The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-01
THINGS POLITICAL
'OKECAsr OF THE MEX e CAMPAIGN
No Lack Of Candidates-Thero VIII BE OPP
position For Almost All or tho State ON
cors And In Cong ressi onal Districts.
Somo Now Timber OHoring.
(Florence Times.)

to got up rally at Columbia has in
no wise disappointed them or damp
oned thoir hopes, and rs has beon
stated in this correspondence before
several little "boomlets" s"were hatchod
in tho capital city during tho recent
state fair. It is almost certain that
tho prohibitionists will have candi-
date for governor in the field even if
they do not put out full state ticket,
rs was done in tho last campaign.
This was against the advice of many
of tho wisest heads in the faction.
1t is not at all improbable that
Schumpert will try his strength with
the people again This year, his vote
last time being, in Wow of all the
circumstances surrounding it, a very
complimentary ono.
Many political prophets predict his
reappearance as an independant
candidate on the stump though others
think lie will wait and acquire moro
strength.
The opponents of Senator Tillman
have kept carefully in the shelter of
the woods. His scat is regarded rs
pretty secure but it is more than likely
that Youmans will put fow pounds
OF something like dynamite under it,
enough to make it warm for the
senator.
National issues will not figure very
largely in the campaign. The people
Of South Carolina are pretty we'll
agreed on the Chicago platform, and,
unless man has some really new
argument to bring out against it, he
had better leave it alone or stay at
home. The people have evidently
weighed the stock arguments and
settled them in their own minds.
1t is hard to forecast the lines on
what the campaign will be made for
the legislature. The dispensarv will
certainly get into it some how or the
candidates will have to do some very
awful dodging.
Already the indications for battle
in the different congressional districts
are strong. In the sixth district there
will he warm fight for Congressman
Norton's seat. Hewill certainly have
one and may be three opponents.
Among those spoken of are Solicitor
Wilson, State Senator Scarborough,
Solicitor Johnson, and others are
sometimes mentioned.
Latimer and Tolbert have had
their seats long time and some of
their constituents are talking very
plainly on the subject of rotation.
Stokes and Wilson will both have
opposition and in the first district J.
w. Barnwell is spoken of to oppose
Col. Elliott, Charleston wants the
Congressman. She wants seversl
things that n Congressman from that
city could work with more zest than
ono from another seaport. There
does not seem to be much talk, 80 far
as this writer can learn, of opposition
to Finley.
In the matter Of the gubernatoral
race McSweeney will certainly be in
it again.
Whether Featherstone will lead the
prohibitlonists or not cannot be posi-
lively asserted.
Schumpert may be in it, and learn
that the Warwicks of Barnwell are
: grooming. A. Howard Patterson
who has been spoken of for so long
as a. probable candidate, and that
they will enter him in the race this
year. A strong effort was made to
bring Mr.. Patterson out in the last
campaign and it is understood that
he has been gradually attaining what
seemed to be the acme Of his ambition
Elesha to Tilmann's Elijah. He will
come out as the dispensery champion.
Some Of his friends have rather lost
patience with Mr.. Patterson for what
they regard as successive "bluffs" on
his part which came to nought.
They are inclined to quote the old
stanza.
! He fears his fate too nicely ..
Or HIS deserts are small,
Who fears to put it to the Touch
And make or lose it ALL" +. s."
We have had parallel case in the