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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27

ident r far greater thar those of a
British empress 1t Is a fact as well
informed people know well The special
copied from the Baltimore Sun stated:
In theory Great Britain is a mo-
narchical government and the United
States a democratic government In
practice precisely the reverse appears
10 be the case. The contrast Is made
most striking in the conduct Of the
two governments in the Philippine
and the Ger wars"
Eternal vigilance is the price OF lib
erty" is an old. worn. wise maxim 1t
was more needed han now. There
is iced OF a work by some able lawyer
to show just how many changes, and
how great they are. have been made in
the structure of our government since
1865. They are stupendous and really
alarming. M. Justice Roger Atkinson
Pryor, of New York city. a Virginian
and confederate brigadier. some fifteen
years ago published in a northern
monthly a pape or the changes in the
government, wrought by the great war
up to then. They were many and most
important. Practically we are living
under a very different government from
that established by our able, patriotic
forefathers, and from hat in Washing
tons administration.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
OUR URPOS

at CSC per yard. All the above in all
the different colors.
In HENRIETTAS. SERGES. CASH
MERES, FLANNELS. TRICOTS. La
DIES CLOTH, BROADCLOTHs.
BRILLLANTINES and MOHAIRS. We
lead We have these goods in all
qualities and in all colors: the prices
range from "Ac to SIPS per yard.
We 49, twenty-five Of thirty pieces
of SILkALINE DRAPERY GOODS On
pretty patterns, fully SO inches wide.
at from Sc to 121zc per yard.
We have a big line of OUTINGS
that we are selling at an especial low
price. We have an Outing at 4hc per
yard. An extra vice Outing at Sc per
yard. We ave about forty pieces Of
very heavy. fast tnn1"red, Outings that
are worth 10c-we a.e selling them at
&c per yard.
' Three thousand short-end WHITE
HOMESPUNS at 2Ac per yard. A lot
Of SEA ISLAND HOMESPUN at &C.
per yard. A splendid quality Of YARD
WIDE SHIFTING at SC per yard.
Good BLEACHING Al 4hc per yard.
Good PLAIDS al &c per yard.
WE HAVE THE LARGEST STOCK
OF GOODS IN THE CITY. Our trade
is better now than IL has ever been Al
this season The reason for this In
thai OUR PRICES ARE LOWER
THAN OTHERS
We have just received a big lot of
new CHAIRS AND TABLES TO give
away as premium presents. Bring
your card and get 1t punched and get
a present free
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
BREvITIES.

The war is probably ended in Ken
lucky for the present. Both sides
agree to refer the contest to the courts
AIS we'll that ends we'll"
A distinguished democrat in South
Carolina who kicked out OF harness in
1896, and probably voted for Mckinley.
writes to the Charleston News and
Courier that he thinks the outlook very
hopeful for the triumph of h demo-
Gratis lis year. There are others COM
ing back Henry Watterson is back
already.
In New York it is very common FOR
dead men TO keep on paying taxes.
There are 10000 lead republicans stiii
paying poll-tax. Do you see?
The Molineux trial cost the state of
New York SITS, 600. How, why We do
not know. This leads the Boston Globe
to ask:
such an organization of courts OF
Justice seem ridiculous. Why should
there be exactly IL jurors? Again, in
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
THE CRAwFORD-PEARSON CASE

Judge Miers is of the committee on
elections in the house, and was of the
minority in the Crawford-Pearson con-
tested election case. He thinks the mi
nority report in favor of Pearson is
extremely unfair and the most biased
he has ever known. He thinks it is
contrary to law, and says that the is
sues of fact and law were absolutely
ignored by the election committee, and
the house was left Ito search for hidden
treasure" Alleged spurious letters
were used as evidence, and no testi-
mony was submitted to o they were
not genuine. Judge Miers, in his able
report, reviews the evidence in detail
and roaStS the majority of the commit
tee. His report is very long, contain
ing a full review and consisting Of
10000 words, as we learn from the
Washington correspondence Of the Ra-
leigh Post, from which we gather the
above. 1t states hat $50 biased is it
that one of the republican members re-
fused to sign the report as he says
Crawford was fairly elected" And yet
the little man from Buncombe will get
his seat through the Infamous course Of
his gang. 1t is a disgrace to the con
gress and a great outrage to North
Carolina.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
P~RITCHARD'S SENATORIAL
EFFORT.

