The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-30

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Editorial Comments on the White Re-
publican Judges Charge and the
Negro Editors Slsnder Of white
Wsmen.
Durham Sun: Coming as it does,
along with the Wilmington-negro ed
itor's SANDER upon the white women
Of this state, Adams and the negro
editor make a fine pair. Language
fails us to describe the disgust every
decent white man should have for the
p~romulgators of such sentiments from
he bench n through the press as
Adams and the negro are guilty
of . They should be spewed out upon
he manur pile there to decay with
other rot.
Raleigh Post: Wednesday after
loon Governor Russell received the
following telegram from Caleb P.
Jockey, Of Wilmington, republican
nominee for judge in the Fifth district:
The republican executive committee
of New Hanover county met oday and
unanimously adopted a resolution de-
nouncing the article. in The Record as
a base libel, r~epudiating 1t and de-
nouncing the writer as a mischief
making simpleton, and advising all re-
publicans to stop taking The Record.
Inform Chairman Holton the. paper
will suspend"
The editorial in question is the one
in which the editor, Manly, ATTACKED
in the most infamous manner the viz
tue of poor white women n charges
them with being negro lovers.
Hill E. King, n of the chief clerks
in the agricultural department, de-
livered himself quite freely yesterday
morning o this editorial attack.
He said:
Il believe the democrats either die
tated or wrote the editorial in Manly's
paper, The Record. 1t looks to me like
a democratic trick for campaign pur-
poses. 1 believe the negroes of the
state ought to rise up as one man and
ask Manly to leave the state and also
ask him not to come back during the
campaign"
Goldsboro Arugs: Editor Argus
Apropos of your editorial in yester-
day evenings Argus, allow a Virginian
and a white man to say amen to your
comment on the vile SANDER emanating
from that Jim YOung-Russell sheet in
Wilmington. With an experience Of a
quarter of a century on some Of the
best papers in the south, I lave never
seen a more bitter or more CALLING lie
published. What are the white men
Of Wilmington thinking of to allow the
Sle~IlUeTer anu MS vie DuDllcdIlOu 10
live for an o in their midst? We
all remember what the people of Dan
vile suffered previous to the riot in
that city about twelve years ago, and
the peace n harmony hat prevail
in that city since that memorable
cleaning up" Are the same refining
scenes to be enacted in Wilmington?
Needless to say, the editor of The
Record would not live an hour in one
of the cities of Virginia or South Car
DINA, and surely the people Of North
Carolina are not behind those of her
sister states on the north and south
Of her. VIRGINIAN.
Goldsboro, N. c., Aug. "a, 1898.
Charlotte Observer: There appeared
in The Record, of Wilmington, a pa
per owned and edited by colored peo-
pie, in it's issue of the 18th, an edi-
torial which has greatly inflamed the
white people of the state, or so many
of them as nave seen it, and to which
reference was made in our Raleigh
correspondence yesterday. 1t related
to the lack of chastity among the poor
white women of the state and to al
legged improper relations between num-
bers of them and black men. This
is as much as we can endure to say of
it by way of detail, and while it should
have general circulation we cannot
sully The Observer by the reproduc-
ton Of its atrOcious language. We say
it should have general circulation, and
why? Because it is a manifestation OF
the spirit of a class Of black men,
fostered in them by a license which
they feel they enjoy under fusion gov
eminent which they never dreamed OF
when they felt upOn them the hand OF
the government of virtue n moral
ity, of law and order. In 1869, as d
number of our contemporaries have
recalled, a republican editor, con
Quoting a paper in Raleigh, was driver
from the state between suns for a less
vile reference to women. The gravity
Of the offence to this Wilmington ne:
gro cannot be over-stated. It's ten
dency is to put the very devil in the
men of his race and a repetition of il
would we'll deserve to be. Sealt with
by heroic methods.
Raleigh Post: Some republicans ir
Wilmington held a meeting yesterday
, and denounced the negro author of the
Infamous Islander on the wives of "pool
white farmers" as "a misunderstanding
SimpletOn."
. Simpleton. Misunderstanding simple.
ton, is the mild way the republican ex-
ecct1Ve m of New Hanove
county, the representatives of the par.
ty, characterizes this dastardly utter.
ance. Which means no more than say.
ing to the negro, "yo are a fool, hav-
ing written such sentiments DURING
THE CAMPAIGN"
And one Of the governors appoint
ees on the agricultural board-the
farmers department-and at present
a clerk in the department, Hill E
King by name, ventures to sugges,
that the infamous character Ought tt
be asked to leave the state UNTIL
AFTER THE CAMPAIGNp
In the name of Heaven of whai
stuff can these white men be made
let their politics be what they may.
1t is all the result of the present con.
dition of affairs, the present unholy
peace-destroying, degrading combina.
ton which has obtained control of the
state and county governments. White
men who love their homes and fami.
lies more than office and degradation
must get together and wipe the whole
concern from top to bottom, out OF
power.
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