The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

In the state Wednesday. Inc TepO1tS
TO this and other papers tell that tine
attendance was good at each place ana
that the people we're attentive listen
ers.-Madison. N. c., August 3
This has been a great day for Madison
There is a provision in the school
law OF North Carolina which says that
a committeeman who can not sign MS
name to a teachers voucher nay
make his lark. That law ought 10 De
repealed. No school officer who al not
write his name has any place in our
sckool system. The blind cannot lead
the blind. not even in b Old North
State.-Charlotte News.
Since the speech of Hon w. T. Craw-
ford two weeks since, a man with
half an ear" can hear the money
question discussed quietly by all man
ner of men. People who came in from
various sections of the county get to-
gether and talk. and In these CONVERSE
tons IL is evident that the money
question is at the front to stay until
IL is settled right. No other issue can
supplant it-not even the war.-Bre-
ward News.
There are a multitude OF names pre-
scented in this paper as candidates for
the nominations for the various county
offices. There Is not a man in the
whole lot whom We would not be Will
ing to trust with the office to which
he aspires. II speaks well for the
democratic party that IL has so many
members who are not only willing but
in every way worthy to fill the offices
of the county. We are glad to see
good men announce themselves for the
offices.-Monroe Journal.
We were handed yesterday a copy
of The Washington Dispatch published
here before the war. The Rev. T. Page
Ricaud and Richard Granger editors.
Although the date OF publication had
been erased, it must nav been issued
during the first pastorate of Mr..
Ricaud, which was about 1857 or 1858.
Its columns were full of strange and
curious information to the citizens of
today. Twenty-three vessels are re-
ported arrived during the week, and
the names of some OF them carried us
back to boyhood d~ays.-Washington
Messenger.
We suggest to the colored people
and by that, of course, We mean the
republican party-that they need some
changes in the election law. Surely
they need to change il to protect them
against the rapacity of the white men
who met them at Burdens mill to
agree on a divide. 1t was a game of
you take the buzzard and / take the
turkey; or, l will take the turkey II
o take the buZZard. And they didn't
say turkey marry time to the darkey.-
Windsor Ledger.
Mr.. Bailey's letter shows tina not
only was John r. Smith removed as
superintendent of the penitentiary be-
cause our state vas suffering the dis
grace of personal scandal and financial
loss by corruption" but ii further
demonstrates that Smith has carried
his dishonest methods in 20 the agri-
cultural department, and that he is
being aided and, abetted in robbing the
state by a majority of the board of ag-
r~iculture, and even by the governor
himself. North Carolina will not lon
ger be ruled by this crowd. The cleo
ton in November will wipe them for
ever from power.-Ashevilie Citizen.
The populists of North Carolina have
issued a campaign handbook. One OF
the principal features of the book is
a TRADE against lawyers. Every pop
ulist paper you pick up has scath-
ing, denunciatOry articles against the
lawyers. Senator Butler takes up his
old demagogical cry about the Law
y~ercratic" party, as he calls the dem
ocratic party. In this matter, as in
many others, the pOpulists show their
inconsistency. A few lawyers through
out the state have Joined the popu-
. pal ~, dllu, 81 ldI DIS we KNOW,
every lawyer who has gone to them
has been taken up by the populists and
has been run for office. If there is a
pOpuliSt lawyer in all the state who
has not been nominated by his party
for office. or is not holding office by
the grace of pOpuliSm, We respectful
ly ask him to rise and stand until he
is counted.-MOnroe Enquirer.
Gliding a contemporary for raising
the race issues in this campaign. The
Progressive Farmer says: w call at
tention to it for the purpose of empha-
sizing h enormous wickedness that
will seek to drive any classes of citi-
Zens apart and set them into perma-
nent hostility to one another. The ex-
perience of the past in our own coun-
try, and the lessons we learn from all
history, teach that the %arraying of
class against class, and the stirring up
of blind passions between them, often
leads to bloody results" Coming from
a paper whose meat and drink it is to
arouse class prejudice by appeals to
the worst passions n prejudices of
the populace, from a paper which has
reveled in this unworthy business from
the day 1t was founded. and from an
editor who has gotten his reward, in
the form of a lucrative office, for his
successful efforts to divide our people
and set them by the ears on class
lines, this is a piece of %effrontery the
like of which is not encountered more
n once in a life time-Charlotte Oh.
server.
The whole thing lies at the door of
populist leaders They have proved
themselves allies of the republican
party, and every single word or deed
that has tended to aid and abe the in
terests of the populist party in h
state for the past seven or eight years
yea, from it's very beginning, has
tended either directly or indirectly to
this wholesale placing Of postmaster
ships in the hands Of the colored peo-
pie. Ten years the democratic
party had such a hold upon the reius
or government in this nation and in
North Carolina, that nothing could
nave shaken it from it's footing if ey-
cry man had stood for good govern
nehI n white supremacy through
the medium Of the dominant marty
But when the Farmers alliance be-
gan to turn to politics, the first silent