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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-21
BHEViEIES

If the jury is not corrupt and bought
as Qnay attempted to corrupt n buy
the Pennsylvania legislature, the ras-
cal will probably be convicted, and #
he gets his deserts he will spend six
years in the pen~itentiary rather than in
the U. S. senate. THE mills Of the
gods grind slow"
There was a big difference between
the alleged "Jeffersonian" dinners in
at 81. The former suggests the Bel
shazzar's feast when Blaine was a can
didate for president n was defeated
by it. A $40 ticket for a dinner for the
people-the democrats. What a fraud!
The Baltimore Sun discussing THE
Negro Rough in Politics begins with
this ominous sentiment:
The clubbing of a white boy Tues
day by a gang Of young negroes is an
incident that is significant of the temper
and attitude of a very low element of
the cOlOred population of this city to-
ward the white. We regret to say that
it seems to be an attitude Of arrogant
hostility, ready at the slightest excuse
or with no excuse at all, to manifest
itself in brutal insolence of language
or absolute violence and disorder"
In politics al any definition be truer
n more reasonable han that given
by Col. Bryan as to What is Democ-
racy." He says:
1.-THE right to determine what is dem
ocratic in a party sense belongs to the
democrats party"
Can it be that a very few have the
right the determine-either moral or
political right!
The Baltimore Sun says of Maryland,
and it applies everywhere, and partic-
ularly to North Carolina:
Republican politicians, in fact, while
oeprecat1ng the race issue, seem to be
assiduously forcing it to the front by
!, deliberate appeals to race prejudice"
The British house of commons has
adopted a resolution that ministers
must obey bishops and conform to the
Prayer Book. No one shall be recon-
mended for preferment who will not
obey the authority indicated.
The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot gets off
this brief colloquy:
Uncle Sam-Don't be alarmed, Phil
lies. I've come owe to sit down on YOU.
and show you how to keep house.
"Phillies-But We don't like to be sat
on, and we mean to keep house, and
keep it our own way
Uncle = all the usSadest.
c~ontrarlest, u~ngratefui cuSses J never
did"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-21
Gov. Alfred VI. Scales
Reidsville, N. c., April Is.

Reidsville, n. c., April Is.
Editors Messenger:
You are right in this instance, as you
generally are. Governor Scales was a
native of Rockingham county. He was
born and raised on his fathers farm
five miles EAST of Reidsville. He rep
resented his native county in the leg
~islature before the war, and his dis
trict in congress for several terms after
the war; in fact, until he was elected
governor. Rockingham is justly proud
of Governor Scales. In peace and in
war he served his country to the full
measure of his abilities. He has done
what he could. His whole political rec
ord shows that a politician can have
clean hands and a right spirit. No po-
litical opponent, however fierce party
ragged, ever whispered anything what
ever Of wrong doing against Governor
Scales. His reputation was unassailed
and absolutely ~unassailable from any
a r Of the compass. In war a brave
general, and fine patriot. In peace a
Just and wise governor. In private life
pure and spotless. A Christian, earnest,
devoted and faithful.
Rockingham ought, and some day
viii, If she is r u to herself. pe~rpetuate
II stone the name and virtues of her
nlustrious son, Alfred Moore Scales
and erect a monument that the flight
or time will never corod mol decay.
and at whose shrine the boys of Rock
ingham may drink in inspiration and
emulate his noble and glorious life.
Very respectfully.
w. ]. COURTS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-21
THE sEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: FRIDAY, APRIL q, 1898.


As We supposed Governor Scales was
a native OF Rockingham county. We
publish a brief biographical sketch OF
the gallant and able gentleman who
served his state with utmost fidelity,
zeal and much usefulness in civic life
as in the fierce days of war and amid
s'the fiery pangs' of fierce battle.
This writer had the pleasure OF know
ing Governor Scales most pleasantly
for more than thirty years. He re-
calls that the first time he met him was
in the war. He called TO see him at DR..
Thomas P. Atkinson's home in Dan
vile, Va, where the brave soldier was
i'll of typhoid fever, which he had taken
in the army. Governor Scales married
Miss Henderson, daughter of n of the
wealthiest planters in the northern sec
ton of the state, the late Archibald
Henderson, son of the late eminent dis
tinguished Chief Justice Leonard Hen
derson, of Granville county. We
do not believe that North Car
DINA ever had a honorable,
perpendicular, faithful servant than
Alfred NJ. Scales. He richly merits a
monument at the hands of the iDtelli-
gent and patriotic people of that very
fine county of Rockingham.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-21

