The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-05-04
COLUMBIA POLITICAL CHAT,
+. III HYATT WILL CHASE \ BUB-
BILE THIS SUMMER.
Five Candidates Now in the Race For
GONcrnOr-A Veterinarian HoOts at
Idea of Rabies i'm Dogs, But dag
noses il as Mango.

bOlulnDld, April ES.-Inat Mr. +.
II. Hyatt of Columbia, life insurance
general agent, prominent Methodist
and successful business man, will en-
ter the race for governor is practical
ly certain, and it is probable that he
will announce his candidacy within
the next few days. This will run up
the list of Methodists aspiring to the
office to four out of five, Messrs. G.
l.. Blease, II. G.. Mcleod, G. G.. Feath-
erstone, being all Methodists, though
only Messrs. Featherstone and Hyatt
advocate prohibition, the other two
being local option candidates. Mr.
John G.. Richards, Jr, the other CUB
ernatorial aspirant and prohibition
candidate, is a Presbyterian. The
Baptists, who have the largest voting
strength of any denomination in the
State, will have to pacify themselves
Ivy praying for the success Of Mr.. G.
a. Smith for lieutenant governor.
The candidacy of Mr.. Hyatt is not
to the liking Of some of the anti-sa-
loon leaders, among them State Su-
perintendent j. l.. Harley, who is pro-
testing loudly against Mr.. Hyatt en-
tering the race on the ground that
it will split up the prohibition vote,
but Mr.. Hyatt's friends are urging
him to enter the race regardless of
this as they regard his business quail
fications more important. They argue
that it makes no great difference to
the prohibition cause who is chosen
governor, as this Is strictly the prov
ince of the legislature, that it will be
best for the prohibitionists to con-
centrate on the senate, as without the
senate prohibition will necessarily re-
main unaccomplished, whereas the
house being admittedly prohibition
there will be no difficulty in passing
a Statewide prohibition act If the
prohibitionists can secure q majority
in the senate.
The nervousness Mr.. Hyatts candi-
dacy Is causing in certain quarters is
reflected in card which appears in a
recent issue Of the Southern Christian
Advocate, the Methodist church pa
w. l.. Wait who severely condemns
the sending Of letters to members of
the South Carolina Conference in the
interest of candidates for office, and
calls out vigorously for the next
annual conference to sit down upon
such practice with a resolution franz
ed in unmistakable language. AS
the conference will not be in session
until the present campaign is over,
Mr.. Wait wants other ministers to
write to The Advocate and cry down
the so-called evil. y
DR.. b. F. Jones, a graduate veter-
marian of this city, says the mad dog
scare has gone far enough in this
State and that it is time to call
halt, and he has shown his faith by
refusing to take any sort of treat
ment for bite he got day or so ago
from Great Dane belonging to Mr..
r. b. Bryan of this city, which IS
evincing the usual symptoms of
rabies. This is the dog which bit Mr..
Alfred Wallace, Jr., recently, who had
seen his own dog suffering from
rabies bite Great Dane last winter. An
analysis Of the head off the Wallace
dog was made at the Pasteur Insti-
tute. and the result was that Mr. WAL
lace and his mother and grandmoth-
er. who were all bitten, took the
treatment
This particular dog is suffering
from a nervous disorder brought on
by the mango" said DR.. Jones to-
day, "and he will be all right when
get him treated for that. Analyes
Of dogs brains and rabies are stuff
and nonsense! There is no such thing
as scientific determination of the dis
ease. The bacteria have never been
isolated. 1t is altogether too impos-
sible to discover by analysis Of the
brain Of the suffering animal whether
he has rabies or not All that the
analysis reveals is a negroid body,
which might be translated any one of
number of things. All this hysteria
about rabid dogs is senseles and
cruel not to say cowardly attitude
for us to assume toward our best
friend, the dog. Not one per cent
ot the dogs. analysis of whose heads
they claim show rabies, ever had the
disease. Fifty per cent. of the dogs
in this State are suffering from the
mango, which is very trying on the
nervous system. Instead of all this
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