The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-11-12
WEDNEsBAY. MoYEMeER II, Is02.
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WEDNESDAY,. NoYEMBER i2, 1902.
The Suuser gtasca,saa was founded
sou aud tie gras .southroa in 1856
The Watcaaatsa and Souahaon nov hs:
.khe combined circulation and influence
of both Of the old papers, and IS mani
ssslg sae sess advassssing medium II
Sumter.
There viii be no tax extension this
year, and the sooner the taxes are paid
the better. The peopleo Of South
Carolina are as able to pay their
taxes now as they viii be next spring,
and there is 70 reason for granting an
extension, besides the State needs the
money to pay It's debts.
the farmers of Sumter county
expect to plant mere tobacco next
year the time has arrived for making
their plans for the crop. Many sue
seessfus growers make their plant beds
IN December and begin preparing the
tobacco land early in the year.
The Lily White Republican party in
tie South isa failure, and its most
recent sponsor, President Roosevelt,
having realized that fact, is throwing
the leaders down as rapidly as possible
aad giving fat Jobs TO the big guns
Of the old Black and Tan Radicals.
These are the bully boys who go to
The National Republican Conventions
and sell their votes in job lots for
cash down Or payiag places in the
government service. President Roose-
veIs IS candidate for the nomination
and ne sees that he needs the votes OF
tie Black and Tan delegates; therefore
the organization Of the so-called re-
spectabie Republican party in the
South has been postponed to more
eonTenient season.
The discipline at Clemson College
seems to Leo the sort that causes the
cadets to do as they please. If it suits
them to obey orders and conduct
themselves IN a soldierly manner they
do SO, if they take notion to engage
IN riot, riot they have. And the
Clemson officials, having lively ap-
preeiation of the situation are careful
TO give only such orders as will meet
ri ii The approval Of the cadets.
WHAT mas become Of the movement to
establish tobacco warehouse in Sum
teri Is it too small an enterprise to in
serest the business men of shis city, Is
q business that has turned loose nearly
million dollars in hard cash in a
small town like Dillon too Insignificant
TO be sought after by SUMTER Is the
Gotten business sufficient to satisfy
This place? Or is three to four thou
sand dollars, more money than can
be raised here for a new enterprise,
that, if firmly established, will mean
an Increase of hundred per cent in
fhe business OF the town?
The carpet -baggers and scalawags are
Honrishing ike green bay trees in
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philip
pines and the reconstruction days OF
Good stealing in the South are being
repeated in she unfortunate insular
possessions of Uncle Sam. The future
OF the natives of these Islands is
gloomy, indeed, for if they undertake
to ..hroW OF the rule of the thieves and
rascals as the people Of the South did,
they will be accused of insurrection
and they will be pscifed By powder and
ball.
The number OF conviets who have
been pardoned on account of having
consumption suggests the idea that it
would be well to establish an isolated
ward IN the Penitentiary for all con-
yicts VINO develop consump mption. Itisnow
generally believed that consumption is
eo,+aoious disease and ii is little
short Of criminal to herd the healthy
and consumptive convicts together in
the cramped quarters of the Peniten-
tiary. Il it is not already SO the
Penitentiary will soon become through
ly impregated with the germs of con-
sumption and it will be converted in
to an incubator of the disease, and a
sentence to the Penitentiary will be
equivalent to sentence to lingering
death by consumption. The convicts