The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-09-28
THE SUMTER SPIRIT.

The Game Cock Fail Festival is
the livest and most enthusiastic
proposition that ever happened. There
is no longer any excuse for anyone
thinking or suggesting that it can't
be held or that it can fail to be the
biggest;success imaginable.
The mass meeting Friday night was a
Fall Festival gathering from top to
bottom, inside and out, and the wet
blanket treatment was barely suggest
ed and met with no approval whatever.
Everybody in the meeting seemed to
be in favor of lot of ginger and hus-
tie and hard work, and when the ques-
tion was put. FESTIVAL or no Festi-
val, 's a rising vote was called for and
not man voted against the Festival.
The meeting Friday night was pervaded
and animated by the real, true old time
Sumter spirit, the enthusiasm spread
throughout the town over night and
today Sumter is for the Festival heart
and soul.
Those who actively opposed the Fes-
tival and those who were only doubt
full or lukewarm nave thrown aside
their personal feelings and have join
ed in with the majority and will work
and spend their money for Sumter's
good with as much cheerfulness and
public spirit as displayed by Emmett
Reardon, to whose never -say-die
spirit the successful launching of the
Festival, after period of doubt and
encouragement, is wholly due
This is the right spirit, it is the spirit
that, if it can be kept uppermost all
tEs time, will make Sumter a big
city, a rich city and city of live.
progressive, successful people. Like
attracts like, and if we demonstrate
to the world that we are public spirit
ed, energetic and progressive people
others of that character will come to
live amongst Us, to share IN our
growth and prosperity and to help Us
build city whose names will be ynon-
YIN Gus with progress. The germ Of
that spirit is here and if we are careful
to develop it, rather than to destroy
it, the future of the city is assured.
The Fall Festival is assured and we
know that it will be success, for the
people of Sumter have put their
shoulders to the wheel and they will
never give up an undertaking which
they have pledged themselves to carry
to successful conclusion. But there
is work to be done, a vast deal Of
work, and each citizen has his pars to
perform. Those who have no money
to contribute can talk it up, help to
keep it going. But every man who
has the interests of Sumter at heart,
every man, or business enterprise, or
corporation that exists in Sumter,
should join in and help the good work
aloog. The business enterprises and
corporations have no personality and
cannot get out on the streets to work
for the Festival, nor can they serve on
committees, but they have pocket
books or bank accounts, and should
do their share in furnishing the
sinews of war. Anything that adver-
tises the town or benefits Sumte-,
advertises and benefits business enter
prises and the corporations-manufac-
turing and hnancial-as much or more
than it benefits the individuals,
therefore we hope to see the name of
every business man, every professional
man, every property owner, every
mandatory and every corporation
Of every kind and description re-
presented on the list of those who are
glad to spend money to advertise the
| town that they call home