The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-09
STATE rgsS.

History is a curious thing. Every
can tell US how Washington. Je1-
ferson and Lincoln would vote II alive
but no n seems TO know
how Cleveland VIII cast AEs vote
Reflector.
Ohio Wilson, once head OF the Gid
eonites and a prominent populiss. IS
now a storekesper and gauge under
the republican administration at TWO
dollars per day. How have the Nigh
~ fallen.-Durham Herald
Marion Butler. being in Washington
n not being sworn. says that tne
populists are united in their supporS
OF Bryan and Stevenson" Which
shows that d senator Is still able 90
speak out Of that side OF his face
Asheville Citizen.
There IS no good reason for making
war upon men OF wealth. and we are
not one 10 join in the cry OF capital
against labor" but We would warn the
people that il is high time for them TO
open their eyes when they cast their
votes in favor OF the men and party
whose every interest lays with the cap
ital claSs.-LouisbCrg Times.
II Zeb Vance was right when he said
the horse which pulls the pillow should
have n fodder" then h people
should not forget Hon. F. NJ. simmons
in the senatorial primaries. He has
won three signal victories G the
task was hard and sometimes looked
impossible. He is h best organizer
the democracy of this state has ever
had.-Waynesville Courier.
Our Scotland Neck correspondent
says that the people are talking so
much about the Senatorship that hard
ly any mention is mad of Bryan and
Stevenson. That's too tru The SEN
atorship is important, bur in compar-
ison with the election of Bryan and
Stevenson and nine democratic con-
gresham from North Carolina, il is
a small affair.-Raleigh News and OBJ
server.
The last issue Of Webster's Weekly
(Reidsville) makes a vigorous on
Slaugtht upon Mr.. Simmons eau
forSoOth he is a candidate for United
States senator. 1t is to be regretted
that one democrat should feel called
upon to turn his guns upon another
democrat in this manner. But the
man shot at will not be hurt as much
as the man whose candidacy is cham
pioned by such Observation-Disclosures
Gold Leaf.
We believe the primary system has
proven a failure n instead of its
being a friendly contest, among friends
it is fast developing all the bitterness
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less of who is finally victorious in the
| primaries, can lave but one effect upon
the party, as rounds have been made
by our Jealous friends that time VIII
never efface. This can but end in one
| result, and if the democrats are will
ling to profit by experience the last
primary election will have been held
in the state in Observation-Disclosures
ton Gazette.
Colonel "A. M. Wadden addressed a
good sized audience in the court house
here on Saturday last in advocacy of
his election TO h senate We did
not hear his speech; but are told tina
| he made a pleasant impression on the
| crowd; though he failed 20 make many
votes. He is said to have described
| one of his a millionaire and
the other as being backed up by the
party machinery. This asst We have
~frequetly heard before and SO far as
Burke is concerned we take occasion
to deny it. Our party organization
here works in 40 mans interest; but
carries out the for which the
democratic voters created it viz to
poll the Bryan and Stevenson vote
Morganton Herald.
Moody has signally failed in a~rousing
the enthusiasm that was promised by
those who were so anxious TO diSplace
l. ~
ing statesman" from Haywood a
chance. The truth is that the repub-
licans realize that Moody in the role OF
a scapegoat, bearing the sins that
would ave made the nomination OF
Pearson a sure cause for defeat, is a
mammoth failure. Moody does not de-
nounc the outrage perpetrated upon
the honest people of this district by the
republicans of the last house of con-
greSS in the ~unSeating of Crawford be
cause the platform adopted by the
convention thai nominated him en-
phatically endorsed hat outrage
ASheville Citizen
The people of Newton and vicinity
had the pleasure Monday night Of hear
ing Colonel A. M. Waddell, of VIII
mington, the polished orator n schol-
ar of the Cape Fear section. Colonel
Waddell is a candidate for United
States senator to succeed that monu-
mental fraud Marion Butler. His
present tour of the west is primarily
to NEE the democratic voters and pre-
sent his claims for their support in the
primary election to be held on the 9th
OF November. His talks aoOut his can
didacy are a model of ~trankness and
modesty, and his references to his COM
petitors are in the kindeSt and most
complimentary terms. If all the can
didates make as high-toned and good
spirited as COlonel Waddel
this contest will pass off without any
of the disgraceful scene that have
mad the primary contests in other
southern states so Observation-Disclosures
ton Enterprise.
Sixteen negroes ahve been summon
ed by Holton to give evidence against
the democratic registrars at Greens
boro. Why? Holton hopes to scare
democrats SO hat they will let VI
qualified negroes vote IN the Noyembel
election. There is another
Butler is buSily engaged preparing
trumped-up charges against the dem.
ocrats which he will present to tbs
senate at its next session He knows
he must walk the plank, but he wish
es to make fair weather with the re
publicans by giving them some bash
upon which to begin their crusade
against full southern representation II
congress and in the electoral college
This is the game the fusionists ar
trying to play. In he first place, tn,
democrats will hold the election IL
November as they held ii in August
iNo arrests or futile threats OF punish
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