Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cht ffl&Ltttbinan anb Soutbron. Ti .1 The 8umt?r Pitchman wti found? ed la 1110 and the True Southron In 111! The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and Influence cf both of the old papers, and u manifestly the best advertising snedlum In Sumter. Blesse received a larger vote than Featherstone In both Anderson and Lauren* counties?the first being the birthplace of Featherstone and the latter his home. As both are dry counties, under local option, it is dif? ficult to explain the vote. But for thst matter we faii utterly to under? stand the strength that Blease de? veloped in the primary e ? s If McLeod had been an up-coun? try man the result would probably hsve been different. A bright young man with political ambitions should first of all establish a domicile In the Piedmont county where the voters are most numerous. e e ? Roosevelt has reorganized the An? anias Club and Is rapidly increasing the membership. e e ? Mayor Khett. and other progress? ive cltlsens of Charleston are trying to do something to bring about the Improvement of the water front. The dilapidated condition of the piers and terminals has long been a disgrace to the city and a serious handicap to the commercial development of the port. '"hnrb'ston has everything In the way of natural advantages that v gre il Mag >rf ?.'-; and but little else. e a e With a local option Senate and a State-wide House the liquor ques tlon will be as far from settlement as a political issue in South Carolina as It has been for the past eighteen years. ? ? ? The issue In the second primary is not liquor, but men. e a e The first primary proved conclu? sively that South Carolina Is opposed to a 8tate-wloe law. The people proved It in two ways?a large ma? jority of them voted for local option candidates for Governor and also e.ected a local option Legislature. a a a Mr. Featherstone. If elected Gov? ernor, vlll owe his election to the suffrafe of thousands of local op ttonlsa aud knowing, as he now does, that a major! :> of the people are op poseri to any attempt being made to force prohibition upon those counties that have voted to retain the county dispensaries, he will scarcely be so unwise as to persist in the effort to carry out the State-wide programme. It would be unwise and undemocratic and Impolitic, for It would be go? ing contrary to the expressed will of the people and would Injure rather than aid the prohibition cause by engendering needless antagonism. ? ? ? We supported Mr. Featherstone In 1S9I when he was a candidate for Governor, but not because he was a prohibitionist. We suupported him because, in our Judgment. he was the beat man In the race, for the further reason that we were confident that his election would not result In the enactment of a State-wide law. We hoped that his election would re? sult In the destruction of the corrupt dispensary ring and the future con du<t of that Institution in a decent honest and business like manner. We believed then that he was a big enough man and wise enough to rise ahme the narrow limitations of his platform and to meet and deal with issues and governmental questions In a eane. broad and reasonable manner, as ? iretimtsanees and conditions might require. In other words, that he was a safe man. and neither a bigot nor far: We entertain the same opin? ion near, end for this reason expect Ig vote for him next Tuesday. We trust a larsje majorltv of the people of Sumter county and of South Caro? lina will do likewise. ? ? ? We have discovered an error in the off! la 1 returns of the County Demo I rat! Committee. The error did not ??ffect the results, but to keep the rec? ord straight, attention Is nailed to It. In the return from Shlloh Mr. Hyatt is ? redited with fit votes, while Mr. M< Lend Is reported to have received none at this prectact The fact is Mr. Hefcsed received '>t votes at Bfctloa and Mr. Hyatt none. It was not to he lelleved that T. G. M<-Lend would have been scratched at Shlloh. This makes Mi 1,.I s vote In Sumter coun? ty MM, instead of 1.0*7, out of a total of 1.781. ? ? ? Sumter bounty did not poll a full vote In the first primary. It being 222 b--< than In 1..0S and only 11 more than In 190*5. Turn out next Tuesday and give Featherstone a full [ ote He ought to receive 1,T>00. An? sel received 1.417 to Hlease's 643 In 1'io?<--nnd Ansel was never what could t?*? |eeajsa4 popular In Sumter county NOT \ I wvric. The subjoined letter, which was printed in the Charleston Post Sat? urday should set at rest any fears the local optlonists may have that Mr. Feathestone, if elected Gover? nor, will pursue a radical policy and attempt to force a State-wide law through a local option legislature. The writer of the letter, Mr. W. W. Hall, is a close personal friend of Mr. Featherstone, hut not a prohl tionlst. and we take and accept his word for it that Mr. Featherstone will he reasonable and not irre? trievably radical. A Word as to IVathor.stone. MttOff Evening Post. Sir:?Then could be no more mistaken idea in any Charleston man's mind (if any such idea exists.) than that C. C. Featherstone Is unfriendly to Char- j leston. Exactly opposite is the case. He believes in prohibition and he be? lieves In the enforcement of the law. I speak from a close friendship with him of more than twenty years duration whtn I say that he Is not a lunatic, but a man of vigorous, r lear-cut views. He has abundant common sense; he knows human na? ture and he is widely experienced in business affairs Leaving the liquor question aside, I believe that the peoole of Char? leston would have in the Governor's office in Mr. Featherstone's