The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-21
STATE PRESS

How far the threat Of negro domina-
ton has gone in some Of the eastern
cc1nties Is shown by the fact, reported
by the Kinston Free Press. that In Wood
tngton township. In that county, a negro
school committeeman stated that he
would visit a white teacher. a lady. and
demand her resignation or her certificate.
apparently merely to show his ssumed
lima ought to make II certain forever that
no such threat could thereafter be made
in this state anywhere--Ashevflle Citizen.
We can win IL We win go into the fight
with solid ranks and without any sacrf-
flee OF principle. There are lots of good
men In the populist party. and some in
the republican party, that are sick and
Disguised with the action OF the two last
legislatures that are ready to walk out.
and will come to the democrats and help
they will not II We act cowardly as we
have been doing for the past few years.
and dicker with every Tom. Dick and
Harry" that set themselves up as leader
Of a small gang of pie hunters What we
need in North Carolina is a genuine re-
vival OF old fashion democracy, and the
camp meeting ought to begin now so that
by next fall there will be many converts.
Aberdeen Telegram.
The Wadesboro Messenger and Intel
ligencer evidently expects to see DIR.
Moss, who resigned as chairman of the
board Of commissioners of Vance county
white uUUeE indictment iOE bribery, ele-
waited to some high position in the state
as the result of what he will call his
persecution. 1t points out that s. Ohio
Wilson. when indicted for membership in
Gideon,s Band, entered the plea of noio
contendere, and shortly thereafter was
elected to the honorable office of rail-
road commissioner. Was it ambition to
succeed S. Ohio. in case he is removed
! by the governor, that caused Moss to
enter the nolo contendere plea? Our
| Wadesboro contemporary aptly says: DIR
Moss has greatly enhanced his political
| prospects in North Carolina by his course
in the matter, that is If We are to judge
the future by the past. for is it not a
fact that every rascal who has been ex-
| posed in the state in the past four years
has been made a martyr of by the flu
sionists and placed in high official posi-
ton? In proof of this it is only neces-
| sary to instance the case of Wilson him.
sef.-Raleigh News and Observer.
1t is a queer boast of the state auditor
that the work of the state board of
| equalization is the best" work ever
connection with his subsequent statement
| that the value of the property of the
| well-to-do and the rich has not been in
creased while that of the poor has been
that is a queer boast to come from a man
who has gotten an office by bowling
about the wrongs Of the poor man. If
| this injustice has been put upon the peo-
pie it has been done by the fusion party
and it is a very great outrage. The taxes
of town, county and state should
bear as equally as possible upon all.
what they have and what they are able
to Day being the basis of the levy; but
if there is any discrimination at all it
should be against the rich and not against
the pOor. Each should pay on what he
has and hence the justice of the demand
for an income tax; hence the justice OF
the demand that tariff duties should be
so imposed as to weigh heaviest upon the
goods and articles consumed by the Well.
TODD and the rich and lightest upon the
common articles used by the weak and
notwithstanding Landmark.