The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
STATE PRESS.

Mr. Bryan il a friend OF the negro
and 50 Is a majority OF the white men
Of the south. The trouble Il the negro
and white man cannot agree as TO
what IS the best for h former.-Dur-
ham Herald.
Mr.. Simmons Is devoting his entire
to the electoral and congress
eionai tickets There IS not one word
in his speeches in his own behalf. He
Is Handicapped by the fact that he IS
state chairman N he Is too loyal to
his party to neglect his duties. as
chairman. TO further his personal am
bitions-Winston journal.
An attempt Is being mad to scare
the American voters into voting for
Mr.. Mckinley for the reason that
should Bryan be elected the money
kings, trusts. combines will shut down
and cause q panic. They attempt to
show that they can pin down on the
people so hard as to suffering
and business depression. II such Is
the case they ought to be suppressed
Concord Tribune.
A big standing army is repugnani 10
the ideas Of a republic. a big stand
ing army is unnecessary In this coun-
try so long as we adhere TO the princi-
piles upon which the government was
founded. The Mckinley d OF I'M
periafism however. calls for a big
slAilQllGE aTtnSs dIl0 lAl1t Z
70 long as this policy is continued
and h people will have 10 foot n
bills.-Winston Sentinel.
We dc not deny that the Dukes made
their money out OF the tobacco trust,
for this were useless, but IL seems to
us that they hav received severer
criticism for the way they spend their
money than the way they made it
We are not defending trusts, least OF
all the tobacco trust. but we do not
envy the Dukes their millions nor
Trinity college the gifts h has re
ceived from them.-Durham Herald
The biennial candidacy of Colonel
Oliver H. Dockery is something that
can be depended upon with the same
confidence that he look for sunshine
and showers. II he does not run for
congress, he does for governor. cleo
tor, or something else. He don't get
elected, but neither does he get dis
couraged. 1t will not surprise the
reader OF our news column to see that
he was nominated for congress again
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Observer.
1t is too late now to repair the in
Jury. it is best to let the farce be
played out in November and become
as as possible But II
there is no election at the first primary
there should be such an uprising or the
people against a repetition of 1t that
no second SISClFON VIII Dc NStlitu- we
hope this first dose OF m Will
also be sufficient to satisfy everybody
that the constitutional plan OF choos-
ing senators is good enough for North
Carolina, and that the advocates OF
legalized primaries and party prima-
ries will have only the winds to talk TO
Neutrality-suspicious. Enterprise.
Judge Boyd, who is now holding fed
eral court in Greensboro, has spread
CONSERVATION among the ranks of the
m~oonshiners, and several who had
cases pending before his court forfeit
ed their bonds and took the nearest
road home, fearful of the result of a
trial and possible conviction. If Judge
Boyd a succeed in Installing into the
hearts of these moonshiners a respect
and fear for the law he will have done
the state IA good service. 1t is we'll
known that ordinarily the federal
court possesses nc terrors for these
men who make their living by robbfng
the observation-disclosures Herald.
George White says that the amend
ment will cause him to leave and carry
fifty thousand with him Well and
good. If the only terms upon which
he proposes to stay in the state are
the ballot in the hands of his race and
Offices. state and national, for him,
then he and they a go. Those things
will not be allowed longer. Neither the
threats our reducing our national rep
resentation, nor the threat of the ne
gro to leave, viii aus us to take any
backward step. The negro can stay
With equal chance in schools and
court, and as property owner, with the
white man we are willing for him to
stay here in peace. But as a disturb
er of the peace he must go.-Windsor
Ledger.