The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-03
STATE PRESS.

The mar who has a pure heart need
not be ashamed OF his ugly face.-La-
Grange Sentinel.
Sometimes we have TO vote for men
we cannot admire, but we'll De hanged
If we are going around following Tor
them.-Durham Herald
Many county conventions have de-
clared in favor of the senatorial pri-
mary and IL IL is not adopted the peo-
pie will want TO nov the reason why
Durham Herald.
There are momentous questions to
be settled by our people at the polls in
August, and the name in which the
campaign starts of gives every prom
ise that they will be settled decisively
and right.-Chariotte observer.
We near that the republican bosses
Pritchard. Butler, etc--have notified
the negroes TO keep quiet in The cam
paign against the amendment. We
think they had better bride themselves
for every time Butler. Blackburn and
others have opened their mouths yet
they ave put their foot in it-one
threatens to "assassinate' and the
Most people estimate the evils OF q
trust according to the amount Of divi-
dends il is enabled to declare to its
stockholders. If trusts are evils and
detrimental to the public good they all
stand on an equal footing. and the
trust that declares a handsome yearly
dividend is no more guilty before the
law than the trust that is forced into
bankruptcy. To destroy one trust n
allow the others 10 continue would not
solve the problem.-Durham Herald.
Just as western North Carolina is
getting over its smallpox scare comes
the horrible rumor that if Ewart is not
confirmed for the federal bench he will
invade the democratic party and be-
come one of twill get into its midst,
so to speak. Let Ewart beware. If he
tries to break into the dmocratic par
ty a shot gun quarantine will be es-
tablished. There is a limit to demo-
cratic MISUNDERSTANDING Citizen.
The trusts absolutely rule the organ
iZation from the president down. AS
proof, see the change of the president
in the Porto Rican matter as soon as
the and tobacco trusts made
their demands. No more need be Civ
en-, though plenty exists. That trusts
are outrageous infringements upon the
liberties of the people no one who
thinks, car doubt. They are bold, ag-
gressive and determined, n the re-
publican party will not dare ~effectually
oppose them.-Salisbury Index.
Called upon TO speak at a primary
III lie "dlu, nun. -" ID "dlSoh 10
quoted by the Sentinel as saying: I'VE
are rapidly drifting into a government
of plutocracy. 1t is not the man who
makes a fortune that is to be denounc-
ed, but the men who max vast fort
unes and use them to control govern
ment by a corruption fund to tempt
needy men to sell their s~uffrageS.'
More truth has not been packed into
a few words than Mr.. Watson has
done here. The apologist for trusts
and corruptionists, whenever a mar
denunces their methods, cries out
You are an anarchist. You are fight
ing wealth." and thinks by such clap
trap to silence men who protest moi
against the possession of millions hon.
estly acquired, but against the use OF
them Ito control government by a cor.
ruption fund to tempt needy men &c
sell their SURFACES" The man who
stands against such use of wealth is
the best friend of honestly acquired
and honestly used wealth.-Raleigt
News and Observer.
Hon. F. NJ. Simmons may well bt
proud of the handsome resolutions o.
his fellow citizens of Jones, his native
county, and of Craven in which tn
best veal Of his life have been passed
Without reference to any aspiration!
he may have, so far as The Post is con
cerned, but in view of the splendid ser
vices he has rendered, and faithful
performance of duty in all positions as
signed him, and specially in view of tn,
momentous struggle in which all good
citizens are so deeply involved, anC
about the result of which all are s,
deeply concerned, in which struggl,
Chairman Simmons has been agar
commissioned to lead, and, too, in view
of the vicious and mendacious assaults
made by the enemies of the state an
society in general upon him becaus'
Of hic G1a1itxr 70 hic state onI Daon1
and race, it was meet and proper Cha
his home counties-the home peopl,
among whom he was born and rearet
to manhood, and the home peopl,
among whom he has spent the create
part of that manhood, should give ex
preston to their feelings of confidenc'
in, and cordial esteem for him.-Ra1
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