The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-26
A GLANCE AT THE REPUBLICAN,
DEADFALL.

1t is not important IN a
like the one now beingpressed in North
Carolina to devote much time or space
TO the drag-net performance Of the re-
pubIicans in the convention. Their
platform is built of the knottiest and
rottenest planks possible. There is no
sound timber in 1t and no heart" lum-
Der, for it is already dry-rotted and
only fit TO be used by such a set Of
party carpenters at such a time lii
this. OF course the party workmen
swear by the timber and say it is
sound and excellent. we quasi-repub-
lican organs, and some that like to
pose as independent republicans. find
much pleasure and satisfaction in the
inferior stuff worked up to deceive.
1t endorses Mckinley and his doings.
That is enough. 1t how h "a the
wind sets. He is dreadfully deficient in
backbone and brains. The New York
Evening Post says he is very weak,
and so he is. He does not know his
own mind. but X putty or soft wax
receives any impressions that party
leaders or the none kings wish
to make upon him.
However ~cunningly prepared and
however oily the Cannon, it is to
men who know the politics of the times
most transparent in its deception and
barney. One of it's points is to give
the Mckinley gang the credit for the
great prosperity now much talked
of in nalifioo1 and mnnava6 circles
The Columbia State shows up admira-
bly, the insincerity and deception of the
boastings. It says:
TT was to be expected that the plat
form, following the orators and news
papers of the party, would claim as
the fruits of republican rule the gifts
of Providence which have blest the
last two years not only in this country
but throughout Europe. The %republi-
can party makes a speciality Of rob-
bling Providence of It's dues, and 1t
finds a great many fools to take it at
it's word and thank Mckinley instead
of thanking God. Sensible people,
however, will apply this test; they Will
ask themselves how the last two years
having been a period Of rising pros
policy confined to this country would
have created the universal flood? Did
God do it in England and France, and
even in silver standard Mexico, and
leave MKinley to do it here? Did he
stand aloof from this people while he
looked after the rest Of his flock, so
that Mckinley and Hanna had to sup
ply His place."
The platform Is not only built to de-
ceive, but 1t shows ignorance Of facts
The gold standard was adopted re-
Gently by legislation, and yet the plat
form states that It was one Of the two
measures that brought prosperity,
which it is alleged generally, has beer
going on for two or three years. Un-
like the republican platform of 1896
the new one is squarely for gold. II
mildly condemns some trusts but II
talks of the necessity and propriety
of the honest cooperation Of capital tc
new business conditions" Mark Han
ma must have chuckled deep dowr
over that plank. What more could he
and his tribe Of trust robbers desire
for their comfort? 1t is pitiably weak
and will not fool a ~ten-year-old boy
1t is the effort to run with the hare
anu HOIu Will Tie uOuLuS- ill., lilo
and nothing more. None but a parti'
san can be satisfied with 1t or will
the weak civil service plank. 1t is
notorious fact that Mckinley and hi:
gang have struck fatal blows to the
once paraded and lauded civil service
system. The whole thing is %concocteC
to placate, to tickle, to bamboozle, tt
play fast and loose, and to get all the
votes possibly from the uninformed
and the easily deceived. The plat
form is a high robber tariff and gol6
platform, and Is in accord with the
course of the present weak administra-
ton and it's subservient tools in the
congress-. The State says and with
that We dismiss for the present thi:
latest product of the ingenious brair
of the artful and u~nprinciple6 wire.
pullerS:
There is a cheap sop - the west and
south in the pledge Of reduced interest,"
rates. How are they going to be haG
under the inf1exible national bank sys'
tenn? And who believes for a momen
that a national bank party will evel
raise up a rival to that system, will
ever permit state banks to issue un'