The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-10
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JOURNALIST TALKS.

Mr.. James Creelman is a something
famous newspaper man in the north.
He ha been visiting the Philippines.
He is a sagacious and prophetic news
paper men. He talks Of politics, but
he thinks it too soon to cast the hor-
horoscope. He says it will be Bryan and
Mckinley again. Dewey will! not be
in it. We may believe n the possibil-
ity of his being the republican nominee,
and il he is he will be very hard to de-
feat. Mckinley is so unpopular with
hundreds of thousands OF his party.
and he is such a dead-weight in sta tes-
manship, that it may not be a surprise
if he is thrown overheard, as a Jonah
in the storm. AT any rate unless his
prospects brighten and his unpopular
ity diminishes he will be probably
showed aside and Admiral Dewey sub
stituted. There is great danger just
there. Little Mac, the weakling and
Hopper, might be beaten in spite of
Mark Hanna and the plutocrats, but
Dewey-wel1, let us wait and see. The
interview with Mr.. CreeIman is report
ed by Morton Smith, and we ppo
for the Atlanta Journal, although it is
not so stated. He was asked
IF the war with the Filipinos is
brought to an early termination what
effect will thai nave on the next cam
paign?'
viii oil W lHS VIEW I-LIu Nv mdnV.
l think it would greatly impair Nc
kinley's chances for reelection was
the reply. Robbed of it's heroics. the
situation in the Philippines, once the
hostilities lave ceased. will be such as
to cause ever greater dissatisfaction
than now exists in this country.
The kfamor and excitement attend
ant upon war keeps the minds of the
people in such a state the public fails, /
think, to realize what a serious problem
as to what disposition shall be made of
our oriental possessions, will confront
the government.
AN immense army will have to be
maintained in the Philippines, at a
cost that will be enormous. 1t will be a
constant drain upon the country to
keep such an army as will be required,
and an army in idleness is a very diff
ferent thing from an army in action.
The longer the war, with it's attendant
excitement, is kept up the better will
be the chances for McKinley's ~re-elec-
tion."
He regards General il sWheeler as a
running mate for Bryan as absurd,
not to be thought of, for he is too much
tainted With McKinleyism, to please
any genuine southern democrat.
Mr.. Creelman says among northern
democrats he is regarded as a republi-
can, lat least at heart" He saxs that
MS WlInOTaWal from the democratic
party to become a republican would
cause little surprise to observant peo-
pie. The energy with which General
Wheeler has endorsed the policy OF the
administration has lost for him the
place he might have held in the demo-
cratic party had he held aIoof from the
republicans"
He thinks h south might now with
propriety kick against the heavy pen-
sion burdens, as the Messenger has Of
ten urged. and because the south gets
nothing in return" He says lynch
1ngs should stop in the SOUTH" They
Will whenever rapings and murders
stop. Let the north unite with the ne
groes Of the better kind to bring an
end to the cruel, devilish assaults upon
white women and children in the south
and Judge Lynch will dispense his r.
tders, shut up bloodhounds and end his
circuit forever. What he tells of what
occurred to him at a dinner party In
London recently reveals exactly the
conditions. A guest asked why lynchine
occurred in the south Will not the law
punish the perpetrators Of the crimes
for which l%ynching is the usual out
Gomez" he asked, "Oh, yes" / told him
but the real reason for iynching Il
this: No southern man is going to