The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-30

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Charleston has invited President
Roosevelt to pay that city another
Witt Has crum been forgotten:
Attorney General Lyon has been IN
Office a week. but no dispensary
grafters have been started on the
road to the penitentiary.
President Roosevelt sent special
message to congress Wednesday
boosting the ship-subsidy graft. This
is a party measure, and he probably
had to do it to propitiate the money
ed friends Of his friend Cortelyou.
Mr.. ]. ]. KoIb's letter to City coun-
c. protesting against the failure OF
the Sumter Telephone company to
furnish him with telephone, for
which application was made nearly a
year ago, and at intervals since, puts
the matter squarely up to that COM
pany, It looks like a case of ''shoot,
Luke, or give uc the gun
The dispenssry fight in the house,
which begins next Tuesday, promises
se be interesting In some respects, but
TIE result is q foregone conclusion.
The anti-dispensary side is the
popular side now and the house can
be depended upon to do what appears
60 be the popular thing every time.
The trial Of Harry Thaw. the mil
uonaire degenerate. for the murder
OF Stanford White, was begun in
New York Wednesday an dthe news
agencies are giving it as much prom
inence as news feature as they gave
the Kingston earthquake; a-.d the
worst u It is the trial szin last long
er eaan dozen earthquakes.
The charge against Senator Bailey
that he was hireling of the
Standard Oil Trust and had used his
political influence to aid that concern
to circumvent the laws Of Texas had
no more effect upon the voters OF
Texas than did the Hubbell rebate
charges against Senator Tillman in
this state. A majority of the Texans
ere for Bailey against the world, the
flesh and the devil as South Carroll
mans are for Tillman.
If the South Carolina State Base
ball League is organized on a business
basis the people Of Sumter will give
the local club and the league enthu-
siastic support. Sumter wants good
ball and will go as far as the next
town to get it, but the fans want to be
assured Of clean sport and a fair deal.
This we believe we shall have under
the organization recommended by the
retiring president, Mr.. II. S. Baird,
and directed by Mr. NJ. L. Smith, as
president. The selection Of Mr.. Smith
as president could not be improved
upon.
Representative Mann had the right
to have his reasons for not voting for
Ge..ator Till1nan recorded, and the
vote OF q majority of the members to
expunge his statement from the house
journal was an exhibition of sub
serwency to Senator TiIlman that sur
passed their refusal to adopt the res
oIution endorsing President Roose-
velt's discharge of the negro troops.
Senator Ti,lman is an able man and
in our opinion his services in the SEN
dCS SntlStSQ lin 70 IS-SlSCIiS@., O0t 1iS
is not above criticism, and the house
does itself no credit by its trucking
attitude.
Within the past thirty days three
persons have been painfully injured
and a little girl killed on the streets
Of this city, and the preponderance of
evidence in each case indicates that
the accidents were the result Of care
lessness Ia greater or less degree. In
two cases, viz: the injury of Sergeant
Jenkins and that Of Rev. F. NJ. Sat
terwhite, it is alleged, and there were
credible witnesses TO sustain the al
legation, that the accidents were I'M
svoidaDle, owing to circumstances
over which the driver had no con-
troll at the instant the accidents oc-
Cured; but the recurrence Of such
accidents shows that due care has not