The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-04-02
STATE PRESS.


Frank Stanton seems tn be fully ad-
vised OF the breach of faith To the coll
ored man and brother in North Caro-
lima His poems Will be as a sweet NOR
sci TO Senators Lee Person and w.
b. Henderson who made the trade"
with the governor and lieutenant gov
ernor whereby the negroes were TO &c;
G~oldsboro asylum and their white
allies the other asylums. Il seems that
a promise has 10 binding eTec upon
a republican. In A Protest from the
Faithful the Georgia poet says:
Did the populists elect him-did they
land him in the place.
That he's giving them a sample OF ad-
miniStration grace?
Is MS "coiored brother nothing did
he never have a vote
That was only worth the glory Of a
greasy dollar note?
oh. that's what the faithful" want TO
know.
Will he leave EN- all to perish In h
snow?
VIII be only dish the bait
To the populistic plate?
Oh, that's what the faithful want TO
know
Raleigh News and Observer.
The people from Ocracoke 10 Cher
okee became enthusiastic for the new
order of things hat they hough
would break the shackles OF the slav-
cry OF years and looked forward To
the assembling OF the legislature with
that confidence that produced hope
that the day of deliverance would ar
rive and the long promised day Of pros
perity would dawn. The legislature as
sembled, instead OF the promised re-
form upon which the people had found
ed their hope being the battle cry and
to their camp; reform was
49,
hour was P-I-E.-Washington Pro-
gress.
1t Is A difficult matter to discuss the
acts and doings Of the late legislature
without A feeling of righteous indigna-
ton. All over the state the honest men
Of all parties are congratulating them
selves that this legislative monstrosity
has adjourned and that the state. for
at least two years, is to enjoy an i'm
munity from further legislation by his
Vandal horde. We say for two years,
because Governor Russell has said
that he will not call an extra SEES
sion, and he generally means what he
says. When We come to reflect that this
grand old commonwealth was the
BIRTHPLACE of Badger, CASTOR, Vance
and a host of other great men whose
names adorn and will ever live upon
the brightest pages of history, we
stand aghast when We look upon the
work of this Observation-Disclosures
Gazette.
The Raleigh Caucasian recently said
of the late lamented fusion legislature
that it was "a demnable disgrace to
the state Editor Aver made this re-
mark over a plate Of fusion auditor
ship pie. But Our Home and the other
papers of the grand circuit do not
seem to relish the remark under the
clrcu instances and they remarked pdi-
torially: Our friend, Mr.. Hal w. Aver,
fusion state auditor, is a good writer.
but he ought to retire for awhile and
let the boys in the trenches" who
h9ve never tried to become beneficial
ries of fusion deals, run things for
awhile. When we get over the con-
terminating influences of the fusion
deals that Mr.. Aver made as chairman
of the peoples party last year, we
Will then hear from him again-pro-
vided he shows substantial evidences
that he has reformed and is sorry he
was elected state ?uditor by the trade
that he helped to make.-Oxford
Ledger.