The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-08
privilege is the fight confronting
Democracy

ernor for several years, has at last
decided to make the plunge, and to-
day announces his candidacy Mr..
Hyatt will make the race as the busi-
ness mems candidate, with prohibi-
ton as one plank of his platform. Mr..
Hyatt is not generally regarded as a
strong factor in the campaign, but
his candidacy will, undoubtedly, COM
plicate matters, and will have a ten
dency detract from the strength OF
both Featherstone and Richards, who
are making the race on the straight.
out, Statewide prohibition issue, as
we view it, the candidacy of Mr..
Hyatt will injure all the other cam
didates more than Mr.. Blease, who
primary than he would be without Mr..
Hyatt in the race and thereby divid-
ing the votes the others would re-
ceive. Mr.. Blease has a certain fol-
lowing that will vote for him irres-
pective of the number or politician al
lignment of the other candidates and
the greater the number Of Guberna-
torial candidates he has to contend
against the greater will be his rela-
tive strength in the first primary.
John Il. Duncan, ESQ, formerly a
member of the Columbia bar, but
not now in good standing, having
been disbarred. announces that he
Will enter the race for Governor. Mr..
Duncan won a certain sort of fame
as a candidate for the United States
Senate in the campaign in which Col.
j. III. Earle defeated Former Cover
nor John Gary Evans, but since those
stirring days has sunk into political
oblivion. What his prospective en-
ergence portends is not now known.
but judging the future by the past his
candidacy will develop a fight on
some particular candidate rather
than contest for the office.
The price at which October cotton
Is quoted is not an inducement to
farmers to sell their crops for future
delivery, when the present scarcity of
the staple is considered; and if the
producers enter into few contracts for
the delivery of the actual cotton dur
ing the early fall months, the bear
spectators will be deprived of one
or their strongest weapons in the
fight they will make to depress the
price Of cotton this year.
The reports from the BOYS Corn
Club of Sumter County are most en-
couraging, and, if the weather con-
tinues favorable, a majority Of the
young farmers will succeed in grow
ing exceptionally fine crops. The boys
are all aiming high and are working
and fertilizing for for two hundred
bushel yield per acre. None Of them
may succeed in making an acre pro-
duce the maximum yield desired, but
we believe that large percentage of
the contestants will harvest more
than one hundred bushels each from
their prize acre.
The plant and property Of the
Sumter Cotton Mill was sold today
under foreclosure proceedings in
stituted ny the bond holders and WAS
hid in by Mr., r. I. Manning. We are
without Information respecting tho |
plans and intentions of the purchasers.
nat the Tact that the property has fall |
len into the hands Of local men leads |
rs 20 hope that measures will be
taken To rchallitate and enlarge the
plant and put it on a paying basis
There is certainly room in Sumter for
a cotton mill, and the success Of cot
mills in Orangcburg, Hartsville and
clio would seem to have cffectualiy
disprovel the frequently made state
mcnt that a cotton mill cannot be
made To pay i'm South Carolina, else.
where than in the Piedmont mill dis
trict This city is the largest interior
cotton market and the center of the
most prosperous cotton growing see
ton Of the State, and a mill with a
supply Of cotton at it's doors should
nave the advantage of mills that have
to draw their supplies from distant
points. We do not hold the belier
that big cotton mill. or several of
them, Is absolutely essential to the
future growth and prosperity of this
city, but we do believe chat success
IuI cotton mill on two. would be Il
valuable and desirable supplement to
the industrial life Of the community.