The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-12
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tice.
History records the fact that IL" governor i:"s
never los, an opportunity. when standing II !:.e
temple Q. the market ri.cc tu iiskc#! #!'t:' To;-
es,a;ions OF heroic Virtue. but tie !s' srl.i' i;s
searched in vain or any evidence OF p,rt"t'';;'"c
The volume OF profession is iul bu; Tie pc q:
performance is a blank.
wish 70 avoid even tbs appearance q >s',e.t;y
ane as have no: the Language 10 p.t..;; ,'iiar-
ac,e:ize this mars ! S::" not attempt IL
lie is the right defend criminal aggression
and the abandonment of plain du;y. 10y the pres!
dent. He is the right man TO detend a war o'
conquest. tie burning of towns, The slaughter o!
people and the assassination o; liberty bu' t'.c
Democratic party will pay no attention to nis
vulgar assaults.
If anything more caustic than that
has appeared since Sir Philip Francis
wrote the Letters of .Tunius." have
not seen it. What's more. Colonel Roose-
welt richly deserved the eXcoriation.
Politics In Ohio.
I have been in Ohio lately. giving
political joint lectures at Chautauquas
with my Republican friends. Hon. Jon
athan Prentiss Dolliver of Iowa and
Charles B. Landis Of Indiana. and.
while / am neither g prophet nor the
son of q prophet. l should not De at all
surprised to see Bryan get the electoral
vote of Ohio and to see majority OF
the Ohio delegation in congress Demo
cratic. Now, mark you. am not claim
ing Ohio. but l am stating that from
close observation. from conversations
with all manner and condition Of peo-
pie, my conclusion is that Democrats
have the best chance to bag Ohio that
they have had since Franklin Pierce
mopped up the earth with General
Winfield Scott in 1857.
The Jones vote added to the Mclean
vote would give the state to the Demo
Gratis by some $4,000. and that's pre-
cisely the thing which makes all things
uncertain and which keeps everybody
Jumping. Where will the Jones vote
be found this time? is the question that
gives Mark Hanna trouble, for Mark
knows-none better-that if it once
gets Grated about that Ohio is doubt
full state that fact alone will defeat
Mark
At Lancaster Colonel Davidson and
had what many said was the greatest
crowd assembled in Ohio at q political
function since the log cabin. COON
skin. hard cider campaign OF 1870
Excitement was intense which BODIES
good for the Democrats.
Human Nature the Same Every
where.
Napoleon once said. Scratch Q Rus
sian. and you will find Tartar" and
it really appears that if you scratch
the average American citizen you Will
strike 4 savage For years a good
many good people in highly respectable
communities, laying tie fatterins unc-
ton to their souls that they are better
than the rest of US. have had q great
deal to say about the lynchings in the
south and west and have minated
very broadly that we, the denlzens OF
those regioEs. were lapsing into bar
barism. believe they have even gone
so far Us to organize an antilynchins
society in Boston. the undisputed hub
of the universe. The intention of this
amiable society is to educate the peo-
pie Of the south and west into such
beatitic state Of mind that they will
cease to lynch outrageol! ;illnals. l
have no doubt that I'll" .l1entions CT
these Bostonese reformers are good.
but it is said that hades is paved with
good intentions. once read OF Il little
girl WHO put some obstacle in tie way
of philosopher who was always star
gazing. He fell owe, it and barked his
sh;ns and angrily inquired why she did
it. She inrocently replied. TO make
YOU observe the beauties closer at
hand
During the Greek war fer in1epend-
ence John Randolph Of Roanoke visit
ed an ariStocratic lady neighbos Of his
and found her buSily engaged making
clothing for the naked Greeks. When
he started to leave. the front yard was
full Of half naked pickaninnies. Point
ing his long. bony foretlnger ii them.
he shrieked to his hostess. Madam.
Tue NTSChS dICI Ill tOQi NlOOl NOAA'
mend these two anecdotes to the Bos-
tonese antilynchers and would suggest
to them that they send an agent forth
with to Akron. O.. Republican, city
in q Republican state. the state Of the
president. of Hanna, Grosvenor and
Foraker and many other apostles OF
the true. the beautiful and the good.
Out there the other day they had the
l-orst riot which has taken place since
the Cincinnati riot some years ago.
Strange to say. this riotins. bloodshed.
arson and murder grew out Of the fact
that negro brute had crimiEally as
saul,el 4 white girl Now, mir2bile
dictu, this is the very same crime for
which southeraers lynch men. AZ OF
which goes 10 show that human nature
IS the same in Ohio as in Mississippi.
and the only way the society can stop
these lyNchincs is by dcvising q way to
stop the commission OF these crimes
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