The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-22
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ted to- frame the next platform or Sc
lect the nominee.-Tarboro Soutnerner.
The people OF Wilmington are OF the
opinion that Chadbourn represents all
the decency left in the republican party
OF that section and that the latest move
OF the machfne is simply MALICIOUS
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Kentucky has now discovered a gen
uine wild man that Is covered from
head to foo with a shaggy coat or hair.
What Kentucky can't produce Is not
worth very much. She always has on
hand anthing from q civil war 10 the
missing link.-Durham Herald.
Mr.. Bryan IS always saying bright
and pithy things hat have the merit
OF being true, but he never said a truer
one than when at Manistee. Michigan,
day before yesterday, he declared that
much Of the opposition TO him was
caused by the fear hat he would en-
force the laws."-Fayetteville OBJ
server.
Diversified farming and rotation OF
crops will make the southern farmer
independent regardless OF the trusts
and combines that threaten the very
existence Of the western farmer who Is
independent on grain and hay crops
alone.-Rich Square Farmer and Pat
ron.
We had fondly hoped hat North Car
Dina would be spared he disgusting
| and disgraceful divorce epidemic. but
it seems that it is coming. Almost
every recent legislature OF all parties
has added 10 the causes for which a
divorce may be secured.-Whiteville
News
We have come to h conclusion that
/ the match trust is making a match that
will not burn. We have never seen
anything like it before. You have to
strike three or 0 nearly every time
before you can get one to catch proper
ly. 1t strikes Us that the matches made
now are very inferior things.-Durham
! Sun.
Mormonism and its pernicious teach
ings is but the prelude 10 broken homes
and the degrading of womanhood.
| And our school directors could do no
better service to the children than by
| prohibiting the use of the school houses
OF the county to any such purposes, and
issue an order that any committee
| that permits them to hold their meet
ings will be removed. II we are not
mistaken and are wrongly informed,
the Board of Directors will have to
adopt heroic measures to stop this thing
and the order ought to be passed even
if a special meeting of the board has
TO be held.-Washington Messenger.
All the agitation about stopping
lynching for the crime which causes it
in the south is so much time wasted.
Federal armies would not stop it. Miss
Jewett's slop-over elocution recitals
will not stop it. Afro-American con-
ventions Will not stop ii. Nothing but
the ceasing Of the nameless crime will
stop lynchings. The remedy must be
| applied at the source of the evil, at the
cause OF the effect. And IL Booker T.
Washington and all the colored bishops
and preachers who are expected in
Chicago would quit running around the
country agitating, n go to preaching
regeneration to their race, first, last
and all the time, they would do a vast
deal more towards the accomplishment
Of their object.-Charlotte Observer.
That such a state Of affairs as exist
in this >political-ridden country could
exist in any civilized ountry is due
solely to the ignorant negro vote. This
vote is owned by the republican party
it is the republican party, in this
state, save the few white men that are
in it for the revenue only, and a still
fewer number Of honest men who have
no influence whatever in it's ranks.
Here is the danger from the negro
vote and the performances of tn" pres
ent state government nave shown only
too clearly how great a danger IL IS.
The loWly race are but tools to eleVu.
a SCI Of rapaciOus and ignorant men
who no longer represent the principles
Of the once great party that liberated
the slaves. The negro today is a pOiiti-
cal slave to this party. 1t is a brave
negro who dares to openly vote the
! democratic ticket, and every negro is
or believes himself bounded to the polls
to see that he does not try to secretly
vote against his n9rtV "A ShpVine
Citizen.
Albemarle Enterprise: A $780, 900 knit
; ting mill will be erected on the north
end Of the Efrd cotton mill and nearl.
joining it, The building will be 75x1OC
! feet, two stories. The mill will be own
end and operated by Messrs. Cannon
Webb & McGill, and will have an out
put of 1000 dozen pairs of hose pei
day, which is a large output for a knit.
ting mill. Power will be obtained from
the Efrd mill. 1t will be equipped fol
dyeing all its own produce and it viii
also do dyeing for the Windemere knit
ting mill, which has been shipping
heretofore. The mill will work about
800 hands for the day and night shift
together.-It appears to have beer
the Goldsboro fremen who had z
streamer on their car when they lef
Greensboro, saying w have been rob.
bed" When the boys passed through
Raleigh the reporter Of The News anC
Observer saw a big fellow at one o.
the car windows with a a dozer
large flint rocks and a rusty coupling
pin This" he said, patting the larg-
est rock, which surely must nave weigh.
ed a dozen pounds or more, lis my thir
teen inch gun, and the son of a CUR
that lays hostile hand on this sign will
catch it where my baby caught tbs
bite. And We kills Winston folk OF
general principles wherever we see EN-
So inferior and so corrupt is the par
ty (republican) that ". S. Lusk is z
great man in it, and his acts shin,
brilliantly in contrast to those of hi:
followers. Look at his legislative rec,
ord so far n then consider wha
must be this body Of men who rule GU
state. What bills has he fathered o.
supported that will add to the weisar,
or prosperity Of the commonwealth. O
any part Of the commonwealth-fron
his great bill to protect public speak
ers from Interruption" to his last out
rageous measure intended to take iur
isdiction in police cases from the dull,
| elected magistrate Of the peoDle a