The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-01
STATE PRESS.

STATE PR
1t is democratic to allow every mem
Der of the party to have a voice in
nominating candidates. In the town
ship primaries this year let all the
candidates for each office be voted on
separately and then instruct the del
egateS to give each candidate his pro
ratio vote on the first ballot in the
county convention. Under this method
no one can rightly complain and all
true democrats will abide by the re-
sult.-Albemarle Democrat.
Senator Marion Butler, in last weeks
issue of The Caucasian, d~enounces the
republican party as being "hypocriti-
cal and treacherous.' And yet it was
the republican party that gave him his
present high office of United States
senator. Now, while the republican
party may be "hypOcriticaI and
treacherOus," it is certainly not more
so h a Butler himself, and it comes
with a very bad grace for him-above
all other men-to say so.-Pittsboro
Record.
When it was announced that Colonel
Washington Duke had given another
500, 900" to Trinity college, for which
gift he has been lauded and slobbered
over world without end, The Land
mark invited Colonel Webster, of The
Reidsville Weekly, to take the floor
and tell us whether the cigarette trust
was yet in good health and doing bus
mess at the old stand. The colonel
responded in his issue of last week to
the extent of two columns (illustrated)
and that he did the job to the queens
taste goes without misunderstanding
Landmark.
The North Carolina Christian Ad-
vocate says of the Stahlmann claims
matter; 1T is a shame that it re-
CURED 80 years and the expense Of
thousands of dollars to collect a just
debt, and it is in bad grace for the
United States senate to be making a
fuss because we paid a man a reason
able sui to get it." That is not a fair
statement. The fuss is mainly ground
ed in the fact that a denial was made
to certain senator's that Stahlmann
was to get what the Advocate calls a
reasonable sum-" The senators now
see that they were fooled by the de-
NAL, and naturally they are making a
fuss about it, just Is the Advocate
would under similar circumstances
Asheville Citizen.
Governor Russell said in a speech in
SO. when he was a candidate for the
office he now disgraces, that cit would
be just as sensible for strangers or
northern capitalists to rent a ten acre
lot in hell for a summer resort as to
look for hospitality in North Carolina
under a democratic administration
Beautiful language that for a man to
q IN tho ctrpop Ubi1n oCIyin n fnr
votes. 1t was a direct slap in the face
of four-fifths of the white people and
property owners of the state. Yet the
slanderous, venom-pointed arrow Of
Russell, the candidate, pale into in
significance besides the hldeous, scand-
alous and ~disgraced record he. is max
ing as governor.-Greensboro Tele-
gram. 49,
II am no enemy to the negro. 1t is
Our duty TO make him as good a citi-
zen as possible. I shall continue to be
the friend of the negro, as I under
stand his best interests, and a defen-
der of his rights. About the worst
thing we could do for the negro, as
we'll as the white man, is to put the
negro tO administering our govern
ment. He has not the fitness, the quail
ifcations, 0 the aptitude. He will
of necessity, not only make a miser'
able failure but instead of lifting his
own race up he will put ours down.
therefore vigorously attack that polit-
ical policy of the last two Legislators
which has resulted in turning over tC
the negroes and their allies the ad-
ministration of the local affairs Of
many communities in Jul dear ole
state."-Jarvis to Chairman Stew
ems Of Johnston.
In going about during the past ter
days and making inquiries as to tbs
political situation in Moore county, we
find that a good many men who LEFT
the democratic party four and siz
years ago and Joined the populists
have been quietly and honestly study
ing the situation, and have come to See
the condition of our state III county
in it's true light. We heard of six mer
in one township who had become tired
rep. fusion in county and state and
say they will vote the democratic
ticket hereafter. In another township
We hear of several good populists VIII
say they will not vote for Z fusion
ticket with the republicans again, a
it will only mean the absorption o
their party by the republicans and tn
fastening of republican rule upon tn
state Observation-Disclosures Telegram