Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?CMTKH WATCHMAN, BMaMlshed April, 1*50. 'De Just and Fear Dot?Let all the ends Thon Alms't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." Tin; TRUE SOCTIIKON, Established June, ISM Consolidated Aog. ?, 1881. 8UMTER. S. C. SATURDAY. MARCH 27. 1909. New Series?Vol. XXIX. 5lo 10 How to Obtain, Without Cost, the Season's Greatest and Best Flower Offers These Flowers Will Bloom This Season of 1909 The Five Prettrtt Roses (Collection No 101) Are the ones we hive chosen for your collection. Man v of these roses wheu In bloom sell for fiM' to ?ti.00 h doaon st florists. Any one of them is worth mor?' than a whole year s subscription to PA KM AND Fl U KS ID K cost, but you can Ret absolutely without costs all these five plants?the Climbing Meteor. Bright Red. Hardy Yellow Rambler, Bright Pink, Pure White. Bee our lib? eral offers below and opposite. Five Fragrant Carnations (Collection No. 119.) The carnation was President McKinley's favor? ite flower. Being unrivaled in rich and refresh? ing fragrance, and unapproaehed for daintiness and beauty of outline it is not to be wondered at it at next to the rose it has become the f avorlte flower. The collection we offer you contains five different colors?One Rich Scarlet One Deep Pink. One Light Pink. One White, One White Striped With Scarlet. See our liberal offers be? low and opposite. What You Get By Accepting this new limited off* r Watchman! Southron 1 Year 104 numbers?regular price $1.60. FIRM AND FIRESIDE 1 YEAR The Great National Farm and Family l'aper?? numbers? read by nearly 5.000, 000 people?made for all the family. ANY COLLECTION OF FLOWERS On this page. These collections were Sppared by one of the best florists In merles. Fend our guarantee below. HOW YOU GET THEM Send us only |2.00. We will Immediately send you postpaid all of the good things men? tioned opposite, as follows: Watchman and Southron one full year ; Farm and Fireside one full year?94 numbers and Any One Col? lection of Flowers on this page. Be sure to give the number of collection you want. $2.00 Pays for All The subscription to either paper may be new or renewal. This Is the greatest offer ever made by any publisher. You get two big papers and the flowers, all for the price of one paper alone! It cannot be duplicated anywhere In America. This Offer is Limited?Don't Delay! CARNATIONS NO. 109. The Climbing Meteor Rose?? Dower of Fragrance. Elegant Ferns (Collection No. ltd.) Of all plants for pot or inteitor decora? tions, ferns occupy the pla'.'c of favor. This collection con? sists of theleadtngva rletles--Boston. Em? erald. Fountain and Asparagus. These varieties frequently sell for 50ceniaeacb Bee out liberal offers above and opposite. All of the plants win tie large, healthy and well rooted, and will bloom the com? ing season We guar? antee them to be ex acily as advertised, to arrive In perfect condition, and to ?tve entire satlsfac lon or your money cheerfully refunded. CHRYSANTHEMUMS NO. 102 Six Magnificent Crysanthemumb (Collection No. 102.) Thecrysanthemum is the prettiest late autumn and winter flower. 'Small plant? set out in the spring will have formed Urge plants full of blooming shoots bv September. We will send In this collec? tion six large flower? ing Japanese varie? ties, as follows: i>ne Pure White. One Deep Yel? low. on.? Light Fellow. One Light Pink. One Deep Pn k One Beautiful Red. Bee OUT liberal otters above and op? posite. Cultural Directions Collections must be ordered entire. Accompanying fach lot of plants are full direc? tions for planting, care, etc Please state what month you prefer to have your plants sent to you. Photograph of the Bright Red, Yel? low Rambler, Bright Pink and Pure White Rose. FERNS NO. 104. $2 Pays For All. Send Your Order to The Watchman & Southron, Sumter, S. C. Cbt <Hh;rl)m;m anb Southron. - ?* 3 Published Wedneacta? and Saturday ?BT? 03TEEA PUBLISHING COMPANY SL'MTKR, a C. ?Lit per annum?In advance. Advertisement*: One Squar* Aret tneertlon.11.00 ?very subsequent tneertlon.50 Contract* for three month*, or loader will be made at reduced rate*. All communications which tub-1 eerre private Interest* will be charged for ae advertisement* Obituaries and tribute* of respect* will ae charged for. m FLORENCE POSTOFFICE. PKKhIDKNT TAffT GETS AI? ICE OF 8ENAOK fiWTH. Policy of the Pressd?tit to Consult 1 Southern Krnators in Regar J to' federal Appointment* for the I gonth is Inaugurated. Washlrston. March 23.?The presi? dent today turned to*8eaator Edward D. smith, of South Carolina, a Demo? crat, for advice regarding federal ap? pointments In the Palmetto State. The particular m'jslon of