The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-31
STATE PRESS.

-boSa who are opposed to the electionl
of BRYAN will rot be permitted TO con-
duct the Bryan campaign IN TINS state
Winston Sentinel
II the white votes split up into dL-
ferent parties until they again make
,ha negro a balance OF power. mat
would hiring the race ssh back TO
US as vital as ever. They are not gu
ing 10 do it.-Rockingham Anglo-Sax-
on.
The race issue" is settled in North
Carolina, as far as state matters are
concerned. That settlement IS IuII
warrant 10 protest against the election
Of a federal executive who mas appoln
ed negro federal officials and, VINO VIII
appoint them again. IL ~e-eiected--
Salisbury Truth.
We rather object TO the youthful.
smart editor making the Biblical Re
corder a political engine, and prefer
il TO be. as IL is, the exponent and or
gan of Baptist principles. The he
order Is the child OF our friend and
preceptor, Thomas Meredith. We do
not want il brought into the turbid
pool of politics. There is much home
" wisdom in the scriptural allusion
of Jericho and the beard and there Is
much also in a mans not growing
too big for his jacket, which We kind
ly commend 10 the young son o. our
old friend.-EliZabeth City Economist.
When Jim Young had a job that
paid him Sl20 per year, according 10
the Mckinieyites who pose as demo-
Gratis, he was so peStiferOus that he
was roundly denounced. h Pricn-
ard promised TO make him postmaster
the Mckinleyites thought he had m
proved, and when he was actuaIy ap-
pointed under Mckinley TO a place IN
the revenue department, people Who
coz rha.- ID NOT 1iEa II aFa Sflhl1cfR1
10 all sorts of abuse and called 70
mentors of discord" and the like.
Watch and see if the Mckinleyites
will not be calling Jim Young mister
before the year is out.-Raleigh News
and Observer.
There are two reasons why North
Cardinals new crop OF MchlnleylteS
and HannaiteS don't want anything
said about the negro in politics. The
first is that, having made up their
minds TO join the republican party, be-
cause they believe its policy of placing
the dollar above the man Will be 10
their financial advantage, they want
still to be considered respectable. The
second is that, at heart, they are
| ashamed of themselves for deserving,
for gain, the party that saved them
and their from the horrors uhat most
assuredly would have ollowed negro
1t makes uhe democrats who have
| worked for the success of the party.
| very weary to see a muSwump OF
strong republican leanings, TO try TO
dictate what sort of campaign they
shall make. Editor Bailey, of the Bib
heal Recorder is an independent
He says the democrats must not men,
ton Mckinley'S and P~ritchard's pets
the q niger pOStmaSterS, appointed
in eastern North Carolina. but now
pretty evenly divided between that
- 49, ~ h
tiary. The question is, what has Mr..
| Bailey to do with it?-JoneSboro Pro-
greSS.
rule in the south. 1t is not strange
| hat these men should dislike to be re-
minded of the fact hat the party pro-
| pose o align themselves with is as much
the party of the negro now as it was
in the past. Neither is il a cause for
wonder that they object TO having out
the fact that the national republican
party is even now threatening to cur
tail the representation of the south IN
congress and the electoral college be-
cause it has been compelled to dis
franchise a portion of the negro vote.
The republicans and assistant re-
p~ublicans have raised the negro issue
themselves, so far as national politics
is concerned, and they may rest assur-
ed that il will be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Messenger.
Let's be at least fairly sensible. No
one was foolish enough to promise
hat amendment would settle the race
question before it went into effect, and
if some n had we suppose the people
had more sense than to pay any at
tention to so ~Self-evident an a~bSurdity.
But if PritchardS crowd Will behave
themselves and make no efforts 10 get
the negroes to register and Vote by
promising them misunderstanding, ETC..
and if they will tell those now holding
! postmaterships that they will be taken
from them, we believe the negroes will
have nothing to do with it, and We'll
have no use for a race issue except as
it may be forced on us by the national
republican party in its effort to punish
is for having settled it.-Rockingham
A~nglo-SaXon.
It is a significant fact that the ma
jority of those who object to mention
ing the negro in this campaign, do not
want to see Mr.. Bryan cay North
| Carolina. They are the papers that
are either actively opposed 10 Mr..
Bryan, or give him half-hearted sup
port with stabs or the side, or else the
NJ Toos,' who echo the expressions
and reflect the views of the luke
warm newspapers. Calling attention
to the number of negro ~officeholders
appointed by Mckinley, and urging
that the ptOple vote TOT d man WHO
will not appoint negroes to federal
offices in the south, is just as much a
patriotic duty as it was in July TO urge
the people to votef or men who would
not appoint negroes to state offices in
North Carolina--Charlotte News.
Colonel John r. Lane, the surviving
colonel Of the famous Twenty-sixth
North Carolina regiment, who was
here to attend the Vance unwilling
ceremonies, yer home yesterday af-
ternoon The T~wenty-sixth North Car
DINA regiment ranks as the greatest
regiment the world mas known. 1t
a three colonelS-Zebulon Baird
Vance, Harry Hill Burgwin and John
r. Lane. h last the only survivor.
Colonel Lane has never been a poll
tician or for Office. Speaking
yesterday, he said: LAS TO North Car
DINA, his ace question is settled when
the amendment goes into effect. Now
We want 10 arrange that no negro Of
ficialS shall hold office in the south.
We will give Mr.. Mckinley and Mr..
Anybody else TO understand hat they
shall not appoint negroes TO office over
us.-Raleigh News and Observer.
The negro in North Carolina who