The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-29

Col. William J. Bryan continues to
address the largest audiences that turn
out to hear any American orator. he
has a stronger hold on the masses snan
any other American citizen.-Chariotte
News.
In his contest for the seat Of Bellamy.
Oliver H. Dockery claims everything
and proves nothing. yet this does not
mean that he will not be given the seat
IL the republicans in congress happen
10 be short a vote.-Durham sun
Those who so cheerfully resorted to
forgery to convict Dreyfus at the first
trial viii not hesitate TO perjure them
selves to secure the same result a sec
ond time. and ii Is impossible TO fore
cast what the decision OF the court will
be.-Durham Herald.
The Kissing of Booker Washington
by a convention of negroes in Chicago.
is about on par with their white allies
in that city. They have no use for a
respectable darkey from the south,
save at a long distance: and then their
gush Stops over.-Durham Sun
The beef trust charges Sc more for
beef hams in this country today than
last year at the same season and yet IL
is selling beef in Paris. Berlin. st. Pc
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year. 1t is only Americans who are
robbed by his t~rust.-Raleigh News
and Observer.
Justice Walter Clark, while out in
Colorado. said something about North
Cardinals trucking inustry and its
drawbacks, and the heavy capital il
takes to succeed in cotton milling. n
now several Of the state papers, nota-
! bly, the Newbern Journal and the Char
lotte Observer, are lambasting him as
a calamity bowler" and political pull
Ter down. Durham Sun.
Booker Washington showed his good
sense in refusing TO attend the Afro
American council in Chicago, and the
denunciation by that body can 10 him
no harm. His life work has been the
uplifting of his ace in the south and
with these would-be reformers in the
north he has nothing in common.-Dur-
ham Herald.
and The Wilmington Messenger for
such expressions by which our work
is becoming more widely known. We
are making no fuss about what we
are trying to do. We know we have a
mission and are set in accomplishing IL.
We hope to continue to merit their
kindly manifestations, and shall show
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: Greensboro A. & NJ. College Register.
Judge Clark argues strongly for gov
nme ownership and believes that
the telegraph and telephone property
belong to the government. His ad-
; dress was able and exhaustive on the
subject in hand, and is a new proof of
the wonderful versatility of Judge
Clark's talents. Truly ne is a student
of passing events as we'll as of recorded
things, and wherever he writes or
speaks he does his native state honor
Scotland Neck Commonwealth.
1t has already been published that
the circuit court Of appeals at Rich
mond, Judge Golf delivering the opin-
ion, has dismissed Judge Simonton's
order in the Stanly county bond case,
which sustained the validity of the
bond In all honestly we have never
seen how the courts were to arrive at
a different conclusion. 1t is clear from
the record that the law under which
this bond election was held was not
properly passed, and yet Stanly county
got what she voted for, to-wit: a rail-
road, and, Notwithstanding court de-
ciSions, this is a case OF reputation,
just the same. Law is law, it is true.
but justice is sometimes a very differ
ent matter, and this is n of the times.
Charlotte. Observer.
Col. r. T. Bennett to the Arson Vet
Grams: I'm the process of the suns the
season when surviving veterans of our
cause meet in blessed communion has
come again, and some of us are here tC
keep fresh the laborS h sacrifices, the
lofty deeds and unselfish courage OF
our comrades dead and our comrades
living. Some of our comrades have dis
appeared since our meeting a year age
and have Joined the Captains of oul
hosts in the sweet land where victors
and ~vanQuished, rebel and patriot, are
mercifully judged according to their
virtue and sincerity and not by the &C
cident of success or of failure. In hu'
mility of spirit, chastened by time and
chance, we can appeal to the fair mind.
ed everywhere and await their verdict
upon our motives, our resolves, oul
a ctions, our principles. Pardon me
my task is to present with such
ments of discourse as may be fitting
citizen whose life has been a laborious
and successful one in his chosen pur.
. suit. Having realized a fourtune BY
sound practical instincts in business
he has employed 1t with intelligence
and discriminating liberality. He is
North Carolinian through and through
He never forgets native mud. In tn
very height of the revelry at Charleston
last May, there was heard wherever h,
went, the inspiring strains, 'Carolin, &
Carolina, Heavens blessings attend
her. We love a man who believes IL
his friends and swears by his own
present Cen. Julian S. Carr."-Raleigl
News and Observers report.