Senator Smith today was to urge the president. If possible, to appoint a Democrat to rthe Florence postofflce. and when the senator <?rt the executive office he ?aid he had been practically assured that a Democrat would be select*d. Not only Is this the most positive proof yet given by 1fr. Taft of hh In? tention to award federal positions In th* Hou'r. according to the wishes of the beat elements of that section's population, but the political wise? acres pro fas* to see In It a practical declaration of th* downfall of John Q. Capers as the political arbiter of llJ^JJ^J^gg^jsJ^pth In support of this view it is a fact that Capers' present condition in the Oovernment service, that of chief of the bureau of international revenue, has already been offered to two men, Arthur I. Voys, of Ohio, and Joe. E. Watson, of Indiana. Both refused the place, and the understanding is that the President is now looking for somebody else to take It. | This wae Senator Smith's second talk with the President. He was at the White House last week, and at that time the President told him to return for an extended review. This morning, before the meeting of the Cabinet, the conference took place. There has been complaints that the selection of men by Capers for positions in this state have been un? satisfactory, and it is no secret that In the appointment of Mr. E. W. Du Rant. Jr., to succeed Crum as collec? tor of the port of Charleston, the wishes of Capers were ignored as far as learned. From the President's talk with Mr. Smith It is freely Inferred that some of the Republicans who have been recommended for places in South Carolina have not met with ap? proval of Mr. Taft, and that at least one or two Democrats may be ex? pected to hold Federal offices in the State. This Is exactly In line with the President's repeated promises to Southerners that he would make It a point to select for office among them only men who would command tho r?-spect and the attention of their communltleM. This means that none *?f th?? Republican candidates for the Flnrence office will land, and that tho place will ko either to C. P. Berry, or some other Democrat. No Progrv** In Cullioiin Cuwe. San Francisco. Cel., March It.?No progress was made todny In the se? lection of a Jury to try Patrick Cat boun for bribing a public offtcer. mm ATTACKS THE TARIFF BILL. I CliAHK ANSWERS MAJORITY I CHIEFTAIN'S ARGUMENT. Declares New Creation of Republi? cans Is Worse Than the Dingley Protective Wall. Washington, March 24.?Interest In today's tariff discussion in the house centred in?tie speech of Mr. Clark (Mo.), minority leader and ranking Democratic member of tha committee on ways t nd means. As a preliminary to his set speech. Mr. Clark provoked the house to great laughter and Mr. Olmsted (Pa.), the chairman, tt no little em? barrassment by congratulating him on the advent yesterday of a son. For Mr. Payne the mii.orlty leader had only words of praise and his re? marks in that connection elicited ap? plause on both sides. Mr. Payne's powers of endurance, he declared, were a marvel, and his nine hours' speech on the tariff had made him a great historical person. "Indeed," said Mr. Clark, "he has knocked higher than a kite the idiotic theory of Dr. Osier. The speech of the ma? jority leader he characterized as a superb vindication of bis physical und mental strength. Mr. Clark also had a kind word for every member of the committee on ways and mean*). "We worked like galley slaves In trying to ascertain the truth," he said. He denied that the committee had bullyragged any witness, as he said had been charged, and declared that If any witness had received an Indecent word in the committee room be had provoked it by his OWH uet:s. Mr. Clark said that at the bottom of the movement for tariff revision was President Roosevelt. "I never bad any delusions about that man," he said amid shouts of laughter. "He is gone," he said in mimic tones of sorrow. Addressing thfc4 Republican* he said, "Some of you hope he will never come back. But my regret is that he left at all because if he had stayed here you would have been In such a row within 90 days that you would not know whether you were Republicans or Democrats." Mr. Clark said he sat In the house yester? day and heard Mr. Payne say he had been in the house 20 years preparing tariff bills. "My God!" he exclaimed, "what a set of lies he must have heard in that time." Mr. C^ark read some comparisons between the Dingley and Payne bills proposed by a government expert in the committee. These, he said, show? ed that the average rate of the Ding ley bill was 44.16 per cent., while ? inner the Payne bill it was 45.72 per