The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-12
STATE PRESS.


The Landmark has private but r,li-
able information to the effect that ex-
ira room is being provided at the state
hospital al Morgantcn. for those persons
who seriously contend that 80 equals
100-or, in other words. that 80 years
make a century Of 100 years.-Stares-
vile Landmark
Let the farmers congratulate them
selves on their good sense in not being
influenced by the gamblers. There Is
but n thing that can prevent eight
cent cotton, and that Is the planting
of a big crop for next season. Th2t
would undo al the good wcrk--Rai-
eigh News and Observer.
no more Tom Watson fooolishness. but
with Bryan leading a united host, we
may raise the song OF the ~ancients:
Shame on the false Etruscan. who lin
gers in his home.
While Porsena of Clusium is on the
march 10 Rome"
-M1rganton Herald.
Booker Washington does not approve
Bishop Turner's scheme to deport the
negro TO Africa This does not neces-
sarily mean that Washington is q
smarter man than Turner, but indi-
Gates that he has studied the history
of the race in his country more closely.
There has been man attempts to de-
port and COLOMBO the negro, but each
and every one has resulted dlsastrously
especially for the negro. A few years
ago negroes were carried out OF this
by the carload and many OF them
have not succeeded in walking back
yet.-Durham Herald.
Testimony taken for the COMPRESSION
al industrial commission in Chicago
clearly establishes the fact hat five
men have been meeting and still meet
in Chicago every morning and decide
what the farmer shall be paid for his
grain; that their purpose is to maintain
the profits of transporters and dealers
in grain, no matter how low the mar
ket prices may go; that as these men
represent and control all OF the means
by which grain is sent from the farm
to the market. their decision has been
and is final. And still Mark Hanna
says there are no trusts in h coun-
try."-Asheville Citizen.
1t comes out from Winston that
Chairman HoIton. of the republican
state executive committee, says his
party will contest the constitutional
ty of the amendment to be voted upon
next August, after the election. 1t is
also learned that the has de-
cided to bring suit at once to test the
election Law adopted by the last legis-
lature, and that application will be
made for an injunction restraining the
state board from carrying out the pro-
visions of the law in carrying out the
provisions of the law in calling and
holding the amendment election. Hol-
ton is to be supplied with the necessa-
ry funds for prosecuting the CASE
Durham Herald.
On the first of January. 1900, in near
ly every county in the State meetings
were held to effect an organization to
fully emancipate the 100, 900 white men
who though voting for twenty years
have seen at every election their votes
killed by the vote of an: incompetent
negro, who cast the ballot put in his
hands by a designing selfish politician.
Raleigh News and Observer.
No man can be a friend of North
Carolina and work or vote. against the
suffrage amendment. No friend of
North Carolina will do anything to
keep the credit of the State from being
The passage of the amend
ment means higher credit for the
State, and higher credit for the coun-
ties and cities of the State. No man
who wishes to see desirable immi-
grants coming to North Carolina will
talk or work or vote against the
Observation-Disclosures Citizen