The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-29

The trustees OF the university in Sc
Letting a president should have an eye
10 a good man who will stick--Taroo-
TO Southerner.
The crime perpetrated in congress
against Crawford viii not down III
was lone because the republican party
had h power and could do II Such
Journal.
n Observer: A former Greensboro
man, but now Of Iowa, q a purse
which he claimed was made from the
skin of a negro. He also had some
scraps Of the leather which he gave
to friends IN Greensboro.
President Mckinley is a member OF
the Methodist church but IL would ap-
pear that he is not in good and regu-
lar standing in that denomination II
one is 10 judge by h way various
bodies of tina church ave criticised
him within the past six months
Statesville Landmark
Putting Pearson in the seat to which
Crawford was honestly elected was
such an outrage that a number OF re-
publicans had 10 apologize for az IN
talking 10 their friends. They knew
that Crawford was justly entitled to
his seat, but voted against him from a
4 NNcH
Another insult 10 the white people
of the whole south has been given in
the appointment of negro census emu
merators for the city Of Augusta, Ga
Put the blame where IL ngs
the administration-on Mckinley And
yet Charlotte wanted the arch enemy
of white supremacy at the south 10
visit it on its great day of Independ-
ence.-King's Greenville Weekly.
49,. 80
ted TO congress and he knows it III
he had been somebody else and had
merely consented to take the seat.
without struggling for IL, We should
have passed the matter of, but of him
better things might have been expect
ed. For the money in it he does not
need to have thieved a seat in congress
and to his occupancy of ii attaches
personal disgrace, for he was not cleo
ted and he knows it.-Charlotte Obser-
yer.
Just o the people of the state are
considering the best man 10 succeed
T.. A. Alderman as president of the
University. Many men of ability and
o have been mentioned. To the
Southerner, the most fit n at the
same time the very best for the uni
versity, is H. Groves Connor, of Will
son, a man of rare intellectually and
yet thoroughly practical, easy of ap-
proach yet never lacking in dignity.
He would make an ideal president. He
is suaviter in modo f~ortiter in re, at all
times.-Tarboro Southerner.
President Alderman's resignation
from the university is doubtless owing
to the fact hat none but an accom-
plished lobbyist can now successfully
fill the place. In his letter of farewell
this was plainly to be read. There is
a sense of shame in admitting TO our
selves that the state has come to this
pass: but we see a brighter day ahead
not only for the university, but foI
all education in North Carolina, and
if we are right, Mr.. Alderman made
the mistake of his life in leaving US
We trust the new man will be a good
politician and popular with the schooI
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Herald.
Chairman Holton, Governor Russell's
"d-n little pigeon-headed fool" says
in effect that a the Democrat
ave chosen an issue that he doesn't
like and show some spirit in their ad
vocacy of the white side of the ques.
ton, he'll not play in any joint discus.
sion. 1t may be some consolation tC
Mr.. HoltOn to learn that nobody ever
believed that he n his crowd would
accept. They are not built on tina
style of architecture. A bushwhacking
campaign of Misrepresentation is NOR,
10 their liking.-Raleigh News and OBJ.
server.
In this day of crimes committed il
the name OF politics against the PEG
pie there has been none greater thar
the unseating of Crawford in the hous,
of representatives. The people Of thi:
mountain section love fair play-Sey.
eral officials of this county have quail
fed and held their offices without con,
test on a bare majority of one vote
and they will never submit to the dis
franchiSement of a majority of tn
white voters Of this district Just be.
cause the party in power has a suffi
cient majority in congress to accom-
plish this ~disgraceful crime.-Brevart
News.
The question at issue was not which
of the two men were honestly elected
but which one belonged to the party il
power. Pearson is a republican, tht
house is republican, n he was giver
his seat, although no sane man sup.
poses for an instance that he is entitled
to the place. A great man republic
can in this state and elsewhere object
ed to the larceny of this seat and he
was sworn in while Kisses filled tht
hall. 1t was a fatal step for Pearson
and was likewise a bad day for ths
republican party. 4 party will stooI
to such low depths as the republican
party has done in this instance, will b.
nelQ 10 account Wnen the people spear
again.-Durham Herald.
From our stand point the only meth.
cd proposed hat will in the least brins
about the desired end is the one pro.
posed by the democrats and that il
by the adoption of the constitu.
tional amendment. Suppose tn,
amendment is defeated in August and
the populist plan could be adopted il
it's place, and not a negro in the stat,
could be elected to office, what would
be the result? Would not he still re-
main a conspicuous factor in our poll
tics, and would he not by his vote as
sist in electing TO office that class o
white men who have been a disgrace
to the state and whose conduct in offic'
in order TO retain themselves in office
has been the cause of the present cam
paign against suffrage? Ger
tainly it would.-Washington Gazette.