The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-12
Um Wessewer.
THE CONVENTION AND ITS NOMI.
NEE.

The Messenger forecasted the DELHI
Grafton of the democratic congression-
al convention in this district in stat
ing that our able townsman, Mr.. John
ID. Bellamy, would in all probability be
the democratic nominee. And so it came
to pass Oh the first ballot by more
than two to one vote. Mr.. James T.
LeGrand, Of Richmond county, an
honorable citizen and good lawyer
highly respected by his fellow coun-
trymen, was the only opponent, and
received 114.13-100 votes. Mr.. Bellamy
has had the advantages of an excel
lent education with the foundation OF
q sound understanding to build upon.
He is not only a very successful lawyer
and man of business, but has an excel
lent legal mind. He states a principle
of law with marked lucidity, and COM
prehends the fine, the some times sub
tile differences, there are to be found
in legal points. He is a hard worker,
and will make a very thorough can
vass. The Messenger will be glad to
help him in having done in this dis
trict what has not been done in but
one county in North Carolina since the
election held in 1860-thirty eight
years agO-to secure in every county
in the district a most complete, thor
ough organization. AS Governor Jar
Wis in 1863, or a little later showed to
organize the democracy and sweep an
entrenched- enemy from his breast
works and plant the democratic stand
ard of victory, SO it must be done now.
He organized every township in his
county. He taught the necessity Of
perfect township organization if you
would defeat the black republican
spoilers and plunderers. 1t is no new
thing, this township organization, but
it is a very much forgotten or neglect
ed or unlearned thing.
Mr.. Bellamy will prove an efficient
leader and excellent organizer. We
will help him in the imperatively |
needed work. A little later We will
tell how Governor Jarvis organized, |
and he is head and shoulders above |
all other men in the state in practical,
politics and cOmmon-sense methods.
If the democrats will learn Of him and
be not wise in their own conceits, a
a great result can be achieved.
The platform adopted by the con-
vention was all right, the exact thing
to be done; to reaffirm its allegiance
to the platform adopted at Chicago by
the national convention that nOmi-
Mr.. Bryan, and the platform of
the state convention at Raleigh on 26th
May last. The invitation is also ex-
tended to all white voters to come in
and help redeem the state and restore
equal, wise, liberal, constitutional gov
The convention most wisely
boldly, unequlvOcally stands by the
supremacy of white men in North Car
DINA, and cordially invites all men of
white hearts and skins to cooperate
with the democracy in fighting for a
white mans government for white
Down with all radical agra
and all negro rule. MIR. Bel
stands %squarely on the platform
md will make it particularly warm for
white skin candidate who fayors negro
rule for themselves and others Of like
skins but with very different ends and
The speech Of Mr.. Bellamy
in accepting the nomination was really
unusually good one. The senti-
were manly and very appro-
pirate as we'll as wise, and expressed
in we'll chosen language, and revealing
both tact and judgment.