The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-08
WILMINGTON. N. c.
FRIDAY, APRIL s, 1898.
THIS MAY PROVE AN AFTER
MATH.

The worst enemy the people Of the
United States have now is that cor
Eupt fellow who disgraces the United
States senate named Mark Hanna. He
Is the Eete noire of Mckinley, al
Though that little fellow perhaps re-
CARDS HIM as his guardian angel. The
Washington correspondent OF the Bal
4imore Herald, much OF a friend OF Nc
Kinley, te1egraphed On the 4th inst,
That Hanna will be greatly pleased
ST he can prevent the recognition of in
dependence, and it was said tonight 10y
a senator that the message Mr. McKin-
ley viii send to ongres is a cCmprom-
Use with Hanna. After keeping the
people in a state of intense suspense
for weeks by the dilatory course the
administration has settled upon ARMED
intervention" which may mean Moth
fng, and Cuban independence" is sent
TO the rear. The American people do
not really desire a war with Spain, but
they do desire to bring it to account
fOr destroying the Maine, and for it's
general Ibrutalities. After so much of
heated discussion, OF Intense blowing
over what the United States will do, it
has almost come to pass that the Nc
Kinley+iIanna gang do not mean to do
anything that will satisfy the Ameri-
.can people and save u country from
a coWardly back down. Think of such
a vile creature as Hanna controlling
she administration, and in so far as it
can shape affairs, ccuntervailing the
plans and tDwarting the wishes Of TO-
100000 of Americans. "And that is the
matter with Hanna Wall street has
she rascal in it's pocket, and he pulls
Ehe strings of the MCKINLEY gang. The
Baltimore Heralds dispatch says:
lit is confidently expected thar a
large number of capitalists will put i'm
an appearance at the capial tomorrow
and Wednesday to insist upon peac
for the protection of bonds and Wall
street." t-i1 4. o.;
50 it theatens to become a govern
ment by Wal street via Mark Hanna
and his owners" 1t is useless to specu-
late as we write. THE simple solicitude
and the plain policy of the Hanna ad-
ministration is to prevent war at any
cost of character. The Spanish minis
ter spoke earnestly for his side. I'm
fortunately for his cause the character
of the Spaniards for three or four cen
turtles back is we'll known to the Am
erican people who read, and the bar
barrie and devilish deeds wrought in
Cuba during the last three years are
to a considerable extent as well known
as the doings in he American congress.
1t Will be observed in the specious plea
of the Spanish minister thathe made no
reference whatever to the horrible de-
Struction of the American cruiser
Maine, that in itself is believed by
three-fourths probably OF the Ameri-
syar-casus belli.
Partisan scheming has got in the
congress-. Republicans are willing to
forget Cuba and the Maine with an eye
60 Wall street demands and the pros
poets in November in the elections to
oe held. There are in the senate and
house republicans of another sort
men who prefer national honor to
party victory. The senators who spoke
on Tuesday We're decided and distinct
for war. 1t is MOI certain what will be
the outcome. Representative Fowler,
of North Carolina, at Raleigh on the 5th
inst, reported that 1.-The impression at
Washington is that the president is
acting the coward and that the stock
j0bbers are controlling him absolutely
1t will be known soon how far this
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