The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-22


thatthe best uan should win is 6ne j:
theory. but when Congressional cleo
ton in the Sixth District is the issue
tho theory cuts very small figure
Otherwise. j Monroe johnson woule
\ hare been the nomiDee
Gen Loagstreet is very old man
and the pablic, should make allowance
for his poss oupsial letter to the New
York World His letter was in bad
{ taste. but the article furnished BY bis
wife was even worse-and she is said
to be . very bright woman.
# the up country papers do moi
quit harping on John Gary Eva2s
campaign assertion that. he had to
send Col. Nell TO the Kelley Institute
al.d that the said Col Neil. should be
wearing stripes instead of running
D the penitentiary. explanations will
become necessary II appears that
some people imagine that there was
some truth in John Evans assertion.
Atlanta got . big advertisement by
inviting the yellow fever fugitives to
make that place haven of refuge,
bat as business move i has proven
decided failure To be cut Of
from Communication, business and
otherwise, with the remainder of the
South will hit the commercial inter
ests Of that city where the chicken
got the axe For once Atlanta's
play 10 the galleries has turned out
70 be : boorsarang.
Southern cotton mills can retain
their adysatage over Northern com.
pet;tofs only by purchasing cotton
from 'she nearby producers TO be
forced, as they have been this year.
80: purchase cotton in New York
aDd as far west as Memphis and
New Orleans. reduces the advantage
of location 10 minimum, if It is not
y St.s t
effaced altogether
IF the city council Of Sumter has
the right and authority to impose q
license tax.og ten, twenty or Fifty dol
lars per annum or p. month on a
merchant or broker, horse dealer OF
lawyer or physician. why can not a
licerse tax be imposed on original
package dealerez We seriously oh.
iiecs 10 paying any license tax. how
ever small it may be, if the original
package dealers are to to do business
free oftax. Aboriginal package dealer
Is engaged in business that renders
police force essential to the pre-
servation Of order on the streets, and
they should, rather than escape un
taxed, pay mech heavier tax than
any other.
Thomas J Mackey is engaged in
the very conamendab!e work of pre-
venting the appointment of negro
postmasters II South Carolina. He
had sufficient intimacy with the ne
groes IN carpet bag and scalawag
days TO speak by tn, book in respect
TO the desirabiiiiy of the negro in
official positions ssat will bring hi;a
into contscs viii, the white people.
and his expert testimony should have
weigh. with the job distributing de-
partmens of Wckih!ey's administra-
ton This paper is not an enemy of
the negro, and ne DO not believe that
say Que conversant with the facts
would SO charge, but we are most
decidedly opposed to the appointment
Of negro as postmaster in this city
There is no reason for appointing a
negro, there being several competent
and eligible white citizens applicants
for the position. aud the appointment
of any one of the number will be ac
cepsable to a large majority Of the
patrons Of the Office, while the mis-
taken policy of forcing a negro into
the position will give the greatest
dissatisfaction and offense. Sumter
does not want negro postmater,
and, In the circumstances. it is to be
: borod fhaf tbnsa uno control tho an.