The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-31
STATE PRESS.

From the first The Biblical Recorder was
a leader in the flight to fasten the obnox-
GUS school law on the people of the state,
driven as it now appears, from it's sense
of duty to popular education. The cleo
ton having passed, it is relieved from
cOnstraint and now speaks very plainly
and pointedly as follows: THE present
school law is defective and must be
amended. It was a shame to so shape the
law that the negroes must have to do
with the white schools in order to nave
anything to do with the colored schools.
The negroes should have some oversight
of their Cwn schools, but they have no
right and do not seek to do with the
schools of the white people. There must
be separate committees" We believe
that if The Recorder will push it's inquiry
a little farther it will discover that the
law in toto is faulty and what we need
is a new structure from the ground up
ChadbOurn Farmer and Trucker.
The people of North Carolina who
know enough to. go indoors when it rains,
have been aware of the fact for some
time, that the populist party committed
suicide when it swallo Wc1 the dose pre-
pared by the republican,. md that as far
as further usefulness W. concerned the
peoples party was dead in this state.
While the party is dead. there are a num-
Der of office holders, who, anxious to re-
tain their hold on the public teat, are
! people and at he same time find out where
they and the d~ecomposed party are at.
While it would require a double barrel
search warrant to locate the remains of
the pOpulist party, there is no difficulty
in placing ones finger on a seat warmer
! who was conceived in populist iniquity
and born in radical sin. The remnants of
the pOpulist party met in sacred conclave
at Raleigh last week for the purpose of
issuing an address to the dear people,
and while presuming to apply an odious
plaster to the abominable record made
by the party, in reality the real
intention was to bamboozle the unsophis-
ticated natives into re-electing them to
occupy front seats at the pie counter
| Jacksonville Times.
The Salisbury World thinks there is NO
! evading the issue of white supremacy
! proposed by Ex-Governor Jarvis, and says:
I'VE are glad to see that our eastern
| brethren have arrived at a full realization
of it's import. Butler and Russell have
very artfully designed to side-track this
great question of pure state government
by ringing in matters of minor import
ance. They endeavor to hide the wreck
& of their paties' misgovernment by di-
verting public attention. But they will
fail, for North Carolinians have already
rued the one experience with fusion
ISM Upon the issue of decent and hon.
i est government North Carolina can be
wreSted next year from the hands of the
wreckers who now have the state by the
throat. The policy of fighting over ma
tiOnal issues, in the determination Of
which we can, after all. have but slight
influence, was proved last year to be fu-
tile and ruinous-more so still the assault
upon each other on account of differences
upon these national issues. Why should
men calling themselves democrats and
presumably having the states best in
tereSts at heart, controvert about 16 to
or contend about whether Cleveland and
Carlisle are democrats or republicans
when the enemy is in possession of ou1
own household! The people of North