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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

There seems to be one tie that binds
New York's judicial candidate for the
Presidency and the Democratic cardi-
date for governor of New York-ttey
both voted for free silver in 1896 and
1900. Neither of them apparently would
have conscientious scruples about voting
for yellow dog, provided he had the
regular emblem of his party branded on
both ears and wagged his tail without
the consent of any other nation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06
Judge Parker's frantic demand tn.

Judge Parker's frantic demand tina (
nothing further be said about Roosevelt 5
personality is fresh evidence that Demo
Gratis have become alarmed over the eff
feet of their assertion that Roosevelt
ism is the chief issue of the campaign
The more Roosevelt's personality is ex.
plotted the more popular he becomes.
Democrats have been making Republican
votes by the score in quoting the Presi-
dents utterances
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

It should be remembered that under
irrigation agriculture becomes almost an
exact science. Twelve inches >of water,
intelligently distributed at the proper
time. is sufficient to insure on the arid
lands an abundant yield Of the ordinary
farm crops Of that latitude.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

simply because there may be some COM
motion caused by the steps he has taken,
and yet almost invariably the develop
ment Of events proves, conclusiyely, that
he is right, and acting with wisdom and
prudence.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

Three words in the Democratic plat
form are sufficient to defeat that party.
Protection is robbery" is phrase that
is helping the Republicans more than q
hundred speeches by campaign orators.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

At one stroke of his pen Abraham
one stroke Of his pen Roosevelt has
made it possible to reclaim more than
1O0.OOO,O00 acres of land to agriculture.
adding millions of American farm homes
with their vast volume of agricultural
products which will flow from this rich
area of land redeemed from the desert.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

What does it mean to the nation to
have millions of people gradually pass
from servitude of the town to the SOW
ereignty of the country? 1t means the
enlistment of new army for the defense
of the republic in every hour of need.
This will come, under the workings of
the national irrigation act.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

The last four years of Democratic
rule left the country oppressed by mis-
fortune and doubtful Of the future. Shy
should any patriotic American wish to
repeat that experience?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

According to astronomers it is about
% tri,iions Of miles, as the Gro. flies.
from the earth to Alpha Centauri, the
nearest fixed star. 1t is, about the same
distance from Esopus to the White
House by the Democratic route.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

Talk about political economy The
Democrats of Massachusetts, are con-
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of nominating
Douglas, the Brockton shoe man, in or
der to save money on campaign litho-
graphs. because the pictures of Parker
and Douglas are as ike as. two wooden
shoeraos
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

"The expenditures of the Nation have
been managed in a spirit of economy
az far removed from waste as from
nig9ardliness; and in the future every
effort will be continued to secure an
economy az strict az 10 constituent with
Roosevelt's letter of acceptance
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

Judge Parker, judging from his con-
duct and the company he has kept.
stands for Hillism in politics, which
means that any INSCRIPTIONS act is JUS
tifiable if the end be gained. He is the
very opposite of President Roosevelt. for
his eyasiveness shows that he lacks
courage and decisiveness-two requisites
that should not be found wanting in
aspirants for the Presidency.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

People who say combinations of CAPT
tai are due to the tariff should explain
why free trade Britain is ridden with
trusts. British manufacturers generally
have been for years organizing combina-
tiorls, and they have no tariff to protect
them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

The first, last and only claim made for
Judge Parker is that he is safe. So is
a grave safe. 1t also resembles Judge
Parker in lacking enough animation to
run campaign for constable.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

Polls of the first voters in various por.
tons of the country indicate that 80 pei
cent of the young men will vote for
Roosevelt. There is something attractive
about the President and his career that
appeals strongly to the youth of the
land.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

The last few years of Republican ad-
ministration have added untold millions
to the agricultural wealth of the country
by opening new markets for farm pro-
ducts at constantly improving prices. The
beauty of the Republican policy of pro-
lection is that it develops manufactur-
ing and agricultural interests on paral-
lei lines. A
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

Perhaps the policy of protection has
made business prosperity more dependent
upon politics than it would have been
otherwise, but it certainly has contribut-
ed more largely than anything else to
our extraordinary and unparalleled pro-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

I'VE do not have to guess at our con-
victions, and then correct the guess IL
it seems unpopular. The principles
which we profess are those I'm which
we believe with heart and aoul and
strength. Men may differ from us;
but they cannot accuse MS of shiftiness
or ihsincerity." Roosevet's letter Of ac-
ceptance
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

With both Republican factions guar.
anteeing the electoral vote to Wisconsin
to Roosevelt, another iridescent rainbow
dream of the Democracy goes glimmer.
ing into the realms OF perpetual night
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

Prosperous times are more truly re-
f1ected in the increased number earning
wages than in any statistics of average
wages, for the obvious reason that the
ranks Of labor are recruited from the
bottom.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

