The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
STATE PRESS.

The republican leaders are a~nxiously
looking for a man for second place on
the ticket who has a war record sufi-
clent to feat the party.-Durham Her
aid.
Some of the daily papers nave glar-
ing mead letters announcing that the
international revenue officials are op-
posec TO the amendment. This is like
exploiting an old story. Who expected
the red legged grass hoppers" to be
otherwise?-Tarboro ~Southerner.
We don't think the test will result in
oVerthroWing the laws to restrain the
negro suffrage, but one thing is GER
tain: No matter what the courts may
say, the ignorant negro will not again
be allowed to triumph over the intelli-
gent white man. This is a white mans
country, and the white man is going
to rule it; peacefully. If he can: forci-
bly,, If he must.-kinston Free Press.
D%emogogues and political wire-pull-
ers will soon find themselves out of a
job, and intelligence and patriotism
hold the reins of government, and
and prosperity reign in this fair
land of ours. Many prominent repub-
licans and populists are advocating it.
Duncan E. McBryde favors it we are
told. Some pOpulists are scoring Ma
rion Butler for his circular letter and
bossism.-Red Springs Record.
If the people will stop to think of it
Tor a moment, the primary is the fair
est way to give expression to the will
of the people, as to their choice for
senator. 1t then comes right down to
the free expression of every individual
voter as TO his preference between
rival candidates. There is a strong
desire growing to elect senator's by the
people, but as this cannot be done for
some time, the next thing to it isthe
p rimaries.-Durham Sun.
Yes all true followers of Zeb Vance
are still democrats of the Vance stripe
and will stand by the white people in
their efforts tending toward political
reform and the separation of the races
in North Carolina All free men who
have no personal grievances that are
exciting their prejudices will vote for
this measure, which means so much
for the state. Senator Pritchard "let
the cat OUT when he made that refer
ence to "Zeb Vance democrats" What
would he care If every democrat in the
state would be DISTINGUISHED? His re-
grets are to lose the negro vote, for
well he knows without it, his nest
would be hopelessly broken up.-Hen-
Jacksonville Hustler.
The Observer listens to the boasts
of it's esteemed South Carolina contem-
poraries with the utmost c~omplacence;
with not one ignoble pang of jealousy.
If you are satisfied. we are. 1t looks
like you are going to win. We rather
believe you will We rather hope you
will. There is compensation in all
things. You have the most spindles;
we have the most mills. Your cotton
mill capital is concentrating into the
hands of the few. Ours is flooding out
into the hands of the many. The river
of the cotton-manufacturing industry
with you flows deep, but narrow; with
us it flows shallow but wide. With
you it is the long Nile, that unrOlls, as
it stretches from the African lakes to
the blue inland ocean a beautiful out
very narrow rug of green; with us it
is the Mississippi, a great, many trib-
utaried river system, that makes a
continent to blossom as the rose.
Your mills make a few men richer;
ours make many men well-tO-do and
put many others beyond the pinch Of
poverty. South Carolina is a cotton
oligarchy; North Carolina is a cotton
democracy. The Old North State
forever."-Charlotte Observer.