Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-23
THE STAR OF zioN--ITs POLITICS.


ing more to say of the Star Of Zion
just yet, but looking over the col
umns of the last issue, we see it
keeps standing at the head of its
column the democratic ticket and
under it the republican and liberal
ticket. Upon seeing this one won
ders why it is SO? Does the Star
mean to support the democratic
ticket? We failed to find line of
editorial in this great correctional
paper upon anything, and of course
could form no opinion from reading
it.
The Star is the organ of our
church and we want to see it take a
proper position in politics if it takes
any at all. As it is more dependent
upon the colored people than any
other paper for support, we can not
see how it can hesitate to take
stand for the colored mans party,
and as the editor is now in the SER
vice of the governmental servant
of a republican administration, he
should not support party averse to
the administration.
Friends of the Star have asked
us if we did not want to have the
MESSENGER take the place of the
Star. We can say it never once en-
tered our mind till mentioned to us,
and we say further we are now pub
fishing just such a paper as we de:
sire to publish secular paper has
been long needed in this section.
The MESSENGER and the Star occupy
entirely different fields, and we are
not at all envious and are perfectly
satisfied, so far as the running of
two papers go. We do think as
proud and as strong q connection as
Zion ought to support an editor like
a gentleman for his services. We
think it beneath the dignity of the
editor of a correctional paper to
run as mail agent. We are glad
to learn of the editors good luck
and think he ought to resign his
place as editor, for he now has a
place much better suited to the man.
Rion has a host of men ready to
take hold of the Star and make it
what it ought to be. All it needs is
to be properly edited and managed.
The folly of carrying IL
paper to Salisbury is again forced
upon the public. Neither editor
nor manager in forty miles of the
paper. The last issue, though filled
with something, had not line of
editorial or local news. We suggest
to lions ministers as they have
very easily gotten rid of their editor
and he now fills a position for which
he is much better fitted than editing
the Star, let them give him a free
pass and take Price, Tyler, Dancy,
Thomas, W. r. Moore or some good
man to edit the paper. Let them
take men in Zion Wesley whom
they can defend and all will be well.
The MESSENGER means to ask no
favors of the church more than its
prayers. We intend to run our own
paper as long as we can, newspaper
killers to the contrary notwith-
standing. But we mean to look out
for our correctional institutions.
1t is needless to attempt to build
strong and lasting edifces upon
rotten foundations. Let the faculty
of our institutions be spotless from
head to foot and no man shall do
more according to his opportunities
than the editor of the MESSENGER.
Now let us hear the name of the ed
itor of the Star. Let us hear the
names of the assistant teachers of
the institution and the columns of
the MESSENGER shall be open to the
good of the church and all her in
situations.