What follows was written soon after
Senator Pritchard's ostensible reply to
the greatest living southron. 1t was
far more of a stump speech than a legal
argument. OF it's kind it was much
better adapted to a western North Car
olina audience, than to a body of sup
posed dignifed and able United States
senator's:
The speech that Senator Pritchard
attempted in the senate in reply to
Senator Morgan has been riddled in
the same chamer and by the press of
this state. 1t was a very lame and i'm
potent conclusion as well as reply, is
the common judgment. We do not
deny that he is a man of ability, but
with the poorest of causes. His own
conscience must smite him at every
turn in his wicked selfish efforts to re-
mand the white people to the tender
mercieS of a gang of white traitors to
their race, and to the egroe who have
under such bad and desperate leader
ship visited such cruel wrongs and in
juries upon North Carolina. With a
good cause he could not measure intel
lectual and legal swords with Senator
Morgan, who is easily the greatest man
in the present senate. Pritchard's
weakness amounts to sublimity. 1t
will be interesting to see what Senator
Morgan will do with the Tennesseean's
talk if he should think it needed MOTTO
ing. Butler, the great legal luminary
also, is all the way from Sampson.
He should hasten to the help of the
other senator from afflicted North Car
DINA. The mountain labored and
brought forth a mouse. There is some
thing of eternal fitness in the ora-
torical fizzle Of Jeter, for
blind and naked ignorance
Delivers brawling judgments, IN
shamed,
On all things all day long"
But Jeter's attempting to answer the
great Morgan is absolutely funny, ridic-
ulous, almost deplorable. But it will
not injure Morgan, but how will it end
with the Tennesseeam?
Great fleaS have little fleaS
Upon their backs to bite en-,
And these again have lesser ffeas,
And so-ad infinitum."
P. S.-We did not read a line of But
ler's illumination in the senate. Life
is too short to be wasted upon such a
Smatterer and pretender.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
SENATOR LODGE - GHE SKENA

There is some one of the Washington
with markedly clever style. He is clas-
sieai, and yields a scimitar of great
posi&a and keenness. We have often
slapped to behold some of his sarcas-
tic and literary scintillations. Recent
L he amused himself over Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts, who ranks
Up there now as a classical scholar of
literary distinction. and even some
suspect him of having some ain I'M
Outstanding of what a statesman is
like. 1t seems Lodge showed up in a
speech in the senate which we did not
see. He waxed wroth we take it. Here
is the close of the Posts facile notice
high art:
W. are with him shoulder to should
er in the rash and furious onslaught,
or dos-a-dos in the final, desperate
stand at bay. But we should be glad
to see him Just a trifle cooler-juSt. a
thought more calculating. These tu-
multuous Plymouth Rock pulses would
be beautiful and gracious things In
epic poetry. Time a when they
made the splendor of the world and
stuffed the chronicles of FroisSart
chock-a-block with ecstasy. If Lodge
had lived in those lush days, he would
have been Geraint and Galahad and
Isancelot compressed into one grand
homicidai figure. He would have ca
ysrted in the lists at Camelot and
whacked every trembling shield in
sight. He would have ridden. later,
with Sir William Loring through the
Inacs of fair Burgundy or Numbered al
the front of battle in Aragon or Elan
ders. The trouble is, however. tina
Ledge hourishes-a dapper and most
beautiful anachronism-in a Sordid age,
He is up against a brutal game. He
needs to crimp his passion and subdue
his martial fury. ne cold, unfeeling,
fexy. furtive business is h thing.
In that line Lodge might be a win
neg"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27

we have a record. His career and life
of aggressive usefulness is the more
remarkable when We appreciate that
he was an absolutely self-made man
Ana this he was to a far greater extent
than is commonly implied by this hack
neyed phrase. Douglass was born a
negro and a slave at a time when to
be either was to receive no considera-
ton that a man is entitled to-"
Now Douglass was an able a and
an orator We have heard him speak.
But he said again and again that he
did not have drop of negro blood in
his veins-that his mother was a pure
Indian and his father a white man.
But that lie as to his being a negro
will continue to be repeated forever,
and people will die believing they tell
the truth. 1t is so with the infamous
| faisehood so precious with some Vir-
ginians-that Pettigrew's North Caro-
! Iinians ran on the third day at Gettys-
| burg. Shakespeare tells US that a lie
| is past all shame, so past all truth.
!! The Latins had a saying that there
! is no doctrine 80 false as not TO con-
| tain in it some truth" The truth as tc
| the Pettigrew brigade in the usua
Islander as to the third day at Gettys-
| burg is that it was in the charge. The
lie is that they ran. The fact is they
not only fought as long and went as
| far as Pickett's men went, but went
farther. Old Longstreet ISLANDERS tne
North Carolinians. But he Slanderec
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27