person a friend not only with the will but with the capacity to heir them in the com? mercial aspirations of their com? munity and I know that the Mayor or the Chamber of Commerce of Charleston would find him always eager to help in promoting the pros? perity of the State's metropolis and principal port. Throughout South Carolina Charleston has always had friends and Mr. Featherstone has al? ways been one of them. I do not attempt to reconcile Mr. i'Vatherstone's prohibition views with those of the people of Charleston?or with my own, for that matter?but there is not going to be any change in the existing whiskey laws?at least none In the direction of prohibition. The Legislature is in favor of local option between county dispensaries and prohibition, which is the law now. In the enforcement of the law in Charleston, Mr. Featherstone would be firm but considerate and open to consultation with the people of Char? leston. Those citizens of Charleston who believe that the law should be observ? ed would find him not only approach? able but glad to advise with them and there would be no conflict be? tween any citizen of Charleston and the Governor so long as there existed the common ground of a sincere mo? tive to work out a delicate and com? plex problem to the best advantage of the city and the State, and so long as no compromise with the Governor's oath of office was Involved. The State-wide prohibition ques? tion Is for at least two years dead. If the people of Charleston want a Governor who has a strong mind, who is not less well disposed towards Charleston than he is towards any other South Carolina city; who fully understands the Importance of Char? leston and how Its prosperity Is In? terwoven with the prosperity of the commonwealth; who is a frai.k, square dealing, honest man of up? right and pure life and who has un? usual ability, they can get him In I Vatherstone. Anyway, that Is what I believe and I speak from Intimate relations with him extending over a long period, relations of a personal business and political nature. W, W. BALL. Columbia, Sept. 2. CARD from MAYOR (olk l. 11 li'.ASK. To The Voters of Sumter County. 1 am deeply grateful for the mag? num snt Note which l received for Governor In the tirst primary, and 1 Utk? tiiis method of expressing my thanks for those you give me in \ our county. Leaving my home county of New berry with a handsome majority, and leading all the other candidates in the surrounding counties of Lexing? ton, Union, Saiuda. Fatrfleld, and Luureni?the latter county being the home of Hon. c. c. Peothertsone, who is my opponent in the second race? my vote was general throughout the Statt , without regard to geographical lines or to vocation in life, in seven* teen of the forty-three counties, al? though there were six candidates be? fore tbe people 1 received more votes than any other candidate. Having le.l bv several thousand votes in the firs! primary, and with the new AMU ran es of support which have come t'> me, i am confidently expecting to i e nominated for Governor in the second primary. I have sought to place rnv campaign upon a high plane, seeking the votes of the People only on my own merits. If ?der ted. I will be the Governor el the whole people, without regard to section or class. t desire to warn tbe \oters against l k .enth-hour rumors and falte cbarges. t shall deeply Appreciate the snf rage? of tbe Democrats of Bumter < OUnty In the second primary. Respectfully, I ot.F L. DL11A8R, Newberry, s. c, ?ept ,t, iruo. FOUR "SENTENCED" TO CHURCH. Spartanburg Mayor Adopts a Novel Method of Punishing Offenders. Spartanburg. Sept. 5.?Lack, Alli? son. Hub McAbee, Gabe Huttley and ('barley Dryman must go to church for the next three Sundays, regard? less of inclination, weather or other condition. That was the order of Mayor l,ee in police court today, when the four defendants, found guilty of being drunk, showed that a fine or a chain fang sentence would be a hardship on those dependent on their earnings for a living. This is the first sen? tence of the kind on record in this court. Lessons of The Rull Campaign. One reads a great deal about the immense fortunes which the leaders of the bull campaign In cotton have made, and It is generally thought that these fortunes stand for noth? ing more solid than a lucky guess at the course of the market. * Hut, as a matter of fact, no view could be more erroneous. In the first place, the bull campaign was primarily bas? ed on the belief that the crop of 1909 would, at best, be far below the world's needs, and this belief was af? terward borne out by the figures. Yet no clique of mere gamblers could have lifted the price to the famine level by accumulating enormous lines of contracts, for such a clique of gamblers would have overtraded themselves and paid the penalty which overtrading Invariably brings. This campaign has been fought along quite opposite lines, as witness the ease with which the bulls took actual delivery of seven hundred thousand bales and proceeded to distribute the stuff among the mills. To "mer? chandize" a commodity on so grand a scale requires not only vast amounts of cash, but also a most expert knowl? edge of the business. Intricate problem! of banking, Insurance and credit arise and these problems must be solved with absolute precision, else the outcome of the campaign will be a Waterloo, Instead of an Austerlitz. Time and again have bull cliques collapsed, when they came to deal with the cotton itself. Mr. Sully, for Instance, went bankrupt, at the very moment when his triumph seemed sure. Eight hundred thousand bales of contracts may be carried through ordinary