The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-01
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The Sumter wafchman was found.
- In 1850 and the True southron In
hsss. The watchmAn and Southron
sow has the combined circulation and
influence OF both OF the old papers,
and n manifestly the best advertising
medium In Sumter.
III the Germans can put over
satisfactory explanation of the sink
Ing of the Arabic you will have TO
hand them the belt as explainers.
The greatest field for missionary
work I'm the world is Haiti and has
been strangely neglected by the des-
cendents OF the abolitionists.
The State campaign next summer
will have but a'single issue-do the
people OF South Carolina want a law
enforcing governor for two years
more?
President Wilson. Secretary OF the
Treasury McAdoo and Mr.. Harding of
the Federal Reserve board have put
the cotton marketing question square
ly up TO the banks. III the cotton
crop is forced on the market and
sacrificed the banks of the South will
be responsible for the loss that the
farmers sustain. The old excuse
that the Southern banks cannot OBJ
tain the money needed to finance the
cotton crop and prevent q business
panic In the South cannot be worked
this year. for all the money that can
be used IL offered the banks at a rate
80 low that they can lend IL at 6
per cent. The question is. will the
banks rise TO the full measure of
their opportunity?
present for the pert paragraphers
20 poke fun 40 Senator T.. ID. smith
because OF his comparative silence tor
a long period of time. Mr. smiths
shut-u nth Is neither as funny nor as
foolish as the wild vaporlngs OF the
numerous other office holders who
have been fatiguing the public ear
with readly-made solutions OF all the
momentous questions that confound
the world. When Smith persistently
exercised his decided talent for speech
making he was criticised as a mouthy
wind bag and now that he talks less
than the notoriety seekers who have
been making speeches all summer at
every cross roads in the State, the
critics intimate that ne has lost his
voice and has cold feet. Some people
are hard to please.
The Yorkville Enquirer's explana-
tion of Nicholrs election to congress
In the Fourth District Is the most
plausible yet advanced and Is prob
ably nearest the truth. According TO
the Enquirer factionalism was dis
carded In Spartanburg and Greenvile,
M NNNw ssf-
the other three counties. partly spirit.
as aroused during Nichols previous
campaigns. figured with full effect to
the advantage OF Nichols. giving him
the majority" Which Is to say that
Nichols played the shrewdest political
game and won by secretly appealing
to factionalism. where IL would do
good. although posing as a non-par-
tisan candidate elsewhere. Politics is
dirty game at best. but as 1t is play
eel sometimes 1t is filthy.
The Farmers Secret Society which
originated In Lee county a few
months ago. and which Is reported To
have spread rapidly to other coun-
ties. has reached Sumter county. ac-
cording to our Baker School corre-
spondent. There has been a studied
effort ON the part OF the promoters OF
this new organization TO surround it
with a veil of mystery. the object
doubtless being to- magnify it's import
ance. Some people have pretended TO
view the alleged rapid growth OF the
Farmers Secret Society with alarm,
hut there is no reason for alarm. eth
er real or pretended, The men who
have already enlisted and will enlist