The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-08-29

every stump speaker should fasten in
his memory:
Almighty dollar, thy shining face
BcSpcaks thy wond-ous Iower.
Ny pocket make Thy resting place;
need thee every hour.
The Trouble With Connolly.
1t seems that am in no sort OF
danger of falling into that class Of
persons to whom the Saviour said, BE
ware when all men speak we'll OF you.
Ny memory has been refreshed on this
subject by an editorial published in
the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, and
! presumably written by i brilliant, er-
ratio gentleman named ]. NJ. Connolly.
The trouble with Brother Connolly is
that he mistakes epithets for argu-
ments. He Jumped on to me with both
feet about my Boulder (Colo) speech.
The part Of that speech which seems
to have stirred Brother Connelly's bile
to overfowing is the following:
am this day in favor Of anncxing every foot OF
the North American British possessions clear to
the frozen ocean. 1t is contiguous territory in
habited by much the same sort Of people that We
ere and who would become good citizens, but
am etcrnally opposed to holding Asiatic territory
1o,c21 miles away, more thickly inhabited than
any state il, the Union. inhabited by people alien
to US in color, race, thought and habit. would
keep only such places in Asia as we need for
coalns and naval stations. ! opposed to eS-
pandins our territory in Asia because it is dan
gerous to our institutions and would inevitably
involve US in endless complications, Guarrels and
wars We cannot afford to ieopardize our own
liberty in any such wild, reckless and wicked
manner.
Now, that is Il very rational state
ment. Notwithstanding Colonel Connel-
Tvs structures on it. l undertake to
say that it is q great deal easier to call
me names because OF the above than to
show me whercin lies what he is pleas
eli to call It's blatant idiocy.'' The
colonel also seems anScrcd because I
said. y don't care :; bauble about
Asuinaldo and The Filipincs. Now.
what the deuce /: thc matter with the
colonel ca.l' t tell.
& V.o!f In Disguise.
The real thing sticking in the craw
Of The Commcrc;al-Arpcal is that I
am Democrat and it is not. though
it claims to be- Colonel Connolly is 4
very able man, but if he is q Democrat
he ought to quit editing that paper; if
he is a Republican. he ought to quit
calling the sheet 4 Democratic news
paper Perhaps L liver regulator would
90 him good. Another thing-he
should rub up on his geography. IS he
seems sadly deficient. Somehow he
has got it into his noddle that live in
the Ozark mountains. While that is {:
delightful place to live. and while l
am firmly persuaded that the capitol
of the United States should DC moved to
the OzarkS. | do rot reside within 200
miles Of them, but live in the great
Mcsopotamian country between the
Mississippi and the Missouri and rep
resent perhaps the finest agricultural
region on the face Of the earth.
wish to suggest as gently as may
be to The Commercial-.Appe3 that gen
uine Democrats don't care copper
what it thinks about any subject under
the shinin. sun. BY calling itself a
Democratic paper it is playing the wolf
in Sleeps clothing and could be con-
victed in any court OF justice as 4
publican papers and consider lis abuse
as positive praise. y paper which
drove Ed Carmack from its editorial
chair because he was honest and
<.;1x c1v
influence with Democrats down south.
Germans For Bryan.
TIE two most illustrious Germans in
America are Carl Schurz and DR.. Emil
Preetorius of the Westliche Post.
Schurz is openly supporting Bryan and
Dr. Preetorius is saying things which
are helping him greatly. For instance,
nr since he said cditorially:
y one who has even superficial knowledge
{ history knows Tic inenacns danger (drohcnde
Gcfahr) which militarisln carries to the free in
stitutio1s OF country. especially OF a republic.
Franco 0. today should serve as 4 horrible e1-
ample (abschScckcndcs BeispieD.
If ANYBODY has ever had & good word
to say about C@lonel Teddy's asinine,
Outrageous IDclOuS SpCSSIl ~ ~.
Paul. have not heard Of it. SO far as
have been able TO observe it has been
received by the public press with sui
len silence. defensive remarks or open
denunciaton. 1t perhaps did the Re-
publicans more harm than anything
else that has happened this summer.
John Peter .AltScld. once Missouri
an and later governor OF Illinois, jump
ed on Teddy at Toledo and danced 4
war jig on him. John Peter grew sar-
castle and allitcrativc and said, RE
Gently u gentleman in New York who
had become famous for being alone in
Cuba. Il gentleman who has adopted rs
iialife motto or coat Of arms two 'p's'
and Il double 'S.' which four letters sig
Nifty 'pompous posing and strenuous
Struttir. left the capital cf New York
and went to st Paul and delivered Il
speech" etc. and then for about an
hour John Peter proceeded to cut the