The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-22

Brown, who is being tried for murder,
and two prisoners brought from the
Ohio penitentiary. as witnesses, made
a sensational escape from the Otta-.
wa Jail.
.l;orers from the antitrust act, declar-
ing labor not commodity.
The act for vocational training. Civ
ing our. soldiers a means for earning
a livelihood.
The building Of great merchant
marine carrying our cotton and cotton
goods to foreign ports in American
ships and opening our Southern ports
that were bottled up by Republican
nagnates.
The antitrust act, destroying mo-
ropolies.
The Federal Trades Commission to
destroy unfair business dealings.
The great federal reserve banking
act which destroyed the money trusts
made panics impossible and enabled.
us to finance the great war without
bank failure
The world war was fought. financed
and won without scandal, and those
who were most able We're made to
pay the bin.
For all these we are profoundly
grateful, and have a right to, expect
all honest men and women to per-
petuate the party in power.
L Then came the encroachment Of for
eign autocracy interrupting the peace
and progress of remedial legislation,
and our people rose in their might
under the leadership Of Woodrow Will
son. to the defense Of our rights and
to save Democracy for the world.
Under Wilson's Leadership.
The gallant fight made by our SOL
I diers at the. front, backed by every
loyal American at home won a victory
for democracy and civilization that
gained the admiration of the civilized
world. we are especially proud Of
the n7angnificenh record made by the
people Of South Carolina. and by the
soldiers and sailors who went into the
service from this State; this State hav-
! ing offered over sS0,000,060 for Lib
/ erty loans, and gave as free gift
over s15,000,000 to the Red, Cross,
! Y. M. C. A. and other welfare organi-
cations. She contributed over her
allotment of men; the per. centage
+; Of casualties among soldiers from
South Carolina was higher than the
! per centage from any other State;
more soldiers from South Carolina
iswere awarded medal of honor than
/, from any other State in the Union;
! - per cent OF all the medals Of honor
that were given were won by soldiers
from this commonwealth wonder
/ ful. record. which should be source.
of perpetual pride to our people.
We join in the demand of the pull
pits Of this country. and of its asri-
cultural interests, Of labor. and of the
great business, industrial and CONNER
clad organizations of America, that the
, senate quit playing politics with this
sacred question and give to the world
the word that America is ready to
make a trial for universal peace We
repudiate the inferential suggestion
that having joined our associates IN
war in creating the conditions that are
now leading them to chaos. we are to
withdraw and leave them to merciless
fate in order that we might maintain
a so-called traditional state Of 'Sso-'
lation" that we surrendered when we
went to the defense of our own rights.
and to the aid of struggling humanity.
If this is to be our attitude, then the
$4,000 Americans who now sleep in,
France gave up their lives in vain,
and the millions more who Willingly
offered their lives for the cause that
called US there have a right to ask
for what We're they summoned to the
colors
Era Of Good Feeling.
The, Democracy of South Carolina
rejoices in the great prosperity which
has come to this State in the last five
years, largely through the admlrahle
legislation enacted at Washington, and
it suggests the foregoing as one OF
the measures which should be adopt
ed to preserve this prosperity and 70
pepetuate it. We are especially.pleas-.
ed that along with this era of pros s
perity has come an era OF unpreceoe"-
ted good feeling among the people OF
this State. with class divisions less ac-
centuated than ever before in the his
tory of the commonwealth. and with
a universal support of those measures
which will upbuild strengthen and eN-
tend the social. economic and moral
agencies of the commonwealth. The
Democracy of South Carolina recog
nizes the obligation upon it to take +
the lead in South Carolina IN the pro-st
motion of those measures which would :
make for better feeling between the