The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-12-06

ina 10 manifestly the best advertising
medium In Sumter.
from politics does not appear to have
be as complete and lasting as an
nounced in his Fair Week Manifesto
That document indicated that he had
cussed and quit. but his present ac-
tivity In Columbia would lead the
public To believe that his hat is i'm the
ring.
The New York monev trust has fall
cd to brow-beat Secretary Of the
Treasury McAdoo and he holds the
whip hand over them for they dare
not attempt to create a panic. They
know that they cannot create an
artificial panic. such as they have
heretofore manipulated, while Mr..
McAdoo stands ready to deposit $780,
100000 emergency currency in the
banks ut the first intimation OF panic
conditions. But for Mr.. McAdoo and
his unmovahle determination 20 exert
his utmost power ana 10 use the re-
serves Of the Rovernment TO prevent
a Wa. Street manipulated panic. there
woIia nave been "a paDic this year
and there would have been no cur
rency reform legislation.
The mob that ran amuck in Barn.
well Thursday. raging for the lives
OF forty negroes who had been arrest
ed and committed TO jail as suspects
I'm connection with the murder OF q
white man the previous night. was a
shocking demonstration OF the utter
irresponsibility and recklessness of
tho mob spirit. That the man was
killed and that negro fired the fatal
shot has not been denied, but only
two shots were fired and one man fred
both OF them. therefore thirty-nine of
the negroes whom the mob sought
cruel. savage and senseless and the
men who go up and down the State
advocating lynching. in season and out
OF season. using all the artful de-
vices OF the demagogue TO create and
inflame race prejudice cannot undo
their vicious work by calling out the
militia and appealing to the sheriff
To do his duty. Those who SOW evil
seed reap evil fruit.
The women who are advocating
the immediate granting OF the fran
chise to oil women are undertaking
To use the big stick on President Will
son and the Democratic party.
threatening To turn solid vote
against the party i'm the women suf-
frage states. unless the president and
the party leaders forthwith proceed to
amend the constitution in compli-
utterances of Dr. Anna Shaw and
other suffrage leaders. especially
their lll-considor red and ill-tempered
criticism OF President Wilson. lead to
the conclusion that they are drifting
toward the adoption of the militant
methods that Mrs. Pankhurst and
her cohort OF fanatics have made no.
torious In England. There is no
fundamentally sound objection to
giving the franchise To- women, just
as there Is no real necessity for doing
so. but IL the women suffragists of
this country degenerate into
the Pankhurst methods they will
themselves furnish the strongest and
best argument against woman suf-
frage. The only reason for giving the
franchise to women is the hope that
they will prove more law-abiding,
more conservative and less under the
influence of the liqur element and
corrupt POLITICAL bosses than the
rank and Tile of the men; hut II the
women prove themselves lawlcss 10y
the adoption of Pankhui 4 tactics
those whose have heretofore advocat-
ed their cnfranchiscmcnt will turn
against them.