The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-13

Pity the poor republican campaign
| orator forced to defend Russell. Smith.
negro rule. thievery. scandal and 9TH
| er disreputable things i~nseparable from
radical rule. His task is a hard one
Durham Record.
IL will be no easy matter TO carry h
state this year. ii will require a su-
perhuman effort: and the present en-
~Couraging outlook should lull none ~
Us into false hopes: but IL should be
an inspiration and nerve US to greater
and more determined efforts To redeem
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Land
mark.
Our Eome-The Observers favorite
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Colonel Oliver
II. Dockery as saying in his recent
speech At Beaver Dam: Dan Russell
has been one ~ the best governors n
state has ever had." Yet this is the
same Dan Russell" whom Colonel
Dockery and his friends accused in
1895. OF beating him out ~ the repub-
lican nomination for governor by buy
ing up his delegates-Charlotte b
server.
Let the traitor and the pic-eater ran,
and rave. The white man must rule
in North Carolina. The white people OF
the east who are suffering most sorely
from the incubus of negro rule expect.
and have a right 10 Expect. that the
people ~ the west. who are somewhat
more fortunate. will come to their res
cue. There Is No part IL the state hat
has not suffered and is not suffering
from the elevation Of ignorance. vice
and Incompetence. The suffering can
but become more acute the longer this
unnatural and abominablc condition
is allowed 10 exist. The voice OF the
nation has spoken out In favor OF IN
glo-SaNon supremacy. The world has
not dared to question il. The voice or
democracy in North Carolina has
spoken out for AnElo-Saxon suprcma-
cy.-Raleigh News and Observer.
We are glad to note that many OF
our %pouplist friends are coming back
TO their mother party. We have al
ways had the utmost respect for those
who differ with us in opinion. when
We think they are honest in their be-
lief. and We think that the majority
OF those who have composed the peo-
pies party We're honest gentlemen. We
watched with a sad heart. believing
them 70 be making a mistake. when
they left the democratic party and or
ganized one themselves, but We thought
they We're honest in IL. We watched
with "A Sadder heart when they fused
with the republicans. knowing that
they would only be- ridden to the
funeral and death OF all their hopes.
and still believing that they had been
blinded and dcluded by their leaders.
We believe that they We're honest. as
a body, when they co-operated with the
republican party. But now that the
veil has been rent n they gaze with
open eyes into the Chasm yawning at
their feet. and see the awful darkness
into which they have nearly plunged
the state. after seeing and realizing
his, they continue their Needless
course, cooperating and fusing with
a party whose principles are directly
antagOnistic to their own. and whose
only interest is in securing their aid
in electing men to office, We say, hat
after knowing this. they again fuse
with and work for the republican par
~. then we will be forced To admit
that our confidence has been misplaced
n destroyed. But the large number
who are coming back To the shelterinE
wing Of the democratic party attest
that we were not mistaken, and that
the time is soon coming when w shall
all gather round the fireside and hold
a joyful family reunion-Milton Herald.