The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-17

l OF Democrats and popullSsS sst1.as "
vather in their Individual ana tndepend
| snt capaoity and working together for !:
1 restoration OF good government In EosS'
| Carolina. We hope the bitterness O. -
last few campaigns viii not be repe~%es
this fall. and that the people Will be II =
20 calmly and IN a friendly spirit reason
with one another. II this Is done We feei
sure that enough popuiists VIII see shetr
duty TO their own regulations. TO tnear
families and their state require them 10
return 20 the democratic party and help
undo the wrongs that have been flsten-
ed on North Carolina during the last
four years.-Newton Enterprise.
We want 10 see the entire state from
the mountains TO the seashore in the
hands OF the best element or the proud
Anglo Saxon race. The credit and honor
OF the state Is 10 be maintained botn
at home and abroad, and. therefore. the
competent hands. No one doubts the sue
cess OF the United States In the great
contest now on hand. and this univer-
sal confidence Is based on the fact that
cur mighty ba~ttleships are in the hands
OF competent and reliable men. II ought
10 be even so in regard TO our state and
national affairs and We hope that IN the
next political campaign our people viii
arise in their majesty and strength and
put our choicest and best men in office.
The great rank and file Of the people are
sick and tired of political corruption and
Office seeking for personal ends. The
miserable office seekers have divided up
the white people OF North Carolina and IL
is time Tor them to get together again
and unite their efforts in making this
one OF the grandest states In tho union
Fair Bluff Times.
While the democratic state convention
did just what the great majority OF
democrats desired and expected IL 10 do,
the popularity OF the stand there taken
IS becoming more apparent every day.
We have never known the action of any
political convention TO receive such un-
| qualified and universal endorsement
/ Newton Enterprise.
As will be seen the democratic party
| declines 10 fuse with any other party.
IL considers this course 10 be in accord
with wisdom and duty. II thus puts
| principle above desire for spoiis OF office.
1t prefers clean hands to victory by flu
sion with one OF the parties that has
| brought the state into its present unfor-
tunate condition. The platform adopted
is a good one and hope of a restoration
| OF white government in North Carolina
can now be entertained.-Clinton Demo-
| crat.
h Windsor Ledger calls upon Chas.
| A. Cook to decline the nomination for
Judge on the ground that he knows his
| yoke fellow (the negro williamson IS
| a negro without legal ability or expert
ence, and totally unfit TO be solicitor
| The Ledger must be in training for hui
moroGs journalism. There isn't a radical
in the state who cares a 'baubee' about
| the fitness of the gang ne trains with.
The only thing he wants in his job with
| the salary attached. Cook is like all the
rest OF them. When he left the democrat
ic party he deliberately decided to help
negroize and disgrace the state.-RaleiSh
News and Observer.
Say what we will. men are governed in
their actions very much by prejudice, and
1t not ~infrequently oyeTbalances reason.
In this drift towards republicanism OF
a faction of the white men of the state
sufficiently large to hold the balance OF
power, we foresaw the possibility OF
even darker days ahead for our state.
and we thought that cooperation be-
tween the democrats and populists would
turn the drift in another direction. But
while we have advocated such a coop
Grafton, believing 1t would be for the
public welfare, The News has at no time
thought that it would be either advisa-
BILE or patriotic for the democratic party
to transfer itself entirely to the popu-
list party.-Whiteville News. (for ~fusion.)
We deplore ~lynchings. but in cases like
that reported from Concord last Sunday.
We have nothing TO say against melting
out speedy punishment to the bloody
handed criminal. The crime was one of
the most shocking. brutal and bloody. A
young girl, who had not passed the ten
der years of childhood, had been left in
her home on the Sabbath afternoon. in
care of her baby sister, while the 9TH
er members of the family were at a
house of worship, little thinking that
| at the time when they were peacefully
worshipping that fiends were commit
ting in their home a black. unmentiona-
BILE crime and were numbering their i'm
nocent daughter and sister. Before such
a crime, in the face of such a deed, no
wonder that conservative, cool men be-
came swift avengers of wrong and de-
manded the blood of the guilty wretches
before the law could mete out the pun
ishment the criminals deserve. We can
not say that the men, who on last Sun
day night battered down the doors of
the Concord Jail and hanged those two
wretcheS, deserve cenSure.-Monroe En-
quirer.