The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-04
STATE PRESS.

Ii is a significant fact hat the ma
jority of those who object to mention
ing the negro in this campaign, do not
want to see Mr.. Bryan carry North
Carolina.-Charlotte News.
If the white voters split up into diff
ferent parties until they again make
the negro a balance OF power, that
would bring the race issue back to us
as vital as ever. They are not going
to do it.-Rockingham A~nglo-Saxon.
We repeat, that a state which places
restriction upon the right of suffrage
must place within reach of its chill
dren the opportunities for measuring
UP to this restriction. Hence, it is now
more than ever, the duty of North
Carolina to give impetus to the cauSe
of education and We have abiding faith
that this duty will be discharged by
the party which will Re in power after
this year.-Wfnston Sentinel.
A few days after the August cleo
ton, n of the ablest, Oldest and most
popular ministers of the Baptist
church in North Carolina sent the
editor of the News and Observer this
message by Mr.. w. NJ. Rogers, our
travelling agent and correspondent:
Tell Mr.. Daniels that it is the pur-
pose of the revenue officers and other
federal office-holders in North Carroll
ma to arrang for a wholesale arrest
Of registrars who refuse to register
negroes for the November election.
Their plan for November is identical
ly the same they tried to pursue in
Winston and other places in North
Carolina in the August election. 1t
failed then but they think it will sue
coed in the national election and will
try to use it to Overwhelm the democ-
racy with a solid negro vote in Novem-
Der. Be on your guard n don't let
them do it," If We printed the name
in every township in North Carolina,
for he is known all over the state
Raleigh News and Observer.
The populist party is already dead.
1t can only result in drawing off some
votes from Bryan and rendering it
possible to carry North Carolina Ior
Mckinley, and hat what Butler is
working for and that's VIA Mark
Hanna pays Butler to attempt.-Kin-
Ston Free Press.
Should the people be deaf to the
teachings of our fathers, should they
be blin to the circumstances that SUI
round Us and elect Mr.. Mckinley to
another term of the office of President,
and thus endorse his ambitious lean
ings the whole fabric of our Institutions
may be ruined before the people car
again a a halt in the grand career
of Imperialism. hen indeed will all
the other political issues that are pre-
sented to US pale into insignificance,
and tariffs, and trusts, and social is
sues will be of minor Importance, be-
fore the imperial will of a ruler OF the
United States.-Elizabeth City Econo-
mist.
When Bailey quit his position as ed
itor of a religious paper and demand-
ed to boss the democratic party, he
invited an ivestigation into his creden-
tials as an adviser of the democratic
party. His own u~tteranceS proved
that he had Systematically advocated
everything the republicans favored in
national politics, had stopped over in
his praise of Mckinley, and in state
matters had stood with the trusts and
tax-dodging corporations. This ex-
posture convicted him of at least being
unworthy of giving advice to the dem
ocray. Smarting unde the proof of
his hypocracy, afforded by his w
writings, Bailey rushes to cover, and
tells his readers that he a been
attacked because some one is anxious
TO injure the Biblical Recorder."-Ral-
eigh News and Observer.