The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-22
WILMINGTON. N. c.
FRIDAY, JULY p, 1898.
THE G. ON o

For a lOnS ana mOuIuIu Iulo INC
blacks in the east, indeed in North
Carolina, have been On the top OF the
fence. While their allies of the motley
skin have not "toted fair" and made
equal distribution at the pie couner,
the blacks have remained submissive,
slavish and hungry. But under the
MckinIey-Russell reign they are as
serting themselves in a very demon
strative and "uproarious" tanner.
They run conventions on their W
hook and the white contingent are
treated as bOotblacks and hOd-Car-
riers. At Raleigh the other day
Sambo and Jake and Pomp were all
there in full odor and with not much
tolerance for the defeated contingent
so dependent on the favors Of he
black radicals for recognition and a
bite. Raleigh sent eleven blacks and
four motleys to the Wake county con-
vention. A prominent SambO, as we
learn from the News and Observers
report, deity struck out when he in
formed the eager crowd that this is
we niggers' bizness n we are just
putin on a white man now and then
as a sort of compliment to them, but
we are not gwine to let 'em walk off
wild de coon and leave de niger
watchin' up de tree no mo-. We are
gwine to hab a little sOmethin' to do
wild de ketchin' OBJ de coon hereafter,
an we are gwine to help skin i'm,
too"
In a certain way the "niggers' in
Wilmington have always been in the
forefront of official b~ag-swaging
They hold in town, we do not know
how many offices, but perhaps thirty
of all kinds. But they are generous.
They allow a few Of the perennial teat-
suckers to nave a nibble now and then.
In the republican judicial convention
they with exceeding magnanimity
voted solidly for the very eminent n
state-wide famous jurist, Hon. Caleb
Jockey, for the judgeship, when the
s'nigs" have several and sundry law
yers of their own kith, kin and color,
if not previous condition" who would
wear the ermine with such peculiar
dignity and grace, and would dispense
law and Justice with such great abili-
ty and iron-hand. 1t was truly a
magnanimous display of self-denial
and admiration in behalf of the great
iurist. But behold! the SambOs OF the
other counties did not appraise he
eminent HanOverian jurist as they dld,
and would not vote for his nomina-
tion. A secession of three counties
followed.
But we must be accurate and fair.
1t is proper to state that the milk IN
the coconut'' was that the RAIDS from
other counties wanted to reserve the
iudgeship as the bait for the pOpulist
party. A resolution favOring the
usual combine for grub and grab was
adopted, and it was the wisdom Of
F'the cOons" from five counties that no
Judge be nominated now to await the
course of the populists and If the
comical combine came to a head, then
the great judicial judgeon should be
given to some massive the
legal mind in the said COmlCal
combine, all of which was according
to precedant and in accordance with
prophecy in the Messenger months ago
noodling" would come off between the
two gangs before November was reach
ed. There is no more real principle
in this sort of political dickering than
there is a Spanish declaration or in the
cunning protestations of Judge Stahl-
man. 1t is all for buncombe, Office
and fxings. Give me grub or l die.
We %sympathize with our distinguish
ed townsman Mr.. Caleb Jockey, in his
DiI Ills Co oAONAA
be comforted when he reflects that the
man is bornto sorrow, that W. E.
Henderson, the negro lawyer did
not oppose him, but nominated him il
the usual superlative style and that
the nomination was seconded by that
perfervid and great orator and states
man of historic Duplin, Abe Middleton.
That is enough to soothe the disquieted
nerves under defeat and to bring soft
and satisfactory suncease to all the
pangs of disappointed ambition. Mr..
Caleb Jockey should take heart, and
mayhap the judicial voters will yet
be made to fully panOply him for war
on the bench. Let him keep seeking
remembering a sentiment of a Roman,