fluctuations with a capital of eight million dollars, whereas sixty millions are needed to pay for the same quantity outright. The bull clique found the sixty millions with ease, as they could not have done, il they had been speculators, pure am\ simple. Consider, again, the indomitable pluck with which the Southern op? erators withstood the assaults of the allied bears who sold and sold, with? out regard to price or statistics, in the hope that sheer weight of cash would ultimately decided the issue. The whole atmosphere of the New York Cotton Exchange was hostile and some of the weapons used were unworthy of merchants. False ru? mors were circulated and the wires were kept hot with pro? phecies of panic. And, indeed, these tricks had a certain mo? mentary success, for there was a decline of fully three cents from the highest point of the first boom and overdaring bulls were "ginned out" in the process. Hut the Big Four stood to their guns, as a veteran army does, and took their punish? ment like men. In the end, the or? iginal facts told and the remanant of a famine-crop brought famine-prices. It must be remembered that each grade and half-grade, from Fair to Good Ordinary, is tenderable on con? tract. The bulls thus came into pos? session of a stock which had almost as many hues as Joseph's coat. Now the bulls had to know where each quality would find the readiest outlet and keep in intimate touch with ulti? mate consumers. The mill which spins a particular grade would not buy another, at any price at all. The details and labor essential to the re? distribution of 800,000 bales cannot be imagined by people who have not passed their lives in the trade. Nev? ertheless, the thing had to be done, for some mills had a surplus which was drawn to New York, while oth? ers had to buy in that market, or ? lose their doors. Bagehot has well said that a million dollars, hidden away In innumerable stockings and cupboards, is of no use to commerce, though the same sum quickens en? terprise and Industry, if it be on de? posit with the bankers of a metro? polis. So, too, It may be said that the eight hundred thousand bales which the bulls have handled would have been comparatively useless, if they had been scattered over the earth in small lots. Thus we see that the bull clique has performed an economic function and we may asume that tlv^ profits has not been excessive, as measured by the toll and the risk. \iter all. the real benefb larh s arc the farmers of the South who have Sold one crop at hands tue prices and who are likely to ?et full value for another, now thai the New Yori< bears' autocracy Is gone.?New Or? leans Times-Democrat, Farmers' Union News ?AND jPractical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, President Runners' Union of Sumter County.) The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by semi-weekly publication, would improve that service by special features. The first to be Inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and Practical Farmers which I have been requested to conduct. It will be my aim to give the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end officers, and members of the Union are requested to use these columns. Also to publish such clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern? ment Bulletins as I thins, will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori? ginal articles by any of our readers telling of their successes or failures will be appreciated and | -abllshed. Trusting this Department will be of mutual benefit to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for ti ls Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs. Mayesvllle, S. C. $500 MORE A YEAR FARMING; HOW TO GET IT. By Giving Better Preparation of the Land foe Oata and Wheat. By Tait Butler. Porbably more acres were sowed to oats last year, throughout our terri? tory than ever before. This is par? ticularly true of the Middle Southern States. Wheat was also sowed more generally than usual in some parts Of the South. Indeed wheat was sowed last fall in parts of Louis? iana, Mississippi and Alabama, where none had been grown for many years. As a general rule the crops of wheat and oats have been fairly good, but the preparation and seed? ing, especially of the oat lands, were not such as they should have been. These small grain crops are not cul? tivated after seeding and for that reason thorough cultivation of the land before sowing is essential to good yields. In all cases it is cheap? er to cultivate a crop as far as pos? sible before it is planted, but In the case of oats and wheat it is doubly important to do this since it is the only cultivation which the crops can receive. There is another factor dependent upon our climate condi? tions which renders the thorough and careful preparation of the land for seeding to wheat and oats espe? cially hup >rtant In the cotton belt. We would not be the wonderfull) fine cotr<.n produ ,:ir. ??entry we are were it n< t for the usual dry weather of September, October and j November. This dry season is the time for sowing wheat and oats, for the spring oat is of little value and, of course, no one thinks of sowing wheat in the spring. We doubt, however, if spring sowed wheat would be much more unsatisfactory than spring sowed oats. We would not sow oats in the spring. They do not pay and more feed will be se? cured from some other crops, such as millet and cowpeas, both of which may be grown on the land the same season. The preparation of the oat and wheat land is for fall seeding and the usual dry weather at this time must be the main point kept in mind. If the oats and wheat are to follow