The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-29
COL vADDELLS SOUND VIEWS AS
TO A X


That appeared recently in The Messen-
ger IN reply to one from Hon. j. Il.
Zones, chairman of the national demo-
cratic committee, was exactly 10 the
point. 1t voices the judgment OF tens
0f thousands of democrats who have
never once faItered in duty, fashed in
n pan under fire, or counted the cost
to themselves when duty and principles
Were involved. Colonel Waddel's
opinion of Butler is the opinion held
most steadfastly by the safest and
truest democrats in the ctate-that
Butler is utterly Enthusiastically, and
chat the only way out of the wilderness
Of sin and Generalization is to stand
faithfully 10y the principles of the par
Sy and keep step to the music of demo-
cratic loyalty TO principles. and to car
ny the democratic Banner over the
Evhfte mans party unStained by brlbes
or bargains unit. the Old North State
rs rescued from ~plunderers or vandals.
Colonel Waddell is precisely right, we
may not doubt, when he declares
Grankly: ~'E
Il endorse the Chicago platform. l
would rejoice to see Mr.. Bryan eject
ed president, out i am not willing to
See my party enter the open market
and Dld against the republican party
for Nh. Butler and his followers, at the
upset price of voting for him or his
allies for the most important offices
affecting the welfare of the state. The
fight here is one bar1barism
and Observation-Disclosures white men
and negroes manipulated by unprin-
cip1ed demagogues. Mr.. Butler and
Eis friends put the latter in power and
they have degraded and ~dishonored the
state. df he wants to undo his foul
work because it was foul, it is very
easy to do so; if he wants to undo it,
only on condition that he and his fol-
EcwerS shall continue to hold office, l
W ill never agree to accept such rondI-
Mon, because it would he combining a
great crime. and would afford no sub
t5tantial relief to the people. i will be
NO party to any such infamous trdnsac-
Iron"
""Them's our sentiments to Il T. Not
counting this year this writer has
been in fifteen campaigns as editor
since the black republicans and car
pet-baggers took possession o. North
Carolina in 1886, by the aid Of Sa!nbo
and Josh, and put the manacles upon
the decent white people of North Caro-
lima. He has written for the demo-
cracy probably thousands of pages if
printed i'm book form. He has done
what he could to preserve the tradi-
items and historic verities Of his native
state, to defend North Carolina against
misrepresentation II aspersions, and
Ito save her from the remorseless heels
of oppressors and the reckless course
of low demagogues and political schem-
ers- He has eve faltered in mis- fidel-
itv tC the grand old democracy, and
ne does not ropos in the sixteenth
campaign to DOVER the banner Of the
democratic party to cOncili1te nemle
or to secure the designing, selfish IA
Eors of inveterate traders and con-
xirual office-seekers of the Butler
gang kind. In the permanency and
triumph of democratic principles, and
the restoration of the government,
county, municipal, state and federal.
10 the care and keeping of the demo
~cracy depend the perpetuity Of liberty,
hihe stability of free institutions, the
maintenance of the constitution, the
great boon of home rule, and the glory
1And prosperity OF h republic. We
believe that. With Colonel Waddell
The Messenger says with all emphasis
~xf conviction and sense Of duty:
e.While / will do anything to induce
honest white men to act together to
rescue North Carolina from the degra-
dation with which she is afflicted, l
shall neve agree to accomplish even
Eha high purpose by offering a higher
price to he d~ernagogues who betrayed
he to return to ther duty, than that
offered by their present allies to remain
Sxith them" ID.
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