The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
STATE Pr ESs

L the wretch mas not DStA ~ uGLcu u
| poses before the people as one OF the
grand achievements OF republican rule
and a hideous example of n of the
many thai have come TO the surface
| since white supremacy was ~relegated
| to the rear by selfish politicians.-Jack
| sonville Times.
| 1t is stated in the paper that Judge
| Spencer b. Adams, in charging the
| grand jury in Greensboro recently,
made a political speech for which he
is receiving merited rebuke. A judge
| who would be guilty OF such conduct
is not fit to preside over any court.
This is a fair specimen OF the nom
partisan fusion judiciary SO much
| talked about by the opponents OF de-
| mocracy. We ask in heavens name
will the good people Of the state con-
tinue this fusion combination in power.
Washington Progress.
See how our friends in the east are
being insulted and wronged through
negro domination all in order that Rus
sell may be governor. or that Butler
or Skinner may go TO congress. We
beg you, good people of the Old North
State, 20 exercise your patriotism and
power, giving voice and vote TO roll
back his black tide OF and
| death that IS sweeping ovec our state
like 4 pestilence. Write men OF E,rth
Carolina he true 10 your stat" and
daughters and ruined your state will
be fleeing in shame and humiliation be-
fore the wrath of an outraged and
wronged people.-Winston Sentinel.
The Progressive Farmer, speaking
of the negro paper in Wilmington,
which recently printed the vile edi-
torial about the white women OF the
state, says lit has been supported
mainly by advertising, etc, given il by
democrats, who doubles inspired The
editorial, or flattering him until they
got him worked up to the point where
he was willing to write such outrage
Gus rot to please them" This is just
like Senator Buffers Rocky Moun
speech, in which he said that demo-
Gratis were not too good TO hire negroes
to assault white women, for political
effect: and like Judge Adams recent
Columbus court in which he said that
many Of the alleged rape cases are
bogus, the result only of the discovery
of illicit relations.-Charlotte Observer.
There can be no reason why the
pouplists should not unite with the
democrats in a contest involving the
honor, the property, the supremacy of
the white man. They cannot consist
emily cooperate with the republicans.
Their policy in regard to money, TO
monopilies, to the tariff. to the judi
ciary, is totally different. They have
been and are now honored citizens:
they are rOperty holders; they are
white men. The populist party was
not organized to elect negroes to Of
flee in North Carolina. And yet a fu-
sion of the poulist and republican par
ties will inevitably result in this since
the negro will not hesitate to demand
his rights" And populists will not
be the last to suffer from the results
of this unholy rule.-From Last Speech
of the Late Judge Boykin.
Not a line of abuse of the colored
race, as a race, has ever appeared in
these columns, and never will while
this editor is at the helm. And if the
subscriber referred to takes our de-
nunciation of the black fiend in Will
mingtOn, who defameS the character
of white women to mean the colored
race, he is mistaken, in so far as
there are colOred men found who re-
pudiate that lander. We are. in 9TH
er words, guilty of the "rebuking'' act
only so far as the colored people en-
dOrse the negro, Manly, editor of the
Wilmington Record, which it appears
the colored ministers in Wilmington
v done Such things are a disgrace
and we have in a former editorial
placed the blame where it belongs, on
the INSCRIPTIONS and designing white
men who have made it possible for
such things to be. We have plainly
said we don't blame the negroes for
taking offices, if they can get them
Greensboro Telegram.
This last contest marks more clear
ly yet the line of cleavage in the pop-
ulist party of this state. 1t is lining
up into three distinct elements: Re-
publican-pOulists, led by Colonel Skin
ner; democratic-poulists, and middle
of-the-roaders. The first named class
will soon be in the republican party.
bodily; a second class is rapidly com
ing back into the democratic party.
where they find their natural afiIia-
tons; the third class in
mostly of men of principle, who are
honestly opposed to the old parties and
want no utilization with either. be-
lieving honestly in the peoples party
and that it should preserve it's own
organization distinct and amalga mate
with no other. There is nothing to
throw any suspicion upon this class
except the fact that Butler has recent |
ly aligned himself with ii in the ma
tlon.-Statesville Landmark.
Raleigh News and Observer: Our
c~artoonist has drawn the big fat Pee
Dee pie eater in two scenes. In one
he is p%ronouncing the News and OBJ
servers statement false; in the other
hC 10 iCduih6 Jill IOuUR s O1lclal re
port, which was printed in Sundays
News and Observer. Meanwhile if a
lie has been told the people of Car
image know who told it.-Yesterdav
morning at $50 o'clock Osborne Hun
ter, a well known and highly respected
colored man, died at his home on west
Cabarrus street. He was rs years old.
put had been sick only about a week. |
he was the father of Professor Charels
n. Hunter, principal of Garfield grad
ed schools.-Dr. Thompson's great
speech" is being published serially.
In this particular readers are more for |
tlnate than were the doctors hearers. |
Gastonia correspondence Charlotte
observer: There was a lare cotton |
mill deal here this week, Mr.. r. c. G..
Love sold all his interest in the Cas- |
tonia Manufacturing Company to
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