Edward M. Shepard in 1897 denounc-
ed Tammany as ga foul blot on civil
zation,". and in 1904 Tammany tore a
hole in the Shepard boom so ragged that
the special favor of Judge Parker and
Chairman Sheehan could not initiate it
sufficiently to justify a nominating
speech
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

But for the Republican party the gov
eminent would not have survived the
storm Of civil war nor taken any Of the
progressive steps that have marked our
history since the war.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

lily, or 1854 per cent. of the average
expenditure for all purposes. This data
was corroborated by other information
in less detail form, from %, 40 families,
and so is entitled to be accepted as rep
resentative.
The most cursory examination of the
above table reveals the fact that the
purchasing power of wages, measured by
retail prices of food, was ), per cent.
greater in 1908 than in 1893, and this
in spite of the fact that the hours per
week had been reduced 80 per cent.
But more conducive to the wide dis
semination of the prosperity than these
proofs of the increased purchasing pow
er of wages, is the fact revealed in the
column giving the relative number of
persons employed in the establishments
investigated. Between 1894 and 1903 the
increase in the number of employees re
ceiving these wages with increased pur-
chasing power was 34.3 per cent, while
in the meantime the population of the
United States only increased 81 per cent.
Democracy's Last Resort.
Disheartened and disguised with the
wide distribution of prosperity in the
homes, workshops and bank accounts of
American wage earners, demonstrated by
these figures, the Democrats appeal to
railroad labor as affording the most ac-
curate barometer of wages" Here, they
say, "a large proportion of the employees
are union men, whose wages are COM
paratively steady"
campaign book begin to juggle with the
very averages and percentages they af-
feet to despise. They institute COMPARE
sons between 1892, when railway wages
were at high tide, and 1901, when they
had scarcely recovered from Democratic
recession of 1893 1896 They suppress
the fact that the statistical average OF
railway wages was less affected by the
Democratic hard times than the average
of other industries, for the obvious rea-
son that as forces were reduced in num-
bers the proportion of high priced en-
ployes retained because of their expert
ence was greater.
They also conclude their comparisons
with the year ending June Both, 1902,
well knowing that the statistics of the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
that year only reflect a month or two
of the advance in railway wages of that
calendar year, which did not reach food
tide until July, 1903. Not until the
statistics of the Interstate Commerce
Commission for the year 1903 1904 are
published next summer will it be pos
sible to make an authoritative COMPARE
son of the wages of railway employees
and the cost Of living in the year 1903.
But the report Of the Commission for
the fiscal year 1903 is available, and it
furnishes the following data, which
throws light on the rich slice of pros
perity which has fallen to the share of
railway employees:
NUMBER AND COMPENSATION OF
RAILWAY employees IN THE YEARS
1897 AND 1908:
Year. Number Compensa tfon
1909 ...........-...1,312 537 775.321. AIS
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

The Democratic depression of 1893
and 1894, to which the campaign book
inadvertently directs attention, was
marked by a falling off in deposits of
over $37,0O0,O00 in one year. Between
1893 and 1908 the average due each
depositor increased from 1860 to SAT-.
More significant than the. Increase in
deposits is the fact that in 1903 there
were 2,474,62S absolutely new savings
bank depositors in the United States,
marking an increase of nearly so per
cent. during a period when the total
population only increased "a per cent.
Col. WriRht's Summary.
Turning now to the direct comparison
of the advance in wages and cost of liv-
ing during the period under review. the
Democrats affect the greatest contempt
for the government statistics, which.
under the able, conscientious and I'M
biased direction OF Carroll D. Wright.
present the following Instructive sum-
mary:
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06
What the Figures Prove,

Il will be observed that these six dis
tinctive classes of railway employees. en-
bracing almost half of all the railway
employees in the United States (591 ,475
in 1903 against 363,563 in 1890 were
receiving an average daily compensation
during the year 1923 more than 10 per
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06
Col WriRht's Summary.
average for 189O- 1892 19OOl

Course Of employment
f VI "s eAin'"sS 'e'a''e " prices Oh 1000 1888
Rate numbers o. for
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

over number Observation-Disclosures. IL
That this relative ircrease of compen-
sation, compared with that in the num-
Der of railway employees, does not tell
the whole truth is proved by the follow
ing table:
AVERAGE DAILY COMPENSATION OF
CERTAIN DISTINCTIVE CLASSES OF
RAILWAY EMPLOYEES FOR THE
YEARS ENDING JUNE BOTH, 1897,
AND 1908 wide sixteenth annual report
OF the statistics Of railways In the middle
States for 1QO2 n AZ
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31
A misunderstanding.

