The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-06-16
EDIToRIAL NOTES.

The Daily Critic, which succeeds
the defanct Charleston Daily Sun, is
bright and interesting sheet.
There are two factions in Reform
circles, and the leaders are toting
knives for each other 1t will be a
jolly scalping party when active hos
tiIities break out.
The Independent Republic is Hor-
81 Counsy's latest journal. Ills well
I printed aud we'll edited, and is val.
liable addition to the newspapers OF
the State.
The great blocks of high grade
phosphate rocks on exhibition at the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition af.
ford the most convincing proof that
the South Carolina Octopus does not
require large amount of official and
legal s,rangling to kill it dead.
The dispensary system is great
big humbug, and has served to cloak
wholesale rascality. but it never per-
petrated a greater swindle on the
State than when the treasury was
promised $4,000 with which to meet
cnrrent expenses during the present
fiscal year.
Eventually the State will have to
pay the Blue Ridge scrip, at all
events this seems to be the concen-
sus of opinion Of those who have
scrutinized the facts of the case most
carefully. and this being the case.
what sense is there in putting off the
evil day until payment is forced !?
Why not meet the issue at once and
make the best terms possible
The metropolitan police system of
Charleston is another humbug. and
should be wiped out of existence,
simply because it is failure, if not
for other and better reasons, which
have been cited 60 often that they
wosld be worn out, were they not
based on sterling truths and the un-
deniable principles of democracy and
home rule.
President Mckinley saw distinct
iYe;y Southern and Western exposi-
lion when he visited the Nashville
Centennial The most striking char.
act. ristic Of this exposition is the
great preponderance of exhibits from
the Southern and middle Western
States There are many things want.
ing G make the exposition fully rep
reseniative of the South. but it shows
the South to better advantage than
any exposition we have attended.
Presiden. Mckinley is bound hand
and foot by ante.elec,ion promises 10
Office seekers. consequently he can
not re,ain even Wade Hampton in
Office. The theory that "to the vic
tors belong the spoils'' is still IN the
ascendant. and the greater part of the
civil service talk is the merest Is pre-
tence. I
Senator Tillmaa's inyestSS OF
the senatorial sugar scandals is moth
ine more than another Of his sbrewd
advertising schemes The Honora-
bic Benjamin R Tillman is the
shrewdest, as well as the most per-
sistent and successful advertiser 10
America to day, aud he gets prefer
red positions IN all papers at no cost
TO himself He made himself poiitl-
cs:sv, using and abusing the newspa-
p-ss Of South Carolina. and now he
is working the papers Of the whole
cenn,ry
The Charleston metropolitan police
system is still keeping the Greenvl'ie
News IN an unsettled state Of mind.
Gov. ElIerbe is rot worrying himself,
Marshal j. Elnore Me-tin is calm
and serene, and there is no use in
The News getting hot in the collar.
Better run up to Paris Mountain and
get cool.
John Gary Watts was political
accident and a very bad accident