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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
M'KINLEY'S OFFICE HOLDERS
MOVING.

1t is extremely painful to people who
believe in honesty and fair dealing in
politics to read of the wonderful ag-
gr~essiveness. or as Cleveland called it,
"pernicious activity" in politics, of the
office holding gang of Mckinley in
North Carolina. Are they acting un-
der the presidents orders, or with his
consent, or by his c~onnivance? He
was told of the bad conduct of his Of
fetal gang in North Carolina in the
late campaign. But so far Is we have
read or heard, he has lone nothing to
rebuke or punish them for their VIOLA
tons of the civil service aw. No
doubt little Mao is we'll pleased at their
performance in the summer n now
they are preparing to repeat land con-
tinue their disreputable work right in
the ace of Mckinley and his cabinet.
The Greensboro Telegram told Of the
meeting in that town of the fellows
who compos the state executive COM
mittee of the republican party Here
it is:
'Mr. A. E. Holton. United States dis
trictrict attorney, chairman; Mr..
HydI1S, secretary 10 SSLdlOI IIllClI-
ards committee, secretary Collector II
S. Harkins of the Western district,
and Collector E. c.. Duncan of the
Eastern district; Colonel Henry Clay
Dockery, United States marshal for the
Eastern district; Major Milikan, Iii
ed States marshal for the Western dis
trict; Spencer Blackburn, assistant dis
trict attorney; Tyre Glenn, postmaster
of Greensboro; Revenue Officer Hosk-
ms; Major H. L. Grant, clerk Of the
district court, and Others"
Little Mac will not care for it if it
will help him to one negro vote, or in
any way prosper his n for get
ting electoral vote of North Carolina
Mac cares little for obligations. legal
restraints or constitutional limitations.
He has done more than any other man
to discredit the civil service to which
he was pledged. He %rejoices In his
badness.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

General John Beatty, one of Ohio's
veteran soldiers and an old republican
is president of a leading bank. OF the
republican platform he speaks in severe
contempt. We copy a few sentences
taken here and there. He says:
= think that it is made up of a lot
of bad assumptions, a sprinkling of
hypocrisy and a good many falsehoods.
The wonderful thing about the Phila-
delphia convention is that Mark Han
ma seems to be its dictator. Now. in
fact, Hanna is al illiterate ass, a polit-
ical ~blunderer. He simply gets what
he buys, rather what the manufacture
er buys of him.
The platform declaration as to the
foreign achievements is a lie.
L hope that the ticket will be de-
feated. I will not vote for the ticket.
Mckinley is a civil fraud and Roose-
welt is a military fraud, and the ticket
deserves to be beaten"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

Have you heard Of or read of the
tremendous new gun? 1t is called the
Gathmann, and is a great eighteen inch
weapon that fires wet gun cotton, and
is the most powerful artillery now in
all the world. 1t has been lately test
ed at Sandy Hook e New York city.
1t is A feet long, weighs SO tons. 1t
throws a torpedo shell weighing 1000
pounds. The shell fully charged with
600 pounds of wet u cotton may be
thrown, according to the inventor,
from six to eight miles, according to
the capacity of the gun, with the accu-
racy Of modern artillery. Should it
miss the firing object and fall within
thirty-One feet Of the target, the effect
would then be as a submarine mine
powerful enough to destroy a battle
ship five or six miles at sea.
The u may be manned by the same
crew that handles the modern Pinch,
and the breech, weighing $500 pounds,
may be opened by a single man. The
gun is massive but perfectly adjusted
and equipped with the most improved
apparatus to operate it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
Ole @essenger.
n ON TRUSTS.