Tie Raleigh, w. Va. Register says
a funny thing happened over at Green
Sulphur q few days ago. A young
man was courting in that vicinity and
kissed his girl, when she blushed and
pretended to be offended and threaten
"a to tell her father and rushed out to
the back porch where the old man was
oiling his gun. By the time she
reached her father, her anger had
cooled and to account to her father
for her sudden appearance said, "Pa,
MIR. Kissum wants to see your gun. !"
Taking up the gun the man went to
the parlor door, and the young fellow
seeing. him with the gun, thought be
was going to be shot and jumped
through the window aud fed. The
old man thinking he had gone insane
went through the window after him.
He never stopped running until he
thought he was safe from the old
mans wrath, who returned to the
house where his daughter explained.
It took twenty page letter for the
girl to explain the situation, aud now
things are running smoothly again.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31
The Cedartown OUTRAGE,

Villainous, devilish as was the ont-
rage perpetrate by the negro fiend at
Cedartown, it does not look well. in
presumed Christian community, for
mob, however furious, to exhibit anoth-
er species of demonism in burning the
body OF the victim, after death. The
bad deed at Statesboro has been irci-
tated, partially, at Cedartown.
Between lawless negroes and law-de-
Tying white men, what will be the
harvest IN Georgia. Is the mob to he
Judge, Jury and executioner, with the
addition of savage ferocity, or is the
government to rule and vindicate the
law? Who will surrender-tbe govern
ment Or the mob? There should he
only one answer to that question. We
know how our Andrew jackson. if
governor, would answer and act We
hope that we know how Governor Ter
rell will reply-and act
The governor of Alabama has put
down his foot and determined to ruIa
the commonwealth and suppress mob
law. 1t can be done, with the back.
ing of all good people whose interest
and security are at stake.
1t may be that certain crimes Will
be speedily avenged, despite the slow
process of the law. It NAV be that
this cannot be prevented. But there
are other features that may be halted
savage, devilish revenge rpon
a dead body.-Augusta Chronicle.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31
FERTILIZER PURITY.
An important Opinion by the At
torney General.

Columbia. Aug. 27.-Through a mis-
take, either geographically or in the
transcribing of the act, the fertilizer
companies are raising point on the
state board Of fertilizers as to the
purity Of their products. It seems that
in the act describing the standard of
the fertilizer it is stated that the in
gredient must "contain 6.18 per cent.
of nitrogen, which is equivalent to {!
per cent. of ammonia. - The chemists
on the state board, however, say that
the last figure should be 7.50, but the
fertilizer people wished to hold the
board to the letter Of the law, and an
opinion Of the attorney general was
asked. The opinion which disposes of
the fertilizer companies claims is as
follows:
Hon., T. M. Stacktouse, Board of Fer
tilizer Control, Clemson College.
Replying to your communication of
the 25th instant, wherein you state
that the phrase eff it be shown by
the official analysis that the same con-
tains less than g. per cent. of nitro
gel equivalent to per cent. of am
moniay" in reference to the require
ments for an analysis of cotton seed
meal is chemical absurdity, and re-
questing to be advised of the effect of
such inconsistency, I beg to state that
unquestionably the 6.18. per cent. of
nitrogen requirement prevails and
must be complied with. The equiva-
lent Ingredient is nothing more than
mere illustration and is redundancy
that may be stricken out without in any.
manner affecting the positive prime
requirement of not less than 6. Is per
cent. of nitrogen. The s.lS per cent.
of nitrogen must appear, it matters
not what it is equivalent to.
Very respectfully.
u. X. Gunter, Jr.,
Attorney General.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31

According to the Liverpool Corn
Trade News, the quality Of the new
wheat crop in the United Kingdom is
good. but the quality is short. In the
northern sections of France crop re-
suits are uncertain, as reports are con-
Trajectory. Estimates On the total
wheat crop vary from 25,000,000
bushels to 32,OC0.o00 bushels. The
quality is excellent. A Mannheim
firm estimates the total German grain
crop at 25 per cent less than in 1908.
In Roumania the weather is still too
dry. The corn crop will be only about
25 to 80 per cent. Of an average. The
government may prohibit exports of
barley and oats, of which about IA, :
900, 900 bushels Of the former and s.
600, 600 of the latter are shipped an
nually. Exports of corn have already
been prohibited a semi official esti-
mate report places the Bulgarian
wheat crop at Sc, 600, ,0G0, or about the
sane as in 1903. The quality Of the
crop is better than last year, however.
The corn crop is below the average.
In Hungary the corn crop is very
Door.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31
HILL WILL Retire.
He Will Withdraw From Political
Life at End of the Campaign.


