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Cjjt ?htrbnun ani voutjjran. Publbdied Wednesday and Saturday. ?BT? 0STE.EN PUBLISHING COMPANY 3UMTKR, S. C. Term*: $1.(9 par annum?In advance. Advertisement*: One Squar ? first Insertion.$1.00 ?very subsequent insertion.60 Contrecta for three months, or leaser will be mado st redaced ratea All communication, which aub ssrre private Interests will be chaxfsd fer ss advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of r?up?vt will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman eras found ed In 1810 and the True Southron In Itst The Watch nun and Southron new nas the combined circulation and ftaftuenee cf both of the old papers, aad is manifestly the best advertising aeedium In Sumter. ? ?g??WBggye^gs TTLLMAN, RICHARDS AND JONES. The following news article, of der political significance, probably than appe/.rs on the surface, was printed In the News and Courier Tuesday morning: "Columbia, Sept. 4.?That the re esnt visit of 8enator U .It. Ttllman to his home recently has no pol* leal significance whatever, was the dec? laration of Mr. John O. Richards this afternoon. Mr. Richards also says that conclusions which have been drawn from a supposed visit of Sen? ator Ttllman and Chief Justice Ira B Jones to his home at the same Um?, to the effect that Mr. Jones would have the political support of j Senator Ttllman and Mr. Richards, should he make the race fof Gover? nor next yeer, are entirely erroneous. "This statement was called forth by an editorial in the Sumter Item which has been copied In various State papers. This comment is ss fol? lows: "We hsve been wondering ( what would be the political outcome of Senator Tillman's and j Chief Justice Jones's visit to Mr. John O. Richard?, of Liberty Hill, and J while we have not yet found the answer, the following editorial In the Lancaster News Is somewhat lllumi net lag." "The editorial In the Lancaster pa- , per referred to Is merely a comment upon the current reports that Chief j Justice Jones would enter the race for Governor next year. After quot- ' Ing this the Sumter paper continues ss follows: "If Chief Justice Jones should enter the race for Governor j against Governor Bleaee and if he the assurance of the support of ktor Ttliman. Mr. Richards, and their friend*. Cole L. Bleese. will not serve two terms as Governor, nil pre- j cedents to the contrary notwlthstand- . ? "1 have read the comment In the columns of The News and Courier." j said Mr. Richards. "this statement fr^m the Sumter paper of a visit of Chief Justice Jones and Senator "Till Been to my house surprised MS very much. Senator Ttllman nnd I, as Is well known, have been warm person? al friends for a number of years. His visit to me had no political slg alflcanre whatever. Chits1 Justice Jonea did not \hrlt my home, while Senator Tlllmun was there, and therefor I do not see how the Sum? ter paper drew or came to Its con? clusions, which were entirely -mon eoua." In an article, written by Mr. K. W. Debts. Preaident of the State Farm? ers' t'nlon and Sumter County Union, under date of. "Dixie (10 miles East of Lancaster) Aus. 2*." and printed , in the Farmers' Union Department of the Watchman and Sotuhron. ! th? f... lowing paragraphs ipp".?r i "Hoa. Tom C. Hamer spoke on Wo .d raft and I SS PeWShSJS' T'nlon. The Junior Order of Mechanics' man, Hon. T. P. Mutbr. of Oaffney, failed to ISSJsSi After dinner Chief Justice Ira H. Jones made them a ringing speech for better agriculture and marketing of crepe. Some of hie friends tried to get him to make a political speech, but he told them politics would not be appropriate to the occasion. "Mrs, Ira P. Jones captured the writer and he had to plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the aSjgSjl when his friends ( auser end Koblnson put him down at the Judge's gate, whereupon he wsii im? mediately pardoned and sentenced to one nights hospitable entertainment! This morning he was Invited ta sc rompany Judge and Mra Jones to s dialog at Hon. John O. Richard's (10 snlles away) to mee>t Senato- and BJra Tlllman. It would have nevn a delightful auto ride In charming com? pany, bat the engagement to epenh at Douglas picnic mads It Impossible to accept." From this statement by Mr I abbs the "erroneous conclusion" referred to by by ("apt. Richard? was dniwn; and It appeared at the time the edl toriaJ that is worrying CepC filch was written?some days et bee qm nt tu th? publication of Mr. Daobs' letter?that the conclusion that Judge Jones had visited Cupt. Rl< harda while Senator Tlllman was also his Ktieat was not only a reasonable in? ference, but a fact, well substantll ? d by a creditde