There can be no doubt that Jeter
Pritchard is the very best selec-
ton for the "nigger-wing" Of the black
radical party. Like man like party.
He will suit to a T. He is greatly in
love with the negro, and does not care
a rotten chestnut what befals the white
democrats, or the real white men in his
own party or in the populist party, so
he can hold On to the grub trough and
grow rich by taxing his enemies. He
has not the least sympathy with white
men in negro Astounding counties. If
he had his way, we cannot doubt, that
he would keep them always under the
who used the incompetent and ignorant
negroes for their own remorseless and
greedy ends. A prominent republican
said to the News and Observer in an
swer to the question who will be your
candidate for governor"
"Pritchard, l suppose. That seems to
be the program of u party now. He's
certainly the logical candidate. He's
thrown down the gauntlet on the
amendment question, by his recent let
tr, and he'll probably be asked to lead
the fight"
Precisely! He is indeed "the logical
He is for "nigger rule" for
whites. and it is logical every way
that the Tennessee adventurer should
lead the fight" against the men of his
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-21

and Fever is a bottle of Groves Taste.
less Chill Tonic. The formula is plain
ly printed on each bottle, showing thar
1t is simply Iron and Quinine in a taste
less form. Imitators do not advertise
their formula because IL they did the
know that you would not buy their
medicine. Be sure then that you get
Groves as the formula shows what you
are taking.
NO CURE NO PAY. Price 80 CENTS
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-21

So the great office-seeker and teat
sucker Of this congressional "deestrict,"
Major General and Most Honorable
Oliver H. Duckry, has a plan. He is
not satisfied with trying to capture the
office of Representative to which he
was not elected, but he is seeking to
stir up strife in Wilmington and in the
"Deestrict" between the White Man and
Sambo. To that end some of the most
untarrified'' of the black radicals, Mel
ton among them, are to be witnesses at
Raleigh against the $500 white men
who converted this city of theft and
outlawry, of insults and incendiarism,
in forty-eight hours in a condition of
honesty and law-abiding, of tranquility
and safety for all who wer not traitors
and scoundrels. Duckry will have a
fine favored gathering and will add to
his we'll defined character among the
true white men of North Carolina by
his incendiary and vindictive course.
1t would be difficult to name. the worst
man in the state, but Duckry keeps
company with the worst. Those who
know him we'll regard him as bad.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-21
Bismarck,s Iron Nerve

Was the result of his splendid health
|xndomitable will and tremendous en-
ergy are not found where Stomach.
Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are ont
Loo order. II you want these Qualities
and the success they bring, use DR.
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very power Of brain and body. Only
sc at r. r. Bellamy's drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-21