Hanna is the greatest power among
the republicans. He knows how to
draw from money kings all needed mon
eys with which to buy McKinley's way
to the presidential chair. He did this
in 1896, and he thinks he can repeat the
success in 1900. 1t will be seen eight
weeks hence how this is.
Hanna can make speech to beguile
and befool ignorance n ~gullability.
He is the most cunning political knave
now in American politics-even more
cunning thar Marion Butler. Hanna
drew the chief features of the trust
platform adopted some months ago in
Philadelphia by the republican nation
al convention. He showed that his was
no prentice hand"
w recognize the necessity and pro-
priety OF the honest cooperation of
capital to meet new business condi-
tons and especially to extend our rap
idly increasing foreign trade, but We
condemn all conspiracies and combi-
nations intended to restrict business,
TO create monopolies and to limit pro
duction or TO control prices, and favor
such legislation as will effectually re-
strain and prevent all uch abuses,
protect and promote competition n
Secure the rights of producers, laborers
and all who are engaged in industry
and commerce"
This is the thing with which to play
off upon the American people. 1t is
plausibly stated, but it is a mockery
and a deception. If you would see how
false it is turn to Hanna's own opin-
ons and deliverances as to trusts. He
is the head of the whole system among
politicians. 1t is well to see what he
has essayed to utter publicly, and then
you will better understand the cunning
of that resolution
The English government is as good
as ours"
Large combinations of capital have
existed for 200 years in England"
The great commercial success of
England has been due to those same
trusts"
Those combinations known as trusts
are not a political question at all. They
are simply and purely a business ques-
ton"
1.-The trusts have the best men in the
country at their head. L believe in
their organization"
What harm car those trusts do the
people of the country"
1.-The formation of trusts is a step
forward"
They are not intended to increase
profits but to reduce cost"
TRUSTS There's no such thing"
THE combination of corporations is
simply the evolution of business; don't
know of a trust in the United States"
II say they are not trusts. If they
are, prove it,"
Now that is Mark Hannaism in es-
sence. He is one of the gang of rob-
bers and oppressors. He is not logical.
Read and mark his u~tterances, and hi
IS inconsistant. The Ellicott Mary
land) Democrat said of his various ut
terances:
Senator Hanna at first denied that
any trusts existed. Then he claimed
that they were necessities. Now he
asserts that the republican party will
smash them. All of which would be
somewhat contradictory if it didn't
come from the handmade of Duty and
Destiny"
Whatever else you do in politics do
not take Hanna as a guide any more
than you would take such a venal, con-
s~cienceless demagogue as a model in
morals.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

electors can vote for the senator in the
primary.
II is noticeable and gratifying how
fatty Mr.. Means was squelched. His
resolution as to '.the rae issue was
unanimously rejected as it richly de-
served to be. He seems a political fire.
brand or marplot. His politics are out
Of gear some how.
1t was also ordered h a a bill be
drawn ~legalizing primaries to be pre-
sented to the lex legislature. This
was proper. Did not courtesy, as well
as judgment, require h a the name Of
Captain S. A Ashe should be among
the sub-committeemen- to constitute a
board to canva the votes for senator?
He was the mover. No better man was
on the state committee.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

The New York World is not given to
very elevated moral views we believe.
But lately writing of prize fights 1t
wrote above itself and said what mill
ions of people will indorse. We copy
a few lines
1T is not without reason that prize?
fighting has been condemned and driv-
en- out of civilization. There are fea-
lures in it itself and also in it's ~invaria-
BILE and inevitable surroundings which
make it repugnant to tn average moral
sense of the civilized community"
Think of 10, 900 people assembling at
night to near the bulletins from a slug
ging match between heavy bruisers.
The prize ring had great attractions.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
THE PRIMARIES.

If We understand the resolution Of
the state democratic committee as to
who may vote in senatorial primaries,
it includes all who vote for the DEM
ocratic state ticket in August 1t does
not include all who voted for the
amendment, as many worthy republic
cans, populists and negroes voted for
the amendment who still remain out Of
the democratic fold If a man will
vote for the democratic candidate for
and the democratic electors
o president then he can vote in the
primary for senator. The men who
vote in November for democratic candi-
dates for congress and the democratic
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
HOME FOLKS.

The tobacco product of this state so
grew as to be second to that of Ken
lucky in quantity. We think there is
deterioration now. The time was when
the finest grades of tobacco were pro-
duced in this state, leading easily all
others. We have no knowledge it is SO
nov The tobacco trust is able to hold
its own however with the most gigantic
and grinding. 1t has proved an un-
mixed curse to the farmers of old
Granville and very greatly affected
their coalition. If you doubt this go
into that famous tobacco section and
LII with the farmers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
shall go. They will be sure to let
George move on"

In viewing the Importance of having
the Cape Fear river from Wilmington
to Fayetteville made all it should be
as to navigation, it has been recently
stated by the Fayetteville chamber OF
commerce, as We see reported in the
Observer, that Fayetteville the head
Of the navigable river, is the center of
a district among whose manufacturing
industries are the Hope Mills, 5000
spindles, $50 looms; Holt Morgan Mills.
10, 900 spindles, 500 looms; Tolar, Hart
& Holt Mills 1000 spindles; Holt Will
hanson Mills, $500 spindles; Fayette-
Vile Cotton Mills, 3.12o spindles; Bluff
Mills. 200 looms: Murchison Mills, 5000
spindles, 100 looms; Cumberland Mills.
5000 spindles; Ashly Baily Silk Mills.
Lafayette knitting Mills. Poe Brick
Yard. Bucket Co., Lacy Mfg. Co., Fur
niture Mills, Fayetteville Cotton Oil
and Fertilizer Co., 40 tons; Carolina
Machine Shops, Wards Foundry. EN-
mett's Roller Cover Mill Williams Fur
niture Factory, Mcneil Roller, Rice and
Grist Mill, Watson Planning Machine
Mill. a tobacco warehouse, several saw
mills and other industries. These are
very important industries and it is
wisely urged that they produce a vast
amount of freight and many of these
works already use the river in their
transportation and in this way enjoy
a large profit in savings OF freights
alone"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

Hundreds of friends and admirers Of
Rev. DR.. r. G. Pearson, will be panied
to learn of the serious condition Of his
health. and will be glad in any improve
he is foremost in almost every element
of power that makes a man cody,
c~onsecrated. useful, decorous and i'm
pressive. He is profoundly pious and
is a great preacher Of the truth of God.
We never heard his equal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
First Regiment to 60 Into Camp.
Especial to the Messenger.)