a valid case of sickness or a what
possible harm could there be In allow
ing the other IL to complete the tHaa.
There must be some superstituttsh at
tached to the magic number L.
Yea. verify,
New York city Is still growing over
the loss of trade. while other otaes
show continued increase.
The legislature of Kentucky confirms
the election as governor Of Gsebet-
What will revolutionist and anarce-
ist Taylor do about IL now?
II seems to be British day now in
Africa
The orangeburg IS. CT Times charges
| that McLaurin's imperialism Is the re-
suit ~ an anxious desire to succeed
Judge Simonton OF the United States
circuit court
Speaker Henderson was in the United
States senate. from Missouri. In tsa.
and he voted against the impeachment
OF Andrew Johnson He acted maa-
fully. conscientiously. justly. His
| speech had a clear ring OF a man ia IL.
Out in Wisconsin. AZ Kenosea. the
names OF all are postea IN
public places. and tintypes are at
tached.
Heber Kicks is a Mormon bishop
| An account of this uxorious old fellow
says tina he enjoys the distinction OF
| being the head OF the largest family in
Mormondom. IL not I'm the world. He
has twelve wives. sixty-six children and
2ls grandchildren. Some OF his sens
are prominent at Alberta. Canada.
where the Mormons are setting ZIP a
new kingdom. and at Chihuahua. Aexi-
co. where for years there has been a
| fourishing Mormon colony"
| What's up? Bourke Cochran, Cor
I man and other gold bugs are all OUT
favoring Colonel Bryan for the presi-
| dency. They were nightly agin htu
in 1896.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
WHAT THE PRESIDENT HOLDS.

An interesting announcement has
ly editor of Harper's Weekly. He and
Mckinley are thick" He and Mac
have had a long ''confab." Mac was
communicative as to his present views.
He talked of our colonies" If Mr..
Nelson reports correctly we have at last
definitely what the president favors,
aims at. He say sit is Mr.. McKinley's
belief, and it will be his purpose to
carry the belief into operation. hat the
constitution does not apply to any of
our new islands; that those people are
not fit for self-government, beyond that
proposed for Hawaii; hat our new
possessions must not be permitted to
injure any of our protected interests,
and that free trade with Puerto Rico
is right because our protected interests
will not be injured thereby" He holds
the congress has plenary powers as
the British parliament has in dealing
with foreign ~conquests. He oes so far
in his new departures as to hold that
congress may pass n tariff law for
Puerto Rico, another for Hawaii, an
other for the Philippines and that all
may be different from that of the Unit
ed States.
1T does not appear likely to his
mind that any question can ever arise
as to the civil rights of the people of
these places.
MI. McKinley's attitude. then to-
ward the natives is benevolent. He de-
sires to elevate them, to educate them,
and he hopes that, in the end, they
will become worthy of being entrusted
with local self-government."
We do not discuss here but merely
report what the presidents views are
and what his purposes. He holds that
the people in the conquered or held
islands must look to the United State
government for justice and protection
but have no rights whatever and will
never have any rights that are to be
considered or respected by this govern
ment. This is an important
ment. What will the American people
do about it?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27

The Marquis Of Queensberry was a
gambler and much else Of n worldly.
wicked kind. He lived for time and
ense. His god vas this world. He
gloried in his breif life OF less than an
hundred years. doing no good. leaving
deeds and no memory behind that gen
erations To come should rise up and
cal him blessed. He died in dirision
of God and His proffered salvation
went out. a blank and Bile upon hu-
manity and literally went to his
place" He knows more now than he
might not be swift to proclaim gnss-
ticiSm.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
IN HELP.

