The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-16

lean stage until the Man on Horse
back rides down Pennsylvania Ave
nue.. Grant might have beensthat Man.
phatus some fine morning n begin
his fateful ride. What IL will do in
1904, no man is wise enough to fore
cast. 1t is not necessary: IL is not wise
that this should be known now. 1t
will, you may be sure be live and
kicking with an abundance of wise
and judicious measures in which the
American people will be interested and
involved. The recent defeat in the
north is vast, most menacing, n pre-
saying great calamities and upheav-
ais. Perhaps before Mckinley shall
end his second term such a tremen-
dous calac}ysm will have befalIen the
country that new and most startling
easur will be forced to the front
If under the republican triumph,
abuses. misrule and general corruption
the republic should die h democratic
party will be the only survivor that
shall stand around its grave. North
ern newspapers are comforting them
selves that JefferSOnianism is dead or
practically disappeared as n pa
per prefers to call its demise. But the
principles of Thomas Jefferson can
only expire with the death of the re-
public. The Republic must live so long
as there is an aggressive, vigorous
democratic party
If you would take a glimpse this
morning of how the south is loved and
dealt with in the north, after the recent
widespread, overwhelming demo-
cratic disaster in the Growing and
dominating north, We take a sample
from a gold democratic paper in the
great city of Chicago, The Chronicle,
that opposed Bryan in 1896, and sup
ported him in 1900. How friendly this
sheet is. Read it's contemplate, maud
lin stuff:
In h south the so-called demo-
cratic party is a monstrous ~pretense,
a mere survival of race hatred. actu-
ated by no other controlling sentiment.
and subject, as a matter of course un-
der such conditions, to impulsive and
lll-c0nS1dered movements in one direc-
ton or another as this or that delu-
sion may seize upon its members.
For fifty years before. the slavery
war the democracy of the south had
no controlling purposes but to keep
the negro in bondage and to extend the
system to new states and territories.
For the thirty years since the slavery
war the democracy of the south has
had no great aim but to prevent the
negro from exercising the rights of
citizenship. These conditions bore
their natural fruit, first, in the devel-
opment of the u~ndemocratic spirit of
tyranny and secession, and, second, in
the encouragement of vicious undemQ-
cratic ideas of finance an economy"
That is the estimate of the people Of
whom Charles Sumner, of Massachu-
sets, spoke in the United States senate
in 1872, n he was the ableSt man his
state has a i'm the senate since DAN
lei Webster died. Mr.. Sumner said the
south had ruled this country for sixty
years, and truth and candor compelled
him to add, tina the southern states
men had done it with clean hands.
Take the roll of statesmen Of
the past sixty years and compare it
with any sixty al of northern states
manship, and behold, the mighty con-
trast. Put Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Calhoun and the others along
side of the hest ~native-born men of the
north, and let candor and truth deter
mine which is superior, higher, nobler.
The man who expects fairness and
justice at the hands of the north is a
dreamer and lives in the clouds. We
can show that before the last century
d the north was at it's game then
of censure and Misrepresentation and
oppression, and that his game has
been played unbrokenly through the
hundred years that have followed.