The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-07
STATE PRESS.

Mount Olive, it is tune TO
that the solid white vote of his place
Will be cast for William j. Bryan.
White supremacy will continue to be
the slogan of emocrats who reside in
communities hat are subjected to ne
gro postmasters. Remove this objec-
tionabl element from official positions
and the cry OF niger will be heard
no more.-Mt- Olive Advertiser.
We would like to ask the Recorder
why it is not just as honest n le-
Ultimate for the democratic party to
defend itself against h attack made
upon it by the republican party in its
national platform for curtaiiing the
ignorant negro vote which repub-
"a raise against il. Why il is not
just as honest and rop to make the
republicans bear the odium Of appoint
ing negro rogues in the postal service
in North Carolina, where they com
into obnoxious connection with the
whites, as for the appointment OF
white ougue in the postal service in
Cuba--Rockingham Anglo-Saxon-
Shall the negro issue be injected
into the presidential campaign? That's
he question that is just now being
very freely discussed. Some say yes,
some no; some get mad about il and
Others appear Indifferent. The chief
thing 10 bear in mind is the fact hat
we want TO give North Cardinals cleo
toral vote TO Bryan and Stevenson
and also that there are 120,000 negroes
in the state who if they vote will GER
tainly vote against them. All past
observation shows that the negro, un-
less restrained by wholesome fear or
some other influence, will vote every
chance he gets and everybody knows
how he will vote.-Laurinburg Ex-
change.
The state election was a victory
wonderful victory for good govern
ment in North Carolina. But the vic
tory is not complete. In a few weeks
from now there is to be another great
battle not only within our own bord-
ers but all over this land. A presi-
dent, vice president, and congressman,
are to be elected. Let there be no
hating on the part of the democrats
of the state until the November cleo
ton is over. We want to elect nine
members of congress, and at ne same
lime give an overwhelming vote for
Bryan and Stevenson. Let there be
an n TO negro congressman, n ne
gro postmasters in North Carolina
GoldSboro Argus.
On the first page of today's paper
we publish an excellent article on
Negro Rule is Still an Issue in North
Carolina" by Thos. NJ. Huffman, Esq,
of Cataw1ba. Mr.. HUFFMAN is the old
est sol of the venerable Rev. DIR. HUFF
ham of Henderson, who inherits his
fathers ability as a writer. The po-
Sition he takes is so well maintained
that it is impregnable. In the late
campaign Mr.. Hufham wrote one of
the best arguments in V of the
constitutional amendment that APP
peareG anywhere. 1t was widely cir
culated. Mr.. Hufham is right in say
ing that the egr question lis not
the only issue; it is not the para
moun issue, but it is an issue for all
that."-Raleigh News and Observer.
The Biblical Recorder, the oft declar-
ed organ of the Baptist denomination
in North Carolina, Though from the
very nature of the Baptist church
government, there can he no such
thing, the organising being only of the
Baptist state convention, a voluntary
missionary and advisory organiZation)
has a lengthy editorial in it's issue of
the 10Th, the tone and spirit of which,
we feel sure, the great masses of the
denomination will wholly disapprove.
It's dictatorial declarations are un-
Baptistic. It's r~easonings are illogi-
cal and it's conclusions
Few true Baptists, who are true demo-
ocrats and true believers in white
supremacy viii be influenced by it,
Salisbury Truth.
senator Butler mas Deen InWdTIeu
in his attempt to cause such q cOmpli-
cation in national politics as to en-
barrasS Mr.. Bryan and cause the de-
feat of the national democratic ticket.
He saw when he arrived at Chicago
that his scheme to nominate a popu-
list in the place left acant by TONNES
resignation would fail, so he proposed
that the place on the ticket be left
blank, so hat populists would be free
to vote for anybody. But the commit
tee had no idea of leaving my loop
hole for ESCAPE of Butler and his
crowd, and voted by a large majority
to endorse Stevenson, and put his
name on the ticket. The result of the
Chicago meeting of the populist exc
cutive committee shows that Senator
Butler has lost his grip on national
politics, and no longer has any con-
siderable influence even with his own
committee.-Charlotte News.
The state press is just now worked
UP over the question of whether the
fall campaign shall eliminate the ne
gro issue or not. Such men as our
esteemed friends, Joe Caldwell, Robt.
Furman, and others, who represent
goldbug papers, and that
they cannot support Bryan, say that
the democrats promised to eliminate
the negro question when the amend
ment was settled. Well so it did and
SO it will. But they we'll know that
he for which the amend
ment was proposed and enacted will
not accomplished until the amend
ment goes into effect, and hat will
be in July, 1902. They are trying to
befog the question. If the amend
ment went into effect before the COM
ing national election, there would be
no need for it. But every one knows
or should know, that all these rs, 900
ignorant negroes can vote in Novem-
Der just as if no amendment had been
passed--OXford Ledger.
If the occasion of the 22nd, instant,
(the unwilling of the Vance monu-
ment,) can he utilized to call mems
minds to this matter and gain us this
representation in the nations Valhalla
no loftier figure will there stalk tina
his. who in graceful bronze points the
rising u in our own capitol square.
Though that company contains great
er constructive statesmen, for it has
both Jefferson and Hamilton, though
impassioned speech is there persona
fed by Henry, though the sword is
there worn by no less a chief than
great Washington himself, yet our
addition would he welcome and pass
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