The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-03


Butler should not take hls defeat
| hard. A man OF his caltme should
| consider himself lucky even to get to
the United States senate AZ aA--Dur-
ham Herald.
The corporation commission could
saw both time and trouble by con-
ferring with Judge Simonton n Tx
ing a tax valuation pom h property
of corporations in this state that would
meet his approval--Durham Herald
Butler and Hoiton have fused the
republican and populists state tickets.
as everybody knew they would do and
now they are going around angfng
their heads and trying TO keep h de-
tails OF their sale OF principles secret
! These are men. indeed. who love dark
| ness rather than light. because their
| deeds are evil.-Charlotte Observer.
The best thing any white man can
do Is TO vote for the constitutional
amendment. But under no circum
stances can you afford TO fail TO vote
the democratic state. legislative ana
| county tickets. These tickets are COM
posed OF our very best men representa-
! tive men Of undoubted honesty. fuly
capable of filling the different offices
with satisfaction To aI.-At- ATTY
News.
The reason the RAIDS and pops are
making no speeches IS that they do not
want the people 10 have their m4sTep-
reservations corrected and the WliiuI
lies OF Butler and his laid
bare. Such fu~rtiveness should excite
the suspicion OF the most credulous.
Those who indulge in such underhand
methods do 50 because they know that
their cause is not just and because
their only hope of winning Is by lying.
-Tarboro Southern.
Where do you live? Is your home IN
North Carolina? Are you in favor Of
good government by white men, Or
are you in favor OF vicious govern
ment by negroes and their allies? You
can have good government and can
do as much as any man by your bal
lot TO help secure it by voting for the
amendment and for the nominees on
the democratic ticket. II YOU do not
vote for the amendment and cast a
ballot against it, by that act and that
much you say do not favor good
government by white men. but favor
vicious government by h negroes and
their allies. Which will you have?-
Graham Cleaner
Let it not be forgotten that two years
ago a coal black negro was elected
constable of Gulledge township and
two other negroes. in the same town
ship. were elected justices OF the peace.
Ii is true these negroes did not quail
fy and serve, but il was not because
they did not want to. but because they
We're afraid to. When 1t became gem
orally known that the township had
beer disgraced by their election the
white people rose en- masse and waited
on the negroes and gave them 10 un-
derstand that il would not be healthy
for them If they undertook to have
themselves indicted into office. They
took the hint and hat was the last OF
it.-Wadesboro Messenger.
The Lumberton Argus has a para
graph this week which needs Ia be
emphasized. Speaking Of Mr.. Aycock
at ~Lumberton, the Argus says: II
is no extremist. When some one cried
out Thursday, kill 'em!" he rebuked
to stay inside the law" Mr.. Aycock
is right. The democratic party must
stay inside the law" 1t must be gull
ty nowhere of any infraction Of the
law. The p~rovocation TO rest threats
and violence with threats and violence
has already been great in his cam
paign. Il may be greater before the
night of August second. When the
provcation is gratest let every demo-
GRAFT heed the words of the leader OF
his party: Stay inside The law
Raleigh News and Observer.
The adoption Of the amendment
HlSdnS peace DtlNttn Tie races IltTe
is never any strife between the while
pople and negroes in this good state.
except political strife. and that viii
never cease so long as the negroes go
to the ballot box and cast an undivided
ballot against the best interest of the
sac. When he negro is out of politics.
when the 6 and the political
trickster cannot use him as a tool, then
the negro will no longer be a disturb
ing element in politics.. and it Will be
infinitely better for him and for his
white %neighbor. The negro can then
turn his attention to something for
which he is fitted and away from poll
tics for which he as not fitted.-Monroe
Enquirer.
There is not a man in North Carolina
who is capable of an intelligent thought
and who is found working with tooth
and nail against the amendment but
would sacrifice his child to Moloch il
hecould reach the heather god The
men engag in business are great
er crimi1~.- ..-l the men in Israel
who rejcc-~I Jehovah and prostituted
their souls to the worship of Moloch.
Astarte and Dagon. The man that will
consign his child to the keeping OF the
negro party must be hated of men and
Knocked Of God. Prejudice against your
neighbor n calling yourself a popu-
North Carolina, good wives and daugh-
terS OF men who are smitten with
moral blindness, call them down if you
have TO twist your hands in their fore
locks and give them a s~hake.-Ciark-
ton Express.
Harry Tracy, the imported Hanna
popuEst, charged in his harangue al
Town Hall Tuesday evening that
the last legislature repealed the law
giving fines TO the public school fund
and gave II TO the towns. and thai the
supreme court overruled them. He
also declared with vehemence tina the
men who devised the
would destroy every free schooi in the
state il they a the power. Possibly
Tracy knew no better, but there were
intelligent republican and populists
present who knew both statements to
De absurdly untrue. but they showed
no slgn OF d~isapproval. II Tracy does
not know that the same Legislature
which submitted the amendment ap-
propriated 100000 to hi public schools.
IN ADDITION to what Is raised by taxa
tion. liquor license. fines and forfeit
ures, etc., does not know enough IN