witness. However, in justice to Capt. Hichards it should 1?' stated In thla connection that Mr. l>abbs subsequently informed the edi? tor of thla paper that Judge Jones did not go to Capt. Hichards* on the day referred to as he had planned to do, and that unlese Judge Jones went at some other time during Senator Tillman's stay at Liberty Hill, the editor had been misled by his. Mr. Pabba' Lancaster letter. Therefore, It is a fact that the conclusion w*e erroneous, as Capt. Richards alleges, t ut nevertheless Justifiable in tho cir? cumstances. The political situation is still very much befogged and Capt. Richards' emphatic denial that Judge Jones will have his political support does not clarify it; and we are still guess? ing. Is Judge Jones a candidate, will Capt. Richards try conclusions with Oov. Please once more, can Mr. McLeod come back, will Mr. Manning enter the race, or will there be sev? eral candidates In the field against Oov. Rleaae? Perhaps all these guesses are wide of the mark and there will be a new champion brought foward. go."?? rgasj???1 ? ? 1 ? Senator Bailey, of Texus, who an? nounces that he will not seek re? election, makes a virtue of a neces? sity. The Democrats of the Lono Star State have grown weary of the rule of the Bailey machine and want a man to represent them who Is not atmtated with the Aldrlch-Lorimer faction In the Senate. The State of Texas and the Democratc party will be the gainers by the election of a real Democrat in place of Senator Pailey, who has, In recent years, voted with the Republicans almost as fre iiuently as with the Democrats. ? ? ? hTe decision of the State Board of Canvassers in the Oood Roads Bond ?lection contest, reversing the tindlng af the county board of canvassers and declaring the election a tie on the face of the returns, was not altogeth? er unexpected and is probably In the circumstances, the most expedient settlement of the dispute; but tho grounds on which the decision was rendered strike ua as peculiar and unsafe. For the State Board of ( Canvassers to declare that a voter is presumed to bo legally registered, in the absence of direct testimony to the contrary, even though his name was not on the registration books, prepar? ed and certified by the county board of registration, and when the said t?tet did not and could not produce! a registration certificate, when ask? ed to do so by the managers of elec? tion, as the law requires, la In effect to nullify the registration law and to throw down the bars for all sorts of irregularities in future elections. If a man Is presumed to be legally reg? istered when his name is not on the registration books furnished the managers as a poll list and when he goat- not produce a registration cer? tificate In proof that he had register? ed >?nd that his name had been left off the hook by the negligence of the r.upervlsors of registration, then the managers will be forced to permit any and all men of legal age to vote In any election or at any precinct at which they present themselves and 1 >mand the right to cast their bal? lots If Ills official list of registered ' ?ders la not the very best evidence of who are the legally registered voters, what Is? If proof of the fact that a cer'ain man's name did not gSOf on the registration book is not evidence that he was not a quall d elector, what sort of evidence would the State Hoard of Canvassers doasMsf satisfactory and conclusive? If the rule laid down by the S ate Hoard of Canvassers in this contest? that all voter? are preeunv d to I t qua!** -\ merely DSCaUss they were remitted to cast their ballots by the naaaagera?la to he adhered to ut the future we m: v look forward to con? fusion and all sorts of irregularitb ?? in elections hereafter held. ? ? ? An Injunction Is the readiest and moat dangerous weapon known to legal warfare if one knows how to use It. That a Col John P. Grace and Judge Memmlnger of Charleston an adepts in the use of this wuapon was demonstrated by the ease with whb h the Charleston Executive com? mittee eras knocked out In the roll purging sktrmlah. ? ? ? The Natlrnal Farmers' 1'nton in session at Hhawn*e. Oklahoma, has resolved to hold cotton for 11 cants during September and Octobr and 15 >cents during the balance of the sea? son. We belteve cotton la worth the BftSe filed and alao that the farm* *re can obtain their prlc? if they will bold out for It. If the members of th? Farmers* Ifgdog are governed by the resolution adopted by these rep rneenrat Ivpa at Shawnee the cotton market will take on a firmer tone Farmers' Union News j ?AND ? (Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers] ! (lYMMliKted by E. \V. bobbs, Present Far i tiers' Union of