cent., "showing 1.56 per cent, worse than the Dingley bill." He declared that no man of bad temper or blus? ter could conceal that fact from the American people. Many of the re? ductions in the bill, he maintained, were m-?re apparent than rcai. Discussing the reduction on refined sugar, Mr. Clark said it was held out as a great boon J.o the consumer. "When the sugar trusi received that tremendous blow between th^ eves," he said, "instead of seeing stars it saw a stream of gold flowing into its coffers every year of the continuance of the Payne tariff bill.' He declared that a mun must eat sugar at top speed for 15 months to find a nickel In his pocket at the end of that time as the result of any benellt that might accrue to him from the bill. I and If he missed a day he would not get the nickel. He could not under stand, he said, why such tenderness was shown the su^ar trust, Which h? characterized as a criminal. If. Mr. Clark said, the Stan.lard Oil Company was not, as he believed, the sole beneficiary under the bill, lie would not object to the crude oil pro? ducers getting a revenue tariff. Speaker Cannon took the floor to make an explanation, when Mr. Clark said he had gone to the White House to discuss the tariff with President Taft before the bill was reported. Mr. Cannon admitted that he went there at the invitation of the president, but denied that the tariff was discussed, or, if it was, he did not know it. Mr. t'annrn took ocoason *o remark thnt he rarely corrected mi?! eprcsenlation but it seemed in the present instance he could do so with propriety. In former "??rs, he declared, he had sat in the chair and on the floor and heard misrepresentations | "abounding in absolute falsehoods that have been taken for granted by the muckraking newspapers and even In the Democratic platform." Mr. Clark protested that he was not trying to misrepresent the speaker: "I sometimes think" suavely re? plied Mr. Cannon, "that perhaps he is not as clear as to the matter of the difference between the suggestion of that which is error and the letting alone of that which is truth as ho ! might have been in discussing the ! public questions touching the reve? nues." Resuming his argument, Mr. Clar'v announcvtl that if given the opportu? nity he would vote to put boots and shoes on the free list "and," he said, "they can bellow about free traders as much as they please." "Never, he said, would the tariff be taken olT boots and shoes unless it was done when i: was taken off hides Mr. Clark predicted that when the seriate got through w'th cutting and living the Payne bltl, Itr. Payne Would not recognize h*R own child when ho met it in the road. "Tita senators over there," he Mid, "are engaged right now in making ? tariff bin of |helr own." He maintained that the senate will strike out all af? ter the enacting clause. When the bill v ached con fere i ce it would be dog days and tii?1 weather would Ih so disagreeable In Washington "that fel? lows will vote to - any hind of bill to get out of town." Mr. CUtrk declared '.iinself unqual? ifiedly in favor of free lumber. A roar of laughter went up wherr Mr. Cushman coincided with a state* ment by Mr. Clark that had it not been for the tariff on lumber the whole Northwest would have gone Democratic. Mr. Clark, amid great Democratic applause closed with a reiteration of his statement that the Payne bill, in? stead of lowering the Dingley rates, raised them. He was on his feet five hours and seven minutes. A general attack on the protective policy of the Republicans was made by Mr. Adamson (Ga.). What they called protection, he said, simply meant fixing duties so high as to ! deny all markets of the world to the I people of the United States and de? prive them of the opportunity to sell to all the world their multi-millions of wealth, on which they could not realize on account of the tariff wall erected. THE PROHIBITION BIDL PASSED. Arkansas House Adopts Resolutions Submitting Constitutional Amend? ment to Popuar Vote. Little Rock, Ark.. March 24.?By a vote of 69 to 28 the house this after? noon passed the house Joint resolu? tion which provides for statutory state-wide prohibition by constitu? tional amendment. If the resolution pases the senate the question will fin? ally be settled I y a roti *f the peo? ple. -HERO OF FORT FISHER. Norfolk. March It.?CoL William I.amb. aged seventy-three, soldier, lawyer, editor, merchant and poli? tician, died here today. Re was best known a. "the hero Of Fort Fisher," in the Confederate war, when in the ?etge of three daya he held the fort BOT Wilmington. N. C* with 1,900 men against the attack of 10,000 fed? eral troops on land and 600 guns on water.