Raleigh, N. c., September 6.@The
First regiment Of state guard will go
into camp at Asheviie or Charlotte.
the selection being left to Colonel Arm
field. Governor Russell today agreed
that this encampment should be had.
Ii. is said at the adjutant generals
office that 1T will be held with nf..en
days. OF as o as the regiment can
get ready.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
To Get Rid OF Ffe~

People I'M the country who are an
noyed by flies should remember that
clusters of the fragrant clover. which
grows abundantly by nearly every
roadside, If hung in the room and left
TO dry n shed ats faint fragrant per
fume through the air. will drive aTav
more flies than sticky sauce of mo-
iasses and other fly-traps and hy-pa-
pers can ever collect-New York Trfb-
une.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

The negro state conference called to
meet at Raleigh on 26-27th September
is not to be political, but educational
and industrial. That is much better.
Industry properly applied, and educa-
ton of the right kind, will do more for
the negroes in one year than they have
beer able to get out of politics in thir-
ty years. Let the negroes cooperate in
all efforts to advance and uplift thir
people. In the address issued by c. Il.
King, president, Raleigh. we find this:
Enthusiastically we are not making any
Roadway along the lines that will be Of
substantial benefit. We are not accu-
mulating money or owning land il the
proportion that We should; and until
we do this we cannot be counted as
material factors in this land. Are you
thinking along this line, and have You
any plans to benefit the masses?
Internationally we must do more.
The age demands that men of intelli-
gence come to the front
I'VE request every industrial organi-
cation, church and - " to send a
representative
Let every county represent, n let
us act now or never for the race"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

St.John's Lutheran Church, Sails
bury, is the place chosen ait which to
hold the celebration of the centennial
of the Lutheran Synod to be held in
1908. The Truth says the ST Johns
congregation dates back for $50 years.
The celebration will be a very inter-
ing occasion.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

The negroes r steadily moving
northward. 1t is said Raleigh has just
lost $50. If bumptious George White
shall carry out his $4,000. the white
people will not sorrow provided they
can have the choosing Of those who
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11

Indiana woman's Christian Temper
nee Union people inauguratea pray
er chain" for the defeat Of Mckinley.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
Jos. C. Shepherd, Jr.,
DRUGGIST,
MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON n. c.
Jun
Sprunt Institute
Formerly "Grove Academy
Established 17S5.

formerly Grove Academy
Established 17S5.
r b first attempt hat had ever
been mlde to teach the languages in
this country (says William Dickson.
February "a. 1850
REORGANIZED as a College for
Wo, n by order of Wilmington Pres
bytery.
KENANSVILLE, IN historic Duplin.
is noted for culture and refinement.
Carefully selected Faculty. Number OF
students limited.
Cheapest school in the State OF the
same grade. Collegiate, Academic, Com
mercial, Must and Art.
116th Session begins September T.
For particulars. apply al once to
VIM. NJ. SHAW, President.
Southport. N. T..
Or Rev. Peter Mcintyre,
President Of Board,
Faison. n. c.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-01
FILIPIN0S AGGRESSIVE.
Our Troops Vigorously Attacked on
Several Occasions Three Hundred
ms Irgents Killed.

Manila, April 20, els p. m.-About
three hundred of the enemy have been
killed recently in north Ilocos, includ-
ing Dodd'S fight and the attack on
Batoc April 9Th, when from 600 to 100
rebels, a quarter of whom were armed
with rifles, determinedly attacked the
Americans, charging their positions
and fighting at close quarters. The en-
gagement lasted all the afternoon, the
enemy burning the towns; but they
were repulsed after the arrival OF
American achievements.
The insurgents generally are agrees
sive in that province. They captured
an American provision wagon near
Lapo.
The Americans having obtained evil
that the alcaldes of Lapo, Mag
singal, CabugaS and Sinait were hold
ing ~treacherous communication with
the insurgents, imprisoned them and
burned LapoS town hall.
There lave been several minor fights
in the province, including an attack
by 200 insurgents on Lavag, April 18th,
forty of whom were killed and eighty
were captured. The officers report the
men of the Thirty-third regiment and
Third cavalry behaving splendidly. IN
der e trying circumstances. There
were - American casualties at Batoc,
where $50 insurgents were killed and
seventy were captured.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-01
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS.
The State OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES tc
National Convention-The Platform.