Sumter \ J County.) ( i Some Kandom Thoughts. Join the Farnn rs' Union and show to tho world that you intend to stand up for the rights of the farmers; that you are not only a farmer in fact, a sympathizer with or? ganized effort to help your class, but that you have actually joined hands with the Union to help in every way possible the uplift of farming as a profession." The above paragraph from the old Southern Cultivator In the editorial below on "What Can the Farmers Do That will help them to secure above 1-c for the present cotton crop," should be pondered well and soberly by every farmer outside the Union. We some? times bear 10016 men say, "I am as good a Union man a.i those in the Union," Just as some men say they are as good as some men In the church Now such men. by this very staement, indorse tne Union, or the i nireh, us a good institution, and by vhe very same utterance prove the very opposite of their claim. If it is a good thing, the Union, then the f; ; rner on the outside is net as good M the farmer on the inside for the latter is trying to do something for the cause he believes right, however feeble his efforts, or misguided his judgment, while the man on the out? side Is reaping the fruit of whatever success may attend the efforts of the Union, and Is not contributing one eent of his money or one minute of his time to make more effective the work of the Union. ? ? ? And 1 would be ashamed to say it, however mean some members of the Union or the church, may be. Such men may not know It, but they are more selfish and self-righteous and Pharisaical than the very men they criticize This Is plain talk, but it is true. ... I Most of the time of the County Union on Friday was taken up with routine business, except so much of if as was devoted to hearing from State Vice President Keller on the need of warehouses. Committees were appointed to secure subscrip- j tions to the warehouse plan of the State Union. Should it result In building another warehouse in this county Mayesville should bestir it? self to secure iL ? et The good people of Oswego gave a bountiful barbecue dinner, coffee, rreum and cake being sold for the benefit of the school. This is a good plan for the next county meeting of the Union. After dinner Mr. J. Frank Williams made a very interesting ad? dress on "Beautifying the Home." This Is a subject that should receive more attention and the union will do immediately and prices will advance. It is to the interest of the farmers to hold their cotton until they are paid what It Is worth and It is to be hoped that the influence of the Union will be great enough with members and non-union farmers alike to keep the larger part of the cotton crop until prices advance to the fourteen cents level. ? ? ? Now comes Fred H. Dominick, Esc.., of N'ewberry, law partner of Gov. Please, and stirs up the Col. Thos. P. Felder mess again. It will start people to asking when will Got. Bloaut sue Felder for slander and when \*lll ) elder publish that book he promised many months ago? ? ? ? The establishment of a hook worm dispensary In Sumter OOUnty will be of bsnoflt to a great many people, especially children, who are infested with the parasites and are not hav? ing a fair chance to attain their nat? ural growth. Dr. Stiles, when he lectured in the city about a year ago stated that every person who had SVar had ground-itch had had hook worms, and thla being accepted ns a fa< t, there are probably thousands of people In Sumter county now In need , of t real merit. ? ? ? , If Senator Bailey la alncere in his expressed hope that Texas will olfet a bettor man to succeed him In the Senate, why dosa he no* resign at once tnat?ad of waiting until his torm expires?1911. The great State of Texas can aurely aupply a better man than Bailey to vote on the Lorl mer case whan It again comes up In the Renata at the next regular session, s s s U Is rumored that Ex-Oov. John Gary Evans la a pQggibls opponent of Gov. Blease In tho gut?ernatoiial race. Thla would be one fight that we OOUld watch as a strictly dlslnter eetod sjvectator. well to have something along this lln~ at ?-ach meeting, especially the local Unions. ? ? ?? The next meeting of the County Uiiion will be in the Court House on 1st Friday in October. E. W. D. What Can The Farmers Do That Will Help Them to Secure Above Twelve Cents for The Present Cotton Ciop'.' Many farmers have personally put the above question to the editor, and no doubt more have asked themselves this question after reading our edi? torial in the lust Issue, and seeing the market rradually seeking a lower level. There are four things the farmers can do, each of which will materially sssist in keeping the price of cotton up above 12 cents. 