The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-26
STATE PRESS

The erection of a mill is proposed at
| Edenton, N. c., and the citizens have
inaugurated a movement for a stock
company. Commission for a charter
has been issued to the Edenton Cot
ton Mills, with capital stock of $50, :
900, and the incorporates are Messrs.
w. D. Pruden, c. S. Vann. J. A. Will
liams, j. N. Pruden F. A. White, II.
F. Cheshire and others.
We have heard the best men in the
state say: ooh, well, I'll not go to the
conventions, let the politicians run the
conventions, and I'll vote That is an
unwise idea for men to have. The
place to start is in the conventions;
attend the conventions and help nomi-
nate good men n you will have less
to complain of ring politicians" and
packed conventions" We hope every
White man, who wants good govern
ment. will try to attend the democrat
ic conventions this year.-Plymouth
Beacon.
A prominent democrat Of hi county
calls attention to a fact, disclosed by
an examination of the Jail records,
/ which is worthy of note. Since the
beginning of Sheriff Henson's term,
now nearing a close of the second
year, there have been confined in the
Jail fifty-seven male county prisoners
and twenty-one United States prison
ers. Of these Sixty-two were %republi-
cans, thirteen democrats and three
whose politics was unknown. 1t not
the disclosure of this fact sufficiently
suggestive without cOmment?-AShe-
vile Citizen.
1t is a matter for profound thank
fulness on the part of every patriotic
North CarOlinian to note the unmis-
taxable signs all over the state, even
thus early in the that the
intelligence, the moral worth, the
property OWners-in other words, the
white people and democrats-wiu car
ry this state at the November cleo
ton. This is highly gratifying to a
large class from a purely political
standpoint, but there are thousands
who look upon the reclamation of the
state from the crowd now in control
as infinitely more important than the
success of any political party.-Ashe-
vile Citizen.
late DR.. Edwin Anderson, of Whining
ton, his mother being the grand
daughter of Colonel Ellington, of
Moore'S Creek fame. Lieutenant Cam
eron WinsloW 1--WE think his name is
Cameron MacRae Winslow) is a son
of the late Lieutenant Frank Winslow,
Of the United States navy, who, about
1850, married Miss Mary Nelson, of
Fayetteville. Miss Nelson's mother
was a sister of Messrs. John and Dun
can G.. n the Rev. Cameron Mac
Rae. Mrs. DR.. Haigh, Mrs. Colonel
PembertOn, Miss Annie MacRae and
Judge MacRae were her first cousins,
and the first Mrs. w. l.. DeRosset, of
Wilmington, her sister.-Fayetteville
Observer.
The cry for help comes to the white
~~-J~ ~f 49, 49, f-~-- 49, -
pie of the east. They ask us to aid
them in throwing off the shackIes that
sorely Cypress them. This is one in
centive to the white people of western
Carolina to vote for White supremacy.
But more than this. If the present
state of corruption is endorsed at the
polls next November, the tricksters and
demagogues will grow holder and the
humiliating methods now practiced in
the east will grow worse there and will
spread to this section and an intol-
cradle reign will pervade the Com
monWealth. So that another incentive
to the people of the west is self-pres-
%ervation from he ills that now affict
us and the worse things that the re-
publican party HI in store for US
Winston Sentinel.
Some of the rent money paid for the
farms leased by the state for the peni-
tentldTy is PAID on the ISL OF
January, at the end of the year, other
rents are paid semi-annually, the LIST
of July and January. at the end of
ach six months. Mr.. LeaZar did not
vacate his office of superintendent I'M
til after January 1, 1897. AT that date
all rents for 1896 had accrued. Yet Mr..
Smith charges that he not only had to
settle Mr.. LeaZar's rents, intimating,
of course, rents for 1896, but had to
shoulder the Castle Haynes matter of
S11 900. Would Mr.. Smith object to
giving the amount of rem money for
1896 that he paid, to whom it was paid
and when? Was any of this paid out
of the crop of 1897. Mr.. Smith surely
can:'and will answer these question
Raleigh Post.
The people are not fools. They know
wha was the color of the skin of the
magistrates of Gulledge township
when the democratic party was in
power, and they are we'll aware that
this insult to the white race would
never have occurred had hat party
been in control of the state govern
ment. In this connection we would
like for Mr.. Maynard to tell US which
party it was that put a negro on its
county ticket in 1896. And while he
is about it the good, respectable citi-
Zens OF the county would like for him
TO inform them what party it is that
is o trying to effect a fusion with
the negroes Of Arson. Is it the dem
party, acting under your leadership
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