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

ran for some State Office, is out in a
card that is very complimentary to
the work he did when searching the
books of various county offices. Mr..
Brooker must 'ntend to be in the
campaign next summer.
The Cotton Growers Association
will have to exert all of It's power and
influence next spring to keep down the
cotton acreage. The short crop this
year was due more to weather condi-
tions than to the reduction in acre
age, It will not do to count on the
same run Of luck next year.
President Roosevelt's tactfulness IN
iavoiding any reference to social equal
Iity in his Tuskegee speech was SO no.
/ ticeable as to be emphatic. He fol-
lowed a well beaten track in his re-
marks and while he advanced no new
ideas he stated wholesome and well
accepted truths at which neither
whites nor blacks can take ofense.
The clubbing offer that we are
making to send the Watchman and
fsouthron at $3.50 year. the An1eri-
| tcan Monthly Review Of Reviews at
$500 a year, the Cosmopolitan at
s1.oe a year, and the Woman's Home
Companion at s1.0o year, to any ad-
dress for $3.50 is the biggest offer ever
made. This offer is open to paid in
advance subscribers only. New sub
scribers upon payment Of $3.50 will
receive for one year the GWatchman
and Southron and three Of the best
monthly magazines published in
America All subscribers, who are in
arrears, must pay up their subscrip-
tions and then upon payment Of $3.50
will participate in our clubbing Of
fer. No one who wants to keep post
ed on the news Of the day and keep
in touch with the affairs of the world
can afford to neglect the opportunity
now afforded them to obtain at the
lowest price ever offered the best
county paper, the best monthly re-
view, the best of the illustrated
monthly magazines and the best
woman's magazine. This clubbing
offer will be open until December 1st,
only.
Mr. Joel E. Brun son, than whom
there is no more consistent or earnest
prohibitionist in the State expresses
his views on the status of the liquor
question clearly and emphatically.
The so-called prohibitionists who
are entbusing over the proposition to
vote the dispensary out of one county
at time, and to have prohibition in
one county, high license in another
and the dispensary in a third, should
study Mr. Brunson's words.
President Roosevelt has been on
his good behavior during his trip
through the South thus far, but We
will watch with interest for some so1t
of outbreak when be gels back to
Washington that will shock the SEMI
biIities Of those who have been slob-
bering over him these past few days.
Sumter needs that sewerage system
worse than ever and there is no good
reason for dilly- -dallying about it
much longer. The legislature at its
next session should be asked to au-
tborize a bond issue for the purpose
of paying for the sewerage system
that is necessity.
When the gh School building
was completed in February 1904 some
people said the city was 6xed, as far
as ECilCOI uOUSSS NGIS COuCS1QSN3 1'l
the next ten years. Two years have
not yet passed and, another school
house is needed. 1t must be provided
without delay and the City Board of
Education should set about devising
ways and Dieans
The cotton receipts on the Sumter
market this week we're about 800
bales. against more than | $50 for the
same week last year. The small
receipts show that some OF the farm
e-s are holding cotton, but not all OF
them. The receipts are entirely too
large, and if the farmers Of the South
generally are holding any better than
those of Sumter county, there is small
chance of the complete success CT the
campaing for fair prices now being
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