have been much larger, but it moves me deeply to know I had the support of the im? mortal ten thousand*-"all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed h'm." It is not my purpose to be a candi? date again for any office in the gift of our people, but I shall work even more vigorously in the future than on the past for clear-cut State pro? hibition. When the prohibitionists of the State organize they will carry the election for officials easily, and until they elect officials who are prohibi? tionists at heart they cannot hope to see prohibition laws properly en? forced in any part of the State. The Sumter Daily Item "ays: "Our fellow-towmsman, Hon. Joel E. Brun? son. has a deceided preference for j Manning over Ansel." If The Item | i wishes make the impression that 1 j am supporting Mr. Manning, it is in ern"-. However warm my friendship for Mr. Manning may have been, he stands as the representative of the liquor business, ?md with <.:. without his consent, as the candidate of the liquor "machine" and I cannot vote f< r him. It is true I believe county dispensaries will work more evil in ou:- midst than the Stan- dispensary with ali i:s corruption, hut that is no reason v. hy I should support the dis? pensary. Joel E. Branson. Sumter, S. C.; Sept. 19906. The foregoing card which appeared in the Columbia State today could be construed to mean that the Item had asserted editorially that Mr. Brunson had expressed a "decided preference for Manning over Ansel." where? as such is not the case. The portion of a sentence quoted by Mr. Brunson was taken from a local article writ? ten by the local reporter. The ar? ticle had the following caption, which indicated its contex: "MANNING WILL WIN." "Impressions Gathered By Executive Committteman L. I. Parrott While In Columbia." The sentence from which Mr. Brunson quoted and the succeeding paragraph were as follows: "The Sloan and McMahan votes practically are certain, and it has been stated authoritatively that our fellow-townsman, the Hon. Joel E. Brunson. " has a decided preference for Manning over Ansel. "Mr. Parrott's best hopes for Mr. Manning's victory, besides the de? duction that one must draw from the foreging, lies in the fact that many of the best men in the State have taken off their coats and are working faithfully and lending their best ef? forts to elect Mr. Manning." The editor of the Item knows nothing of Mr. Brunson's political preferences, but it was currently re? ported on the streets that he had stated he would support Mr. Manning in the second race, and having heard the report it never occurred to the writer to question the accuracy of similar statements contained in the article prepared by the. local man. i _ What Mr. Brunson Said. Since Mr. Joel E. Brunson has seen fit to contradict in a letter to the Co? lumbia State, certain currant reports which were gathered by the local editor of the Item and published, in' Saturday's issue, the editor of that department, in order that the cor? rectness of the. reports might be made known and their authenticity established, chis morning interviewed the author of the report, who isAme of tht best known and most thorough? ly reliable citizens of Sumter, with the result that the statements were re? iterated and with emphasis. This gentleman does not desire to be drawn into any political or newspaper controversy, but if the truthfulness of the statements are questioned in the least, he is not only willing to have his name used, but is in a po? sition, if indeed it were necessary, to substantiate what he said by the testi? mony of some of the most highly re? spected gentlemen of,Sumter. That porion of the conversation of this gentitman with Mr. Brunson the morning after the first first primary, which gave rise to the article in the Item, and which Mr. Brunson takes issue with, as best remembered by the gentleman referred to, was as fol? lows: "Well, it looks as if >',ou are out of it. Mr. Brunson." "Yes, it looks that way." "If it conies to an issue, Mr. Brun? son, between Mr. Manning and Mr. Ansel, whom would you support?" "Manning, by all means," was his unhesitating reply. In the same conversation Mr. Brun? son said he believed Mr. Manning would get most of his (Brunson) votes, and personally he would like to see him get every one of them. Mr. Brunson went so far as to say to the same party, that Ansel had no platform at all and that he would vote for Blease in preference to An? sel. "Prohibition," he said "is not a compromise measure." To two other gentlemen of unim? peachable veracity, he made the state? ment that he infinately preferred the State Dispensary to county dispen? saries, because