The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-12
STATE PRESS.

Governor Mount has succeeded in de-
monstrating that the lynching senti-
ment in Indiana is rather strong
Washington Post.
No one but an idiot believes that the
democrats can win without aecessions
from the populists as individuals or as
organization. Tha was tried in 1884,
when We controlled the election ma
chinery, and again last year.-Fayette-
vile Observer.
The Winston Republican quite plainly
tells Governor Russell that he dares not
apply for an injunction to prevent the
Southern railway from completing its
line from Winston to MOoresville. It
declares that the road will be built and
that the people will approve of the build-
ng-WinStOn Sentinel.
Congressman Romulus z. Linney was
in the city Saturday night on his way
to Washington city. Mr.. Linney, refer
said that these contests were warm all
over the state. They are giving a vast
deal of trouble" said Mr.. Linney. Then,
branching off on his old hobby: civil
done by the republicans in the way of
awarding offices to their own party men
and abolishing this miserable fraud of
civil service: the republican candidate
votes in 1900" Mr.. Linney remarked
that the people of his section were be-
coming more heartily disguised with 1t
every day.-Salisbury World.
The administration of the states
affairs has been lowered by the popu-
lists as we'll as by the republicans. We
refer to the populist leaders, of course,
and they are the ones with whom any
cooperation would have to be arranged
Butler, Aver ct al. There is no way
by which fusion can be arrange with
the populists that does not provide for
recognition of the present leaders of the
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say that our use to them is limited.
They cumber the political earth unneces-
sarily. If after the record the fusionists
Of the last campaign have made with
! their management Of the States affairs
| the democrats cannot win on their own
record for honest and economical admin
istrations of the government of North
' Carolina; and cannot win on a platform
| of straight democracy, then they cannot
win by drawing from the
| populists' wing of the present combina-
! tion.-Asheville Citizen.
I heard a prominent educator say a
few lays ago that if he was the presi-
dent of the University of North Carolina
and a man came to him with an argu-
ment against the aid that is provided by
the state at he would simply point tc
There is my answer to your argument.
Until you have answered this volume of
testimony to the value of the University
to the youth of our state, 1 I've moth
sons why the fathers Of North Carolina
| send the boys to Chapel Hill, the first
\ and foremost reason is because they
have got them to send. Another reason
IS because Chapel Hill is their own in
stitution. Still another and a paramount
reason Is that the thoughtful trustees OF
the University have placed here a facul-
ty equal to any in the land. and still
another and a good reason is that the
, local advantages and healthful environ
ment are conducive to the mora, physi.
cal and Intellectual growth Of the stud.
ent, and then, too, there is a deep and
abiding love and generation for the OLD
institution. 1t took root in the minds OF
North Carolinians in the infancy of the
commonwealth n has increased and
grow stronger as the years have gone
by.-J. B. Arendall, in the Raleigh News
and Observer.