There is not entire unanmity among
the republicans in North Carolina as to
that amendment. There are some who
favor eliminating the negro as a polit-
ical factor, but no doubt a big majority
are for holding on to the negroes that
their party Ia have a chance to get
back into power. The Western repub-
licans are much given to that view.
They have but little knowledge OF
what negro rule means, and they have,
as a consequence, but little sympathy
with the oppressed whites in the negro
ridden counties. The Raleigh News
and Observer gives this as a sample of
talk among republicans, we suppose
those who hang around Raleigh:
Suppose we make a fight against it?'
THAT will then become the issue,
the only issue of the campaign. White
man and Negro will again be the cry.
ION this we must fall, as we fell in
1S9S-only more so. We ourselves will
have selected the issue, and having
chosen as our allies the worst possible
element of the state, We need moi COM
plain if for many years we are branded
with the odium of the cause and of the
association. Such a result would kill
the republican party in this state for
many years to come.
Take the other horn Of the dilemma.
Suppose we oppose the amendment and
win, which no sensible mar now hopes
to do. Why we will be the same old
Niggar party"
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Bill Day will try to persuade Dan
Russell to appoint eleven first-class
democrats" as directors of that rotten
thing known and dispised as the pen
itentiary if those elected by the legis-
lature resign. That has Munchausen
flavor. Who believes that Russell
would heed such a pressure and take
men of the kind named. Captain Bill
has a huge job on hand, if he under
takes to take up the Whl-e Mans Bur
den" after that way in North Carolina,
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-16
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The orders to run were repeated, and
they started. When they had gone ten
or twenty yards, Cheyne being behind
and running slowly, the shooting be-
gan. Some 200 feet away the fugitives
went over the bank, getting out of The
witness sight
R. R. Rogers, bookKaeper for the
Bunker Hill, said he was captured
shortly after Pipes and Huff, and held
by the same party, Cheyne being taken
shortly after. He was a prisoner pos
sibly an hour and half. When the
mill was blown up witness, Cheyna
and Huff were commanded to shout.
The masked men drew guns on them.
After reaching the road bullets con-
tinued striking all around them. He
did not see Cheyne again until brought
to the hotel wounded. The captives
We're called all manner of vile names,
and frequently slapped.
William Huff, assayer at the Bunker
Hill, told the same story as Rogers.
He ran with Rogers, but after getting
into the road they separated, huggIng
around a barber shop When he ap-
peared on the other side the men con-
tinued shooting three bullets striking
very near him. The men continued to
shoot down on him from the top of
the bluff until he got to shelter.
The defense to-day asked for an order
Of Court that they be furnished the
names of all the men in prison under
Indictment. The order was refused.
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COEuR D'ALENE RIOT TRIALS.
More Strong Evidence Brought Out
Against Accused.

WALLACE Qdaho), July 15.-In the
Corcoran murder trial, w. H. Pipes,
engineer of the Bunker Hill mill, told
of his experience on April 10Th. Five
masked men came to his house near
the mill and ordered the men residing
there to get the woman out. tho men
being held, and Cheyne Rogers and
Huff being captured later. All were
taken up the road away from the
mill few minutes later came the
explosion. About the time of the
last one Cheyne, Rogers and Huff were
ordered to- run, the crowd firing at
them.
Mr.. Pipes heard Cheyne ordered to
so down the path past the mill. This
order was to Cheyne, Rogers and HUFF
Cheyne demonstrated, saying the mill.
was full of powder, with fire in the
immediate vicinity, If not in the build
ing. He was then told by a MASKED
man, You will make too good a WITT
ness, and will go past the mill or
not get out of the country at ALL
Shortly after the explosions began,
and those three were ordered to run.
Some one said: mo, not yet. we may
want them some more"
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in the feeling or attitude of the com
pany We have the true interests OF
our employees closely at heart, and we
will willingly allow no condition to
exist which will give rise to reason
able complaint. We are willing and
DESTROYS of hearing genuine complaints
and I think our men generally feel So
as indicated by the loyalty of the
great majority who have been with
us for four years and more. I do not
believe that the committee which called
upon me this morning represented any
thing more than a small body of mall
contents, who are influenced not by
their own condition or by their fellow
employees, but by outsiders who have
selfish interests in promoting trouble.
The committeeman reported to their
several local assemblies tonight. 1t is
expected that the question of strike.
will be submitted to a vote. The de-
cision to strike can be reached only
by a majority vote of the local assem-
blies interested. Then the question
will be submitted for final decision to
the District Assembly, which repre-
sents all the local assemblies.
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TRANSIT COMPANY
Declines to Come to Any Agreement
With Employer Committee.

