The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-09
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The fact h a man is not a politi-
elan is ali the more reason why the
people should be for him. IL he Is clean
and capable. But the politicians. not
the people. are the slate makers-Hen-I
derson Gold Leaf
Rumor has il that Hal Aver viii ed
IL Buffers Raleigh daily. but this does
not mean that he Will resign his office
of auditor to the state The office may
not see much Of him for a while but
he will show VI on salary -days--Dur-
ham Herald.
The News and Observers enterprise
in securing Senator Buffers speech be-
fore the populist state committee has
been worth IO.00a votes for the deplo-l
cratic party in the coming campaign,
said Mr.. Walter II. Neal yesterday.
The gang that Mr.. Butler wants to
run out of the state will not allow Mr..
Butler to come to Scotland county to
preach doctrine.-Raleigh News and
Observer.
George White. of the Second North
Carolina District. he only negro in
congress, continues to make himself
obnoxious wherever he goes White
is said to have tried to force himself
into the white section at a circus in
Tarboro two years ago.; n he seems
to be constantly trying to rub himself
against white people Is he ashamed
OF his race and color? Or is 1t mere
bumptiousness?-Charlotte News.
Other people besides those OF us who
live in Greensboro know a good thing
Rev. E. W. Smith. ID. D., pastor of the
First Presbyterian church in this
place. has received from time 10 time
man fiattering calls, n of the latest
being from a Baltimore church with a
most handsome salary. Like his illus
trious father he seems to take but little
interest in them and it is said Will not
accept any of them.-Greensboro Rec
ord.
The Asheville Citizen gives nearly
a half-column of editorial space to a
discussion of the recent sensational
m in Raleigh of Rev. DR.. j. c.
Kilgo. president of Trinity college, in
which he declares that the church and
theworId are ''atheistic TO the core
and in which he nounc Thomas
Jefferson as a monster. The matter
is scarcely worth SO much attention.
If Dr.. kilgo is let alone he will talk
himself out of a job n out North Car.
olina.-Charlotte Observer.
What a representation North Caro-
lima has in congress. Such men as
Pritchard, Butler. Linney and White
The morning papers today tell of the
violent attack of Linney upon North
Carolina registration laws in the house
yNoNOLooS- iOL Vial Oil AAooA ASI
poured out abuse upon his own people,
finally yielding the floor to the Niger.
White, who stated hat the negro as
saults upon white women in the south
were the fruits of white mems assaults
upon negro women.-Winston Journal.
Possibly Governor Taylor has TAX
en- a leaf out of the boo of his mas
ter, Mr.. Mckinley, who practically dis
missed congress, last year., as soon as
the war broke out in the Philippines
against the native patriots. Be that
as it may, this. Kentucky usurper is
the beneficiary of his suppression of
the legislature, for they We're about to
assemble to pass adversely upon his
title to the office whose possession en-
abled him to suppress them. Thus are
we reaping the bitter fruits of the
change in the character of our govern
ment which the wal of 1861 made pos
sible.-Fayetteville Observer.
A recent dispatch says that Butler
has secured Senator Allen to com to
Raleigh, when the little crowd OF flu
sion ~officeholderS assemblies there in
Buffers convention, and MAKE a speech
against the constitutional amendment.
We do not credit the. dispatch. We be-
lieve it is one of Buffers deviceS--he,
like Satan, has many-to try to de-
ceive honest populists-white men
and all candid republicans, and many
" ~ NS1A DoNh@A OA - "a
his insincerity and characteristic
bury Index.
H. Is. Warner, Esq executive conn.,
mitteeman for North Carolina in the
National Press Association, was in the
city last night. Mr.. Warner tells US
that all arrangements have been made
to take the North Carolina editors to
New Orleans to attend the ma.
tional press convention. The follow
ing editors will attend the conSention:
]. B. Sheriff., H. A. London, w. C.
Dowd, j. B. Whitaker, H. T. King,
Rev. T. N. Ivey, A. d. Watts, James
L. Baylor and H. B.. Warmer. The
start here on the night of February 20.
Salisbury Truth Index.
An Asheville paper which has an ut
ter disregard for the ruth, is being
circulated in this county which leaves
out part of the amendment, and then
says the clause does not give the right
to vote to sons of dead soldiers who
died before January /, 1867. Misrepre-
sentation is their only stock in trade,
so far brought to light. If there is a
legitimate, truthful argument against
the amendment, it has not yet been
brought out by the republican press.
They rely solely on Misrepresentation.
Such nefarious methods should all the
more arouse the ones white voters,
learned and illiterate, rich and poor in
a determination to pe~rpetuate their
right of white supremacy which was
given them in the establishment Of the
republic by the democrats.-Wflkesboro
Chronicle.
In 1898 the negro editor Manly stirred
the blood of every white man in the
state by his infamous assault upon the
poor white women of the state. for
which he was made to find a home
This outrage by Manly
and its result seems to have made no
impression upen the negro who holds
the seat in congress ntended by the
yirtuous intelligence Of the country for
= representative of the people of what
now constitutes the Second district in
this state. The ~harangue which White
INDUCED in yesterday, as reported by
the Washington correspondent of this
paper-intended, no doubt, as a conn.,
pliment to a crusade OF but little better
character Just mad by his colleague,
Nr Tiunev iS aS gross an Insult fn the