The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-10-01

Columbia, Sept. 29.-Promoters Of
the proposed new morning paper for
| Columbia now say il will likely be
next week before incorporation of
the $25O,O0O company can be un-
dertaken. Last week it was thought
the commission would be obtained
| Monday of this week. Meantime
vigorous canvassing for subscriptions
to the capital stock Is being done
among the merchants and other bus
mess men of Columbia and letters
are being sent to prospective invest
ors in other communities Of the
State who are thought to be in sym-
pathy with the venture.
All doubt of the intimate relations
that will exist between the new jour-
nal and the Blease administration
| has been dissipated by a statement
| from Mr.. Blease himself. There has
| been comparatively little comment
upon the proposition by the newspa-
pers of the State. The Orangeburg
Sun, whose editor Fred Wannama-
ker, has long been a friend to Geo.
r. Rooster, one of the promoters,
says that competition with the es-
tablished morning paper will require
all of the quarter million Of dollars
with which it is planned to capital
ize the new daily. The Florence
Times, edited by Representative
Hartwell M. Aver, inquiries tentative
ly whether the paper Is to be align
ed with the proposed "Hly-white"
Republican party in South Carolina.
The Spartanburg Herald, owned by
Ambrose E. Gonzales, president of
The State company, Columbia, sug-
gests that there are several towns
other than Columbia in which
please organs" might be establish
ed. One circumstance to show that
the paper will be without Republi-
can affiliations is that among the
promoters is Congressman A. F..
Lever. Another is that the legal ad-
wiser to the promoters is George K.
Rembert-Mr. Rembert being him
self promoter; and Mr. Rembert
mas just been nominated for the low
er house of the legislature. in a
Democratic primary. He is in fact,
on his own declaration, to be the
Blease administration representative
on the floor Of the house. Mr.. Koes-
tr's interest is professional He
started newspaper work on the old
Charleston World, edited the Column
bia Register and for twelve years
was general manager Of the Column
bia Record, contro, Of which passed
oy purchase nearly two years ago to
James A. Hoyt. Since then Mr.. Koes-
ctr has been engaged in the real
estate and insurance business in Co.
lumbia. Fortified with the proceeds
from the sale of his interest in The
Record, he Is very comfortably cir
cumstanced, financially.
A question that Is interesting
| newspaper men is that of how the
new paper Will obtain a telegraphic
news service adequate to it's needs.
The State has an exclusive franchise
for the morning paper service of
the Associated Press. 1t may be tha
the lawyers will find a way by which
the Associated Press can be made
to furnish news to The States COM
petitor. however. 1t will be recalled
that The Register had such a fran
chise, at the time Of The States es-
tablishment; but some flaw was
found In the contract, by which The
State also secured the Associated
Press dispatches. The Hearst News
Service dispatches might answer the
requirements Of the new paper; but
the cost would be practically pro-
hibitive, 1t Is thought, since the
Hearst syndicate has no night wire
nearer to Columbia than Nashvi .le--
and that may now be abandoned, in
view Of the absorption Of The Ameri-
can by The Tennessean.
Rumor has hinted that William
Randolph Hearst might be backing
the new paper for political reasons
OF his own; but no verihcation OF
this whatever can be got. Further,
there are no signs elsewhere in the
South Atlantic States Of an invas-
ion by Hearst, at this time, nor any
reasons for such an INVASION
TEACHERS EXAMINATION OCT. 7