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PATRIOT BOhOBEB lH BHOHZE. ?TTATC'K IS DEDICATED TO DR JOHN WITHEHSPOON. Vice PrcwHent Shcrnutn and Wood fow Wtlaoa. President of Princeton Uniterwlty. Aj*l*t In Ceremoiilco? Brilliant Gathering Present ?x Mas? ts* William B. Withers Helramvs About Memorial. Washington. D. C, Herald. May 21. Aa a victor of peace, enshrined among memorials to warriors and crvlc heroes, the statue of John Wlth erspoon. Presbyterian minlstsr and eigner of the Declaration of Indepen? dence, was yesterday unveiled amid dramatic surroundings. **Wltherspoon, representing the spirit of patriotism, learning, and re? ligion, now stands In the heart of the National Capital, in the century and the country so often regarded as ma? terialistic" sand Commissioner Mc Parland just before Master William Withers, the youngest descendant of Vie patriot, released the flags draped about the monument and displayed the bronae effigy. Perhaps the most notaole feature Of the ceremonies was the manner in which Right Hon. James Bryce re? sponded with an address, and diplo? matically treated the delicate task of honoring one who has been termed In Sngtlsh history "a politic d firebrand Wsvho perhaps had no leas share In the Revolution than Washington l-.lm ?elf." The Ambassador did not discuss Wlthersponn's political action, fear? ing that he might be led thereby Into a controversial field. In which "a man Who holds a middle position is sure to give dissatisfaction to those who hold Oxtrems views on both sides." The prelminary services and ad dreesea were conducted In the Church of the Covenant, where were gathered ? number of direct descendants of the noted divine and scores of prominent Gr?sens eiwJ members of the diplo? matic crepe. Arranged in artistic profusion the banners of Princeton University were entwined with Amsrlcan flags and streamers of olue and white ribbon. Hundreds of miniature lights cast a 'Variant effulgence over the auditor? ium reflecting the spirit of trlmuph seemed uppermost In ths breasts audttora ithout the edifices grouped in Wde about the reservation at the di >" f < >i nsetleut av< nu". qaoat* and K srseta, hundreds <?lttOSas walked to witness the clt losnt eg .the esveteia**. The Marine Bund at Intervals played patriotic aim that were carried on the " reese and wafted In through the wlndowa H the church. Termer Secretary of State John W. footer was chairman of ths affair, igad with an apparsnt air of triumph i at the conclusion of the efforts that have resulted lu the dedication of the IStatue, he opened the ceremony at 110 o'clock. Brilliant and stirring, each of the speeches expressed the sentiment of loyalty that was charac? teristic of Dr. John Witherspoon in his labors to effect the independence sf the American colonies. Distinctly a Presbyterian affair, the festtvttlee wsre enhanced In brilliancy by the address of Dr. Woodrow Wil? son, president of Princeton Universi? ty, and successor of John Wlther spoon Ths educator stln-ed his hear slth a clear, concise Interpreta ot the life and character of the about to be honored, and paid a fitting trlbutA to hla predecessor, who had advocated "a permanent and well-planned confederacy among the mates of America that may hand down the blessings of peace and pub lie order to many generations." VI? e President Sherman, on behalf of the American people, paid homage to the theologian and incidentally commend* 1 Ambassador Bryce for his magnanimity shown in attending the exercise*. Mr. Foster's remarks were warmly spplauded. and his reverent tribute to Rev. Dr Tennis S. Hsmltn. late pas tor of the Church of the Covenant, trfeo conceived the project and select *it*. wan termed appropriate to the sWeOjolen ?aid. TN- last act Of Dr. iUmlln'n life was a visit to Sew T ?rk to confer with artists the execution of the work. Within i thun two and a half years from l.ueptlon. the first erected In th*? National Capital by public subscrip? tion to a nlgner of the Declaration Of Independent Among those who attended the un? veiling were the lr/c nearest descend? ants "f Jpba IVItllOftpo a, Mrs. John hjftg ->i ChSOtST, Pa, and Miss M. J. Woo<|.?. 0f |sto\? it. I'm nrrand daughter* Their mother. Mrs. Mary Wltherspoon. was seven months old at the time of her father's death Dr Woodrow Wilson In his address said In part "It Is my Interesting task to recall I man whose name we celebrate today, a man who left no definite an Impres <|on or? the minds of his i-o-t. r.t \. and \h" hn bei|ueiifhed so many records, n bulk his life Is a simple story N0 ?nan In the Continental Congress rep eeented so conslntently as he did the measures which Washington believed ne.essary for the success of the great movement wnlch subsequently became an Important event in the history of mankind. Almost as soon as he land? ed on these shores from Scotland, he made the interesting discovery that he wan an American. Like all Scotch? men, he was not averse to advertis? ing, and at heart his real purpose was to make Princeton an institution where he could fit young men for ser? vice to their country. Flushed with that Indomitable spirit of the Scot, he