1, Let the commercial world know that we S'ill hold or retire from this season's marketing 3.00O,COO bales, if necessary. If they want only 11,000. 000 bales, we will furnish them only this amount. We are not compelled to sell all this cotton, thank Heaven; !t will keep, and It should be ours to keep until they get ready to give us a fair price for it. This will certain? ly settle the question, if our farmers will come together and determine up? on this course in a way that will as? sure the cotton men that it Will be carried out. 2. Market the crop slowly. This we know is very difficult to get our farmers to do. From the field to the gin and from the gin to the market is the rule. While down in Thomas county this week we saw them rush? ing cotton into the gin during a shower of rain, and one man brought a bale that contained 500 pounds of seed cotton picked out the evening before while it is damp. It took four gins two hours to gin it. and he could not get an offer made for the bale after it was ginned. He will lose all tho way from |5 to $10 on this bale of cotton. They are rushing cotton in, selling it for 11 1-2 cents, and seed for $15 per ton, only half price. We asked the buyers why they didn't pay more, and they said because seed were so green. Then, why in the name of common sense, does not the farmer keep them until they get ripe? The lint will grow on the seed even after being picked until entirely ripe and thoroughly dry. Why not put your cotton in a cotton house, and allow it to do so? 3. Join the Farmers' Union and show to the world that you intend to stand up for the rights of the farmers; that you are not only a farmer in fact, a sympathizer with or. ganized effort to help your class, but that you have actually Joined hands with the Union to help in every way possible the uplift of farming as a profession. Our farmers will have either to join the Union or to suf? fer the penalty, which means many millions loss both in what they sell and in what they buy. The producer now gets only 4 6 cents out of every dollar's worth of produce sold. The middle man gets 54 cents?entirely too large a per cent. 4. Start this fall to grow more wheat, ?.ats, corn and to raise more meat. We farmers must not only be tslf>BUStatn!ng at home, but grow and raise ample supplies for all the hands on our farms. This is now a neces? sity if we would prosper, for with im? proved methods and increased use of commercial fertilisers, we can grow 20,000.000 bales of cotton. If ne want a fair price f<>r our cot? ton, this is the only sure way of ob? taining it for any length of time, oth? er remedies are but temporary. The cash demands upon our Southern farmers are now too great. We must keep the millions at home that ;.re sent away for provisions, and curtail our cotton acreage by growing all home supplies upon our own farms. We are doing better in this line, but we need to redouble our efforts at once, or by another season they will not pay ua 10 cents for our cotton. Enough said?now for aome real work along these four lines, and we will soon see an Improvement in the outlook. August has not been so favorable as July, and the crop will not exceed 13,000,000 bales. Only two State? have a prospect of any great increase?they are Georgia and Alabama, and this will not amount to over 1.000,000 bales.?Southern Cul? tivator. A Mixture for Winter GrSStng and Farly Spring Cutting. Man} "f our farmers are becom? ing Interested in something tO sow for winter grazing and early spring cutting for hay, Our writers and ex* perts are always ready with combina? tions of more or less virtue in them, bul It must 1 e of greater Inter* a to the fat mem to know of some mitxure that a good farmer has tried snd ^?.i:i!?i satiafa? tory. While over at auburn, we were talking to Mr. J. 0. Armor, and he told us that last Oct? ober h sowed four acres with 'he following amount Of Seeds and differ ent varieties: L' bushels of rye. 2 bushels of oats, bushels of sorghum, :;a pounds of hairy vetch, .'.'i pounds of Essex rape. 80 pounds of cat-tail millet. 3C pounds "f German millet He tald he never saw ;h?