The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-10-05

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bined circulation and influence of both OF
she old papers, and is manifestiy the best
ssdvertising medium in Sumter.
The Les county officials who were
nos senominated in the primary are
resigning, strange to say, for as q
nae public officials hold n1to thelr
Jobs as long as possible. Treasurer
Parrott and Magistrate .Jno. G. Rhame
hare already handed in their resigna-
lions.
The Russians have renewed their
nad tactics and have commenced blow
s,p M their own ships with their own
uaines at Port Arthur. IL they blow
uu few more the Baltic fees will
End no Russian ships to welcome
them when they arrive IN Eastern
waters.
The lynching at Kersliaw SATURDAY
nipht shows how the mob spirits de-
yeloping, and extending in South Car
olina at the present rate lynch law
nil Be extended before long to cover
ala classes Of crime and We can dis
pense with courts except for the trial
Of damage suits against railroads ane
ether corporations.
Cotton has declined below 10 cents
in price, and shrgef fonrths OF cent q
Dound means q good deal to the farm.
ers whose margin Of profit IS none too
No one can safely predict the
sEusssure fluctuations in cotton prices
and it IS unsafe 70 offer adyice, but it
ooks ike cotton is too cheap this
year az anything below ten cents
appears to adisinterested obser-
ger who rnust form an opinion from
what has been pm nSlished in the Dar-
lington papers and in the correspond
ence sent out IRON Darlington, that
she calling ont Of the Darlington
uards was an ver-abundance of pre-
EanEion and most grave and danag-
rejection upon the people OF Dag
ngson county
golun5iians may COW dsink Con-
paree water without fear and trem-
llfng and inward qualms, The com--
nitse Of water experts, imported at
large expense, has given solemn sers.
sFafes ID favor Of the river water as q.
ssfe and harmless beverage after hay
Id Undergone coaplicated process
81 sediments tiup, ailtration, disinfec-
sion and purifcation.
& Morrison who Mas Iynched at ker-
shaw was unqusstinably 8 bad man
and merited desth for she brutal and
provoked murder OF Floyd. but he
shouId have been dealt with by the
courts. His crime was of such char
acser that the courts could not have
failed to coayics and hang him and
the mob merely cheated the gallows
OF lawful victim and stained its
hand in blood to no good purpose.
President Grover Cleveland sn-
nonnces that he cannot go on the
stump for the Democratic ticket, and
IS probably just as we'll that he
can for he has not regained the
popnlarity he once had, as the leading
exponent of true democracy. he is a
big man and a trusted leader still in
tina eyes of certain brands Of Demo
Gratis, but to those who stick to the
Darsy through thick and thin and bow
10 the will Of the majority his is not
"a name to copjure with.
1t is confidently predicted by cotton
men here that the receipts on this
n.srket during the current coston year
will pass the forty thousand mark.
Sumtec has been, for some years, the
leading interior cotton market OF the
STATE and We have no reason to doubt
that the lead will be increased. Forty
thousand bales OF cotton represents a
great deal OF money and this money
means volume Of business in all
Zines, consequently Sumter grows
and prospers as business center.
The Fall Festival is making The
most satisfactory progress and the COM
anitsee in charge becomes more conf
dent each day chat it will be greater
success than at first thought possible
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