began from the start to take an active Interest In politics; and he was like his countrymen, who do not Identify themselves with the country commun? ity In which they live?they take pos? session of It "To describe a man like this is as difficult as describing Washington. He possessed a quality of greatness that Is undeflnable. He was Imbued with those qualities that marked Lin? coln, and he massed those powers with a solidity that made their im? press lasting. It may be said he pos? sessed a symmetry of power that slumbered, and only when the large scale of his career was unfolded was he appreciated. Every part of his being, when touched with fire, bcame kindled. He was combustible through? out; and do you wonder that this man burst Into flame when he was touch? ed with the electrified air of Ameri? ca? "Witherspoon immediately recogni? sed the significance of the situation into which he had stepped almost un? warily Just before the war of the Rev? olution. He not only based his asser? tions on tacts, but on that sometimes disturbing element?-common sense. His watchwords In the Continental Congress was the attainment of effec? tive legislation insuring actual taxa? tion, hard cash and a solid union of the colonies. It would belittle him to call him the greatest president of Princeton University or a leader of the American colonists. It was he who was mainly Instrumental Imparting thaoae principles which will lift this nation to the realization of Its sober and yet manifest supremacy. "Dr. Witherspoon was one of those Scots who are both troublesome and tr dispensable. With that keen logical mind he directed his measures In the Continental Congress, and In many Instances he must have been a minor? ity of one. We think that men who create revolutions must be emotional orators. This is not the case; much less !i ft trna that emAtlonal orators lead revolution*. Witherspoon was f^r from emotional; he s?> X i Ith ClUiat deliberation which . carried more weight because he dealt only with, and by facta. He was to the Conti? nental Congress what Washington was to the army and they worked to? gether for a common cause. "It is a matter of humorous history at Princeton that John Witherspoon, ever eager to impress the idea of lib? erty upon the colonists and especially the Presbytery of New Jersey, wrote the speeches of the undergraduates. It may be said that under his tutelage the students In their themes spoke only on the philosophy of politics to be discussed In the pulpit. No better example could be given of this man's versatility in education than that two of his students, James Madison and "Light Horse" Harry Lee, demon? strated to the nation the doctrines in? stilled at Princeton by Witherspoon." Several times In the introduction of Ambassador Bryce's address, his wit caused ripples of laughter in the au? dience. "John Witherspoon was a strong, self-reliant courageous man, filled with the spirit of the Covenanters of Drumclog and of Bothwell Bridge, a man who would have at all times declared his Independence of every? thing, and who both by his learning and his force of character is worthily remembered by one of our greatest universities as the most striking fig? ure In Its earlier annals. He came of n strong race, one of the strongest that has gone to the making of this now composite nation, In which it Is beginning to be hard to trace the sev? eral threads that have been woven on the loom of time into the fabric. "Students of history and ethnology have sometimes been Inclined to wish that each stock of settlers In North America. Scotch, and Irish, and Ger? man and Scandinavian, had each tak? en a region to Itself In which its in? dividuality could have been developed under new conditions Into some new f<?rrn In which the old character woiild AO! have been lost. But. per? haps, the mixture of all together into <?nK vast nation gives more flexibility ond versatility t.? the nation and makes it nter to moat all the vary? ing calls of a civilization that prows always more complex. "of thti ?aotttah and Seotoh-Irlth rnce the distinguished man whose statue you a:e se tting up today is a worthy representative. He was an ac? complished seholar ami teacher, elo? quent In the pulpit and wise in the l ??uncll chamber, fearb M and reso? lute, and able to Inspire others with his own resolution, displaying on the soil of this n. n continent th<> qualities which had won It-t greatness and it< fame for the country whence ho came, a country of which we may ray. as. In Homer, Ulysses says of his Isle, 'Hough Is It and small, but it is a nurse of strong men.' "Four men in the early history of Ulli republic stand out as representa? tive Scotsmen. One is Dr. Wlther? spoon. who had, though by his pro? fession a man of peace, a full meas? ure of the strength of will and the combative spirit as well as the mental grasp that belonged to such persons as Andrew Melville, and to the divines who led the Glasgow assembly of 1638. Another was Patrick Henry, a Scotch Irishman about him in his fiery rhetoric, and with a fighting spirit which was Irish as well as Scotch. The two others were even greater. One was James Wilson, a