The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17
STATE PRESS.

II Is hoped that hereafter prejudice,
| cheap demagoguery and hatred VIII
| give place to reason and common sense
| and hat men will vote their honest
convictions, instead or voting their
| prejudices.0Our Home Pop.
Finally brethren, let us use the great
| democratic victory wisely. Ii We 90
| this the white mans party will hold
| the reigns of power and government
in North Carolina for an indeflnite
| period. If we fail. the lease Will NOT
| be long in acknowledgements
Star.
It was well tha the legislature STOOD
| guard over the rights of the people I'm.
til the eve of the election. Had IL not
hem for this there would have beer a
pretty bit OF meanness on the party %
the allies TO prevent the Will OF the
people from being expressed.-Raleign
News and Observer.
All this tall about expelling Butter
from the state is all nonsense. NOW
that he is badly defeated and shorn OF
| his political strength. let him alone, ne
is perfectly harmless. To do violence
10 this man, now that he is down,
would not be in keeping with the dig
| nifty and the principles OF the demo-
cratic party. Let is rejoice in u
victory. but take no stock in tantaliZ-
| ing a fellow foe.-LaGrange Sentinel.
No man who voted last week for the
endm can consistently vote Tor
Mckinley next November. Why Be
| cause his vote for the amenedmen was
a vote for white supremacy, but MS
| vote for Mckinley would be a vote for
negro -postmaSters. Yes, We DO not
see how a man can be in favor of white
supremacy and then vote for a presl-
lem who appoints negro postmasters
here in North Carolina.-Pittsboro Re
cord.
One of the most blessed results OF
the election is the political death OF
| Marion Butler who has betrayed every
| party TO which he ever belonged, n
is a political without any
principle whatever. At first a demo-
crat, he deserted and betrayed that
| party; then as a member of the Farm
| ers' Alliance he got all he could out or
that organization, and then betrayed
and wrecked it, and lastly, as a p
list, he has betrayed that party n
sold it out to the republicans. And
| yet this is the despicable demagogue
whom thousands of honest men once
blindly believed and followed!-Pitts-
boro Record.
The pop orators whom Butler import
| ed from Texas found rather rough sled
| ding in North Carolina. stump" Ash
by is reported to have said in Hills
boro this week that while he might go
to hell some time he was positive that
he would never come back to North
Carolina any more; and Tracy, VINO
filled two appointments in Iredell,
found a hot time Butler wants help
we opine that he will call on these
Texans in vain. North Carolinians
are a tolerant folk but there is a limit
to their endurance and they especially
object to outsiders coming here TO
meddle with their Notwithstanding
Now tina the campaign is Overland
and me smoke of battle cleared away
it is time that democrats put them
selves to the task of redeerning their
pledge along the work of education
Let the good work begin right now.
If a school is open in your
ty interest yourself in getting the chill
dren to attend it. IF a school is not
running in your community and there
are children out Of reach of a school
spend a little time and money to nave
a school established. By legislative
acts, by personal work, by all fair and
legitimate means let the democrats Of
North Carolina provide ample facilities
for giving every child in the state the
rudiments of an observation-disclosures
Enquirer.
a report has gained currency recent
~ to the effect that Butler will, in or
der 10 be avenged on the white men
OF the state for his recent defeat, do
all in his power to deliver the ELECTORAL
vote of North Carolina TO Mckinley.
Though Buffers friends have denied
that there is aught of truth in the ru-
NOR, one finds many things pointing
strongly in that direction. Fake for
instance the Hickory Mercury, a paper
edited by J. F. Click, assistant editor
IS CO 40~a1
through the editorial columns, this
week we find such expressions as these:
"Populist supper of Bryan depend
quite largely upon his endorsement or
condemnation of Simmons methods.
Well, the popufist farmers
shold hold a conference in each neigh
borhood, and organize independent
leagues and all work to n end. Call
meetings at once of the county x
committee and outline a p~olicy."-Rai-
eigh News and Observer.
But the boys Of Ii years or under
must learn to read and write before
they can register and vote after 1908.
The democratic party has promised to
provide longer terms and better schools
This promise must be kept. The next
legislature should begin the grand
work by providing to raise more taxes
for schools so that every white boy
will have an opportunity to fit himself
Tor the franchise and for the battle of
life. We repeat: Let only good feel
ing prevail between the whites and
blacks in North Carolina. The negro
leaders-we mean the leading negroes,
for their white leaders are out of a
job-should do all thy can to impress
upo h more ignorant of their race
the necessity of becoming better citi-
zens, being better laborers, and impress
them with the fact that the white man
has no enmity toward the negro. The
white people, we know, will have kind
er feelings toward the negroes than
ever befor. Let an era OF good feeling
prevail in North Carolina.-Kinston
Free Press.
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