The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
STATE PRESS.

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mot all politicians either, who. if giver
iplenty of room to talk, will work their
own undoing to the satisfaction OF
their bitterest enemy.-Durham Her
aid.
AS the proposed constitutional
amendment will not disfranchise a
white man, no one will have any diff
lculty in ascertaining the motive of the
white man who votes against it--Tar
Iboro Southerner.
When q republican who has not split
his ticket for thirty years, tells a re-
publican boss publicly tina he is tired
the amendment this load DE- poles. yod
may think it strange, but that very
thing occurred right in this town just
one week g neutrality-suspicious.
Courier.
Pritchard and Butler claim to be pro-
ltecting the poor whites against dis
lfranchisement by the amendment and
i'm the same breath 20 disfranchise
them if they vote for the amendment.
No wonder they put the niger and the
poor white" on the same level of in
ltelligence. The niger will show his
idiocy n incapacity for citizenship
by believing them. The poor white/
will show his fitness to vote by voting
down such transparent demagogueism.
He will spurn the men that treat him
las a fool and class him as a negro
Raleigh News and Observer.
The white people of North Carolina
intends to restrict it. The republican
Headers declare it shall not be done.
They favor negro suffrage and all its
ills. They say the Ii negro Is
las good as the .'ignDrtnt white" They
will find out the difference in the cam
lpaign and at the polls. They pretend
Ito be friends Of the poor whites n
yet say he is no better than a negro"
Away with such hypocrites!-Raleigh
News and Observer.
Butler and his associates in their
hearts dread this amendment because
it will cut off their negro votes, but
they have the audacity to say that it
Twill also cut off white. votes, and they
TRY to alarm white voters by pretend
ling that the amendment will take away
their rights. In this they show that
They have no reasonable opinion of the
intelligence and good sense of the white
lmen of North Carolina.-Salisbury In
Idex.
When we consider the probable eff
fleets of the proposed amendment,
should it be adopted, our thoughts
naturally turn to the benefits our peo-
Iple will derive from it. To a large ex-
tent the race question will be elimi-
mated from politics and from all polit-
ical measures. The political aspects
Iof that question settled, there would
be no reason why the whites hould not
practice every kindness toward the col
Iored race, and seek to ameliorate their
condition, and to provide additional ia
I~cilitieS for their improvement and adj
lvancement. This, l am convinced, the
whites will do: and as a result there
will be a kindlier feeling between the
races than has ever obtained.-S. A.
Pritchard, Butler and all their imi-
ItatorS and tools, not only miSrepre-
sent and wilfully try to deceive, but,
in SO doing, they deliberately offer the
lgrossest insults to. every white man
iwho cannot read. They in effect say
to such whites: L. You are so ignorant
that we can deceive you and cause you
to vote against the party which &C
l~knowledgeS you lave intelligence and
will vote your own sentiments, not
w~ithstanding you ant read. 2. You
are no better tina the negroes who
cannot read. True, the democrats say
Iyou are as good as any person and
may vote at all elections and never
have the right taken from you, but we
don't think so; and, if an ignorant and
vicious negro should not vote, you
SHOULD not-Salisbury Index.
We notice in the proceedings Of the
trial of Washington of a man who COM
United a cold blooded murder, that at
least a dozen witnesses, including
members of his family, have testified
THAT they knew for q year before the
lcrime that the man was insane and
not responsible for his actions. Not
Iwithstanding this, the man held a re-
Isponsible position and fulfilled it's re-
Iq~uirements to the satisfaction of his
employers. If these witnesses knew
that the prisoner was dangerously in
sane, they are guilty of criminal care
Ilessness in not having taken steps to
his confinement in a proper asy-
Elum. The evidence of these witnesses,
however, will not convince the public
that this is not a dodge to escape the
penalty of his crime, and justice will
be outraged if he escapes the gallows.
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