The semi-weekly messenger., 1898-10-21

In Caswell county. the home OK
Judge Adams. the republican party viii
run a negro-Corbett-for the legisla-
ture. But this ia nothing strange
Four years ago Judge Adams nominate
cd a negro for the same office.-Reids-
VILE Review.
A few years ago there were consider
able quantities OF cane syrup made in
this part OF North Carolina This year,
however. there seems to be very little
Some may think that making syrup for
home use Is small matter. but IL goes
a long way towards l.sseninE family
expenses. Long sweetening made at
home-goes a long way among a crowd
OF children.-Scotland Neck Common
wealth.
The advice that Il II. Glenn gave Ia
the fairest solution Of all these mat
tiers which are now before the voters
and taxpayers 81 this state. He simply
said that IL was the duty OF every tax
payer TO take into consideration all tho
doings OF the fusion office holders and
the last Legislature, and that IL. after
sober. honest reflection IL was a mans
conscientious belief that they had done
we'll for the people. he ought To vote
for them. but IL they had done wrong
vote against them. What could he
more fair Lexington Dispatch.
The republican revenue bosses should
agree upon some lie and stick To IL.
They have posted and scattered in this
county two posters, one contradicting
the other. One charges the democrats
with being the negro party. putting
negroes in power. in Office. etc. The
other states that IL the democrats get
in power they will disfranChise all the
negroes and poor whites These two
lies contradict each other. Let thss
bosses agree on some one straightfor-
ward lie and not try TO run two ut
n time,-Wilkesboro Chronicle.
The democratic party Is not Ia blame
at all. and there is reason for astonish-
ment at its moderation. The truth is
that political conditions In this state
are intolerahle and must be changed
Life, under a continuation 90 the pres
ent state OF affairs in our eastern Coun-
ties, Will soon become insupportahie-
The gravity of the situation In that
section is not exaggerated by the Nir-
ginian-P Pilot. North Carolina must bc
redeemed and its government placed
again in the hands OF it's people. Untu
that is done there is no need FOR our
well-wishers. at home or abroad. to
cry Peace, peace" for until then there
viii be no peaCe.-StatesNille Land
mark. -A.A
Mr.. John A. Cameron, OF Cameron,
\. c., writes: 1T is almost enough to
awaken those who have slumbered in
their graves for years, this spectacle
of Cy Thompson slandering Coke and
Saunders, the latter OF whom |. IA n
beardless boy, accompanied as he GAL
lantly followed the feather OF Lee and
Jackson. Raleigh News and Obser-
yer.
The talk down about Wilmington is
that the negroes are becoming SO in
sulting to white women and children
that many are afraid to go out on tho
! streets without escorts. Common
sense teaches any sane man that these
| things won't be tolerated always. Vot-
| ers, watch out for your legislative ticket
| See to it that the democratic nominees
| are on the ticket you vote II you desire
| to assist the people in casting of the
| yoke of negro rule that has been plac-
| ed around the necks OF your less for
| tunate friends in eastern North Caro-
lina-Mt. Airy News.
The populists and republican COM
mittees are distributing throughout
the country samples OF the Louisiana
| ballot-a terrifying thing. a yard long,
and containing several dozen or scores
Of names-calculated to frighten and
J mystify the unlettered. We think we
| may safely say that disfranchisenent
of the negro and unlettered whites does
not enter into the purpose or desires
| of those who are running the state
| campaign for the democrats. Certain
ly, in all the twenty years OF democrat
ic supreme power in North Carolina.
nothing of the kind was done by the
| predecessors OF the present organiza-
tion.-Fayetteville Observer.
Since the race question has been
brought forward in this state, and
| since under this supreme and over
shadowing issue the democratic party
has not only been united, but has
| drawn largely to its swelling ranks
from the populists and even republi-
cans, the pietriots of these two latter
parties are making the hypocritical
cry that the democrats are simply rails
ing the cry Of "nigger, niger, niger"
for partisan purpose Of obscuring other
| issues, and that the democrats have
no issue upon which they are willing
to go before the people. But there are
| others The reason why SO little at
| tention is given to other issues, Is not
| because Inelr are not otner lssues MOSt
emphatically there are number OF 9TH
ers which in themselves are sufficient
to give the democrats a decisive vic
tory aside from the race issue. The
only reason why the race question Is
| given such prominence Is that this is
sue is of itself one Of such overshad-
owing importance that all other ques-
tions OF government shrink into insig-
nificance in comparison TO it-White-
| Vile News