The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-03-21

w for the sake of gaining experience
as a campaigner and stump speaker.
The people Of South Carolina would
| not drink liquor fast enough to suit
the enterprising board of directors so
they just bought as much as they
thought the people ought to drink and
piled it up in the dispensaries. A sal
ary OF s40o a year is a great tempta-
ton for a man with expensive tastes
to do a littN business on the side.
reasonable view Of the special court
question. AS the legislature refused
to make an appropriation to pay the
judges who preside over these extra
terms he should not incur expenses
that he cannot pay. What is needed
is not so many extra terms, but
promptness in the dispatch Of business
at the regular terms. If it is not
waste of time to consume two or more
Gays in the trial of a little damage suit,
it is a good imitation Of it.
The Newberry Herald and News
says it is for Senator Tilln1an against
the field this year, notwithstanding
| it has never supported him in the pri-
mary heretofore when he has had op-
position. We predict that there will
be no field this year, and the Herald
and News is safe in taking this posi-
ton.
| The accidental meeting Of David B.
Hill, Alton B. Parker and Chief Justice
O,Brien, the three big men in New
York State democracy, in Camden
may produce results, but it will hardly
make Mr.. Parker presidential candi-
date again.
If Mr.. McIver Williamson, who will
deliver an address on corn culture be-
fore the Sumter County Cotton Grow
ers' Association at its uext meeting,
can convince his hearers that it is
more profitable to grow corn than cot
ton and tell them how to do it, he will
solve the cotton acreage problem.
The farmers do not plant cotton for
the pleasure there is in it, but because
they labor under the delusion that cot
ton is the only money crop worth con-
sidering. When they are convinced
that they can make more clear money
on some other crop, Cor which there is
ready market, the other crop will
quickly drive cotton out. One great
objection to corn as a money crop that
southern farmers always advance is
the absence of market. They cannot
harvest their corn and take it direct
from the farm to market and convert
it into cash.
The Industrial School and Reforma-
tory promises to be much more i'm
the original plans, or its advocates
contemplated. If the plans are car
: t>o Acf1 o1,-o h n
stitution to the State and the commu-
nifty in which it IS located will be for
tunate, if it should develop into an
institution similar to the Tennessee
school near Nashville.
The State Board Of Health should
at least make an effort to devise some
more effective system Of dealing with
epidemics Of contagious diseases in the
rural districts An outbreak of small
pox near Heriots, in Lee county, was
reported to the State Board Of Health
by telegraph nearly a week ago, and
SO Idr dS IS hl1OWil, dOSOlulCIy llOIIillS
has been done to suppress the disease,
except what had been undertaken by
resident physicians before notice was
sent to the State Board of Health. A
State board of health is undoubtedly
an excellent and highly important
boay-if it does anything. We fear
that our present board is rather slow
going bit unwield!y, for it takes
long time to sit up and take notice
Of smallpox epidemic.
Mr.. Ansen Of Greenville who, as
some of our readers we'll recollecr,
made the race for governor four years
ago in opposition to Governor Hey
ward and Jim Tillman, and has been
a candidate to succeed Governor Hey
| ward ever since, has issued a state
ment defining his present position on