The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30
STATE

p,,,,.r and pritchard nave fixed mat
terz mn to suit themselves n Rave
even made friends with Otho WIs9n
But what's the matter with Ruessn
He seems to have been left BIO
gether.-Durham Herald
The progress North Carolina Is msh
ing toward the front and ieadersa.pf
in industrial prosperity. Is pleasing
contemplate. One can't PICK up
per without noticing n birth OF a ne"
cotton mill. or some other Dig enter
prise.-Winston Journal.
Senator Pritchard is taking the lead
in opposition to the CONSTITUTIONAL
amendment. has a job on his nanos
that will hold him for awhile II every
man who tackles him succeeds in dis
secting and scattering to the four
winds his breastworks u habiiinients
OF war as did Senator Morgan of Ala
bama. then there's walking ahead Tor
the Senator.0Greenshoro telegram
Senator Pritchard has a hard time
getting the campaign started against
the amendment. Every few weeks he
calls n few OF his henchmen together
and declares that he fight Is on The
Bull of the Brushes" paws the
ground and fills the neighboring aerial
regions with dust and noise. Then Ii
is all over. The hin won't go. n
people are for the amendment. and no
amount of bull believing or Jaekass
braying can change them.-Lexington
Dispatch
Ought not a majority Of he white
! men of North Carolina be able TO gov
ern the state better than n small mi
nority of white men and ignorant ne
groes? Can there be but n answer
to this question? Who can doubt 1T
This is what the advocates of the sur
frage amendment THINK and believe
Yes. they believe that North Carolina
can be better governed without ignor-
ant negroes voting than with them
voting. And how can ans intelligent
and unpreiudiced man hin differ
ently2-Pittsboro Record.
Butler begins his campaign at Will
minEton and Pritchard openes his at
Rockingham. These two worthless hope
that their presence at these two points
will so enrage the good citizens that
they will order the would-be stirrer-
up of race prejudice and general pre-
venters of public order and decency to
leave without any speechifying or 10
cause them to be interrupted in their
~incendiary utterances. This OF course
would be a great hook on which to
hang any number of false accusations
and claims that free speech is denied
the people of North Carolina. We hope
the people of these respective towns
will treat the two partners in crime
with silent contempt-Rocky Moun
Argonaut.
However much he may profess to
love his 'old marster", and however
often he may go to him in time of dis
tress, he rarely forgets to vote against
him on election day. whether the cleo
ton be on a political, moral or social
question. Whenever the white people
of North Carolina go to the ballot box
| for anv nrrrnnca fhar have 10O 0n me-
gro votes, more than one third of the
entire voting population of the state,
thrown against them to start with.
They start out that much behind in the
race. In evaporation they have final
ly decreed that this thing must stop.
The main consideration is to reduce
this lead of 120. 600. The amendment
will reduce il more than half.-Rock-
ingham A~nglo-Saxon-
Mortgage all but your soul to any
body" Coming from Senator Butler
and Secretary Thompson n Auditor
Aver and Treasurer Worth, not omit
ting Chief Clerk and Bro.
Cade, this admonition to cooperate"
with any and all elements, without re-
gard to race or color. to continue the
disorders and a government which
Inundated and injured the state from
1897 to 1883, sounded like hollow mock
cry, the mere echo of the wailings OF
0SPoA ~ dAN NNPoA Ing I'M ~ -
Librarian Cobb, ex-Labor Commissions
er Hamrick, ex-Railroad Commission<
er Ohio Wilson and ex-Sherif FAX
Garrett. This Observation-Disclosures. M
business for office is just where thu
last named statesmen dropped then
watermelon. Payday came in 1898 and
the people forecloSed. Another pay
day approaches, when Senator Butter
and his associates will have TO pony
up.-Raleigh Post.
The people of North Carolina who
put an end to the drunken dancing
orgies in the capital at Raleigh and
who are now taxed to pay the debts
incurred by the negroes and carpet
basgerS, know how terribly true was
this 'hell-born dream. 1t came back
to this state in much of its hell born
intamy' when the people permitted a
second republican administration to be
installed. Rape, murder, outlawry
THEFT, peculation, scandal. bad and cor
rupl government-these were the re-
suits in North Carolina in 1897 and 1898
just as they were in 1867-68. They fol-
low in the wake of republican rule in
the south as night follows day. Cor
ruption and republicanism in the south
are one and inseparabIe. "Annui the
legislation Of Louisiana which has for
It's sole object the advancement of both
races, the progress of the state social
ly, politically and ndustriousIy. and
inauSurate again negro domination In
tnat state" exclaimed Mr.. McEnery.
and the tragic period Of 1876 will be
r~e-enacted." The experience of North
Carolina under Russells rotten and de-
graded administration proves that Sen
ator McEnery is right in his prediction.
-haieigh News and Observer.
INCAPABLES."
LONDON, January 23-The Indignation