The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-16
STATE ;'isE>-.

The Baltimore American thinks the
presidents attempted defense OF his
change o { base On the Porto hseaa
question but adds to the gravity OF the
first blunder.-Raleigh Post
With the farmers those diksSgs
benefited. doing everything IN tnth
power against the building OF 8vou
roads. Ii is no wonder that road build
ing is a slow Observation-Disclosures her-
aid.
Is Mckinley ASSUMING the same
role? Let him and his ninions De
ware, All the money OF the piutocrats
and all their hired soldiers can not de-
stroy the liberties OF this country, un-
til an ocean OF blood has been shed.
Let the people awake and bury imper-
Iaiism and restore the government and
he ONCE OF chief magistrate to their
! rrimitive and legitimate spheres, 1t
: H.. only hope.SSalisbury Index.
One instance OF adultery on the part
Of a wife is sufficient ground for di-
vorce. whereas repeated violations of
the martial VOW are required on the
part of the husband. Not only this
but he must be convicted or living in
adultery with another woman This is
a beautiful law to be sure, and can
only DE accounted for. as Judge Moore
pertinently remarked yesterday. IN the
ground that the men made the laws
IL has been upon the statute books Tor
years. but this makes IL none the less
odious and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record
Af,er W. have puckered our brow.
| ii bIed cur , neil in obstruction. rack
| 4 ON cain anC thought and thought
tor hour. tr inC Z up something
| .risinal. So, d hat IL is unrea-
sanabIN hard me lazy editor to
-Ipy our editorials. especially To insert
hem IL l. editorial columns. without
he least sign Of credit There is moth
.as honest about it: il Is simply pill
an editors stock in trade and
q. =. an. Mark the clipper y or
some -ay that the public may know
that it is not an original production
kin Times.
George White the only representa-
tive of his race in the congress OF the
United States endorsed the Payne bill
in a speech before the house on Friday.
OF the one million inhabitants Of Porto
Rico at least one-half are OF his race
and are small farmers made and kept
poor By excessive taxation. Yet George
White the self styled champion OF his
race the bumptious bowler for negro
rights. votes for and champions n bill
which will not only d~isfranchise. but
make aliens of half a million OF his
race.-Windsor Ledger.
The new ~nancia bill written by the
New York National banks in order 10
enable them to more e~fectually form a
trust, provides that for national bonds
deposited by national banks with the
federal treasury circulating notes Of
the par value of the bonds will be is
sued. When that section was under
consideration. Senato Vest offered an
amendment that any person or c"~nor-
alton holding bonds could obtain
money on the same terms and IL was
promptly voted down. The privileges
are extended only to national ank
Nearly all these helped elect Mckinley.
They are getting their pay. See
Raleigh News and Observer.
But these remarks are merely pre-
liminary TO saying that n talk that
Butler will not control the populist
state convention is mosnshine. He
will control il absolutely and IL will
register his will. Butler still has hi.
grip with the %pieeating popuiists-
those who train with the republicans
and nine-tenths of the state
ton will be composed of this element
Our hope is in appealing TO the honest
populists-the populists from princi-
pie. We will get support for the
amendment from these. But any talk
of Buffers OWN element revolving
against him is stuff.-Statesville Land
mark.
But while the outcome-the strides
towards despotism in the concrete-ix
only what should have been expected,
the revolt of the people is more sudden
and bids fair TO be more complete han
their tame submission hitherto fore
casted. II is now known that many
of the stauncheSt supporters of the
President in the west and northwest dc
not hesitate TO say that If something
is not done 10 remedy the Porto Rican
outrage h republicans will surely
lose Michigan, Indiana, Illinois. Iowa.
Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota. i'm the
coming presidential e~lection-"in fact"
as a careful writer at the capital puts
it, practically every state in the west
and acknowledgements Obser-
yer.
The News publishes today the open
letter Of Mr.. Gibson to Senate Ma
rion Butler. Mr.. Gibsun has been a
populist almost ever since the party
was organized, M has been one Of
senator Buffers staunchest support
ers. He has long been known as one
of the strongest populists in MeckleD-
burg; he is a white man first and a
populist afterwards. He shows in his
letter the view of the constitutional
amendment taken by a populist who
wants TO see the negro question taken
out of politics IN North Carolina. He
believes the amendment will accom-
plish that object. This is the opinion
Of many popuiists, and they will vote
for the amendment. There has never
been In any party in this state such
supreme bossism as has prevailed I'm
the populist party. Senator Butler has
controlled it's conventions. named It's
oAN LII hEth lit DLl ~
in the hollow OF his handDChaFIotte
News.
Just here We will ask. what is a
political party but an association of
men who have agreed upon certain
political questions, and have united
for the purpose of accomplishing their
purposes? We have had under fusion.
what they call q "non-partisan judi
ciary," and IL that is a fair sample OF
the real thing we had better not have
any more n~on-partican institutions.
The fusion regime has fixed. too. a
"non-partisan" county government
system. and to cap the climax. IL in
nicted upon us "non-partisan" school
committees. And sufficient for the
day has been the evil thereof.
Through the amendment an appeal b.
made to the people to redeem the state
from non-partisan judiciaries, nom
partisan school committees. etc. OF he
kind We have had. Perhaps the poput
list party would not have been SO fee