The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-30

popuiISt IeuluduL uSlu d COuscuIiOA
and counted exactly three noses. Mr..
Niger presided lin course"
MI. c. V. Byrd, Of Smithfield, de-
clines the republican nomination for
register of deeds, announcing in the
excellent Smithfeld Weekly and say
ing Il am a white man in favor Of
white supremacy-opposed to negro
rule-and intend to vote accordingly"
Cy Thompson is "petering out" fast.
| At Kinston his h%arangue fell dull and
fiat, and he seemed only to arouse ne
grodum. Fine work that for a fellow
of gifts.
Babb, the pOpulist nominee of free
bibulous proclivities, speaks very freely
Of the gang in the Raleigh capitol. He
is reported in the News-Observer as
saying off-hand and with exceeding
freedom of speech:
When the man in the moo passes
over North Carolina. he has to hold
his nose, and if the Blue Ridge Noun
tains were converted into ipecac, and
poured into the mouth of hell, it could
not possibly vOmit forth such a lot of
low-down damnable scoundrels as are
now in the capitol"
Dan Russell is cooking owe a slow
fire because of his objectionable offence
in setting free the rascally seducer
Reuben Davis. Dan deserves it all,
but he has a very tough hide n can
stand a good deal of torturing.
The Hal Liar black radical Hand
Book" states that the democrats on the
board of education in Warren county
voted last year for a niger in prefer
ence to Rev. T. J. Taylor and is only
another lie freshly told. The Warrenton
Record denies the charge.
Cy Thompson will become more dis
Greet as the days go by, especially if
Charles Aycock is to meet him often
on the stump. He is % in an apol-
ogetic vein, and learning to be wise.
The News Observer reports this:
When Mr.. Aycock drew the record
and proved that in DR.. ThompsOn's
published speech he had falsely charg-
ed Colonel l. F. DOrtch with having
voted for negro magistrates in 1877,
the doctor apologized in his speech to
| Colonel Dortch for having said it, and
also for having charged the late F. M.
| Aycock with having voted for them"
In Cy Thompson's campaigning in
| 1898, Concord and Hoods Swamp
proved to be his First and Second Ma
nassas. One or two more such defeats
and there will not be enough of Cy
left to furnish solemnity at a funeral.
Down in old historic Halifax the
white folks are greatly aroused and
great unity of purpose prevails. They
to save North Carolina from further
vandalism and negro bOssing. Our
dear old friend Captain Edward A.
Thorne, Che got his title in the war)who
was a populist candidate for congress
and a Methodist steward of more than
forty years, an University of North
Carolina man, of the best families of
Halifax, came back to the old party and
made a patriotic speech worthy Of him
self. The News-Observer's report
says:
Captain E. A. Thorne who has acted
with the populists, made a speech in
which he declared that he had held no
position which he did lot think was for
the best interest of the people; but now
he sees ne hope for North Carolina, ex-
cept in and through the democratic
party. He called upon all men with
one drop of Anglo-Saxon blood in them
to rally around the democratic stand
ard.
The declaration was made in the
convention that most of the pOpulist
in the western part of the county are
coming back"
Holton, black republican chairman
state executive committee gives out now
that white RAIDS have all the mig
! gers we want in Office. He hears the
awful mutterings of an outraged peo-
pie.
In Wake the white-skins of the
black radical gang dropped every ne
gro and nominated only white skins for
office. 1t is an anti-nigger ticket clean
through. Significant.
Claud Bernard, a white skin fellow
who runs with the black radical ma
chine tells the niggers that they must
fuse with the ~populists until they get
an election law suited to the peculiar
wants of the conspiring gang, and
then the populist be id" This is
the account of the News-Observer that
gives a cartoon of this amalgamation
and plot.
Rev. DR.. r. F. Sample in the Presby-