The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-13
THE AMALGAMAI[D PARTY
BOasting to Keep Up its
Courage.
ELECTION REGISTRARS
No Law for Their Recommendation by
Chafrmen of Political Committees-
Russell Draws on His Individual VO.
cabuIary for Abuse of Ohio Wilson.
The First Regiment Now Anxious to
Return HOIne-Daye sutton Court.
Martialed-McKinley Lets Down the
Bars.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c., September 10.

Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c., September 10.
So far as the express companies are
concerned the railway commission ap-
pears to have plenty of power. Its
order that the companies shall pay
for the stamp on receipts is being obey
state is concerned. The commissioners
Of internal revenue decided two
months ago that the companies must
pay, but it seems they disputed his
power to decide. Yet the public could
not dispute his power when he ruled
that the sender of a telegraphic mes
Sage must pay for the tax stamp. The
moral of this is that a ruling which
suits or has TO suit the public does
not suit some corporations.
The new election law does not re-
quire any political party to make rec
omendations for registrars of election,
SO Republican State Chairman Hol-
tons threat that he would indict the
officers of Mecklenburg county for not
appointing forty-eight registrars whom
he and Populist State Chairman
Thompson had "nominated' falls very
fat indeed.
It is learned that a very funny incl
dent occurred Thursday night, during.
a recess of the populist congressional
convention here. Several of the dele
gates went to Governor Russell's office
AID among~them- WasHill- E. King, of
the agricultural department, a great
wire worker for Otho Wilson for the
nomination. Governor Russell address,
ed the callers and expressed his opin
ion, in the plainest English in his vo-
cabulary, of any man who would sup
port Wilson, a man he had kicked out
of Office. This was all aimed at King.
The latter sat mute. An antiRussell
republican who spoke of this said:
But King was brave. He went right
back and resumed work for Wilson"
Ninety-nine hundredths of the peO-
pie of the state will be surprised at the
news now coming from Camp Cuba
Libre to the effect that the First North
Carolina volunteers desire to quit the
service 1t has been the prevalent
opinion that the regiment was a
"sticker" and was glad of the oppor-
tunity to go with General Lee to Cuba,
or anywhere else, for that matter.
There are say 200 regiments of vol
unteers. The president gave it out"
that the wishes of the men" should
be considered as to whether regiment
should be mustered out or retained
Suppose all say eve want to be muster
ed OUT wher will the president be?
Already he sees the folly of a sugges-
tiOn perhaps never before made in any
country, and declares there shall be
no more regiments mustered out; that
he must keep 100, 900 in service. But
what has been said and done has fann-
ed the fame of discomfort. The presi-
dent himself let down the bars and now
all the sheep are trying to jump
through. 1t is almost as funny as the
capture of the Ladrone islands.
David B. Sutton, Governor Russell's
former law partner, who was convict
, ed by a court martial of the Second
North Carolina regiment at Tybee Is
land, Ca, has been sent to Atlanta,
| where he will work out his sentence in
the Fort Mcpherson guard house. 1t
| is said that Sutton was figuring on Sc
| curing a discharge by virtue of his be-
| ing a member of the legislature and
| through influence, but he is everlast-
ingly too late now.
| Senator Butler is expected here to-
morrow from his southern and west
a 10
| Jacksonville, Onsolw county the 10TH
| The senator expects to take an active
! part in the campaign He telegraphed
! Chairman Thompson yesterday not
| to arrange his appointments prior to
F; the 25th. 1t is thought here the SEN
! ator's guns are spiked and that he will
| do more good by remaining out of the
| campaign. He claimed to be in favor
! of a straight fight and has bitterly de-
! nounced the element Of the populisi
party that controls the machinery.
! Chairman Holton, of the republican
| executive committee, says that the
| fusionists would win by 10000 If the
election were held now. He calculates
on a 10000 majority in November
| The chairman is talking to keep up his
I courage. He could have said a major
+; ity of 100000 with as much effect.
| Republicans admit that Chairman
Simmons is conducting a splendid
fight. They say that If he had held
some of his fighting material in reserve
until the election he might have won
This is an admission of the weakness
of the fusionists.