The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-12
STATE PRESS.

The aggregate wealth OF the eight
most active members OF the republican
executive committee in charge OF une
national campaign Is 81. 0Oo. ooo.-Char-
iotte News
The constitution may have reached
the Philippines but we think Its inter-
probation there would prove that II
ought to be at home-@Concord Trio-
une.
rhe republican administration brags
up on a surplus in the treasury and
yet continues to exact war taxes from
the earnings OF the People.-Winston
Sentinuel.
But our worst fears ave been a
lied. Some OF the supporters OF Cen
eral Carr have been overhauling Caair-
man Simmons politically. and II MS
friends should pursue the same courts
towards General Caar the campaign
would become exceedingly
| and Observation-Disclosures News and
| Observer.
n man who makes the ministry
| a ladder for his own selfish uplifting Is
| sure at last to fail. But the few ik
Moody and Pearson who preach the
plain old gospel in the plain old
| albeit with wondrous power. Will be
| blessed of the Lord and loved by all
the people. A preacher, of all other
| men in the world, should set the ex-
ample OF gentleness, refinement and all
other qualities which mark h e perfect
| acknowledgements Charity and
Children.
Taking a view of the whole field, and
bearing in mind the narrow margin oy
| which Mckinley was elected in 1896
out of a vote fourteen millions he
received but six hundred thousand plu-
| rality, and the change OF some thirty
thousand votes distributed in the close
| states would have defeated him in the
electoral college-we are inclined to
think that a landslide" for Bryan is
not improbable. Both Mr.. Bryan and
/ Chairman Jones are confident OF sue
cess.-Faletteville Observer.
We are glad that Judge Boyd will
put an end to the petty. and often
fraudulent, cases gotten up for feder-
al court solely to make fees The gov
eminent, without a doubt has been
Systematically robbed year by year by
this nefarious practice.-Raleigh Post.
A correspondent of the Charlotte OBJ
| server suggests Judge Clarke as anoth-
er candidate for the senate, and while
the people of the state could choose
no better man, the suggestion comes
too Herald.
News comes of a strike at Haw River
resulting in the closing down of three
mills, all on account of nothing.
Unions are good things only when they
| are used for good, and employees should
| learn that they should conform TO the
rules of establishments where they are
employed, union or no union 1t should
be the aim of every union to give en-
| ployers better work than they a get
outside, and not to give trouble at the
slightest preteXt- Mo wonder those
| who know nothing of unioniSm are
| afraid of unions-Durham Herald.
When John Quincy Adams was In
| public life he rehuked his son who
started to write a private letter on
| government stationary. That belongs
I to the government, he said. Il al
ways use my paper for private bust
ness" When the late Senator Lamar
| became secretary of the interior, one
| of his first acts was to fit UP his own
! private desk with ink and stationery
| paid for out of his oWn pocket which
! he used for his private correspondence.
He was scrupulously honest and felt
that he had no right to use govern
ment supplies for private purposes
Raleigh News and Observer.
The speech of Hon.. T. NJ. Simmons
in the opera house last evening was a
strong, logical satesmanlike preserva-
ton of the great questions to he voted
| upon by the American. people on the
9Th of November. There was no cheap
III fE
| to passions of emotions. 1t was d
manly, straightforward discussion of
great issues. 1t was pre-eminently a
democratic speech. 1t was made from
the broad standpoint of the national
democratic platform, n it covered
every essential doctrine Of the party.
a notable feature of the speech was
the absence of any suggestion as TO Mr.
m candidacy for the United
States senate.-AsheviNe Citizen.
In line with the article we publish
ed Monday, and our contention the
Senatorial primary election was a fail
ure from the fact the campaign was
fast de~generating into a mud singing
contest and the primary election sys-
tenn had already proven a failure, We
copy the following correspondence.
Yet these changes are being
made daily by the over Jealous friends
OF the candidates. Is there amy Won
der then that the people of North Car
DINA are Disguised with the way the
PRIMARY campaign is heing conducted
and are saying it is a failure? 1t is
no longer a contest among friends, in
which friends are to be the aroitrators,
but is a campaign of vituperation
Islander and ha t that is a disgrace to
many that are engaged in it. Away
with the primary. If one half of the
charges are true neither one of the
O1N ~ NN "a = oAAA
God for bid that either of them should
succeed Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
We ave a negro customs officer in
the metropolis of the state; a negro
congressman (and the only one in the
present congreSs) to, abuse and Willy
the white people of his state; we have
negroes employed in various places. and
the negro postmasters put in. Office by
Mckinley have e a sore aff1iction
and disgrace to both the state and
national government by Hanna. OF
Hanna, and for Hanna Mckinley has
seen fit to put them there against th<
protests of white manhood. He is the
one who is now raising h negro issue
They are making great talk. and will
put forward a great effort to whee
North Carolina into the Mckinley col.
umn. They know we'll they cannot de-
1T without the negroes vote. And we
these republican henchmen and Nc
kinley supporters say we should no
now raise n negro question Som.
OF them are not democrats, nor ar,