The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-09
STATE PRESS.

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Senator Buffers only object IN agaln
fusing with the republicans and oppos-
ing the amendment is to be re-eieCteu
TO the senate. just as he was first elect,
ed by a similar fusion. III ne couio
have been assured of his re-electloH
by a fusion with the democrats and ao-
~vocating the amendment. he undouot-
eddy would have done SO. Indeed that
was his intention and hope for severai
months after the legislature adjourn
ed--Washington Gazette.
President Alderman. the present in
cumbent. Is endowed with qualities
that specially fit him for his work
Charming in conversation. with grace
full address, an orator and a polished
gentleman, lie Is easy in every COM
pany. and makes friends. not enemies
He is a son OF the new university. a
devoted his whole life TO popular ed
ucation in the common schools and the
state normal school. and knows the
university from q students as well as
from a professors standpoint.-Ashe-
vile Citizen.
Judge Caldwell. Buffers populist-
democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent. is neither n populist nor a derl-
ocrat. but a free silver. an~ti-expansion
republican. While Caldwell comes
nearer representing our views than any
man that could be placed on The Nc
Kinley ticket. this thing OF trading Tor
ONCE among the democrats ~ ApEh-
lists in a national election Is not n
whit more honorable than the trading
of the populists and republicans in this
state. and II the ticket Is Bryan and
Caldwell we shall use our own pleasure
about voting it.-Durham Herald
Senator Butler is combing the state
with a fine tooth comb trying TO find
democrats who will advertise them
selves in his paper as opposed TO the
~mendmen He wishes them for
cats paws and IL is gratifying 60 see
that he is finding aati-amendmcnt
democrats very scarce. This letter
writing game is one which the Sena-
tor has worked for all it - worth
When he finds a weakened man who
has no better sense than 10 sacrifice
himself for the sake OF a little notorie-
" he induces him To write a letter
which is published with flaming head
lines.-Clinton Democrat.
Senator Pritchard evidently thinks
that perfect domination by negroes
does not constitute negro rule. The
presence of hundreds OF negro office
holders, state and national. Is his idea
of proper government. The people IN
1895 knew there was negro domination
and voted TO Danish ii for two years.
In August, 1890. they will vote for the
amendment and thus secure white su-
premacy. Such wild talk as Pritchard
engaged in at Newton will make no
votes for the negro party among white
foulk.-Raleigh News and Observer.
They can't all be fooled all the time
Some of the most influential and sin
cere populists are coming out for the
amendment. Boggs. Marshall and
others are politically running Senator
Butler.-Lexington Dispatch.
Senator Pritchard in a speech some
time ago plead for the dear old CON
federates who might be compelled 10
pay poll tax before they could vote
under the amendment. Mr.. AycoCk
in his Charlotte speech called attention
TO the fac that the youngest soldier
in the confederate service is at least
fifty years of age, and would therefore
be exempt from poll tax under the
amendment. In his speech at Newton
yesterday, Senator Pritchard plead for
the one-armed men, saying that they
could not vote If the amendment were
adopted as their hands were cut off
and they could not write. The present
solicitude of Senator Pritchard for the
people he has fought all his life is
really touching. The confederates
nave not been accustomed To looking
upon the Tennessee politician as their
champion. He will not fool anybody.
The old confederates know their
friends when they see them.-Chariotte
News.
Every man who votes for tie amend
ment dishonors the memory Of Vance.
-Jeter Pritchard. Surely We have
here something new unde the sun
this attempt Of discredited radicals 10
c~onjure with the name of Vance. the
man who. while he lived. dashed them
with that scorn the great-hearted pa
triot must always feel for the petty
time-server and place-hunter. There
has been nothing in the history OF po-
litical discussions more terrible than
the scathing language in which Vance
held up these radicals to the everlast-
ing ridicule and contempt OF men for
doing Just what they are doing this
year-allying themselves with the ne
gro to get office. For braZen effront-
cry this declaration of tchar
stands entirely without parallel.
Pritchard the guardian Of Vance's
place in the Senate he heaped vituper-
ative SANDERS upon the good name OF
North Carolina. Pritchard has over
shot his mark.-Raleigh News and OBJ
server.
The south's manufacturing and in
dustrial interests are taking care of
themselves and are working wonders
for the prosperity Of this section. How
much this advance could be aided by a
proper effort at the development of
our mineral wealth can only be ~conjec-
tured by those Who have personal
knowledge of the golden treasures I'M
der he surface of our hills. In this
city, the Atherton Cotton Mills and
cottages are located over a net work
of gold veins which have produced ores
as rich as some Of the best mines In
California, and these veins have been
uncovered only in spots This net
work of veins underlieS the entire cas-
tern, southern and western sections OF
Charlotte. and has been more extern
sively worked, yet scarcely developed,
in the Rudisill and st. Catherine
| mines. The gold mining industry,
taken up and prosecuted with the same
energy and good Judgment that char
acteriZes the cotton milling industry.
woul in a very short time make Meek
lenburg county famous, not only as a
spinner Of yarns and weaver Of cloth.
but az a producer of gold, the prosper
ity Of the county being at the same
time northumberland
Observer.