The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26
Gm @essenger.
A GLANCE AT THE BLACK AND
TAN SHOW.

The files of The Messenger show
that it steadfastly through the months
insisted that the black radicals and
the populists would unite. Again and
again when there was much talk of
an attempt to unite the white men-
the grand old democracy-with the
populists, it was insisted upon that
the dicker between the traders
of 1896 and 1894 would be re-
peated in 1898. And so it will come to
pass-so it is daily coming to pass.
It is a plain bargain and sale for the
mackerel tub and the feed trough.
Principles to the winds, let Blifl and
Blackleg get together and beat the
democrats and "elect everything
from constable to bishop" as that
trading black republican, one L1nney,
hoWled it out as if at a corn-shuck-
ing. And that is all there is in this
miserable fallen party, that Once V
in North Carolina had force and abil-
ity and some pretence of principles.
Now it is barter and blow and bragg
and all for the "ixings." The one sem
timent now among the radical bush
:whackers is a blending of the two
parties that hold nothing in common
save the great, controlling principle
of greed and grab. That was an ag-
gressive stink, political and personal,
that filled Raleigh's infected atmos-
phere, when as John Dryden wrote it,
clouds of savory stencil involve the
sky" Let North Carolina hold it's
nose, and scatter over the whole state
in great p%rofusiOn carbolic acid, Gin
chona, salt and other political anti
septics that may preserve the state
FROM decay and paralyzing, death
dealing stencil.
The saddest of ali pictures ever
taken by kodak or painted by artist
is the Dan Russell picture in the black
and tan pow WOW. Read this and if
you have tears prepare to shed them
now"
Governor Russell entered the hall
amid dead silence and sat half an
hour with the New Hanover delega-
ton"
Not a shout, not a word of well
come, not the slightest notice taken of
the governor, a member of the pie
counter brigade. Solitary and alone"
he sat amid the ruins of his WI fame
and mere was not a lingering "black
cuss" nor one of the mOtleys who
was so poor as to do him reverence"
A sad picture of decay and death. Let
melancholy claim him as it's own, and
let jeremiads be poured out in profu-
siCn to his names. Poor Russell!
AIackaday! And must Trelawney
die" Alas! as the once puissant, ro-
bustious Dan curries himself with a
potsherd he feels that the night with
all Of it's terrors and gloom is upon
him. He realizes the perishableness of
human glory and the ingratitude of
men and he recalls that
cts a very good world we live in,
To lend Or to spend Or to give in;
But to beg or to borrow or to ask for
your own,
Its the very worst world that ever
was known"
He even asked to be heard in the
black radical show, but even that
simple request passed unheeded. Then
read those resolutions indorsing the
Russell gang in the great wisdom,
Justice, honesty, economy of it's deal
ings and doings and then keep your
risibles if you car. It might remind
one of a gathering in hell of the devil
and his imps, (see Milton for ,descrip-
tion) and the adoption of resolutions
Endorsing the tricks and performances
of Lucifer and the economy with
which he uses fuel as well as the JUS
Hice and equality of his general gov
eminent.
You tickle my elbow with a straw
and 1 will scratch your back. Nice flat
terry and fine unmeaning buncOmbe as
read by that political Mephistophiles
from Buncombe. This is the first act
jim the show.
Let it be borne in mind that this
black and a convention had the
brazen effrontery in North Carolina
TO indorse the present unconstitution-
al, oppressive and unequal robber tax
that is a dead failure in producing
revenue. What a set of humbugs and
p~retenders! Froth and demagogy.
THE WAY To VICTORY