The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-13

ment-But Wait Until Wilmington
Puts On Her Campaign wdrking
Clothes.
The state press lauds in the highest
terms the prompt and very llDerai re-
sponse which the business men OF Will
minston made Thursday 10 the request
which chairman F. II. Simmons made
of them for campaign funds wlthf
which TO ~inaugurate and prosecute the
imDending campaign for the constitu-I
tional amendment. Messenger readersi
will recall that announcement was
made in these columns yesterday that
Mr.. Hugh MacRae and Mr.. William
Gilchrist had within about three hours {
raised a subscription of 1892. amor ,gl
the business men of the city for ' he
campaign fund and that a check for
that amount had been received in Raj
eigh by Mr.. Simmons.
The Charlotte Observer the NJ .ys and
Observer and the Raleigh P ,st con-
tanned forcibly written edlto riaIs YES
terday morning with refere nee to the
lead which Wilmington has taken,
e.. agreeing. one and all, that the example
which this city is settin o. other cities
and sections of the stat in the consti-
tutionaI amendment { .amnaiqn is no
less significant n is in thorough
keeping with the s .trong lead which
they SO effectively maintained during
the memorable White mans govern
ment of 1898 and is, withal,
a harblnger OF d victory for the amend
ment equally as complete and even
more glorious. for the state thar was
that of 1898.
QUALIFT sd TO PASS AvEkDICT. ,
The CT sariotte Observer says with
refereno g to WilmingtOn's contribution
On of the best arguments that
coulrI be desired in behalf of the con-
str .utional amendment is embodied in
a paragraph in The Observers Raleigh
letter today telling how the people of
Wilmington are giving of their private
means to a fund for the prosecution of
the state campaign. We are told that
in three hours over 81 900 was raised in
that town, and more is promised from
the same source. When the people of
- a town go down into their pockets in
this manner in behalfo of a public meas
ure, it is an evidence to the balance of
the state that the cause is worthy OF
support. W~ilmington's experiences in
recent years qualify her to pass a YER
diet upon the desirability of the pend
ing amendment, and when she puts UP
her cash to emphasize her verdict. her
action is worthy the serious considera-
ton of the whole state"
NEWS AND OBSERVERS Ed
TORIAL-
In speaking of the stand taken by
Wilmington and the general situation
the Raleigh News and Observer, under
the caption They are in Earnest
says:
THE men who have organized to
hght the constitutional amendment do
not conceive the magnitude OF the task
theyhave undertaken. If they under
stood the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and not to be shaken-Of the white
people to be rid of the great mass OF
ignorant negro voters they would pause
before trying to overcome a people VINO
have sworn that THE whites shall
rule the land or die"
LAS one indication of early activity
We may note that. though Mr.. VIM.
Gilchrist and Mr. Hugh MacRae. a
number of ardent democrats of Will
mington yesterday sent the state chair
man 81 1892 in cash to help circulate lit
erature in the initial work of the cam
paign They write that there are other
contributions that will be sent later.
"When before in North Carolina did
business men, six months before an
election, contribute money to send out
literature in inauSurating the cam
paign of education? Wilmington suf-
fered from negroism N RuSsellism
more than any of our cities, and they
are resolved not to permit such a plight
to befaIl their progressive city again
if they can prevent it. They are demo
Gratis, but more than party fealty
characterizes their early contributions
It is in the nature of a thank Offering
for their d~eliverance through the white
mans legislature and a way of show
ing that they have enlisted for the full
campaign until White supremacy is
made permanent.
The men who are fighting for White
Supremacy in North Carolina cannot
be defeated"
WELL DONE wIMTNGTON."
This is the caption under which the
Raleigh Post makes the following edi-
tOriai comment:
yesterday Mr.. Chairman Simmons
received a check for over 1,200 fol-
campaign urposes from citizens OF
Wilmington. This was simply the re-
suit of a canvass of about three hours
by Messrs. Hugh MacRae and William
Gilchrist.
New Bern recently sent a good
check. with the promise of more,
VIVA better evidence of the import
ance attached to the contest over the
constitutional amendment could be
given than his spontaneous contribu-
ton? What better evidence of the
supreme Importance of the result OF
that contest could be given than this
prompt liberality on the part of those
who have suffered so greatly and
shockingly from conditions the amend
ment is intended to prevent in future?
with every dollar Of that money
went up a prayer, not for vengeance
or punishment or injury, but for peace
and good government, permanent as
well as just. and that the good people
OF the entire state may unite in max
ing such certain by the adoption OF
this amendment.
appeal. and similar ones from
- Carolina, will not be made