The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-11
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Raleigh News and Observer: The
orator of the day, 10th of May, will
be Major H. A. London. His subject
will be the ''T~wenty-sixth North Car
DINA regiment."-The monument
erected by the ladies of North Carolina
with the assistance of $3.50 from Mr..
Charles B. Rouss, of New York, to the
North Carolina dead in Stonewall GEM
etery at Winchester, Va, will be un-
yelled on their memorial day, June 6tn.
Association of North Carolina has con-
sented to prepare and deliver an ad-
dress suitable to the occasion.
Charlotte Observer: With suicidal
intent, Mr.. Samuel H. Hawkins, Jr.,
of this city, shot himself yesterday
morning. At 3 o'clock this morning
he was still alive, but his physician
state that his is impossible
and that he can live only a few hours.
The cause of the suicide is a matter
of conjecture. Mr.. Hawkins is a na-
tive of Americas, Georgia, n is a
son OF Col. Samuel w. Hawkins, one
of the most prominent citizens of that
place. He is about % years old. For
four years he has been connected with
the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany and has lived in Cherlotte for
the last two years, serving is chief
clerk to Mr.. NJ. B. Spier, the district
manager of the Bell Company. He
was faithful n capable in his work.
He was clever, cultivated n a gen
tleman in the best sense Of the word.
He has since died.-The local chap
ter of Children of the Confederacy in
Salisbury is raising funds for the pur-
pose Of placing a portrait of Colonel
Charles F. Fisher in the North Caro-
lima room of the Confederate Museum
at Richmond.
Were complete fusion to take place
it is feared by both Senators Butler
and P~ritchard that more of hose who
voted for Mr.. Guthrie in 1896, and
largely voted with the democrats in
1898, would vote the democratic ticket
this year tina would follow Butler,
and it is to hold these together by ap-
pealS to them as members of the pop
ulist organization that Butler, with the
consent of Pritchard, runs his Separte
ticket. They calculate tina if they can
fool and hold the Guthrie vote away
from the democrats, they stand some
chance of repeating the result of the
election of 1896, defeat the amendment
and possibly elect the state ticket.
Their hope is to deceive those who vot-
ed for Mr.. Guthrie into supposing they
are standing by their party As opposed
to both the republican and the demo-
cratic parties, and her secure their
votes against the amendment and for
fusion embers of the legislature. The
defeat of the amendment and the cap
ture of the legislature is their earnest
purpose, let the state ticket succeed or
fail as the case nay be.-Raleigh Post.
One of three plans of disfranchise-
ment the republican is the only party
that has put it's plan in operation. OF
its 240 delegates in the state conven-
ton in session here, 127 were revenue
officers, Al held other federal positions
"a held county and state offices, eve
include negro office-holders in these
figures) and the balance were broth
ers, cousins and connections of pap
seekers with possibly two dozen dele
gates who have not had their mouths
in the swill tub. The negroes, howev-
er, were in the gallery in full force,
n the Edgecombe darkey showed he
understood the fraud the bosses were
perpetrating when he said to a Wake
negro: you can't lose us niggers.
We'd ruther not 'ficiate in this con-
vention dis one time than ter be Till
manized forever. Huh; We'll take a
back seat dis here year, but when de
mendment is done 'feated, den de mig
ger Eill come back ter his own, and
den We'll run the whole blame ting
like we ben er doin' fer 10 desc many
years."-Raleigh News and Observer.