Pritchard Is calling to bis help In his
great legal and political distress able
republicans in the north He wrote to
ex-senator Edmunds and in reply the
vermonter takes sides with d Ten
nessee adventurer and in opposition to
the proposed constitutional amendment
in North Carolina Edmunds Is an
able man a thorough partisan. a
Down Easter with negro sympathies.
and a strong lawyer. But there are
other learned and strong lawyers and
they do not agree with Edmunds- We
see IL mentioned in the New York
Evening Post. negro sympathizer. that
Edmunds writes Ito h enect that the
proposed constitutional amendment i'm
posing a reading and writing cuaiif-
cation to suffrage except to those and
their descendants who could vote be-
fore January /. 1867. is in opposition
10 the federal constitution. Such a
government. he says. cannot be held
to be republican in a legal. moral. or
political sense" But the able repub-
lican newspaper. the Washington Pest.
says that Massachusetts, has a law in
operation as to suffrage that is quite
as unconstitutional as that proposed In
North Carolina OF course men differ.
Great lawyers differ in opinion often.
But Edmunds is not infalliable nor with
all the virtues. He is a greater lawyer.
however, tina Pritchard n Butler
and Pearson. Butler thinks himself
possibly the superior OF Edmunds-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
The Big Racket Store
is FULL OF
BARGAINS FOR YOU ALL.

If we can convince you that this is
true, we consider that we are doing
you a favor n at the same time are
helping ourselves. Glance over the
following list and see If you can beat
prices:
We have just received a big line of
NEW SILKS IN ALL THE SPRING
SHADES, extra wide at SOC per yard.
A BEAUTIFUL WHITE SILK IN
NEWEST CORDED EFFECT at SOC
Also A NICE LINE OF VIEW SAT-
ms, all colors, at soc per yard.
We have ALL THE NEW SPRING
SHADES IN SILK NULL, e inches
wide, at 35c per yard.
We have SEVERAL PIECES OF
FINE SILK AND WOOL MOHAIR,
4S inches wide. worth s1.25 per yard,
for sc.
Our line Of DRESS Innings is
VERY COMPLETE. CANBKICS at
sc; WAIST LINING at 7c. SELICIAS
at Zoe; NEAR SILKS at 121zc; NOV
ERN at 15c, and FINE SILK Innings
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
II y TRUTH.

Error always moves swiftly, while
truth follows with leaden pace. Thirty
edd years ago a lie was started about
the North Carolinians at Gettysburg.
The lie is still travelling in the Virginia
eress although exposed a hundred
tines. Old Fred Douglass for forty
wears has been paraded in the news
pa,ers in the north as a fine example
Of negro c~apability. and as h greatest
orator of the negro race in America.
We have before us the following state
ment in as ably edited a weekly as the
Philadelphia American:
Beyond all question FredericE
Douglass is the most notapie , me
nosf remarkable and the most impress
siye character his race has ever pro-
daced in this country. or. for that na
ter In any other, at any period, OF whcn
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
Ihe Messenger.
THE RIGHT

Tn nomination Of Marion Butler by
Ger Adams for lieutenant governor,
VIII strike most men of fair sense and
observation as particularly appropriate,
cxea fortunate. We do not know
tive vhite-skns who will be better
paired. Butler in 1898, shamefully
abased in his speech at Rocky Mount,
and outraged truth and decency, but
aut of which he tried to lie late. but
in vain. Again he showed in mis- late
6esy harangue at Raleigh that he was
a revoIutionist and anarchist of the
Kentucky Taylor stripe, filled with
nalice, gangrened by jealousy, embit-
tered by disappointment, made reckless
b necessity, and was ready to resort
to race war to carry out his Internal
P4ans. Consumed by ambition and
made desperate by circumstances, this
Iatter-day conspirator against the
people proclaimed himself ready to
jsin white republicans, his deceived
party friends among populists. and the
black contingent ne and other pale
- hoo oo toIA6 ihASdoId oAAo oodCCo
fer the most selfish, sordid purposes,
that with his force the entire body of
white democrats might be driven out
Of North Carolina. No doubt he is de-
PRAYED and malicious enough to seek
such a dreadful appeal, out there are
not enough other fools in the state to
jsil him in this wild and hazardous
crusade against the virtue, intelligence,
n manhood of North Carolina, to
make the movement of any very great
hazard or Importance. One old fash
isned rebel yell' heard from the noun
tains to the sea would put to route
Butler and his rabble.
Adams is the fellow who at Columbus
court in 1888, so disgraced the ermine of
the judge by a most slanderous and
disgusting diatribe from the bench
aimed at the white men of the state.
1t was a fitting partisan harangue to
be printed under the same cover with
Iinaey's ratings in the United States
house, the foul and villainous talk of
bumptious George White. the kinky-
headed Solomon of negrodom. and the
editorial of the ~scoundreI Manley that
assaulted pure Womanhood in North
Carolina
Let the nomination of Butler and
Adams be made. They are veritable
Sia<nese Twins in political iniquity-
yokc-fellows in defamation OF better
men-hail-feIlows in partisan sins of
commission and ready tools for the low-
est party and the vilest combination
e formed for the injury of an old
state, h degradation of humanity
and the injury and outrage of the white
the master builders and hope Of
h weird. They are the exact ticket
fer piotters and despoilers-the rabble
with their large professions and little
deeds" with their large professions"
and wife trecheries." Yes. nomi-
nate that ticket so representative of the
lew gang every way, and let the white
Ren Of the state AVE a good, open
chance at it. That ticket will deceive
ne sne-not even the negroes for
"Taint a KNOWN kind o. cattle
And gets ketched with moldy corn"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27