Albany, N. Y, Aug. 2s.-David 3.
Hill In conversation with friends here
today announced that he intends to
retire from politics Jan. l next and
that no matter what the result of the
coming campaign may be in State or
nation he will relinquish the leadership
OF the Democratic party in New York.
He added that in the event of Dem
ocratic success this fall he would rot
accept any position under the national
or State Democratic administrations.
or again become candidate for cleo
tion to any Office whatever.
Former Senator Hill made these
statements on the eve of his birthday
anniversary, which comes tomorrow.
He was born Aug. %, 1913.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31

: Birmingham, ALA. Aug. 2s.-John
Trimble, negro employed by a brick
company was shot dead by two guards
at Graves mines today and Willis
Taylor, a negro school teacher, was set
upon by crowd Of negro srikers at
Adamsville and beaten into insensibiI-
lty. The negro Trimble had been dis
charging a pistol around the mines
and when ordered to stop fred on tie
guards, inf1icting a flesh wound in the
hand of George Roebuck, deputy
sheriff. The officer fred, killing the
negro Instantly. The negro school
teacher was beaten, it is said. because
be urged the union miners to 20 back
to work.
st. Louis Aug. 2s.-Blinded by the
dust thrown by the swiftly moving
machine of A. G. Webb, of Toledo.
Ohio, Barney Old6eld, of Cleveland
Ohio, lost control of his machine in a
false start of the fifth event of the
World Fair automobile speed contest
today, and crashing through the outer
fence of the course, instantly Killed
John Scott, a watchman employed at
the park, and inflicted injuries on
Nathan Montgomery, a negro, from
which ne died few hours later. Old
field was painfully injured and his ma
chine completely demolished.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31
ADVISING NEGROES TO Their Ruin.
influential Negro Paper in Rich
mond, Va, Tells Negroes TO
Resist Law Officers, to
Kill and Be Killed.
POLICE HAVING TROUBLE ALREADY

Richmond, Va, Aug. 3o.-The po-
lice here are much worked up over an
editorial in the st, Luke's Herald,
the organ of the grand council, inde-
pendant order of st. Lukes, an indus
trial and beneficial organization that
is widespread among colored people.
Referring to the burning of negroes in
Georgia, The Herald says: "The whole
south is being Mississippied. When a
negro is arrested he might just as
we'll, nay better, fight the officer, who
comes to arrest him and kill him and
get killed rather than be locked up
and die like rats in trap. He had
better die fighting, which is less
painful than 10 be saturated with Oil,
placed on wood pile, set aire and
burned to death.
The police say they are already hav-
ing trouble with the negroes on ac-
count of this article.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31
a Word About Biennial Sessions,

The views of the editor Of the Able
vile, Medium, who is opposed to bien-
nial sessions, are given below, and are
not without reason. Every voter
should study this question and be pre-
pairs to vote intelligently on 1t. The
Medium says:
Fer the people of South Carolina to
vote for this change in the constitu-
tion would be the climax of folly.
There is not good reason for doing
80. Some one says there will be saw
ing of $50, 600 every other year by the
change. Who says legislat , ses-
sion costs $50, 600? It has not cost
that sam since the new constitution
was adopted, and not but once or twice
since 1876. It is bald statment Of
what is not fact aud will not do for
sensible meu to act upon in this lmpor-
tant matter.
Georgia tried the change b1t return
ed to her annual sessions. Under the
biennial system the Georgians got
into the habit of frequent extra ses-
sious and even now have had two ses-
sion since last November.
- The trusts are coming into t1e
State. It does not suit them to have
annual sessions and unthinking men
are used by them to put it out Of the
power of the people to keep close
watch OH their operations if they hap
pen to be wrong.
The dispensary handles mlllious OF
money. Is it best that the directors
should make reports but cnce every
two years? II there was no annual
sessions it would come about that
there would be no one to report to an
nually.
It is not necessary for US to multi
ply reasons The folly of the measure
must be apparent to everybody with a
head OH his shoulders.
IF the amendment prevails by
vote of the people another constitu.
tionel convention will have to be called
i'll order to get things straight. Per
haps a dozen other amendments will
be necessary TO get out of the confu-
sion into which our ooate will be
thrown.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-31
Suicide in Columbia.

Columbia, Aug. 25.-This morning
about O'Clock, Norman O'Connor,
white man about % years Of age, com
lnitted suicide. O'Conner walked in
to the disreptubale house Of Bertha
Maldin in Gates street and without
explanation poured dose of carbolic
acid in a glass of beer and swallowed
it. He was one of the witnesses in
the Maud Allen mu.dercase. AS soon as
it was realized what he had done
a hurry call was sent for the city
physician, DR.. Pope, who lives about
two miles from the house, and the
mau was nearly dead when assistance
arrived. The inmates of the house
made the fellow as easy as possible,
but the amount taken proved fatal.