The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-24

Chairman Simmons has IN a letter
20 President Mckinley given a strong
indictment OF the federal off1ceholdeTs
in the state. His letter Is magnificent
and IL Mckinley a any regard for
his civil service pledge he would
promptly put an End 10 b conduct OF
his oficeholders. They are the inspira-
ton, head and ron and ~insfigators OF
all the deviltry in the state. and Mr..
Simmons has stated the case against
them mildy.-RaleiSh News and OBJ
server.
The democratic party has been ex-
ceedingly generous 10 he negroes OF
h state. To Il they are largely IN
debted for equal privileges OF the COM
mon schools, for their normal anu IN
dustriaa schools and for their aSyiums-
While the whites have paid nine-tenths
on more Of the x there has been
no attempt to evade the equal distr1-
button Of the school fund The rau-
fcation Of the amendment will result
IN large additions to the appropriations
10 ommon schools in which negroes
will share with the whites. Its defeat
win mean smaller appropriations or
none at al--Salisbury Truth
In view OF the record, IL Is difficult
to imagine why there should be
doubt-if there is any-as 10 the result
of the forthcoming election, apart from
the theory that n people OF NORM
Carolina have lost the faculty Of recol-
lection and taken cav OF their senses
Their highest personal and public in
terests are involved in the contest;
they must know 1t; and surely when
they do know il, IL can never be said
of them that they are ~insensible 10
those things which make for their own
welfare or Lack the TO app
the means, in the face of all threats
and bullying. which viii save them a
duplication OF the experiences which
the state has already twice suffered
as the result of miSgovernment in the
majority of its towns and and
in all of it's departments at Raleigh
Charlotte Observer.
In fact, the attempted Intimidation
by the %-doodling gang has re-
acted upon them and made the white
| people even more determined that these
! fellows must take a back seat-that
men who would usurp authority and
undertake to place our elections under
federal supervision, are not the KIND
Of men TO control affairs in Forsyth
county or in North Carilina. The white
| people are determined that negro dom
ination shall pass away in this year
of grace.-Winston Sentinel.
Tallyrand, Bonaparte's minister of
state, said hat words were made to
| conceal thoughts; Butler uses them
to conceal acts. After having his party
put negroes in office over white men
he has his party to declare against
the negro holding office and then sends
| his pape over the state and goes here
and there himself frothing at the
mouth and looking wild-eyed In his
pretended concern for the u~neducated
white man. Butler is educated and he
knows that the proposed amendment
is designed to eliminate h negro
from politics, and that it does not dis
franchise a single native born North
| observation-disclosures Southerner.
If the f~usionists carry the legislature
the amendment may go down even il 1t
gets one hundred thousand majority.
Work for the legislative ticket; work
from now until election day for the
whole democratic ticket. What good
will it do to vote for the amendment
and then voc for a set of fellows that
will knife it if they get a chance. Why
vote for a Measure and then vote for
men opposed to that measure?-Con-
cord Tribune.
In some northern factories employees
J. are old to vote as their employers d.
rect or lose their jobs. Some radicals
in North Carolina are trying to bring
about the same conditions in this good
state. They can't make it work among
the free and independent people of this
good old state. They own their own
souls and their WI votes, n will not
permit any man to dictate how they
shall vote. God grant that they may
never loose their independence-Ral.
leigh News and Observer.
Any man of any party can vote foi
it (the amendment) without waving
any part of his party integrity. and nc
man will do SO without feeling the
better for it afterwards. And it would
be worth something to the reputation
Of the state for intelligence and broad
patriotism for one to be able to say
after the election that this great and
benefisient measure had been carried
not by a party but by all parties
Every democrat should constitute hin
selfacommittee of one to see that every
other democrat in his vicinity is pro
perly registered. No n seems to Sc.
riously doubt that the amendment will
be carried and the entire democratic
ticket elected. 1t is only a question o
majorities, which are estimated all tn.
way from 10000 to 70.000.-Reidsvill,
Review.