The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-22

A. =, y-ote-getter wm. ]. Bryan beat
Grove Cleveland one miflioa. The
nan vh0 imagines that A r. German
car do hett CT Is chasing h fafntast OF
rainhovx.-.rarboro Southerner.
We send osrt today in the form OF q
supplement Judge Clark's great speecn
NJ Denver. II concerns q subject OK ene
greatest consequence TO US all wnicn
IL e~lucidates with, the gifted
usual pover.-Fas'etteville Observer
There are two ar three editors or
leading religious papers In North Caro-
lima who constantly exhibit more AMI
naosity-not to say viciousness-oo-
ward each other and toward all who
disagree with them than any secular
editor In the state Is guilty of.-States-
vile Landmark.
The adoption OF the amendment 10
the constitution will mark another era
I'm the political history or the state
the end of ring rule. The primary
election must then be provided for and
the people will be enabled TO choose
their own candidates Negro domina-
ton and boss rule must both go before
any real reform in government Is pos
sible.-Lenoir Topic
! II is now whispered softly that when
! Senator Morgan, OF Alabama, said that
II would be policy for the democrats
! TO nominate a man who would promise
| in the event that the democrats got
control OF congress, not 10 veto n silver
bill. he was laboring under the impress
! sion that a gentleman OF about his
build would fill the bill admirably
Durham Herald.
1t is not often that a loyal disciple or
! a great man meets with a critical opln-
| ion, which expresses with absolute ex-
actness long cherished fondness Of his
own: but that good fortune befell us
on opening Sundays Wilmington Mes
senger and seeing the review of Henry
Sedgwick's article in the Atlantic
. Monthly for August on Macaulay. We
have long held that a thorough knowl-
edge Of the great E~nglishman's life
work as student, essayist, orator. law
maker, traveller, biographer. historian,
poet and man, was in itself a liberal
! education. Our pen would run wild
with that theme. 1t Is a fad" with
US to use a word that Macaulay would
not have approved. This much we will
say. hat nc man, young or old. con-
demned to solitary confinement with
but one author for reading. would
make a mistake in choosing the COM
plete works of Macaulay as edited by
Lady T~revelyan. We say this with
all the admiration for King Shakes
peare that Thomas Darlington himself
felt, and we can imagine for general
reading no other rivai.-Morganton
Herald.
Some Of the democratic papers OF the
/ nfata ara EiaEipu hnaaafCa tho admins
tration has not appointed a single DEM
ocrat as supervisor OF the nine census
districts of the state Republicans and
populists have been appointed in every
district in the state. Well, that Is all
right. The republicans and populists
are in power and we do not blame them
for not giving the democrats a bloom
ing office" We believe in that old doc
trine tina the spoi1s belong TO the vic
tor, hence We have no kick to make
because republicans and populists re-
fuse to give political pie to democrats.
But we are tired of seeing democrats
giving places Of trust and responsible
ity to republicans and populists. No
democrat should give a crumb or po-
litical pie to any n opposed to de-
mocracy.-Monroe Enquirer.
II has occurred to us that the cause
of Christ in our state has suffered OF
late by the lack Of preaching Jesus
Christ and Him crucified more ey"':.
sively on the part of our ~distinctlSeiy
religious press. The papers referred
to are those which claim TO I've organs
of the Catholic church and s1nich Owl
that they are preachers Of the gospel
TO great congregations every week and
are set exclusively to this work. We
fear there is degeneracy in the conduct
Of every one of them. They are dab
bling too much in what We call politics.
One prominent elder. and prominent
politician as well, said to us recently,
in talking about this matter, that he
read enough politics during the week
and desired a change in matter when he
took up his so-called religious papers
on Sunday.-Sanford Express.
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