The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-21

It Is limited that General Joe Wheel,
er viii be a candidate for United
States senator from Aiaoam shlie
We admire Wheeler for his flsnIu.
qualities We hope the good psopae u
labama viii not send him 10 une SCI
ate It seems that Joe has become
somewhat Mckirlleyized % late--Sa-
isbury Truth-Index.
There have been very few ~Iyncnings
in this state during the last TWO OF
three years. although the crime Tor
which lynching is usually the pun
ishment seems on the increase. Only
this week there was but cases report
I'd in the state. ana II reported cor
rectly, both men are deserving OF any
punishment the mind OF man could de-
vise.-Durham Herald.
The News is sorry TO see reports in
Dun's Review Of so much Mckinley
prosperity. Ii Is sad 10 run up the
figures which show an average OF
| from 25 TO 80 more business failures
! per week this year tha last Al this
rate Mckinley prosperity VIII bank
rupt the country in a few years II
| there is 10 be no change in the ad-
| ministration OF the government al
Washington. Read the following and
then make UP your mind: Failures
in the United States for the week end
ing Sept. /, It's against III same week
during last year.-Dun's Review.
Mckinley organ, Sept. lst-ML Airy
News.
Let not any white man forget that
IL Mckinley is elected and a repubh-
can congress chosen that already they
have threatened to reduce the G1N
gresSional representation from eleven \
to eight, because he voted for ne !.
amendment. They Introduced a fed
| eral election law. or force bill in the
last congress, but ii was thought bet
| ter TO wait until after he presidential
election. a force bill means war. ruin
and d~eSolation to the south, in order
to insure negro domination o my
friends o my countrymen! Yet they
nave the brazen assurance 10 ask us
Of the south to stop talking about the
negro question. II is like Hamlet, the
play, with the part Of Hamlet left out.
st. c., in Washington Gazette.
The only notable exodus Of negroes
is hat of cooks and servants who are
induced TO GO north by the promise
of higher wages. This exodus. more
or less, has been going on for a num-
Der of years. Many OF those who go
find the surroundings uncongenlal and
return. Others remain There has
been less exodus of farm labor this
year than ever before. The negroes
know that they will be treated fairly
al Justly by the white people OF
North Carolina, and they know that
they will in the long run do better here
than else. IN the matter
of office-holding, they know that they
have as little hope in the north as
they will nave in North Carolina under
the operation of the constitutional
amendment. SO they cannot be in
duced to leave because Of hope OF po-
litical preferment in the north.-Ral-
eigh News-Observer.
In the first place. the postponement
of the operation of the act of disfran-
chisement until July /. 1902. prolongs
he race issue by its own terms. Who
is responsible for that, we do not
know. " As our Raleigh contem-
porary so aptly pointed out, the other
day, if all those who voted for Aycock
in August vote the democratic Pres1-
Dental and congressional tickets in
November, there would no question
of democratic victory then. There
fore there would be no occasion for
prolonging the race issue; and there
would be no objection raised 10 the
provision p~ostponing the opera son -
the amendment until 1902. Let the re-
sponsibility rest where it belongs. 1t
certainly cannot attach to those sin
cere democrats who may feel obliged
to fall back upon all the munitions 81
war which the deserving Mckinleyite,
nave left behind.-Fayet,eville Obser-
YER.
We find it impossible IL share the
sentiment that ne discussion of poll
teal questions by North Carolina pa
pers is becoming mOnOtonous and
weariSOme, and that a cessation OF -
brings relief, though we can under
stand how such a feeling may b en-
tertaiRed by those papers published
in this section, which fail - battle
earnestly against that political party
which thrust negro office holders
upon a people whose feelings and ira
ditions are thereby outraged We can
understand the feeling which impels
a man who has wronged his neighbor
to refrain from discussing the com
mand ito love thy neighbor as thy
SELF" and the Discrimination OF one
who neglects his duty TO listen TO ad-
dresses upon faithfulness. The TWEEN
ty-seven negro poStmasters in North
Carolina form to the minds Of most
of our people, a serious indictment
against the republican party. but there
are other issues that are broad and
far reaching. and which are causing
an almost unprecedented revulsion in
political sentiment throughout the
country.-Charlotte News.
Now the Mckinley syrnpathizers
coolly charge that Bryan's friends
were against discussing the negro
when he was an issue and want 10
discuss him when he is not an issue.
Let the truth be told. hurt whom IL
may: The state was lost in 1894. not
in 1896. II simply remained lost in
1896. Ii was lost while our speakers
were on the stump appealing TO the
negroes to vote for our candidates.
Every democratic speech had its sPe-
ciai appeal 10 the blacks. The negroes
seemed inclined to vote with their
white friends, but when election day
arrived they ned up at the polls as
solidly for the republicans as ever.
And be IL known that Mr.. Bryan was
not a candidate for president when the
state was lost and his trends could
not have kept the Charlotte Observer,
the Statesville Landmark and papers
OF that Xix from discussing the negro
II they had considered him an issue.
Tue typical speech OF that year was
a defence of Cleveland and a eulogy
OF n uncle Neds and old black MAN.
mics on their way to glory. Governor
Jarvis talked silver, but he was re-
garded as a disturber OF party har-
mony.-Re!dsvdlle Weekly.