The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-23
WILMINGTON. N. C.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER %. 1898.
PRESIDENTIAL TOURING AND
OPINION.

brands the Mckinney pr"eSldentldl nom l
ination seeking trip in the south as
''presfdential cozening." His reception
must be particularly pleasing and en-
%couraging to him. The places he visits
are swept away by his august pres
ence," and his very "conciliating"
talks. We hope the republican presi-
dent will be SO charmed with his en-
thusiastic reception that he will re
member the southern whites hereaf-
ter, and not affiict and offend them
with any more negro official appoint
ments. Give the north a chance to APP
preciate and eight in negro officers in
custom houses and postoffices, etc.
The Dispatch makes a timely hint in
connection with the vast patronage
that will fall to McKinley's share when
expansion expands, and the negroes
and others iii the conquered domains
are made a part and parcel Of our al
ready vast country. 1t says:
THAT would increase immensely the
presidential patronage in the matter Of
making or bestowing both civil and
military appointments. And since the
south made common cause with the
north in fighting the war, and has Mr..
McKinley's word for it hat We are in
truth a reunited nation, isn't it natural
for the south to look to the president
for full consideration Of this section in
- distributing the spoils incident to the
contamination of his policy?-provided
Of course, the south gives adherence to
that policy? We rather think So"
The south, will not, however, desire
TO be remembered" in the bad, afflic-
five old u,o tt will nona of ~ 80 L. n -,
be heard. Enough, more than enough
Of negro officials for the south. Go
north and appoint them.
Mr.. Mckinley may have completely
Hoped. He is now suspected of favor
ing the appropriation Of the con-
quered territory, and, We suppose
like his party, without giving the
conquered people any right or oppor-
.tunity, to declare whether they wish to
be annexed or be brought in under con-
ditions of statehood. Hawaii was an
nexed against the will of the people
out there. Writing of Cuba in his late
message he said-''Assist Cuba to Gre
ate a government which shall be free
and independent" That was right and
American in spirit. Has he gone back
on it? AT Atlanta he wisely, felicit-
ously said-"To this Nation (the Re-
public disappeared soon after the war
ended between the south and north
land to every nation there comes for
native periods in it's life and history
Just so. This once great Republic
passed through it. The great war
knocked the bottom out of it, and,
presto, change, a gigantic Nation, with
a great big NJ sprang into lift full
armed and big with fate. Mr.. Lincoln
in his very famous speech at Gettys-
burg, stole a sentence from a New
England Reader" published in the
thirties and made it immortal. He de-
.clared that in spite of the great up
heaval and the creation of a Nation"
that still this country belonged to the
people-that government of the peo-
pie, for the people, and by the peo-
pie shall not perish from the face of
the earth If the people" would not
lose their liberties completely they
must pay the price of eternal vigil
lance" They must closely curb and
watch the military and the expand
ing demagogues. They must stand by
the teachings of the great men who
created the Republic, n made it a
success-Washington, Jefferson, Madi-
son and the other wise builders and
statesmen.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie writes in The
New York Times to this effect:
Imperialism, after petty skirmishes
with a weak foreign power, suggests
that a new formative period has ar
rived which renders it necessary to
discard the doctrines upon which the
Republic is founded.
1T laughs to scorn the principle that
government derives it's just powers
from the consent of the governed For
that all men are created free it sub
Stitutes the purchase of eight millions
of people at $2.50 per head in the Phil
ippines, like so many cattle, without
their consent. That life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness are 'inalien-
able rights that wherever the flag
waves any mans privileges is every
mans right are to the imperialist fic-
lions hat have had their day. That
the flag proclaims the equality of the
citizen the imperialst discards and
holds that this flag, that hitherto had
stood for equal rights to all. shall here
after make citizens of one art of the
people and subjects of another part.
w VINO stand Tor the American
doctrine enter our protest-we prefer
the old doctrines to the new"
This is a Scotchman emphasizing basic
principles of a government of the peo-
pie. Let the American people stand
faithfully by every declaration made
before wal began with Spain, that ii
was to be pressed to make Cuba "free
and Independent" President McKinley
gave expression to the true view in
the sentence given above from his re-
cent message to h congress-'To ai6
the Cubans to establish a free and in.
dependent government of their own
mark you. MIR. Carnegie presses tht
argument and says forcefully tina