man of wide knowledge and capacious mind, j a penetrating and solid thinker, with j a grasp of facts and of principles which placed him in the front rank of ] the political thinkers and constitu? tional lawyers of that great epoch. "To no one man are the excellence* of your Federal Constitution more due than to this recent immigrant from Scotland, who so soon showed his devotion to his new country. And the fourth was Alexander Hamilton, whose name is too great to need any tribute of praise J'rom us today. Taut*: nomini nullum par eulogium. Sliice that time many eminent men have been given to the service of your country by that same stock. The list in a long one, even if I do not Include in it that of one worthy who has been claimed as an ornament of the Scotch-American race. Capt. Kidd, the well-known?or, shall I say. the notorious ??pirate. "In the list there are four presi? dents, whose names and lineage are undeniably Scottish, without counting other presidents Scotch on the moth? er's side. There is the greatest of your chief justices, John Marshall, in whose intellect it does not seem fan? ciful to discover that Scottish origin which appears also in his name. But perhaps the most typical Scot in character and gifts among your statesmen is John Caldwell Calrioun. He applied to politics a thoroughly Calvinlstlc theologly that formed the logical precision and stringent sym? metry of Scottish ecclesiastics, or whether they took to the Calvinlstlc theology because It so exactly suited their natural bent and taste, might be a curious subject of Inquiry. He was a close reasoner, an inflexible logician, who carried out his principles with a consistency which strank from no consequences, and he had a stern dlg nh t which well befitted his Intellec? tual parentage. "Calhoun and Jackson are almost the last of the mien characteristically Scotch and Scotch-Irish, who figured prominently In your political life. There have continued to be eminent men of letters, though no conspicuous poet, for Edgar Allan Poe, though of Irish extraction, was not a Scotch Lrishman. There have been famous Inventors, like Robert Fulton." ReV. Jere Wltherspoon, D. D., of Richmond, Va., offered the invoca? tion, and Rev. David Walter Woods, of Gettysburg, Pa., said the benedic? tion formally concluding the exerlcl ses. Both clergymen are descendants of the noted divine. The statue is mounted on a marble pedestal, upon the front of which is written in bronze letters: "John Wlth? erspoon, 1722, Scotland; 1794, Prince? ton." On one side is inscribed "Pres? byterian minister," and on the other "Signer of the Declaration of Inde? pendence." On the back of the pedestal is a bronze plate bearing the following quotation from the famous speech of Wltherspoon: "For my part, of property I have some, of reputation more. That rep? utation is staked, that property is pledged on the issue of this contest; and although these gray hairs must soon descend into the sepulcher, I would Infinitely rather that they de? scend thither by the hand of the exe? cutioner than desert at this crisis the cause of my country." CVT HIS THROAT. Ilaggugemnstcr of Train Robbed at Wnrrenvllle Commits Suicide to Avoid Investigation and Arrest. Augusta, Ga., May 27.?George P. Humphreys, white, baggagemaster on thi Southern railway, who was on the train on the night of the recent sen? sational express robbery. cut his throat on the street here tonight and died .shortly after midnight. Pinker tens searched his hOIHS yesterday. In I note tO his wife he denied participa? tion In tile robbery and said that he would kill himself to save her and their tWO babies the disgrace of his arrest, When thS woman saw the lOti she alarmed th* mans brother. Ths brother went to earcn oi Hum? phreys and under an electric light B so lars ahead saw him slash hit throat with a razor. Industry la the watchdog that keeps the wolf from the door. The dog has no aversion to a pOOT family.?Chinese. Virtue that parleys Is near a sur render.?French. LEMSON'S ELECTRIC RAILROAD College to Own Line to Cnlhoun?Will Mean Great Saving in Time and Trouble. Greenville, May 26.?In the near future Clemson College will be oper atting its own electric line. The mat? ter has been under consideration by the trustees for some time. In fact, when the new boilers and dynamo were installed last summer they were made amply powerful to supply all local demand on them at the college, nd also to run the electric line from Calhoun to the college. The road will be laid with 90-pound rails, and so ballasted as to bear the heaviest trains. Coal, of which the college uses a great deal, has now to be hauled in wagons at great expense and loss of time and so with all other freight. This fall they expect to han? dle all freight to the college in the original cars drawn by their own mo? tors. It is the intention of the college finally to extend the line to connect rift) Cherry station on the Blue Ridge railroad. The early completion of the oad will mean much in freight haul.s. to say nothing of the convenience to visitors and others having business at f i' mson. -j PROTECTION' OF SUGAR. Senators From Louisiana Speak