The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-09-14
| PARTY or ECONOMY and PROSPERITY
The Records Show That the Re-
publicans Squander the Public
Funds and Produce Hard
Times.

UstOS CSNG OO&SS 1sS~s ~
Times.
Washington, Sept. 10.-To resi-
dent of the national capital an END
seems to have come to all partisan ac-
tivity. The city has 10 caucuses, no
conventions, no partisan barangues,
no bessechments to rally and register,
no partisan newspaper, and no patriot
ism, for the few clerks who have re-
tained the privilege of voting IN the
states they came from are cautiously
waiting to see which side, wins before
announcing their allegiance. The
work of the Congressional committees
goes swiftly and silently on: some
scores of girls are busily addressing
documents and mule teams are every
day dragging to the postofhce four or
five tons Of ranked stuf-informatlon,
allegation, and protestation. >.
Congressman Cowherd is back again
from New York. This remark can be
made OF him three or four times
week. Your correspondent asked
him yesterday what specific fact he
was now endeavoring to impress upon
the American people. This week. !"
he answered, the fact that the Demo
cratic party is the party of thrift and
economy. For instance, when Presi-
dent Arthur went out Of Office, March
4, 1885. he left for Cleveland a surplus
Of barely s63, 462, ITO. When Cleveland
went out, in March, 1889, he left for
Harrison the magnificent surplus Of
$3.50, 34S, GIG. When Harrison in turn
surrendered the presidency. to CleVe-
land in 1893, ne left behind him the
pittance of S62, 450. 575. Under Har-
rison began the hard times, which
continued during Cleveland's second
term, but so frugal and thrifty was
.Cleveland's administration that it
turned over to Mckinley the great sur
plus of Sl57, ,213, 632. Doesn't that re-
cord sound very much as if che Demo
cratic party was the party of prosper
ity?" OF course your correspondent
scorned to answer such a question as
that and here leaves it to your read
sers.
General William Birnev remarked to
your correspondent the other day
The most distinguished Republicans
OF the past generation have repudiated
the principles and party Of Mckinley
and Roosevelt. Besides John Sher-
man, who opposed the war on the FIJI
ipinos and was therefore prosecuted on
his dying bed, and Tom Reed, who
resigned the second Office in the gift
Of the American people because of his
disgust with his party comrades, there
remain Boutwell,, Carl Schurz, and
Teller, wheelhorses of the Republican
pacty through two generations and all
of them in its Cabinets, and ex-Sen-
ator Edmundsi Of Vermont, whom
Mr.. Roosevelt nominated for the
Presidency in 1881 who has just join
ed the Parker Club in New York
City, and will vote the Democratic
ticket, on the issues Of trusts aud i'm
perialism. Isn't itSstrange that these
illustrious nen should abandon their
lifelong assertions unless they had
the best of reasons? Then there's Ben
Harrison as an ex-presideat he sternly
opposed the Philippine policy of the
United States and told Mckinley TO
his face. We hold no commission
from Ged to police the world y 1t is
now reported that General W. II. H.
Miller of Harrisonss Cabinet and Hon.
S. II. Chambers. Harrison's district
attorney, will vote the Democratic
ticket. ;,
Congressman Sulzer. the headed
rustler from New City, who has his
foot in the road a good deal of the
time, was here on Thursday. full OF
Information. He said Eve in New
York mean to have ten Or twelve
hard working Democrats assigned to
each of the 5000 election districts in
the state-a force OF 50,0G0. Aboul
$500 will be expended On an average
by each. for printing, meetings, car
riages, &c. They will take two care
f1l canvasses costing probably mil
lion dollars. By the first week in
November they will have their lesson
by heart. We never had SO thorough
Organization as we have this year, and
the first canvass Of the state above the
Bronx is about finished.
A fraud order has been issued by
the Attorney General barring W. NJ.
Farr of this city from the use of the
mails in connection with his alleged
colleges and universities and their
O1p1UUloS. GSuS.dl 0OOQWlu Gays
its pretences and promises are "a
tissue of falsehood. Why does not
the Postmaster tackle that istitutioh
in Niles, Mich, which offers diplo-
mas and degrees to men who have
never studied medicine or surgery
guaranteed that they are competent to
practice those professions and recon-
mends such quacks to "all whom it
may concerr?''
Yet it may be possible to carry this
supervisory business too far. Wiley's
chemical laboratory for testing import
ed food products may possibly do
some good by nlenacing people who
import impure food. and cannot do
much harm. But if the government
is to issue fraud orders against all the
newspapers that advertise medicine
(which has no curative power,"
what riIl the and hop WIFI II foct