The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-11-05

The Watchnsog and Soat6roa now has
tie combined circulation and influence
&c Esth Of the old papers. and IS mani
fessiy the best advertising medium 10
sumser
Charleston is to have . cigar factory
emg,loying four thousand hands and
saving out q million dollars a year in
wages The factory IS TO be establish
ed Immediately BY the American
Csesr Co, an ofshoot OF the great
naarican Tobacco Go. The factory
costs Charleston practically nothing
5000 only, which is to be paid in i've
ANIMAL instatements. Charleston has
met with good luck. and it Is 70 De
hoDed that the new industry will be a
successful and permanent one N the
city.
The Columbia State is authority for
TIE statement that while Fair Week.
was s success beyond expectation, the
State Fair itself was decidedly a fali-
IRE he Fair mas been going from
bad TO worse for some years new and
ge are prepared to accept without dis
nute the statement made By The State,
nayesherless the Columbia people had
better hold fast to the Fair, for It. IS
undoubtedly drawing card and II It
should Be abandoned the crowds would
fall OF and the biggest and best street
shoE and Carnival amnsements would
fai TO attract the people from all
parss Of South Carolina as the Far
has for SO many years. Any other.
town IN the State with the requisite
amount of money and enterprise can
aeSup as big or bigger street show
s as Columbia but none can capture the
Pair Columbia can well afford TO put
Forth great efforts to improve the Fair
snd add attractions to Fair Week, but
cannot afford to have the Fair aban-
donsd or to attempt 70 substitute for
It ID ordinary fall festival.
The disgraceful roW between the
Clemson College cadets and the South
Carolina College students, following
tho foot ball game at the Fair calls for
acton On the part Of the authorities
Of these Institutions. The published
rarorts, admittedly not giving all nor
Ell worst Of facts concerning the dis
surbance, indicate that the Clemson
cadets were largely to blame, that they
were guilty Of riotous and violent con-
ducs and that they seemed bent on
sbloodshed. They proved themselves
Eys,ntiug in the true sporting spirit
shat accepts with good grace defeat.
Instead they gave vent to their dlsap-
Dosntment in childish display OF
anger and spleen and undertook TO
crafty their animosity by picking q
fighs with the victorious South Caro-
Ina College students. The claim tnat
clemson had been insulted by the
transparency carried in the parade by
the College students was hlmsy
axsnse, a very transparent subterfuge,
t,at neither excused .ne riot nor con-
eealed the animosisy that incited them
6 attack the college students On tee
streets and afterwards carried them II
a,ody, with weapons in their hands,
to the college campus torenev the din
entity. The truth OF the matter seems
TO be that the Clemson cadets Werf
sora over the defeat of their foot bal
team and undertook to do by Drut'
force what the team could not do D.
skill in tie game on the gridiron.
Gradually the big bankers OF tn
north are coming over TO the advo
cacy Of fnancial measures that the
denounced in unmeasured terms FEY
wears ago when the identical measure
were proposed by democrats as mean
Of relief for the monetary stringenc
that had paralyzed the business OF tn
country and had brought to the brln
Of poverty and want the farmers
the country. Then they called it IL
aation and fat money, now they spea
of an elastic currency and means
provide suffciency of money to me-
She demands of business Then tt
men who proposed safe and reasol
able increase in the currency we
fools, cranks. populists or worse, tod'
the same measures are being a
vocated for the same reasons, by MI
Who claim to be captains of industry
and princes of finance. Ten