We regret to learn that the Irish
Methodist evangelist has gone to the
bad" A Greensboro special to the
Charlotte Observer tells the sad story
of his fall. He was tried and white
washed. He went to Washington city
and has been ostensibly doing mission
work. 1t leaks out now that he is liv-
ing in adultery with the same handsome
Georgia girl who figured in the trial.
The dispatch from Greensboro says:
The affair is deplored by all, especi-
ally on account of Mr.. Lees family,
who live here. He has a wife, who is
now sick, two daughters n a son. On
investigation today it was learned that
Mr.. Lee a not supported his family
since he has bee in Washington,
having written them only a few times
and representing himself to be in hard
luck"
He seems to be a .ery dissolute and
black-hearted sinner.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
Announcement.

To accommodate those who are par
tial TO the use Of atomizers in apply
ing liquids into the nasal passages for
catarrhal troubles, the p~roprietors pre-
pare Cream Balm in liquid form, which
will be known as Ely's Liquid Cream
Balm. Price, including the spraying
tube, Is 20 cents. Druggists or by mail:
The liquid form embodies the medicinal
properties Of the solid preparation.
Cream Baum is quickly absorbed by the
membrane and does not dry UP b Sc
cretions but changes them TO q natural
and healthy character. Ely Brothers.
SIS Warren Street. New York.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
VERY.

That is al interesting statement in
yesterdays Messenger from Washing
ton as to the eager reading of English
newspapers by members of the congress
as to the marked difference between
the monarchy Of Great Britain and the
so-called republic of the United States.
We nave said in these columns that
the present powers of American pres
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27

1t is pleasant to learn from the Fay
etteville Observer that the white men
of Cumberland county will be organic
ed thoroughly. 4 great deal depends
not only in hat county, but in all the
counties in a complete organization of
all the friends Of good, honest white
mans government for North Carolina.
Some democrats in Cumberland are re-
garded as doubtful. Let all unite for
the public good.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27

Major Guthrie, of Durham, a promi-
nent lawyer, says he will ask the legis-
lature to put the Blackwell Durham
Tobacco Company, Julie Cars old
factory that was sold) and hat is 10Y
held by the tobacco trust, in the hands
of trustees and to repeal it's charter.
He says there are a majority of the
stockholders who receive no dividends.
The Raleigh News and Observer says:
THE fight against the tobacco trust
is on in earnest. 1t began with the
farmers who have been robbed by a re-
duction Of something like 100 per cen
in the price of their tobacco. 1t is to
be taken up by the organization of the
Durham Antitrust Tobacco company
which will ask the legislature of North
Carolina for a charter to manufacture
tobacco. 1t is to be waged in a fight
to repeal the law incorporating slack
wells Durham Tobacco Company, and
put it into the hands of trustees.
Strong efforts Ire being made to COM
pei the tobacco trust to pay the farmers
a fair price for tobacco, quit violating
the laws of North Carolina, and stop the
monopoly it has built. The farmers are
in dead earnest and will stop al moth
ing legal or honorable to destroy or
cripple the trust that has reduced them
from conditions of comfort to ~vassals,
working for the trust"