The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

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e. = 1ooe ~ ths 1sus soutAron H.
49, - Wa>sAsAaN Al southron
~ - ~ ssnhinsa circulation and
Q0Donss - heth ss u. ola papers
- = ns11esnely ~ ~ sdvsrtisans
ooon0 = onzn>ss.
Whsa the state campaign meeting
~ hsld In Charleston Candidate
1leass .ts,d the crowd that be was
epposse 20 cramming down the throat
q . eommuntty any law that the
Deopls did not want ana that II elect
- governor he would give Charleston
ehe same sort Of administration that
- gave during the four years that
- was governor. A part OF the
crowd chesrsd him uproayously. Gov.
Manning told the Charleston crowd
that hs stood for the strict and Inn
pastial enforcement of the law.--all
lawe--ln Charleston as we'll an in ali
eebr scuth Carolina towns. He point.
- = ths manner In which the law
- 1ssn enforced IN charlsston dur
NJ ~, ADMINISTRATION and pledged
hamseIf . continus the enforcement
% law along th& same lines during
ths NEXT Two ysara. The same crowd
that eheersd E'lsass hlssed Mannins.
Now for The reason. Magistrate
0shaushnsssy. OF Charleston. in
semmsntins On the arrest and conv,c-
don of man named Ford on ths
eharso Of transporting LIQUOR. on woi-
rss1ay. raid: II have been here nifty
ysars ana I have never seen the liquor
Isws 80 risidly enforced. when
man brsaks tho prohibition laws now
- = certainly taking long chances
MA H. Freedom. or else doesn't love
>vpooem.~ No wonder the blind tieersS
~ MAnniHg. who Il rssponsible Tor
~ eeqdltion Of afSAirs N Chariss&ous
- r nube bs ssmsmhaxad that thaI
upojog(1T q ~ crswd attending the
cnaFlertou easnpa,sh mesrtns was for
1(>nnne and that he was applauded
y ths echo when Ne boldly ann0hurod,
his dstsrminxtion 70 eaforce thb law
In Charleston In the future as in the
-. The majority OF the people of
CHARLESTON are law rssuNctiag and will
ephoId the hands Of governor who
shows determination to put a curb
on crime and disorder. In the
Dass they have endured the condition
of Iawlssnsas fastened upon the city
~ the blind tigers. because they saw
- hops Tor better things under me
e1ministrAtion. but they have never
denied the existence of rule of
lawIsssness or defended the conditions
thst have been disgrace to the COM
nssity.
e1r Roger Casoment. who was hang
- Thursday on the charge OF high
treason. for his part In promoting the
Irish rebellion, 10. In some sense. al
political martyr. and his execution by
the Britioh government was undoubt-
sdiy = mistake whom All the. circum-
seances are considsred. But the ex-
srsvasant che1s that are being made
for him a. an Irish patriot whose de-
votleu 70 the cause Of freeing the Irish
from seven hundred year old oppres-
ssoh Of England would be more i'm
prsw' = az" convincing II It were
poa Bile TO forget the fact that he
spent tho better part Of his life In the
service Of the British government and
was wen paid and highly honored by
that government. whose service he
did not leave and whose policies he
did not antagonize until II was sorely
bssst by foreign enemies. There are
Irishmen whose consistent opposition
To the form Of government that the
British parliament has imposed upon
ireland and their persistent and ir-
reconcilable antagonism to all things
English. Qualities them for the role of
patriot AMI martyr. but Sir Roger
Easement. whose very title was the
badge Of his service to the govern
ment he turned against In its time OF
peril, cannot Justly be placed on the
pedestal o. fame as such a national
hero. He was only an unfortunate con.
spirator. not a fighting revolutiona
such a. the Dublin rebels whn dio.,