The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-13
STATE PRESS.

1t may unSeat Mr.. Bellamy and put
in Colonel Dockery, who did not carry
a county in the district, and who was
defeated by the most overwhelming
majority ever given in the state. But
the people OF the state will resent such
action by returning Mr.. Bellamy to
congress by a larger majority han be-
fore; though it is hard to see how that
can be done unless they make it unan-
imous.-Charlotte News
Indications at present strongly point
10 Charles 3. Aycock, of Wayne, is
the next candidate of the democracy
for governor of North Carolina. Coun-
ties are declaring for him right along
"a kind OF spontaneous choosing, with
no big blowing of horns or beating of
drnms-just as if it were a matter Of
duty n nothing else. And hat is
better, no mistake Will have been made
should he become the standard bearer.
Greensboro Record.
At Oak Grove, Wake county, at Sat
urday there was a large meeting of
the citizens called to discuss the con-
StitutiOnal amendment. After the
conclusion of the discussion a vote was
taken and the vote stood one hundred
in favor of a determined fight to adopt
the amendment to two against it.
Among the undred were quite a num-
Der who voted against the democratic
ticket in 1898: 100 to 2 is a very good
prOBortiOn.-Raleigh News and Obser-
yer.
This is our motive in supporting the
amendment We think it is the great
test measure hat has been submitted
to the people since the war. We are
tired of the negro issue. We want it
settled upon a permanent basis. If
1T is not settled this year it will be the
fault of those who vote against the
amendment and thus keep $1,000 Hitter
ate and incompetent negro voters on
the poll books as a disturbing factor
in the politics of the state.-Webster's
Reidsville) Weekly.
Their are now in North Carolina %
colleges Tor whites and s for negroes,
nearly as many colleges for the ne
grOeS as whites in proportion to pop
uiatiOn. In addition to the moneys fur
nished by the state, the negroes get a
large amount in the way of endOw-
ments and charity from the north.
which gives them even better facili-
ties for college education than the
whites have a negro youth can get a
college education forty per cent. cheap
er than q white youth.-ClarktOn Ex-
press.
n Tarbor Southerner says that 1T
may be that some one will give as an
excuse for voting against the amend
ment his belief in it's unconstitutional
ity, but he would vote against it if
every member of the supreme court
were to assure him to the contrary"
We share in this belief. No individual,
not a lawyer, knows whether the
amendment is constitutional or not,
and nobody is going to vote against
il through a belief that it is not. That
will be a mere subterfuge. He wants
to vote against il and gives this as his
reason instead OF the real one.-Char-
lOtte Observer.
And while it is the intention of the
white nann1a m control tho affairc Of
state, it is not their purpose to injure
the negro in any way, unless the
cOnsiaer that preventing them from
holding office VIII injure them. Judg-
ing from past observations We are COM
PEELED to admit that negro office-hOld-
ing, in the south at least, has been a
failure, and has done the negro race
more harm than it has ever done good.
The negroes needn't have any fears,
however, that they will not be treated
just as we'll as they have ever been, SO
far as the laws are concerned, and in
less than five years, they will find that
the adoption of the amendment Will
rebound to their goOd--Louisburg
Times.
In his speech at Newton, Senator
Pritchard said: Senator Vance vert
all the way to Raleigh to defeat the
Payne bill" senator Vance never did
anything of the sort. He was not ac-
custOmed to come to Raleigh to set w
a machine and dictate legislation. He
believed that the peoples representa-
tiveS were capable of legislating and he
left it to them. Whenever he felt moY
ed to declare his views on any ques-
ton he did so in a public speech OF
published letter. and appealed to al
the people upon the highest plane
Now Senator Pritchard. accustomed a
Washington to take orders from Han
ma hRTnra h. ga CT y vote ar NO more
understand Eance'S high Methods thar
he can understand how a Legislature
cannot attend to its business without
dictatiCn. Vance was never seen il
Raleigh 10 dictate legislation. Vance
wo-i% have scOrned to resort to sucf
base methods to influence his party
Raleigh News and Observer.
If Senate Pritchard or anybody else
in authority in his party has any gooC
sense left they will put a curl on fool:
like OF course the remark
was ure bluff but it's a kind of bluf
that won't take with North Caroline
white men. Senator Butler is already
sick of the remark he made about
driving this gang" (the democrats,
out of the state and has tried to deny
it. And some time g Congressman
Dinney INDUCED in some remarks
about leading a mob to lynch regis
trars. If these gentry don't know any
CIV Ahdl W lAIlh lAol lIiS hIlIu "
talk is going to scare democrats. they
will be very much wiser before they
are a year older. The fact is thes'
very remarks will do more than any
thing else to bind democrats togethe'
and make them determined to win a
all hazards, and when North Carolina
democrats are united and determines
anybody who knows enough to come il
out of the rain knows what the result
VIII be.-Statesyille Landmark.