The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-11

The S;spensary fighters have certain
" won a glorious moral victory for
Telegram.
Governor Russell is doing all In ms
power 10 reduce the expenses OF tne
penitentiary by continuing 10 grant
pardons.-Durham Herald
We congratulate the esteemed WI,
mington Messenger upon its removal
into a permanent home in the shape
of a handsome, new and modern build
ing specially arranged and equipped
for its use. The Messenger is a perma-
nent institution and>1 is fitting that
il should have a permanent home
Durham Herald.
Mr.. Ogden F. Crowson, editor OF the
Burlington News, was married last
week TO Miss Victoria Ferguson, OF Mil
ton. Speaking OF the marriage, the
editor OF last weeks paper says: Our
readers will please excuse all short
comings in the paper this week and
next" After that, everything will be
lovely.
Hanna SAYS trusts canno be made
a political issue. He will wish that this
is true before the next campaign closes.
Despite Mr.. Hanna, the trust question
will be one Of the biggest issues next
year and despite all its squirmings and
denials, Mr.. Hanna's party will be re-
garded as the champion OF the trusts
, and the democratic party as the cham
pion OF the people.-Winston Sentinel.
Even DR.. Kilgo's enemies admit his
ability. but he has a peculiar knack OF
always getting on the minority side OF
public opinion in the section in which
| he lives and when he Said Sunday night
that the end would justify the means
now being employed in the Philippines,
| he simply erected another barrier be-
| tween himself and the hearts OF the peo-
pie among whom he lives.-Durham
Herald.
The agents OF the Danville tobacco
warehouse trust have been in Kinston
several days trying to secure options
on Kinston warehouses. They claim
to nave secured the warehouses at Will
son, Rocky Mount and Greenville. They
propose to have only four markets in
eastern North Carolina and to work
schemes that will practically close all
the other and smaller markets. They
! present plausible arguments to show
that it will be a big thing for the four
trusts and the warehousemen who go
into it.-kinston Free Press.
Postmaster General Smith says Pres
| ident Mckinley has enlisted more than
40,0O0 men, many of them seasoned sol
diers, without the country knowing
what was going on. The postmaster
| general is considered the shrewest poll
tician in the cabinet, and that he is put
forward to do the talking at this time
l when the country is becoming aroused
over the situation of affairs in the Phil
ippines indicates that the administra-
| ton has been touched at last. But 1t
will require more than talk to fix
things.-Asheville Citizen.
1t is intimated of late and with con-
! siderable emphasis hat a stock COM
pany composed of citizens Of Asheville
and other sections of Western North
Carolina is soon to be organized for
the purpose of establishing a morning
Democratic daily newspaper at Ashe>
vile. The Gazette has become ex-
tremely distasteful to all advocates of
white supremacy and there seems to
be strong evidence that it has again
become the tool of Republican manipu-
lators as in the Crawford-Pearson cam
paign of 1S9S.-Brevard Leader.
Ill Ills speech DIT the uHNelllnS OF the
Campbell monument at Snow Creek,
Tuesday, Congressman Linney an
nounced his opposition to the wal and
boosted of the fact that he voted six
teen times in opposition to the recent
Spanish-American war. Prior to the
blowing up of the Maine, Mr.. Linney
said he considered the Cuban affair
were none of our business. While Mr..
Linney didn't say so in his address
we understand that in private CONVEX
sation he expressed decided opposition
to the war now being waged in the
Philippines, and wanted to know what
we would do with the heather out there
when we subdued them.-Stateville
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