The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-27

future and caring less about the pas,
tnan his country cousin. The politi-
cal oi1ce holders who have crowned
Colonel Harry king Of the pie eat
ers," have forsaken the simple habits
OF country life. They are ION the
make They do not care for principle
party. consistency or anything else.
1t Is keeping hold of Office that alone
gives them concern. They have for
gotten the reform" speeches they made
the people elected thin to carry
out rforms.-Raleigh News and Obser-
yer.
Mr.. Smith Acknowledges. in his re-
port, having disposed of some twenty-
odd head of horses and mules. one
given away, on account Of their being
out and worthless when he took
charge. He reports having spent ST.
500 for stock during the year. Yet he
reports eighteen head less of horses
and mules than Mr.. Leazer accounts
for on the 1st of January previous.
And with all the stock, worn out and
run down as ii was, he claims to have
made b biggest crops on record.
And this, too, when the governor said
there was so much stealing and rot
tenness going on under Mr.. Smiths
administration that he had to remove
him.-Raleigh Post.
In spite of the attempts of politi-
clans to inject outside issues INTO the
present political campaign, the Deo-
pie of North Carolina are c~ommencing
to see that the chief issue before our
people today is that of good, honest
government of our state. 1t is folly.
yes, worse than folly. it is criminal
for our people to disagree about prac-
tically immaterial things while every
thing dear to freemen is at stake. The
question is, shall the white men rule in
North Carolina, or shall the state be
turned over to an inferior race?
This is the whole question in a nut
shell there is no way to dodge the is
u e,there is no use in demagogues try
ing to blind the people, this is a ques-
ton that is paramount to all others,
and the Anglo SaXons of North Caro-
lima must meet it. 1t will not down.
Rocky Mount Argonaut.
We regret to learn that some of
ooA pOpuliSCO It'll III IuS COuulN
are saying that the outrages perpetrat-
ed by the negroes in Wilmington,
New Bern and Greenville, are demo
cratic lies" We wish they would go
to these places and see for themselves,
as they are undoubtedly true. Why
they have only to come to Oxford and
see a negro boss holding full sway over
the county. Go to each township and
you will see negro magistrates and ne
gro school committeeman trying to
dispense justice and exercising author
iyt over the white children of Gran
yille. Then too there is a negro poll
tician on the county board of education.
A few courts go there were nine ne
groes on the grand jury, and general
ly from three OF seven on the petit
juries of each court. My friends is
not this enough for you. and it is not
"a democratic lie" and you know it
Oxford Ledger.
The Lenoir Springs Hustler says:
1.-The populist principles are all right,
but the leaders are not, and are COM
posed of a set of hungry pie eaters who
are willing to sacrifice principle and all
for office. The leaders have sold out
cheap to the republicans-so cheap
that they can never be able to deliver
the goods. The rank and file of the
pOpulist party, men who have white
principles, can't and are not going to
support such a ticket just to crafty
pie eaters in the party" The above
clipping from the Hustler ought to be
placed in the hands Of every populist
in Moore county. That there are men
who voted the populist ticket in "a
and SO from honest conviction, is true,
but no man can vote the populist
ticket this year without cooperating
with those who elected a gold bug to
the United States senate, and made
negro domination in the east possible,
is doubly true. The democratic party
is the only true friend to the white
man and white metal. = Jonesboro
Progress.
There have been more insults to
white girls more wrongs to white men,
more lawlessness and more crime COM
mitted by negroes in North Carolina
in the last twenty months than during
the previous twenty years. More than
this: In all those communities where
the negro is the controlling political
factor the influence of the old time re-
ligious negro, who loved peace and
concord has been supplanted by the
influence of the A. L. Manlys, the Lee
Persons, the Jim Youngs, and the like
who control the votes of the negroes
for their personal ends by appeals to
their prejudice. The difference be-
tween eastern North Carolina of six
years ago and today is marked. Then
the white men had control of public
affairs, and the government was ad-
ministered with justice to both races,
and peace and concord prevailed.
Wherever the negro and his allies
have obtained power, the politicians
have become offensive and the brutal
have become law breakers.-Raleigh
Nswe and Observer.
The democratic party stands for good
government. 1t is the only party that
has given the state good government
in the past and it is the only party