- same amount of grazing and hay gotten from four acres of land. The quality and variety was all he could ask. Af? ter grazing it heavily until the last of March, he then cut a fine crop of hay the last of April from this piece. Now anyone can proportion this mixture to any given area of land, and it is worthy of a trial.?Southern Cultivator. The Senator From Nevada. Senator Newlands of Nevada, who was for 10 years a member of the house, and who has been nearly as long in tho senate, is one of the most devoted students In public life, N-.i'.oe J?dsop C. Welliver [n Success Maga? zine. He gave the country its great. reclamation system, has been always in the adavnee of important reform measures, and hi a d< m i :rat big enough to see the m. Carnal view with? out being irregular. T toe Ugh for sound money, yet he has been the uniform and vigorous Supportes of Bryan, to whom indeed he is so close a friend that there are reasons why Newlands might easily prove to have Bryan's support for the presidential nomina? tion at a critical time. His state of Neva .la has but six votes in a nation? al convention; but California and the whole intermountain and Pacific country are Interested in making him a sort of cosmopolitan candidate. He has great business interests in Cali? fornia. Nevada and Washington; was born in Mississippi, eduae.ted at Yale and has long maintained important business relations with the biggest powers in New York. Senator Newlands has been trying to commit the senate to at legislative program which includes physical val? uation of railroads, fed'eral control of all capital issues of railroads and tho establishment of an interstate trade control of corporations ana? logous to those of the Interstate com? merce- commission over railroads. This latter proposal he has formu? lated* In a bill which is meeting an UU?X7 cetedly favorable reception. Chairman Clapp, the insurgent head of the interstate commerce committee In th.* senate, favors euch legislation and ha? taken s:eps to conduct a long and careful Inquiry with the purposn of demonstrating the need for it. Mr. New lands has not gone to far as to demand that thil trade commission Hx prices of trust controlled siaples, but Attorney General Wckersham, go i. i him one better, has even advo? cated such governmental policy. In his fairly tensational Duluth speech the attorney general declared that a I commission auch .is Newlandl has long favored was desirable, and might j prove absolutely necessary. Thus, surprisingly enough, the radical New lands, the conservatve Wlckershaju and the capitalistic Gary are found . practically at one in this startlinclv modem SOCallStlc, ;f you please, pro? posal for answering the questions that are raised by the conditions of the times. That competition has fahed effectively to regulate prices and con? ditions, and that the effort to restore it must prove fatuous, constitute the basic contention of people who be? lieve in these ultra-progressive meas? ures. j - Which Are Better? I _ I The Greenville News Is either In the dark, or the rural schools of Greenville are not all that they should be. The News says that the time will come when the graduate of the rural high school will take a stand along side the graduate of the city schools. If they do. the city high schools v/lll have to make consid? erable advance or the rural schools will have to go backward. We hope that it will be the former, for as things stand now the rural schoo.s have the lead on the city schools in most of the counties 01 the Stai??, It ; may be a hard pill for the towns to I swallow but It is a fact that the ru? ral schools are doing better work than the city schools. Gt\;> Green? ville a chance, 6he may catch up.? Florence Times. According to report received b* , The State from every county in tho j State the cotton crop will average I from 25 to 23 per cent, below nor , mal. The drought. unseasonable I weather and? the work of the st? . combine to cut down what prom i i , to be a bumper crop. j Two large droves of wild pig were seen on Wednesday afternoon by Mr. J. J. Kilgore at his home be? tween Newberry and Ebenerer. The pigeons wore going South. Mr. Mi i gore says that it was a pretty sight , to see them flying across. It Is a j very rare sight now in this section of country. A sure sign of approaching ' cold weather, so it is said. An Exception: The Foundling. Every mother's son of us has rela? tives us doesn't like.- Cuicago Newa New Line of Embroideries OUR new line of Fall Embroideries is now ready for the inspection of our friend*, and we feel pretty safe m making the statement that we never offered better values, and thai means a grot deal. The line embrace everything from a nickel to a dollar the yard. At to and 25 cents we are showi*;* valuer that would easily bring jofj more, but we sell as we buy, giving our ci r miers the benefit of our pick-up<. Corset Covers at 15 cents They might look attractive on nthei counters at a quarter of a dollar, but we prefer a quick turnover. Sacrificing Wash Goods We have a small remnant in high priced wa.-h stuff th.t we formerly sold at 35 and 25 cents the sard we are closing out at 15 cents. Our loss is your gain. O'Donnell and Company.