NEW YORK, July ia committee
of nineteen employees, representing the
various lines of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company, including the Mas
sau system, waited on President Ros-
sitter to-day. Mr.. Rossiter declined to
come to any agreement with them.
Later in the day he issued a state
ment. Another conference with the
men is expected.
President Rossiter's statement de-
tails the fact of the visits to his office
to-day, and of their presentation to
him of a list of demands which he was
asked to concede at once. Mr.. Rossi-
ter says he replied that he had not had
an opportunity to look over the paper.
but taking it up, he went over it para
graph by paragraph with them, as
sorting that in every instance the men
already had what they demanded and
in some instances more
Mr.. Rossiter's statement concludes as
follows: II am sorry to say that the
attitude of the committee impressed
me as being. the attitude of men look
ing for grievance. When individuals
on the committee tried to address me
at length, as / was glad to have them,
the leaders attempted to deter them.
and the efforts of the leaders seera
to be to produce trouble. This attf-
tude, however, will make no difference
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-16
ON EASTERN DIAMONDS.
Results OF Yesterdays National
League Games,

PHILADELPHIA, July 1o.-Five hits
in the fifth inning gave the Phillies the
game. Attendance TO- 400.
Score: Cincinnati ,, hits {, errors >;
Philadelphia f. hits 8, errors o. Bat
teries-Taylor, Breitenstein and
Vaughn; Magee and Mcfarland. UNI
pires-Gaffney and Latham.
AT BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, July 15-Not a run
did Cleveland score in eighteen innings
to-day. The difference in pitching and
headwork at the bat accounts for the
Orioles easy victory. Attendance
2,430.
Score of first game: Baltimore TO-
hits H. errors o; Cleveland o. hits 4, err
rors .. Batteries-McGinnity and
Crisham; Schmidt and Sugden.
Second game: Baltimore >, hits TO-
errors o; Cleveland O., hits 3, errors .
Batteries-Kitson and Crisham; Knep-
per and Schrecongost. Umpires-
ODay and McGarr.
AT NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, July 15.-Both pitchers
We're very effective The visitors were
clearly outplayed in the field. Attend
ance 1000
Score: ST. Louis 0, hits 5, errors 3;
New York 3, hits 6, errors 1. Batteries
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DETROIT (Mich.), July 15.-It was
conceded on all sides this afternoon
that the Pingree-J Johnson plan for the
purchase of the street railways is de-
feated. There is now no possibility Of
mastering enough votes of Aldermen to
pass the desired ordinances over the
Mayors veto. Several of the Alder,
men who voted for the security fran
chise have now decided that the risk
OF failure to pay for the roads out OF
3-cent fare receipts is too great to in
cur with reasonable safety Another at
tempt in the same direction will doubt
less be made at some future time
Three-cent fares were still in vogue to-
day. Tom L. Johnson left for New
York this afternoon.
Before leaving the city Tom Johnson
handed the following letter to Gov
ernor Pingree:
Hon. II. S. Pingree, President Detroit
Municipal Railway.-Dear Sir: We are
satisfied that it is not feasible to con-
summate under existing coalitions the
plan of transferring the street railway
properties to your company. We face
sQuarely the proposition which the OPP
ponents of the plan put forward, that
our franchises are running out, and
that when they do expire we shall
have an expensive plant on our hands,
which the opponents of the plan say
that they can compel us to sell at en-
ormous sacrifice unless we are willing
to accept a new franchise of their
terms.
We must SO manage the railways in
the meantime as, if possible, to pre-
vent the losses threatened. Low fares
and short franchises are Incompatible
if railways are to be run for profit as
a private enterprise-aS truly SO as low
rents and short term lease would be if
a great building were put up by
tenant on leased land.
I'm bringing our negotiations to an
end, we thank you heartily for the
courtesy and fairness which you have
shown to us throughout. Very truly
yours. Metropolitan Company, by
BERNARD CLARK, President"
The Metropolitan Railway Company
is the corporation under which the
street railway companies consolidated
for the purpose of the proposed SALE
Mr.. Clark is the New York attorney
who acted as counselor to the COM
pany.
AT the Governors Office it was COM
monty accepted that the foregoing let
ter presages a return to the 5 cent
fares.
The ordinances. of the older com.
panies permit straight five cent fares
transfers, but the companies
have been selling six tickets for. a
quarter, with transfer privilege.
The new Detroit Railways thirty
year franchise requires it to sell eight
tickets for quarter, with transfers.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-16
VISITING EDUCATORS.
Spend the Day in Pleasure Seeking
About Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, July 1.-THE dele
gates to the National Educational As
ISOLATION convention and the visitors
attracted to the city from all parts
of the United States by the meetings
have spent to-day in pleasure seeking
and sightseeing. Excursions to all the
seaside and mountain resorts have been
held and hundreds have awaited them
selves of the opportunity tossee South
ern California. Hundreds of others
have left to-day for points of interest
in the north and for their Eastern
homes. ..-.-...-
The latest and official data as to the
attendance at the Los Angeles session
of the National Educational Associa-
ton demonstrates that when the fig
ureS are all in the total number of
teachers attending here will exceed To-,
600. Secretary Shepard this morning
said that last night at the close of
business there had been issued in Los
Angeles 11,312 National Educational
Association memberships. To this sum
must be added 200 memberships that
to-day were issued by those who have
the registration bureau in charge. This
means a total of 11,572. This total
does not include 500 memberships that
are in the hands of Professor J. A. For
shay, nor the membership that will
be included in the one-third of the
California counties that still are not re-
ported. To this must be added the L.
600 memberships that remain out
standing of active members that paid
for their dues but were not ticketed.
Assuming that 1850 will be the mem
bership to come from the California
counties, the final total of all figures
is 1922.
The greatest attendance in the his
tory of the association, up to the Los
Angeles meeting, was 11,279 in Den
yer in 1885,
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Temperatures Nearly Normal in the
Great Valleys

