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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Columbia, S. c., November q
The rain and wind this week, hope,
means that VIC are to have clear wealth
CT next week for the State Fair. Main
street has Il Fair appearances already,
and there arc TO be attractions for the
visitors at every corner and cross
street. The horse men are already
here with their horses, training unem
to the tracks. The railroads will all
run special trains to the city and every
thing bids fair to make next week q real
gala week in Columbia. Large crowds
are expected, and rs have said before
TO many people, the crowd is the prin-
cipal attraction. | like to see the
country people 90 TO the State Fairand
like to sec them take the children. 1t
gives them an opportunity to take Il
trip To the capital Of the State at small
ON
like to sec Ncwbcrry College come
down III Il body. | do not believe Pres
idcnt Cromcr cnhlt spend II day moro
prolitably to IT,. boys than to bring
them all down to the Fair, say on
Thursday, and to come in 4 body would
make Il good show for Ncwbcrry Col
lcgc. OF course to come on Thursday
would mean practically two days lost
from books, but what would bc lost in
that way would he gained by the trip
Mr.. President, bring all your boys and
the girls, too, and spend one day at the
State Fair and in taking Il look at Co
umba.
| have been very busy for the past
two weeks and have missed one or two
issues with my Columbia letters. Here
after | hope to give letter for each
paper. hope to make them interest.
ing to the readers, but sometimes |
find it II little difficult to know just what
to write.
*x*
TO return to the Fair, it would be in
tcrcstinG just now to visit Columbia and
ccthc work in progress on the Scabourd
Air Limo. Capt. Y. t. Mcl}cc is super
intending the work in person and has
several hundred hands at work and
nearly as many mules and has put mp
an electric plant and is working night
and day. | have learned that he pro-
IN n hir fSr,n in, h,>, Il,
work next week, SO that Fair visitors
may form some idea how moo ,rn rail
road building is carried on. Then
just cross the river in Lexington Coun-
ty, the Southern has Il very large force
ut work building Il short limo from
Caycc's TO Pcrry's.
Xxx
Judge Aldrich has not yet filed his
decision in the Douthit matter and in
the meantime the correspondence Of
dispcnsary officials keeps up in the
daily papers and they continue to sling
ink and cpithcts at one another. The
newspaper folks tell me they arc going
to give the public q rest from this sort
of stun during Fair week and for this Il
long suffering public should be thank
full.
*x*
Gov. McSwccncy has issued his
thanksgiving proclamation and makes
1t conform in date to the date fixed by
President Mckinlcy~-Thursday, the
Both Of November. We have much for
which to be thankful and the day
should be observed in the manner in
which it was intended and not in frolick-
ing and carousing.
*x*
Some time ago the State newspaper
was trying to organize IL movement to
shut Senator Tillman out of the COL
umns OF tho newspapers on the ground,
believe, that tho free advertising he
got from the press was what made him
strong in the State and with the people.
1T was tho same old story Of locking tho
stable after the horse had gone, even
!! it had been successful. Now, how
ever, notice that the State ncwspa-
per wants to throw wide it's columns to
Senator Tillman and invites him to
rush into the dispensary correspond
encc that the papers have been print
ing for several days. l suppose the
State newspaper feels that the CORE
spondence ccds<something to give it
life and interest, and IL knows that
Senator Tillman is q strong and vigor.
ous writer. Or it may be thatit thinks
all this mess is som ewhat hacked the
Senator and he would be at loss Just
how to proceed. l have wondered why
the daily papers would allow so much
"rot" TO go into their columns and give
such latitude to the writer's Their
opposition to the dlspensary has led
them to prostitute their columns. II
Al thern has hnen wrnnn dnirn nnl ~.