The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-10-25

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advertising medium in Sumter.
Solicitor Wilson and Sheriff Gra-
4 gaua Of Williamsburg county, per-
eogzned their full duty under trying
circumstances in preventing the
syacning at Indiantown OF the negroes
suspected OF killing Mr. Julian Wilson.
Eor their action they deserve the
thanks Of all good citizens. If there
were more meaSiike Solicitor Wilson
Snd shersm Grahan, in Office there
would be fewer. Eynchings and the law
would be sere respected and better
enforced.
There ars snany opinions concern
ang the merits and demerits OF '"The
Clansuan," but the greater publicity
these opinions are given the better
nleased will be MFR. Thomas Dixon,
>Jr., and his theatrical managers. The
adverse criticisms are better adver-
xisements than twice the amount OF
eaudatory notices, and the seyerest
critics are DRon'ss best friends from a
monetary point Of view. The more
his play is condemned the greater will
De the public curiosity and the heavier
che box Office receipts.
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The Southern Cotton Growers As
sociation as at present constituted
contains the germ Of powerful Or
ganization that could do untold good
for the South, but it is scarcely more
than germ. The association is prac-
Ecally little more than the officers and
executive committee, and the great
work they have accomplished speaks
wonderfully well for their intelligence.
Ehesr energy and their devotion to the
cause. They cannot go on doing this
work indefinitely, however, without
the united support Of the cotton grow
ers and the merchants and bankers OF
the South. The association is well
equipped with officers, but the ground
work, the substantial foundation Of
subsidiary associations has not been
perfected. The foundation is abso-
aufely essential to the permanency and
success of the association and unless
local associations are organized in a
great majority of the townships in the
cotton belt, the association isN certain
so 90 to pieces at no distant day. If
st could be possible to have each and
severy farmer in the South enrolled in
xhe association as working member
-of neighborhood association it would
be perfect and the price Of cotton
could be fixed and maintained as firm
~ as the gold standard. The para
mount issue before the Southern Cot
seon Growers Association is the per-
ssectSon of the organization; its success
.or failure as well as the price Of cot
e@an hinges upon this.
When President Roosevelt visited
the South at the time Of the Charles
con exposition he was bepraised and
belauded by many newspapers to such
an extreme that one would have
Imagined that he was the greatest
xnan and most perfect character that
America had. succeeded in producing.
shorsly afterward came the ,crum af-
sasr and then the Booker washington
Sncident, for which ne was assailed
and denounced in the most unmeas-
AIRED terms, the newspapers that had
well nigh exhausted the vocabulary
In praising him shortly before, leading
In the chorus of abuse. This is all
matter OF history. and is referred to
snerely to give point to the sugges-
Escn that our Southern newspapers re-
strain their exuberance and temper
zneir praise Of the preident with judg-
snent and good sense on the present
E3CCGSlOu. EESSiOSul 1sOOoC'SA1 ~ 49,
1oubtediy an able man and
good citizen in private life, and
sn public life also, when, being
good does not interfere with his po-
aitical preferment or the party well
fare. President Roosevelt is sue
Gessful politician and he has won his
success by knowing how to play the
game OF practical politics and playing
u better than the other fellows. All
%hss being true. il is neither good sense
nor good taste to do violence to The
English language in lauding man as
Sf he We're a demi-god.
In the State Fair Columbia has an
attraction that is worth tens Of thous-
ands of dollars to the city annually