The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-09-21

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are OF no concern to Us, some Dem
ocrats may say, but that would be a
mistaken idea, for we are vitally con-
cerned. We mention these rumors
concerning the republican plans for
/ the purpose of again emphasizing the
necessity for every Democrat to regis
| ter and vote at the general election.
IF the Democrats do their duty and
vote in the general election, as they do
in the primary, it will be impossible
to unseat our representatives. Regis
/ ter and vote.
The Columbia State has considered
getting up big write up OF the propos'
ed fall festival in INTERIOR the Sunday
edition of that enterprising paper.
| giving a sketch of the proposed pro-
gram, 4 write up of the city Of Sum-
ter, and printing the pictures OF the
leading promoters of the enterprise in
the Sunday State. This goes to show
that the Game Cock Fall Festival has
attracted attention already, and if tie
festival is pulled off, we believe that
the kind Of advertisement which The
State will give Sumter will be worth
the three or :car thousand dollars
which the fall festival costs. Travel
| ing men from all over the state say
that the people all over South Caro-
lima are talking about the big festi-
val week, to be held in Sumter, and
that thousnds will be here. It will
never do to abandon che project, now,
since it has been advertised.
Commissioners Of immigration Wat
son has arranged with the railroads to
run home-seekers excu -sions from the
Northwest-one in October and the
other in November. One excursion
viii bring in a crowd for the State
Fair and the other will bring crowd
that Sumter could capture if we go
ahead with the Fall Festival, get up
a week Of entertainment that will at
tract crowds from all parts of this
State, and advertise it properly. II
we can attract any of the substantial
home seekers from the Northwest to
Sumter county we have faith that what
they will see and learn of this section
will induce them to buy land and set
tie here.
The destruction of property in Hor-
ry county by the storm of last week
was evidently very great, after full
allowance is made for the overesti-.
mate in the reports sent out by Hor-
ry's versatile press agents: and the
people of that progressive section are
to be commended for not appealing for
outside aid. In recent years it has
become the rule for every community
that is visited by any calamity to
appeal Immediately to the world for
help, and it has frequently happened
that the response has been so gener-
Gus that the sufferers found themselves
in better financial cnodition than they
were before the disaster. We are. not
opposed to extending help to the needy
whose property and means OF earning
q living have been swept away by
storms, fire or food, but we have
a greater admiration for a people who
bravely face such disasters and go to
work to retrieve their losses without
calling upon the country at large to
put them on their feet again.
II cheese factory is as profitable
an enterprise as it is represented to
be by Mr.. Voight, who has established
seven in the upper part of this State,
it would be wise for some of our land
owners and capitalists to estblish one
in the vicinity of Sumter to supply
the local demand. If the local cheese
eaters could not consume the output
of a small factory our wholesale gro
GERS could probably dispose of the sur
plas to grocers in nearby towns.
Sumter county has thousnds of acres
of land that could be used for pastur-
ing cattle and there would be no diff
Guilty in producing milk sufficient to
supply not only one but dozen cheese
factories, if it could be shown that they
are money makers.
Georgia has a railroad man who
knows his business On the railroad
commission and he is making rates
that the railroads cannot dodge. He