The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19

white men will bury their differences
to tak the state out Of the hands of
the vandals who are becasing the pub
lie morals as well as ~misgoverning the
people--Raleigh News and Observer.
The fussy little bosses and office
holders, and. would-be office holders.
are still trying their game Of bossism
and deception, telling little lies and
propagating big lies, in their efforts
TO keep up divisions among the white
people Some they will continue to
fool, but they cam fool all of the
people all the time.-Wadesboro Mes
senger.
Toe much stress can hardly be laid
upo the fact hat the best men must
be selected as candidates. Only upon
this can n democratic party hope for
the greatest victory The candidates
named must be strong in the party.
such that they IA poll the whole
vote OF the party. These kind OF men
must be nominated. The legislative
ticket is especially important this
year.-Salisbury Sun.
This attempt to suppress Smiths re-
port will not do the populistic-repub-
lican fusionists any good with the peo-
pie. 1t is a matter of public knOwl-
edge that Smiths administration was
n of the most d~isgraceful features
of a particularly bad administration.
was so ~disgraceful that the governor
dad as he isl could not stand it and
a Smith transferred to another
place. The people want to know the
truth.-Charlotte News.
In the present general belief of
wastefulness and corruption, indeed in
face of the frank admission Of the gov
ernor that the administration of that
institution was raeking with corrup-
ton as we'll as scandal, is it not as
founding the governor himself does
not require a full, open, public inves-
tigation and examination of the books,
and let the truth be known? Was ever
so fragrant an abuse of power, and
suppression of important information
which not only concerns the people
but directly involves the administra-
ton attempted by an officer before? 1t
is Russell-Butlerism all over. The peo-
pie will clean it out, and then will
take a look at the books.-Raleigh
Post.
Mr.. H. L. Stevens, a withered limb
of the legal fraternity, who aspired
for nomination at the hands of a dem
ocratic convention for the judyeship in
the Sixth district, and whose pre-emi-
nent disability better qualified him for
serving a client in the magistrates
court, according to the opinion of the
delegates of the convention held at
Wallace, which failed to recognize his
claim to the nomination, has recently
published a care through Marion But
ler's paper, The Caucasian, d%enounc-
ing the democratic party and renounc-
ing his allegiance thereto. Now Just
who wrote the letter to which his sig
nature was appended, it is Impossible
fer any enc to find out. It has the
Marion Butler rirG.-Morehead Pilot.
When you e a white republican
say hat White Supremacy has So
lidified the negroes, ask him if any
more negroes in North Carolina voted
the democratic ticket in 1896 than in
1876. In 1876 the issue in North Caro-
lima was white supremacy. Today there
are more negroes holding office in
North Carolina than then. The negro
rule of today is worse than it was
e It had been on us for several
years then and every county and the
state too vas bankrupt or nearly so
1t has just been thrust upon us again
and from the records made in three
years n a half, it will take 1T only
saved in twenty years and leave us
bankrupt and in deb again. NORTH
Carolina is in a bad way-Dunn Union
Hon. F. c. Robbins writes to The
News and Observer now because he is
panied that Christian ministers have
not informed themselves touching the
~Scandalous conduct OF the agents OF
their church, and because he feels il
to be a duty to show the moral wrong
committed by these men. They have
shown themselves unworthy to hold
positions of trust anywhere, and there
is not the shadOW of a doubt that wher
all is known they will be given the
chance, with proper pressure, to resign
their official positions. Not a dollar
of the justly due money, which was
obtained by deception, will be used
by the church. Stahlman will be pros
ecuted if there is any law to pun
ish his lying, and Barbee and Smith
will retire is trusted agents Of the
church. The Methodist church will
not accept it's own when tainted with
Observation-Disclosures News and OBJ
server.
The fact hat many of the farmers
who nave been %populists in the past
are Disguised with the way the fu-
sionists babe been conducting af-
fairs, nay be a rap of hope that these
good men will return to the democratic
camp and aid us in again placing the
state. under democratic rule. But let
us not be too hopeful, for these men
who denounce the present state gov
eminent are a set of men who left the
democratic party because they were
convinced that our own politicians and
party leaders were not what they
should beNthey are men who seek no
pie and who value principle above
party. These men are honest, though
they may have been fooled into the
belief that the populist party was a
way to success. They still love the
democratic party and the democratic
principles, and they believe that this
country belongs to the white man,
and that the white a must rule it,
but they are opposed to being made
tools Of for leaders whose every OBJ
ject is acknowledgements Beacon.
BABY,S O O FAIR SKIN