The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-10

G0v4S ENWaH# 1le sS4os@ esao" s
& 3 Ae eesee y,hse ss
6xed Refawm is great scheme for
ofice-seekers Who have the good will OF
the bssses. ~
TSe sgoa1 issoser aud Ben Perry is
not ID e. Samuel A. Townes. Of
GrseSville, has been: nominated by
| iPresidsat Clevehud for Resenne
Gol.eeeor for South Carolina bis
nomioatioo has been expected for
zsveraf Heissa a good mao for
EEshe place .ad vss put in as oompro-
mise. candidate.
We wonder how long it will be before
Gov Tillm.u will conclude that Sum
|sef'a eiss Seonnoih 70 moi saahoieass
.ealous in enforcing the laws against
those Who Infringe upon the State liquor
uepopelya He, is alter the share
Belonging to the towns and will invent
some sub.effage to succeed. Hev do
those people who we're Influenced to
sien the petition BY the hope Of profits
fsel abou, the matter aowsa
Atlanta has gone to work With vim
and ENTHUSIASM preparing for an Expo
sisiou to be held next year: An
oresnizasiou. has been perfected and
SaO0. 900, raised s=so start With The
company viii be chartered With the
privilege Of increasing the capital to
$1.OeO. 600. Congress will be asked
to aid. .he.eeserprise, and the pushing.
energetio people Of Atlanta will leave
no means untried to make the Expo
saies igsessshov eyer held in ths
South. All this enterprise, this
energy, this assured talk Of such great
expeaditaresof money sounds strange
froma town, 10 which twelve hnadled
homes we're advertised to be sold for
taxes only few weeks ago. But it is
Ills thatpade Atsanta what she is, and
tbe people knowing the fact, propose to
keep it up and to secure as great an
advertisement as possible ont of. i.
The South needs a few more Atlaatas,
or or rather ne should say many towns in
the Soatb need the spirit of Atlanta aud
erpeople:
We understand that the Refawmers
have concluded that it is no longer
needful to keep up the preteoce OF
= .s.setrenchment - aud reform" They
lfoa6a atbatah could no. retsench any
without affecting their own pap. which
was. not what they are here for; and
that IN any other case where cut was
made in one place an increase had to
be made somewhere else. Thus end
the chapter Of reform and resreech-
ment " The something rotten in
Denmark cry has been stilled these
many days; bus new we may say
With good cause. there is something
rotten in The State Of Denmark Be-
fore us passes in review a herd Of
grade COWS on their way to the Asylum
herd Of engrossing clerks: husthag .oa'
of the State House herd Of dfspen-
sary spies lawyers fees to the amount
of SIS. 900; weak, bus eringingly
willing organ. exis.ing By yirture Of
several A thousand doaasss slamelessly
slehed fsom the treasuss gang OF
negroes ruling Charleston. but Why
70 on. It is all matter Of record and the
reckoning will come utter time.
Col. Henry Wa.tersou. the distin'
guished Kentucky editor. is walking
into the Wilson tariff bill with spurs on.
He repadiases it as eonpfooise be-
tween q tariff for revenue only and the
old Republican protection. He demands
pure aud siuple revenue tariff sith
no hint Of incidental profession. He
wants the issue made in Congress on
,such bill, asd if there defested, be
s.ys the Democratic party can 60 before
the country with clean hands and clear
record with which to continue the fight
against the robber tariff and the robber
barons. He desires strict construc-
ton of the party platform in respect to
the tariff, and asserts that it would be
| hattor for o1l o,rt;aa if thie view ahonld