The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-12-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

e0ltorsnlp OF the Cnariestou COS"""y
Post. At the request of the directors
of the paper be will retain the editor
ship temporarily. During his connec-
,iop with the paper be has made it both
bright and influential; aud in saying that
we trust The Post may obtain an editor
as competent aud able as the one re-
,iring, We express our utmost good will
TIE Constitution has been made aud
ratified. If the state is much the better
off by the change we cannot see 1t.
Those who wauted chance to tinker
With the Law have been grati6ed. and
the tax LAYERS have paid the billie.
The Legislature will have to elect an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
at the uexs session. It could do DO bet
ter shan cleo, Hon. Thos. B. Fraser.
whose legal attaioments. integrity Of
character aud the esteem 10 which be
Is held by members of all parties
throughout tbs state, qualify him in au
eminent degree for the position.
Senator Call takes the American
view Of the Cobao revolution. When
America was struggling for indenen-
deues the Revolutionary patriots asked
and obtaioed assistance. We, as a
free na:iou, blessed with liberty, OBJ
sained by ,be assistance of another
nation, should not hesitate in assisting
those who COW fight against such great
odds for ,he same blessing. Cuba has
a right to govern herself aud America
should give then at least recognition, if
Tot material assistance.
The men who brutally murdered the
swo negroes in Colleton should be pros
ecu:,;l to the fullest extent of the law
ana punished with the 'extremest
pena:ty. A more iendish affair has not
bee, recorded in this State since Joho
Peterson was lyuched in Barnwell.
Senator Tillman has introduced a bill
in the Senate providing for the appro-
priasiou Of $4,000 for the payment of
she claims s Newberry College. This
IS good start aud his frs. bill will
have the best wishes Of everybody. 1t
is a ;uss claim aud should have been
paid long ago.
Senator Irby was not present to es-
cor. Senator Tiilman to the Vice Pres
ident's desk when he was sworn 10.
Was this by accident or design (? It
would have been pretty picture had
our senior Senator been present. The
dispatches would then have read: Sen
a'or Tillmau leaning on the arm of
Senator Trby 3 * * ETC. But
Irhy was got there!
Cotton is kept down by the specua-
tors and viii continue to be kept down
q, much as possible uu'il time 10 plant
the next crop Then it will jump up,
for large acreage is desired.
TIE D;spensary is making money
fight along aod there is 10 doubt now
about the profits amounting to some
thing handsome, 10 time. Had the
system proved Improbable there world
be some hope of riding the State of the
monopoly by remodeling 1t and elim'-
mating the objectionable features. but
since it is uooey maker it is become
a fixed Institution aud We must accept
it. bad feature and all. There are few
II any, who will now deny that the
system has excellent features aud that
it has wrought beneficial results ln
mauy respects.
Caarlestou's Fall Festival begins
today. and the country COUSINS . as
Charles,ooians SO quantity call US, are
invited 10 spend the week in the city.
I, will be week we'll spent, and we
hope that large crowd will 60 TO
Charleston The weather will pro-
aably be foe during the latter part Of
the week and none need be deferred
from going oa account of the threaten
ing clouds.
z.oI,,b;a "a 6oino more ira the way