for Home Industry. Washington, May 25.?The senate passed over the lumber schedule of the tariff bill today and took up thai on sugar. Representing the great cane sugar producing State of Louisiana, Senator Foster, although a Democrat, made a plea for the protection of the sugar industry. Asking that the same consideration be accorded sugar in the tariff bill as is given other industries, he spoke at length in favor of sustaining the du? ties on raw and refined sugar as pass? ed by the house and recommended by the committee on finance. "If the revenue provided In this bill from the importation of sugar," said Mr. Foster, "Is necessary for the honest and economical administration of the government, then it should not be disturbed." Mr. Foster said that in the United States sugar is sold cheaper than in any other country on the face of the earth except England. Mr. Tillman interrupted to say that sugar ought to yield a revenue, whereupon Mr. Foster laughingly said fee did not wish that offensive ^ * 9 1 "protection" to be used in conne tion with the revenue. Under the Dingley Act the production had Increased In value from $4,072,000 to $43,480,000 In ten years, he said. In reply to a question by Mr. Tillman, the Louisiana senator declared his belief that If the duty should be taken off sugar the domes? tic industry would be destroyed. "Then we farmers will have to pay to k^ep this Industry going," suggest? ed Mr. Tillman. Denouncing the trust as having out? raged every principle of honesty in trade, he still appealed to the senate not to strike a blow at the sugar in? dustry In order to punish the trust. "They should be punished," he said, "like criminals. Put stripes on them, but do not strike down a domestic In? dustry." Closely following his colleague, Mr. McEnery made no effort to conceal his protective predilection. "It is gratifying that at this session of con? gress," he said, "we notice a great change of opinion among Democrats who are voting for a duty on raw ma? terials, although at one time free raw material was considered a cardinal principle of the Democracy. I hope that the conditions of the country, its necessities and the liberality general? ly that is pervading all classes of the people, may dictate to the Democrats the abandonment of all the absurd theories of free trade and cause them to come in with the great body of the people and vote a liberal pro? tection for all the manufacturing in? terests of the country to make It as independent as the fathers declared It should be of all foreign nations." The Louisiana senator stated that, so far as he could discover, the Aid rich bill imposed no Injury to any domestic interests, "nor," he added, "has there been imposed in any of Its schedules any burden upon the peo? ple." MeEnery's remarks did not ap paar to be popular among the Demo cratS and toward the latter part of his Bddresi Senators Foster, Daniel, Ball e; Mini Bacon were the only Demo? crats who gave him attention. Xo \ ote was reached. Senator Beverldge knows that he is a 1 etter man than Aldrich. but And! it difficult to make the rest of the senators believe lt.?Philadelphia In? quirer, The most important fact for the tariff makers in Washington to re? member is that no revision will last long Which does not commend Itself to the sentiment of the voters as prog? ressive and rational.?New York Trib? une. THE PREMIUM LIST. -o Solicit Subscriptions for the Twice a=Week Watchman and Southron. Valuable Prizes to bu Given for Work in Spare Time?Number of Prizes Unlimited. The Watchman and Southron which has been the family newspaper of Sumter County since the days of your grand-parents is now published twice a week?Wednesday and Saturdays?and is the biggest and newsiest countv paper published in the State of South Carolina. The puce remains the same as when it was published once a week only?$ 1.50 a year. At this price the Watchman and Southron is the cheapest and best family paper within the reach of the people of Sumter and adjoining counties. It gives twice a week the local, County, State and general news in a condensed and readable shape, as well as many timely special articles on farming, household and other topics. Mr. E. W. Dabbs, President of the Sumter County Farmers' Union will have editorial direction of a special department devoted to Farmers' Union News and Farming, that will be particularly interesting. The Watchman and Southron should go into every home in this section of Lhe State, and those who are not now subscribers can easily be induced to subscribe. As an inducement to those who have spare time to solicit subscriptions for us we are offering a number of valuable premiums for lists of new subscribers and we want agents in every neighborhood in Sumter, Lee and Clarendon Counties. ALL. PERSONS who desire to do so, whether they live in Sumter County or elsewhere, are cordially invited to act as subscription agents. All will be entitled to participate in the competition, will be paid for their work In pre? miums, commensurate In value with the value of the work performed or in cash, as they may prefer. 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