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


.ur.te lsrge-and we need the money.
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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 a 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.. ]. j. Kolb's letter to City coun-
ell protesting against the failure OF
the Sumter Telephone company to
furnish him with a telephone, for
which application was made nearly a
year ago, and at intervals since, puts
the: matter squarely UP to that COM
,oany. It looks like a case Of Shoot,
Luke, or give up the gun.''
The dispensary fight in the house.
which begins next Tuesday, promises
to be interesting in some respects, but
the result is foregone conclusion.
The anti-dispensary side is the
popular side now and the house can
be depended upon to do what appears
to be the popular thing every time.
The trial Of Harry Thaw, the mil
Tonaire, degenerate, for the murder
.of Stanford White, was begun in
New York Wednesday an dthe news
agencies are giving it as much prom
.lnence as a news feature as they gave
Fthe Kingston earthquake; and the
worst of it is the trial will last long
>er than a dozen earthquakes.
The charge against Senator Bailey
that he was a hireling Of the
Standard Oil Trust and mad 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 Hubben rebate
charges against Senator Tillman in
this State. A majority Of the Texans
are for Bailey against the world, the
aesh and the devil as South Caroa-
mans are for Tillman.
If the South Carolina State Base
ball League is organized or 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 ,gaaization recommended by tie
retiring president, Mr.. H. 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
Senator Tillman recorded, and the
vote OF majority of the members to
expunge his statement from the house
Journal was an exhibition Of sub
serviency to Senator Tillman that sur
passed their refusal to adopt the res
olution endorsing President Rcose-
yelt's discharge Of the negro troops.
Seua. OF Tiliman is an able man and
IN our mon his services in the SEN
ate e,1ti;3ess nim to reelection, but he
is not ;.3ss.e criticism, and the house
does !tsen no credit by its trucking
attitude.
Within the past thirty days three
persons have been painfully injured
and little girl killed on the streets
OF this city. and the preponderance Of
evidence n each case indicates that
the accidents were the result Of care
lessness IL greater or less degree. In
two cases, viz: the injury Of Sergeant
jenkins and that Of Rev. F. n. Sat
terwhite, it is alleged, and there were
credible witnesses to sustain the al
legation, that the accidents were un-
avoidable, owing to circumstances
over which the driver had no con-
troll at the instant the accidents oc-
CURED; but the recurrence Of such