a crop of cowpeas or soy beans and the land was thoroughly broken when the legume was sowed we would prefer that the land be not rebroken unless it is done a consid? erable time before seeding time. But on the other hand if the breaking can be done at the right time, we would always, in this climate and with our lands, which are deficient in humus, prefer to have the land well broken for each crop. In fact we would like it broken deeply and pulverized most thoroughly; but this is most difficult to accomplish and is undesirable unless the breaking is done at least a month before time to sow the oats and wheat. If the land can be broken a month or more before seeding time we would pre? fer to proceed as follows: First, disk and cross-disk the land before plow? ing. If this be done, the trash or weeds or other vegetable matter is cut up and can be plowed under much better. Moreover, if thus cut up, this trash will be less likely to prevent the land settling down so as to prevent drying out. The chief rea? son for objecting to breaking the land for fall seeding is that it may be left too loose and open and thus dry out so there will not be sufficient moisture left in the soil to germi? nate the seed. A large amount of coarse grass, weeds or other trash, that has not been cut up by disking favors this drying out process. Another reason for the disking before breaking is that land that Is too dry for breaking satisfactorily, and breaks up in large lumps, can be broken with entire satisfaction after it is disked, even though the disks do not enter the ground but a short distance. The dishing and cross-disking mark the land off in a manner similar to the scratching of the glass by the Klass cutter, and when the ground Is broken It breaks along tlcse disk lines and the lumps or clods are small and more easily pulverized. If, however, the land still breaks up in clods, or in any case, the land should be harrowed with a smoothing harrow immediate? ly after breaking. First, the clods are much more easily pulverized than they will be at any later time until dissolved by heavy rains, and second, the harrowing will help t? at once settle the land back into a position which will tend to prevent too great drying out or loss of moisture. To do this harrowing to the best ad? vantage the plowing should stop long enough before taking out for dinner to harrow all that has been broken that morning. The same thing should be done in the evening and all land broken since dinner har? rowed before the finish of the day's work. At least one or two additional harrowings should be given the land before seeding, at intervals of, say two weeks, or as soon after a rain as the land is in condition to work. If the land is broken in this way and at least a month before seeding we think that it will generally pay to break the land for fall sowed crops. Of course, this amount of labor put on the oat and wheat lands in j creases the cost of the crop, but if I done with a two or three-horse team to each man, it will usually pay and Is not too much cultivation I to give the land for any crop. The rush of other work at this season of the year is the reason gen* ? rally given for failure to better pre? pare the land for the fall sowed ( tops, hut if we do this work with a maximum of hors e and machine power and a minimum of man labor this objection is largely overcome. In case the land is well broken for a pea crop, and we repeat that in such a case we would prefer not to break it again unless it can be done some time before seeding and the land harrowed as above described, then disking alone may be sufntoem. We advise a thorough disking som* time before seeding and followirg with a harrow, and then giving it another disking and harrowing be? fore seeding. In a very dry season, or if no rain is received on the land after it is broken and before seeding, it is frequently found that a better stand is obtained when the land is simply disked and harrowed Instead of being plowed. Better preparation '< of the oat and wheat lands Is the i point to be aimed at. but we must i always keep in mind a settled seed bod, which will bettor retain the needed moisture to germinate the seeds.?Progressive Farmer. TWO FAID FROM GRACE. Spartanburg Men May Serve Suspend ded Chain Gang Sentence. Spartanburg, Sept. 5.?Frank Dear mon and Ed. Abbott, under suspend? ed sentence of a year on the county chain gang, were arrested and plac? ed in the county jail this morning by order of Special Judge W. B. Gruber. I'nless an appeal Is taken to the SivV preme Court they must imm begin their sentence. Dearmon and Abbott wer guilty of gambling several ye. A tine of $100 and sentence year were imposed, but later x ponded during good behavior, months ago they were caught in a and convicted on the same charge. So-j licitor Otts issued an order j the men to show cause wb should not be enforced, was argued at the last tei Sessions Court. The decisic Court was not announced ui, morning. The grand old warrior, , "Sunny Jim" Sherman, having buckled on his armor for one more desperate battle upon the field of glory, will preceed to slap somebod3' upon the wrist.?New York Press. How About Your pALL PRINTIN -=9= ========= # 1 THERE is no use sending your work out of town any longer, and then have to contend with numerous and avoidable delays, and besides nine times out of ten, be disatisefied with the job. Give us your next order, even if it be a small one, and you will be so well pleased that you will continue to be our customer for life. Be Patriotic; Patronize a Home Indus ?? try, and Watch Us Grow ? Osteen Publishing Co Phone No. 30. 18 W. Liberty St. Sumter, S. C.