The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-01-28

are at work unless you travel about. The
object seems to be to cut every tree in
the country irrespective of future
wants. A long time is ahead of US,
and old trees cannot be grown at once.
Soon our people will have to buy what
they now have in abundance to last
for generations if taken care of, for
the world is not coming to an end
just yet, but destruction seems to be
the order of the day.
1t is amusing to read some of the de-
cisions of the Supreme Court, when it
cannot go behind the legislature in
some cases, while in others it can,
and tears the acts all to pieces. Some
of the acts it went behind was the
dispenasry law, the pensions for the
'.old soldiers and the jury law last
year.
Marriages still continue, Mr.. Will
liam Gaylard and Miss Celia Burgess,
daughter Of Mr.. Paul Burgess were
married on the 18th inst, by Rev.
Mr.. Kenney at his home.
Those who read the severe arraign-
ment of Gov. Tillman last year by
the State. expected sooner or later, he
would call Mr.. Gonzales, the editor Of
the State to an account. At Gafney
he said his hands were tied as a pub
lie official and he could not resent an
insult as offered him by one Camp.
So the months went by and the public
looked upon it as a closed political in
cident, OF he would not notice it by
dignifed silence; but a few days be-
fore his term of Office expired, just
from presiding over the Senate, heavily
armed, in violation of the law he
swore to uphold, and in the presence
of two milk and water witnesses shoots
to kill his political enemy. Shades
of night, whittier are we drifting9
Surely this man must have some just
excuse for his act or else his brain is
diseased and be not responsible for
what he did. The South has few
such cases. Dawson, the able editor
of the News and Courier was mur-
dered by Mellow because Dawson told
him not to interfere with his servant.
Tillman's act is first cousin to the
political murder in secret of Gov.
Goebel of Kentucky by W. S. Taylor,
and his crowd, who is now hiding
behind the republican Gov. of Iudi-
anna, fugitive from justice. This
was one of the most diabolical mur-
ders, ever done on Kentucky's dark
and bloody soil, and the last man con-
nected with 1t, should be run to his
doom. An editor as sentinel upon
the watch tower for the public good,
can best serve mis- cause by leaving out
personalities. There is no doubt but
what Gonzales went too far with
Tillman, and as a result he is in his
grave. He should have left Tillman's
private life alone. No man wants his
private acts held up to view even if
he is guilty, and will resent it. Mr..
Gonzales may have thought he was
right in his course towards Tillman,
Others think not, because he should
have discussed his public and not
his private life. This is republican
form of government. No man is high
er.tban another, and all are sovereign
and independent An editor that
deals in personalities weakens his
case. Mr.. Gonzales was an able man,
and did much for his State. AS an
editor he was on the extreme in
good many things, and differed widely
from some of the best men Of the
State, But in the shadow of death, all
these things pass away; and the writer
of this expresses his profound sorrow
at his death. J. E. DuPre.