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.-The fol-
lowing maximum temperatures were re-
ported from stations in California to-
day:
Eureka 60, Fresno 9S, Los Angeles 76,
Red Bluff 96, San Louis Opispo "a,
San Diego 66, Sacramento 80, indie
pendence 81, Yuma 104
San Francisco data: Maximum tenn
perature o6 minimum 4S, mean %
The pressure has risen slowly over
California and Oregon. A depression
of moderate depth extends from Ari-
iona to Washington.
The temperature has risen slowly
along the coast from San Francisco to
the mouth of the Columbia river. In
the great valleys the temperatures are
nearly normal In the vicinity of San
Francisco there is a vertical thermal
gradient of one degree rise for every
21S feet of elevation.
Thunderstorms are reported at Win
nemucca and at Cedar City.
Heavy fog prevails along the coast of
Northern California.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.-The
Oaklands beat the Sacramentos at Rec-
reation Park to-day, 3 to 2, prlnclpai-
ly through the errors OF the loslns
team Sacramento took the lead III
first inning, and held it until the tnlro,
when Oakland vested it from them py
making four runs. Throughout 1t was
a game of light batting. Steffanl the
young San JoSean recently signed ny
Oakland, held the Senators down 10
five hits, while Harvey, the veteran
twirler, did even better, allowing the
Dudes only three hits. Oakland eX-
celled in fielding, making only two err
rors, while Sacramento made four ana
all costly ones. Score:
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CORPORATE TAXATION.
Question Discussed at Meeting of
N. Y. Bankers Association.

ALEXANDRIA BAY IN ", July Is.
Frank NJ Eastman of Harrisburg,
Pa, addressed the New York State
Bankers Association here to-day, on
the Pennsylvania system of taxation
for State purposes with special refer
ence to the taxation of banks. He
severely criticised the methods OF tax.
ing corporations in New York State.
Judge John r. Mcpherson OF the
United States Court, District of Penn
sylvania, spoke on Suggestions Con-
corning Corporate Taxation He dis
cussed the Pennsylvania tax system
infinitely and advocated its adoption in
case of change in New York's methods.
He declared himself in favor of ex-
empting banks from local taxation, ex-
cept on real estate.
At the afternoon session w. S.
Witham of Atlanta, Ca, addressed the
convention upon Branch Banks"
These institutions in Georgia, he said,
were all Independent, one of the other
He maintained that this was the right
method to manage them. He enumer-
ated the advantages of such institu-
ton as follows There is no capital
sock to pay tax on. They increase the
deposit Of the parent bank; they save
a considerable amount of expense; they
meet the political demands in keeping
rural districts supplied with cash that
would otherwise be concentrated in
cities 1t is almost impossible to Gre
ate q run on these country banks
Some discussion followed upon this
subject. s-.
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