under local option the dispensary would necessarily become fixed in some counties, which would render State prohibition impossible. These statements are in keeping with the article in the Item, which made known Mr. Brunson's stated preference for Manning and for Man? ning's platform. Sumter county will give Manning a vote next Tuesday that will prove that the people who know him want him to be Governor. The Orangeburg Collegiate Institute Will begin its fall session on ! Wednesday, Sept. 19th. Wc have a healthful location, are well i equipped, and have a first class faculty. Departments of art, mu- j sic. elocution, cooking, sewing, ! etc. (July a few more boys and j girls can be accommodated. Send for a catalogue and appli? cation blank. W. S. PETERSON, President, ? Orangeburg, S C. } WARM WEATHER WILL HELP. 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At this season of the year, the first day's use of Hyomei will show a de? cided improvement in health and in a short time there will be no further trouble from catarrh. You take no risk in buying Hyomei. , The compite outfit costs but $1.00, j extra bottles 50c, and if after using, | you say it has not helped you, J. F. W DeVoe will return your money. I Take This To Your DRUGGIST For Trial Box and Booklet FREE, FOR SAIiE-5-horse farm, Rafting j Creek township on Charleston road, opposite Mr. E. R. Alston's T. P. | Sanders. MANAGERS PB1?BY ELECTION ? The following are appointed man- j agers of election for the primary to toe held Tuesday, September 11th. .Ward 1, Sumter, S. C., H. J. Sey? mour, H. G. McKagen and J. M. Fogle. Ward 2, Sumter, S. C., J. F. Reid, R. D. Epps and J. B. Barfield. Ward 3r Sumter, S. C., M. C. Kava naugh, J. J. Morrissey and George Warren Ward 4. Sumter, S. C.. Chas. Thames. G. E. Richardson and H. J. Lawrence. Farmers, K. M. Spann, L. M. Spann and J. C. Dawkins. v Providence, H. A. Raffield, Marion Moore and J. D. Myers. Pisgah, J. Li. Gillis, J. T. Watson and B. G. DuPre. Wedgefield, C. D^. Cain, S. Moore and W. H. Ramsey. Sta?eburg. F. P. Burgess, A. P. Vin? son and R. M. Cantey. Salem, R. E. McElveen. G. W. McBride and N. J. Boykin. Concord, G. W. Mahoney, T. B. Brunson and J. Dosier Newman. High Hills, W. M. Lenoir. C. A. Mitchell and W. S. Thompson. Mayesville, W. X McElveen. R. J. Mayes, Sr., and R. A. Chandler, li. Manchester, H. S. Kolb. Geo. Ged? dings and H. W. Pritchard. Earle, S. B. Richardson. B. R. Hodge and E. D. Cockerill. Privateer, Ashby Bradford, W. D. Lynam and Thos. J. Geddings. Gaillards Cross Roads, C. L. Jones, B. E. Jennings and J. S. Weldon. Rafting Creek, J. W. Young, T. W. James and T. J. Brown. Scarboro, W. A. Spann, E. H. Craw? ford and T. M. Crosswell. Shiloh. J. D. Frierson, S. W. Tru luck and W. F. Dennis. Pleasant Grove, C. Young. C. D. Lewellyn and S. W. Weaver. Taylors, I. M. Truluck, J. E. Tru luck and S. J. Tomlinson. j? Zoar, P. L. Jones, Sam Newman and S. J. White. Borden, G. W. Hatfield, C. D. I Wai drep and K. R. Mobley. j Oswego, J. I. Lesesne, J. H. Robert I son and W. D. McLeod. I The boxes with ballots, poll lists, instructions, etc., etc., will be ready for delivery on the Saturday prece? ding the primary election. One of the several managers appointed for the above voting places will please call for boxes, ballots, po'l lists, in? structions, etc., and qualify for hold? ing the said election or elections. Members of the Executive Committee will please bear in mind that there will be a meeting of the committees ond Thursday September 13th at 12 o'clock m. in the Court House for the purpose, of tabulating the returns and to tec?are the result of the elec titn. All candidates will bear in mind that they "must, before the primary election, render to the Clerk of the Court an itemized statement of all money spent or provided by them- for campaign purposes up to that time. JOHN H. CLIFTON, C?un*y Ch lirman. H. L. B. WELLS, Secretary. August 15, 1906. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaa ? fl? 0 _ S? 1 Bagging and 1 ?es. ? m ? ra i? ra ra fl? m m ? is S? SI ? ? A? A? fl? ? fl? fl? ? fl? fl? fl? fl? You may not need as much bag? ging and ties this year as you did last, but you must have some. We contracted for our supplies in this line very early in the season, and at lower prices than we can duplicate them at today. It is possible that we have too many, and we will, therefore, be anxious sellers. Our stock consists of all weights in Iii J? As well as 0 New Arrow Ties We are not ofFering second? hand bagging or ties of any kind, as we do not think it pays, par? ticularly when people are dispos? ed to hold cotton. 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