The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-06
STATE PRESS.

1t is unfair to hold Mr.. Bryan or the
democratic party responsible for acts
committed during the Cleveland ad-
miniStration. Mr.. Bryan is not that
sort of a democrat.-Durham Herald.
Mr.. Walter Henry's four column ex-
PLANTATION of why he has Joined the re-
publican party can be condensed into
one sentence, viz: He got a good, fat
office. That is reason enough for most
of them.-Raleigh Times.
The great prosperity parade in Chi
cago today was headed by two live ele-
plants. The democratic party has for
sometime intimated hat Mr.. Hanna
had a number of elephants on his
hands, Raleigh Times.
Some express the fear that if Mr..
Bryan is elected and attempts to down
the trusts, they will in turn paralyZe
the business of this country for a time
at east. If the trusts have this power
they are as bad as Mr.. Bryan makes
them out to be and the sooner this
power is broken the better.-Durham
Herald.
Hon. Ed. w. Pou'S speech last night
was a masterpiece of ~eloQuence and
argument. With such a cause, n
possessing as he does the patriot
ism and the ability to sustain and to
discuss it, his argument could not be
otherwise than impressive, instructive,
persuasive. 1t was a vOte-making
speech.-Raleigh Post
Walter r. Henry, who holds a posi-
ton as Bank Examiner, takes -four n
a half columns in Sundays Charlotte
Observer to give his reasons for av-
ing the populist party and joining the
republican party. In this neck of the
words everybody thought that Mr..
Henry had joined the republican party
months and months ago--Raleigh News
and Observer.
We are well on record as opposed to
the primary system. There has never
| been in North Carolina politics a bet
ter prospect of splitting up and demof-
| ishing the democratic party than the
present method in choosing a United
| States senator. We shall shed no tears
e it if it is disrupted i~rretrievably-
from the mountains to the Sea--Lum-
berton R~ohesonian.
Hon. John D. Bellamy, democratic
nominee for congress in this, the Sixth
congressional district, will speak on the
issues of the campaign in the cour1
house. Mr.. Bellamy is a cultured gen.
tleman and an eloquent speaker. He
has represented his district with credit
to himself and to it and the people of
Charlotte will do well to turn out in
force to LEI their next representative.
Charlotte Observer.
Colonel o. II. Dockery has annonuc-
ed his candidacy for congress in the
Sixth district. He is very severe in
his accommodation Of Bryan and free
silver. -Four years ago he was can
wasting the state for Bryan and free
silver. MY Son Oliver may be de-
pended on to get down on the side
where he thinks the best offices can be
had.-Raleigh News and Observer.
Three months ago when the demo
Gratis Of North Carolina stood shoulder
to shoulder battling for the success OF
white supremacy, n little dreamed
that in this short time man. Of those
!. same men would be turning on each
other and democrats be fighting demo.
Gratis with all the bitterness ven
nom with which they ever opposed the
common enemy. Yet his is the
spectacle the senatorial primary ha,
brought us to. 1t is a shame to the
democracy of the state that such q
condition exists.-Greenville Reflector
People should not forget that there
are more important matters tina the
senatorial fight. The senatorial candi.
dates are all democrats and are al
good men and we are safe in the cleo.
ton Of either one. But it is not thu
case with congressional and electora
matters. 1t is very important that we
select our democratic ~elector, for the
election of Bryan may hang on it: and
Bryan must be elected If the American
people wish to call a halt to the Nc.
Kinley trusts, wars and Imperialism
which are undermining our liberties
and safety as a government. And we
must elect our democratic congress.
man.-Wilkesboro Chronicle.