Boston, April 26.-The republicans of
Massachusetts, today elected delegates
and alternates to the national republic
can convention in Philadelphia. OF the
1926 delegates entitled to seats there
were 1854 present. Congressman F. H.
Gillett, the permanent chairman deliv-
cred a long address.
The delegates at large chosen by ac-
clamation were Senator Lodge, Con-
gresham Mccall, William B.. P1unkett,
and Walter Clifford. The platform,
adopted unanimously affirms adherence
to the ST. Loui platform, congratulates
the country on the rejection Of free sill
yer coinage and the establishment Of
the gold standard. 1t pledges the re-
publican party ito support such amend
ments to the banking laws as will pro-
vide a flexible and sufficient medium OF
exchange, to ensure fair eturnS for
enlarged American commerce and
assure labor of steady employment
and Of the largest possible share in the
fruits of our expanding trade.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-01
SLAUGHTERING FILIPIN0S.
Two Parties Attacked and Many KILL
ed-Fffty Driven into n River and
Shot.

Manila, April 26, 6:25 p. m.-Officers
who have arrived here from Neuva
Caceras, province of South Camarines,
bring details of a fight April 10Th in
which eighty Filipinos were killed. The
American outpoStS reported 300 natives
assembled three miles from the town
ments of the Forty-fffth regiment with
two Maxims who nearly surrounded
h Filipinos, the majority Of whom
were armed with boloS.
The Philippines wore hide helmets,
coats n shields. They were quickly
put to fight, leaving the field strewn
with armor. The three rif1emen were
unable to shoot straight and the bolo-
men never got near enough to the
Americans to do execution. Therefore
none of the Americans were wounded.
Lieutenant Balch with twenty cav
airy from the Thirty-Seventh regiment
cornered fifty bolomen in a river and
shot every one, the bodies floating
away.
General Bell has issued a proclama-
tion, declaring that he will retaliate
relentlessly unless this guerrilla war
ceases and that he will burn all the
towns which harbor guerrillas.
In a fight at Sorgogon, Albay pro-
vince, on April 10Th, three companies
of the Forty-seventh infantry, Cap
tain Gordon commanding, routed a
large force of insurgents, mostly bolO-
men, killing fifty-three. 1t is under
stood General Otis intends to sail on
the Meade or the Grant early in May.
He will be accompanied by his staff
and will probably visit Hong Kong
n other ports.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-01
SCRAP OF ANCIENT HISTORY.
An Out-of-Town Subscriber Writes of
the Establishment of the Whining
ton and Raleigh, N. c., Railroad.

The Messenger is indebted to an
esteemed out-of-town subscriber, "a
native of The Town for an interest
ing Scrap from Ancient History"
1t was accompanied by the following
note:
MY friends, Messrs. jackson & Bell,
are welcome to the enclosed, to do as
they please. There are many things of
the olden times that we Fossils might
tell, if we would"
The scrap of ancient History" is
as follows, to-Wit:
Il know of no people who have
greater cause to be proud of the record
of its old time citizens h Whining
ton people, and yet, I sometimes think
they either ignore or are ignorant of
the noble and public spirited acts of
it residents in the 1S30s to 1S50s.
The legislature of 1888 granted a
charter to certain named cOrpOratorS
to build the Wilmington and Raleigh
railroad now the Wilmington n
Weldon. 1 will not dwell on the diff
culties of obtaining the said charter,
but will simply state hat it was OBJ
tanned largely through the instrument
tally of Hons. William B. Meares,
William S. Ashe and Calvin S. Graves.
The road was built entirely by indi-
vidual subscriptions and the following
named gentlemen were the conceiverS
and executors Of the project and work.
The private subscription list vas
headed by the late Governor E. B.
Dudley, 5000; Aaron Lazarus n
members of that family, $4,000; VIM.
B. Meares, SO, 900; Robt. II. Cowan, the
elder, $4,000; R. K. Dickinson, $4,000;
A. j. DeRosset, Jr., $4,000; T. ]. Hill,
$4,000; Alexander Anderson, $1,000.
The names Of smaller subscribers and
amounts I have not at hand. Their
name was legion, and Wilmington abb
solutely subscribed more money than
the total of the assessed value Of it's
property for taxation.
Again. when the charter of the
North Carolina railroad hung in the
balance for want of sufficient sub
scription TO secure 1t, five men Of the
town came forward and subscribed
$4,000, thereby securing it, Drs. Fred
erick J. Hill and A. J. DeRosset, Jr.
were two Of them. I cannot recall the
other three.
NATIVE OF THE OLD TOWN.