The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07

AXE SAHINGs
Negro and corrupt and
incompetent government are synomy-
Gus. All other considerations apart,
the negro official is intolerable because
of his ignorance and tendency to pecu-
late. 1t is notorious that the best ne
| groes exercise little influence over their
race and are seldom chosen to fill pub
lie offices. 1t is the negro who urges
his fellows TO stand up for the rights
who gets the votes. 1t is he also who
allows no opportunity to secure loot
to escape him when he has gotten an
, ofice.-Raleigh Nws and Observer.
/ Colonel Office Hunter Dockery on
tinues, in his speeches, to crawl on his
| belly and eat dirt. by laudirg Dan
| Russell as one Of the best governors
, the state ever had" But Russell, what
does he think OF Dockery? They do
say that when the fat governor turns
| loose on the Dockerys that the most
! accomplished swearer that eve lived
would be hard put TO 1t to maintain
his laurels in the contest. OF all the
| contemplate wretches that ever lived
the man who, for the sake of gain, ticks
the hand that smite him, is the most
deSpicable. Can any man, who has an
atom Of self-respest, vote for a man
for high office who has no more spirit
hAANAA ~ - N'N iaifAA ~ AAhahA
-Wadesboro Messenger.
Instead of suspending, the negro ed
itor denounced Jockey and the COM
mittee; and the republicans OF the
, section, or that element which consti-
tutes the large majority Of the party
energetically rallied to the support Of
the p even the colored ministers,
and a cOlOred conference passed strong
resolutions endorsing the editor for his
\ manly ctan1 in haha1f Of tho rana an1
%pledging united support. AS startling
! and outrageous as all this was. no one
believed that the machinery of the re-
publican state committee would go so
far in practically endorsing the ne
gro paper as to punish the republican
who took the lead in ~denouncing the
Infamous editorial. Yet this is just
nat Chairman Holton and his trad
ing committee have done. They have
unceremoniously kicked Jockey over
board, and notified him that he cannot
be the candidate of the party for
judge. and that another, professedly of
another party, will be the republican
fusion candidate. Thus the organized
power of the republican party Of the
state has been given to the endorse
ment of the most infamous article that
has ever appeared in a paper in this
state.-Raleigh Post.
In the second of these three armies
We see thirty-two thousand white men
in column arrayed for reform in GU
government. They are intelligent mer
and represent a deal of the wealth o.
the state. These are honest, good
liberty loving citizens. They do mo-
desire that the negro shall dominate
the government of the state. They
the privates in the ranks of this army
really desire ~retrenchment, but thu
past has proven that the leaders o.
this army have sold, and will sell i
the ranks will allow it, the votes o
the honest private for Office anC
pie" This thirty-two Thousand
white men from what is known as The
pOpulist party in the state. They hav,
it in their power to forever stamp ne
gro domination from power in tn,
state. Will you do it honest popu
lists? Which side will you join p
Dunn Union.
We publish in our news columns to
day an official statement from Mr.. ]
H. S%outhgate, president of the boart
Of trustees of Trinity college, in which
it is virtually admitted that the col
lege holds interest in the American
Tobacco company to the extent of min,
hundred and ten shares of the pre-
ferred stock, valued at one hundred
thousand dollars, and upon which tn,
college receives dividends. Mr.. South
gates letter speaks for itself. w,
thank him and the executive commit
tee for their courtesy and franknes,
in making the statement in reply t,
ford to continue to hold an interes
in and draw dividends from a bust
ness that has been condemned by tn,
Western n. c. conference is a Ques
ton for the conference to answer
Winston Sentinel.
AS We said before the white rae,
! will not submit to the domination AM
insult by this infamous race. We d.
not want to see trouble. 1t will b.
a deplorable state Of affairs. But jus
so sure as night follows day If the ne
gro does not call a halt and resume
his place and treat the whites as thei1
superiority demands for them, Their,
will be blood shed. We do not wan
to see it come to this, and for THU
reason We speak plainly that the ne
gro may have an opportunity to aver
it by proper conduct. The Caucasian
race has had thousands of years 9
civilization and culture and there i
no such a thing as this race bowin,
to a race that two thousand years ag'
were savages and thirty odd years ag
slaves. We do not speak as we d
because Of any i'll feeling for the negro
but we think it is best to unfold tn
truth and the whole truth that he ma,
see the situation as it is and then b
will be responsible for the conse
quences. This issue Is full of acts {
insolence Of the negroes towards tn
whites. Read and you will see th
handwriting on the wall.-Wa.hins