The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-06-01
STATE PRESS.

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the successor to President Alderman.
OF the University of North Carolina.
The University needs q man of mark
ed executive ability at its head far
more than IL needs q man with mark
ed teaching ability. It needs a man OF
known executive ability.-Asheville
Citizen.
laws have made them too easy to be
secured. OF course, Ii goes without
saying that the woman shares with
her newly made husband the disgust
of every virtuous person. The divorce
laws need radical reform, and a return
to the adoption of the scriptural cause,
as the only legal ground for divorce
from the bonds Of matrimony.-Salis-
bury Truth Index.
The unseating of Crawford is un-
| Questionably the clearest case OF
| wholesale roguery ever witnessed In
| any branch Of the national legislature.
| Without scintilla of evidence or ex-
cuse, excepting that theyneeded Pear
| sons vote. a man has been seated who
was rejected by a majority of the vo-
| ters of this district. But a day OF
| reckoning will come.-Hendersonville
| Hustler.
One of the delegates to the republi-
can convention here last week was
heard to says privately that he had
been very much opposed 70 the amend
! ment until he attended the republican
| rally at Winston last week and the
| way the big negroes with spectacleS
| and high hats pushed the whites around
turned his stomach, and he is now very
| quiet. He, however, is afraid to say
so out publicly, for he is a federal Of
| fice-holder, and he fears Pritchard's
hatchet.-Wilkesboro Chronicle.
Mr.. Holton, who claims to have de-
clined to joint canvass with the dem
| ocratS because of democratic violence,
| has slandered the 100000 white men
| in North Carolina who have been
| peace-loving and orderly, never-resort-
ing to force except when compelled to
do 50 for the honor of their race. In
this campaign, while asserting in Ian
| guage too plain to be misunderstood
to submit to negro rule, the democrats
| have uttered no threat and used no
| language that could be construed into
| inviting violence or bloodshed.-Ral-
| eigh News and Observer.
The Rev. DR.. Hills expresses surprise
| that 1.-The great majority OF southern
| pastors and southern churches hold
| rigidly to the doctrine of retributiOn.
| The noblest type of American man
| hood and womanhood is to be found
in the south. One reason is to be
| found in the fact that there is less of
| the spirit of skepticism, infidelfty and
| I1RneT cTlllClSII1 III the SOulu ludU
| the north, which is saturated with it.
The southern people, as a whole, come
| nearer to accepting the Bible as an in
| spired revelation from God than the
| people IN any other part of the union
and 1t is to be hoped that they will con-
tinue to shock the Rev. DR.. Hilhs.-
Charlotte Observer.
| Never let another republican say one
word to you about the amendment dis
fro, h CIV yIyh rP-
! publican congress, through the inStru-
| mer talitY of Linney and George White
diSfranchISed every voter of the Ninth
congressional district. The vote of the
| city Of Asheville was thrown out en-
/ tirely because one negro was convicted
of perjury committed after this contest
had already begun. Another whole
voting precinct in Cherokee county
| was thrown out because the electors
| were registered about twenty feet from
| where they ought to have been, al
| though it is not charged that there was
any illegal votes cast. Such bold theft
| as this will reap a sure and merited
| condemnation from the peOple.-Shel-
by Star.
We are sorry to see growing up in
our party dissenSions over the local
offices. or candidates. 1t is a privilege
| that is accorded to every voter in our
party Ito aspire to office, and that
| that any many has the right to ex-
press his preference for those whom
he wants to- fill the offices either as
| candidates for election or officers elec-
ted: while this is true democracy, still
| we should express our preferences in
an honorable manner, and not in the
manner that it is being done at the
present time in this, and possibly some
| other counties. The garrulOuS, loQua-
eious habit that the zeal for our friends
| so often LEAD us to, is neither wise,
sensible or just. It is not just to the
friend whose cause we advocate; it
does him harm much Oftener than it
does him good, in fact it seldom ever
does him any gOod.-Pamlico Enter
prise.
| We are sorry to have to say some
things about our party; it is the party
/ of our birth; 1T is the party of our an
cestors; the better days of our young
manhood were spent in its service, but
in defence of the amendment it is our
duty to state facts, let the chips fall
where they may. The negro was not
present at the republican state conven-
tion-why this was so all very we'll
know. On its face this was an ad-
mission that the negro is not qualified
to participate in or have a vote in po-
litical or governmental affairs. If he
is not qualified to cast his vote in polH-
cal conventions, what special merit
entities him to vote at elections? If
he is incompetent for one, why not
the other? If he drives white men
from conventions, will he not drive
white men from our party at the polls? =?
If his occupying seats in conventions
gives the democrats a cudgel to hit us
with, will not voting with us at the
polls give them the same cudgei? If
it is a disgrace to vote with him in
conventions, is 1t not disgrace to
vote with him at the polls? Turn it
as you please, sift it as you may, "the
cat will come home.''-Raleigh State
Journal Rep.
The Wilmington Messenger speak
ing Of Carlyle and his great work, the
French Revolution, observes: To
this hour, after several other import
ant and noble works have been writ
ten upon this great national upheaval
and social cataclysm, the eloQuence,
the splendor, the dramatic effects, the
absorbing interest, the pictorial power