The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-27

too. The latest report from the baby
market is that 367 have been named
George Dewey and IS communities have
Dewey as the p~ostofice name-wilson
News.
c. B. Aycock says the reason some
republican leaders oppose the amend
ment is that a new republican party
would discard the old class Of leaders.
or course. A e party with the same
! cid leaders would o be much OF a
yote-catcher. II the amendment Is sue
cessful he old leaders and the negroes
Will share III same fate, and rightly so.
Durham Herald.
We canno escape the conclusion
that with professed democratic news
papers and men who are proclaiming
nearly a year and a half in advance the
defeat OF the democracy mex year and
the reelection OF Mckinley the wish
has parental relations TO the thought.
To our way OF looking at things there
was never a brighter prospect for the
triumph of democracy and never great
er need for ii. We would like for some
Of these prophets Of despair to point
out what the present administration
has done TO commend it's continuance
TO the American people.-Rockingham
Anglo-Saxon.
1t is seen that on the Atlantic &
North Carolina railroad the races are
separated by a curtain. This is, pre-
sumably, a movable curtain, and il il
is not We do not see why not and do
not see why his curtain, instead OF
partitions, might not be introduced on
all trains, and moved as the exigencies
of travel might suggest, a greater or
less space being given by it 10 colored
passengers according as there might be
more or fewer passengers Of either race
on board. This is worthy of considera-
ton by the corporation commission
which, as We understand it, has in its
power the making of detailed arrange
ments as to the execution Of this law.
The Observer, the very morning after
the last election, when it was known
that the democrats had the legislature,
declared that one Of the duties CT that
body would be the enactment Of a sep
arate car law, and we naturally have
a good deal of interest in its proper
I Observation-Disclosures Observer.
DR.. John c. Kilgo, president of Trim
ity college, in an address before the
graduating class of Trinity college
ooIu. II lNdSoh lhdI SoAO
lima has never produced great men like
Washington. Clay. Webster. etc., is be-
cause there is too much of the social
istic spirit in us to permit having a
great man." But how many such men
have been produced? We are not we'll
advised on the subject but we think
North Carolina has had her share Of
great men-Badger, Murphy, Mangum,
! Vance Ransom and nthorc Put Qvan
if we have not, we would rather AVE
a state Of many good men of nearly
great ability than to have one great
man of towering ability. To have both
would be better; but if only one a be
hid. let's have many good men. North
Carolinians are not hero worshippers,
is the main thing we suppose DR.. Kill
go is striking at. But if the report of
a speech made by DR.. Kilgo at a Wash
ington Duke ovation in Durham was
correctly reported, Washington Duke
is a great mantle greatest ever pro-
Notwithstanding to DR.. Kilgo's stand
ard; and, if so, We think there is a
higher standard Of greatness than his.
l-Kinston Free Press.
The effort of the negro loving white
republicans and populists, Of this place,
" luUlCl d. ldl &c uuIIlUtl VI Jul Sll-
liens for their noble effort fast fall, for
placing their homes, their county and
state in the hands of white mans rule,
died in birth! The grand jurors Of
federal courts are made up mostly from
the rank and file of n. c., white citizen
ship, these good men refused to listen
to the bitter malicious tales Of their
ready witnesses, who managed to have
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Raleigh, write the indictments for the
solicitors against those of their neigh
bors who dare risk their lives even,
than live under the black fusion rule.
Placed upon them for the last few years.
They have failed, but should not be
forgotten by those whom they asso-
ciate. Let them draw their patronage
I and association, their meat and bread,
and social intercourse from the "funky"
crowd with whom they have cast their
lots, and ever be held up to the rising
generation as the men who used all
the powers they possessed to place be-
hind the prison bars their neighbors,
who preferred, yea demanded, that
Robson county and grand old North
Carolina be managed and ruled by
white men.-Maxton Scottish Chief.
w a ~ l1dI SkolC I'VE
not undermine religion or the Baptists
of North Carolina would not choose
as their educational leaders two men
who were educated at state schools.
! The selection Of Prof. Blasingame, after
all that has been said and written
about the fatal weakness of state ed
u~cation, to preside over an institution
that is to mould the Baptist woman
hood Of North Carolina in the future,
is he highest possible tribute that
could be paid to the breadth and
thoroughness Of state training. North
Carolina Baptists are getting the ben
eft of what Virginia and Georgia Bap-
fists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Epis-
copalians, etc, were taxed for the edu-
cation of Drs. Taylor and Blasingame.
Having profited by state education in
this way, do the Baptists OF North Car
Dina begrudge the mite-three cents
per capita-they pay toward the sup
mort If tho ITrfyarcitv tho State Nor