The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The time for psying taxes has been
extended to February LIST.
The Freemaa appears this week as a
semi-weekly. The publication days are
Tuesday and Friday
Stokes aud Evans have replied to
Gen. Hamptou's answer to their opeo
letter. Read it 10 aoother column.
The cause Of the wonderful meteor a
week or Two ago is now explained. A
dispsnsary constable has been given q
dose Of hickory by few negroes
Eighteen aioe.y-f four is much better
year than ninety-three; the one IS tuil
of hope acd promise, the other has given
us all of good and bad 'ha. it possessed.
The Spartanburg Herald very justly
condemns both the whipping Of the dis
pensary constable BY negroes aud the
threats nov being made BY the refaw-
mers against the negroes.
The anti-Tammany democrats Of Ne"
York are moving to purify the politics
Of the city aud restore the party to a
position ef responsibility. May they
succeed in the Hercnlean labor.
Gov. Tillman enjoys his little joke
nov aud then. When be paid his taxes
by telegraph on the las. day. it was I'M
mediately sarmised that the time would
not be extended. But it has been, and
he has tbe laugh On his critics.
The City Council Of Columbia has
positively aud decidedly refused to turn
the police of that city into dispeosary
conssables as required BY the infamous
new dispensary las on pain Of forfeiting
the city,s share Of the dispensary profit.
The Orangeburg Times and Demo
crat is severe on the Secretary of State,
james E. Tiadal. who wants to be
Governor. It says that be is man
without bacxbone. We have heard It
said that j. L. NJ. Irby once said about
the same shiog concerning the same
mao.
The dispeosarY spy system is produc-
ing its leg,timate results. B'oodshed
and murder have commenced, and much
more blood will be spilled,if the Ad-
mioistrasion persists in the attempt to
rule the State BY means of an army os
hired spies,.sho have authority tc.shoot
and murder those Who do net submit
meekly to then.
The reform papers are still struggling
to find an excuse for the State printing
steal. and with little success. The best
that can be said about Is is that is was a
fraudulent perversion of the peoples
money to sappor. the Register. The
latest excuse is that the committee came
to the conclusion that the bid OF
the Bryan Printing, Co., was put in
for the express purpose of weakening the
Reqiaer. A lame excuse. truely for
4uandering public funds.
The majosity Of the June Bug
Legislature proved themselves to be
Refawmers and not reformers BY side
tracking with scans consideration the
Manning Australian Ballot bill. They
do not desire true reform, nor the
settlement politically, Of the negro ques-
ton in this State. The negro dom.
ina.ion bugaboo is too valuable as a
vote gamer, aud they would not have
it disposed Of under any consideration no
matter to how great ex.eut the we'll
fare of the State would be advanced By
settlement.
Gov. Mitchell. Of Florida is 6rm
in his determination to prevent the
Corbett- Mitchell prize fight in jackson
vile, and the respectable people of the
whole country hope that he can legally
succeed in preventing this moral out
rage. The matter has beer taken into
the courts by attorneys Of the prize
fighters who are equally determined that
sbe fight shall take place. Gov. Mitchell
says that he will obey the ruling of the
Supreme Court. only. and that in the
e~tremiev he has the power to invoke