The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-02
STATE PRESS.

But now that Butter Is about 20 lose
his Job as senator a fellow feehns P'"s
Eiuced a wonderous ana Oh
the occasion mentioned they feil on
each others necks and wept. 50 to
sneak. God speed the day when Shs
decent people OF the state VIII nass
removed from the ang of their visso'i
such cattle as Butler ana "h
iStatesville Landmark
II must be that there is some mis-
take here 1t is hard to believe that
a sane and a sober man in BuueEs
position could afford To counsel q ne
gro uprising against his own race. n
white man Is walking on 0aaSeroos
lsrcund in doing that The DeniocIa.
trusts that there is some mistahs
about IL, and that Sampson county VIII
H. SHARED the odium OF furnishing a
son so unworthy and so lost TO reason
as 70 advise such a thipg.0Cltnton
Democrat
The ~populists will be asked and are
l.xnected to follow the leadership OF
butler and vote for a crowd that rep
~lresents everything that hey do not
want. If the populists are ZONES IN
their demands for reforms II Is tmpos-
lsibIe to imagine how they ever expect
to secure them by working Tor 'ne
continuance OF the republican party
in power. With Butler IL is different
while the party processes to want re-
forms. he wants office. and thinks that
in sticking TO Pritchard lies his only
lhope.-Durham Herald
We learn that all sorts OF misrepre-
is~entations OF the constitutional amend
lment are being INDUCED in by the re-
publicans of this section. These people
who think more of a negro than theS
do of a white man, say We are inform
led. that the amendment viii disfran-
Ichise as many white voters as negroes.
that q man will have TO own $500 worth
of property before he can vote. and so
lon ad infinitum. The truth Of the matter
is that the amendment Will not disfran-
Ichise a single white man in the state
is not already d~istranchised. while
lit will d~isfranchise every negro who
can not read and write.-Wadesboro
I~Intelligencer.
White men OF North Carolina. you
;;see the milk in the y" US
feat the amenment is the salvation of
the negro party. n the populist ex-
~ecutive committee is TO fuse with that
party. merge into IL n become a part
lof il. ANY one now seeing the situa-
ltion, will know what value to attach to
lButler's argument in favor OF The ne
gro. That Butler is a shrewd man -
levident from the fact that he has con-
ltrived to obtain a seat in the United
States senate. He is shrewd and art
full and full of lodges. Now listen to
him. He is so artful hat he tries To
defeat the amendment by ~persuading
white men to help him. His purpose
is to favor the negro race. and he seeks
Ito accomplish that by the aid Of the
white race.-Raleigh Post.
The greatest folly and crime in our
national history was the establishment
of negro suffrage after the war. Not a
Isingle good thing has come of IL, but
lonly evil. Everybody now admits that
lit was an awful mistake. Northern wr1-
tiers and speakers. ven men of the old
black republican abolition crowd. now
say that it would ave been much bet
tier to apply an educational or a prop
lerty qualification before letting the
negro vote. Horace Greeley. Wendell
Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison. Geo.
WV. Curtis and other northern friends
of the negro saw before they died that
la wrong had been done the negro in
lgiving him the ballot before he was
prepared for it. The best friends OF the
negro i'm the south saw at the time Of
his Acknowledgement and see now even
more clearly the folly of giving him the
Iballot.-Raleigh News and Observer.