The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-29
TRICKS AND TRICKSTERS.

For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain, the Heather black rad
icals of North Carolina are something
peculiar" The Messenger has noted
several times the ingenuity of the
black radical leaders as deceivers and
liars. They lave scarcely told one
truth about the amendment since they
began their disreptuable and degrading
work to deceive and abuse the conf
dence of the credulous and ignorant
people they have fed on f~alsehoods and
barney so long time. They know that
there is not the faintest shadow of a
shade of hope to defeat the amendment
by fair dealing, by honest statement, by
proper and intelligent Interpretation of
the meaning and intent Of the amend
ment to be voted upon early in August
next. So they lie in detail and by
wholesale, and hope to thus befool
enough white people to defeat the fran
upon which depends SO much for North
Carolina and the white race.
We heard last week of a new dodge of
the black radical deceivers, who are
They lied once or twice to carry out
their nefaricus scheme of deception by
taking a part of the truth and patch
ing it on to a lie. But that sort of work
failed. They were not skilled enough
to make the deception go. They were
too naoo,IainfoJ witb frr,th RI ~
ingeniously. They a probably read or
heard that if you bait the hook which
a lie would use with truth hat you
would succeed and mislead the confid-
ing and ignorant. But that would not
work. They had never been right and
square and honest, and so being wholly
wrong from start to finish their coin
ages would not pass current. They
had nothing but lies to build on. Con-
greve writing in his play Love for
Love" and referring to one of the char
acters, says of him thou liar of the
first magnitude There are some stu
pendous examples now in North Caro-
lima among the black radical-fusion
leaders.
The new lie out is that the democrats
in the recent changes made in the
amendment undertake to restrict the
supreme court as to it's decision,
ard that the democrats expect the
amendment to be pronounced %unconsti-
tutional by the highest judica.ory. In
addition, they contend hat the demo-
nr9tS a ra Mating tn cot rid of ARTICLE
VI so they can have power for other
deviltry such as property qualifications
etc, without init. There is not a liar
in North Carolina who is not a fool
who believes one word of that. The
amendment will hold water before the
United States supreme court. The LOU
isiana law, so much like the North Car
DINA amendment, vas adopted nearly
two years ago.. 1t has not been attack
ed. We recently asked as to the state
ment of the two senators of Louisiana
that their constitutional suffrage test
was unconstitutional. We challenged the
statement. We had read the able and
instructive speech in the United States
senate by Senator McEnery, and he did
no talk as if he doubted. We learn that
boil senators at first did admit the un-
Observation-Disclosures was strange
but later changed their view, and held
it was constitutional. At any rate it is
operating and thus far unchallenged
before the supreme court.
The proposed amendment will proba-
bly, be confirmed before the highest
court, but if not all the amendment
will fail together, for it all stands to-
gether, and the effort to 10 away with
article VI, will go with the others. So
there will be no danger as is contended
for by the conspirators in n event.
Who concocked this last political scare
crow is not known. Possibly it is the
joint work of Pritchard, Holton, Adams,
Abe Middleton. Butler and Cade. The
republican Solomons schemed and pro-
duced a falsehood to befooI.