The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-02
REPUBLICANS WILD TALK
About the Approaching Campasgn-To
Establish . Big Coaling Port south Of
Hatteras Ice Plant on Raleigh and
Augusta Railroad.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, ~. c.. February "A.


II is very amusing TO note the ideas
n plans OF the republican leaders in
this state. One OF the 70; emost OF
them. who declines to allow his name
to be used said today: There will be
a very exciting campaign. Both sides
are preparing. Both the old nartics
are after them and they sil; lie felt.
l am willing to wager that the repubi-
cans will carry the legislature and de-
feat the amendment. These two things
will go together. / am also willing TO
wager that we elect congressman, be-
cause the legislature will change the
election law. You know We have the
governor. and as o o as the leg;sla-
ture Is elected he can call IL and the
law be changed. Its first act would
be to repeal that law. The legislature
can be convened the day after il is
elected" Such are the wildcat pro-
jects of some Of the republicans. But
j. G. L. Harris, ex-secretary of the
republican state committee. says:
There will be- a great many more re-
publicans who will vote for the amend
ment than h people OF the state have
any idea Of"
Not long ago mention was made OF
a rumor that the Southern railway had
secured the old Chester and .noil
na-rrow-gauge railway, now the Caro-
lima and North Western, for the pur-
pose of getting a short-line to the Big
Stone Gap coal mines. Vice President
! Andrews, OF the Southern, said the ru-
NOR was ~unfounded. Some arrange
ment is likely to be made in the near
future for getting coal from Big Stone
Gap, via this route, to Wilmington OF
to Port Royal. What IS in mind is n
port south Of Hatteras. All that is
needed so far as Wilmington is IN
cerned is a short link between Lenoir
and Cranberry, and as for Port Royal,
the building of the link just named
and one from Henrietta, y. c., TO
Spartanburg, S. c., n distance of some
thing like thirty miles. Some infiuen-
tial men look for one or other of these
things to be done. They say the build
ing of the Nicaragua canal IS a GER
tainty; that the United States requires
it is a national necessity, for the pro-
lection of its long coasts and its OPP
erations in the far east; and that the
| making of a great coal port south Of
HatteraS and with the s.-ortest rail
haul is a necessity also.
The democratic convention of Edge
combe county very heartily endorsed
Commissioner of Agriculture Patter-
son for his efforts to advance the
farmers interests.
A very large ice-making plant is to
be put in operation OF the line of the
Raleigh and Augusta division of the
Seaboard Air Line, perhaps not for
from Southern Pines, using the very
pure water of that sandhill country.
Governor Russell appoints the follow
ing delegates to represent this state at
the international mining convention at
milwaukee,, June 10th: j. a. Holmes,
G. E. Burleson, ]. H. Pratt, Frank
Bidwell, w. H. Hewitt, G. K. Collins.
w. V. Brown, c. =. Rorison, c. F
Toms, w. B. Troy, l.. U. Campbell, l..
A. Gittys, c.. J. Harris, E. w. Lyon,
A. w. Graham, S. w. Newman, j. S.
Carr, j. E. Lawton, G.. w. Hinshaw, ].
D.. Case, r. P. Gray, Thomas Wood
roffe, G. L. Lawton, Richard Games,
E. B.. c. Hambley, r. M. Games,
George B. Hanna, John Wilkes. Min
ing of all kinds is active in this state
and interest is greater than ever re-
fore.