The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-04-11

o,.r r-..-: -, - % - fiiI,:,oated on
th. a.,5s Of a ec,esi1ble and party e:ncr-
cenc,: i! it be true that the Republican congress,
backed by the Republican administration dellb-
crate.r intends to trade upon the misery and the
iieip csslirso OF i;eop.e who have thrown them
selves upon mercy, then we say-and we be-
iicvc-that the country will make haste to de-
nounce and 10 condemn ana to rebuke iniamy
50 monstrous and so indetensiblc.
Great WasGing OF Tongues.
The foregoing paragraph from The
Star. together with the comment of
The Post. caused great ruction
among Republicans. Il great laying to-
gether of heads and 4 vast wagging Of
tonsues-in whispers. Their curses
We're deep if not loud. '-Ah. then and
there was hurrying to and fro" and
consultations held in hot haste in Sc
cret corners: much talk of an investi-
cation, which has not materaliZed ard
which will never materialiZe. Mark
Hanna took the bull by the horns and
swore roundly that the whole tale was
several different sorts of 4 lie. Where
upon The Star reaffiuned the truth Of
the interview and boldly stated that
the reporter who wrote it was repu-
table gentleman who stood ready to
make affidavit to the correctness OF
the same. Mark in his interview said
all the gable about the Porto Rican
tariff was nonsense, idiocy, rot, etc.
He said something offensive about the
Indianapolis Journal, Republican or
gan Of Indiana, whereupon Hon. John
C. New. its proprietor, who was q
statesman Of international reputation
before the Cleveland boss impinged
upon the public view, without any cir
cumlocution whatever. said, "Mar1
Hanna is an Internal old liar" That is
sad, awful, hair raising, stupefying, in
explicable-sad to hear one Republican
cursing another openly and above
board; awful because it is probably
true; hair raising by reason of the
audacity displayed; inexplicable be-
cause he put in the adjective "old."
Whether that time honored word has
any peculiar significance in that con-
nection do not know.
Another straw which shows which
way the wind is blowing is the splen-
did reception rendered Judge Crum-
packer of Indiana recently at his
Hoosier home by his fellow citizens
without regard to political affiliations
| for his vote against the Porto Rican
tariff bill The judge was the hero OF
the hour. and they are talking Of elect
ing him governor to show their feel
ines and as a rebuke to the rest Of the
Indiana delegation. Hon. James Taw-
ney, Republican whip on the Republic
an side of the house, has been missing
for some days from his usual haunts.
It is whispered around that Jeems is
at home in Minnesota endeavoring to
whip his recalcitrant constituents into
line. Whether he will succeed as we'll
with them as he did in whipping in
Republican representatives to stultfy
| themselves remains to be seen.
The news from Minnesota is that
Governor Lind has consented to run
for governor again and that the fusion
forces have high hopes Of sweeping
the state this fall as Old Harper OF
Kentucky used to run his horses
from eend to eend."
Democrats Get to Work.
Democrats are waking up and grid
ing ND their loins everywhere. Even
in Rhode Island they are making a
brave hand to hand fight. They may
not win. for all the powers OF Doodle,
corruption and coercion are combined
against them. but even the fact that
they have hope enough to fight IN
Little Rhody" should give Democrats
everywhere hearts Of oak. II they
should win out, the jig would be up
with William Mckinley. Indeed, a
great Republican newspaper IN Pslla-
delphia is advocating the side tracking
of Mckinley and the nomination OF
Thomas Bracket Reed as the only
possible way of saving the party from
defeat and disaster. No wonder that
all these things make the Republicans
irritable-so irritable that RepuDllcan
members who hitherto have prided
themselves on their Chesterfieldian
manners are now as cross as two
sticks or as sore headed bear. One
Illinois Republican Of high degree
not Of the house-conided to a friend
not many days ago that he would not
be surprised to see Illinois go Demo
cratic by 100000 majority by reason
Of the Cullom-Tanner fight and other
things too tedious to mention.
Here is a nice campaign document:
SONG OF THE TRUSTS.
Mark Hanna. It's in thee.
Strausler Of liberty.
In thee we trust!
Help US to swell Our chests,
Not our unnanly breasts.
TIL in our Golfers rests
Tic nations dust. =.
Oh, Mark to thee we fly,
yiceroy Of the most high
Mamn,on our king.
Help us to win with wrcng;
nI, en- rcOS DrOlOnr.