The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-27
STATE PRESS.

liberal education: of the highest
Christian character; a man who has
succeeded well in every position which
he IA occupied-@Salisbary Index
speaking OF Thomas Jefferson.
wouldn't he have a swee time recog-
mixing the party he founded?e asks the
Chicago Tribune He would know II
as soon as he read the 1885 platform,
but how about his recognising the dec
laration OF independence and the con-
stitution OF the United States since the
republican party has mutilated them?
|Asheville Citizen.
OF course the democratic press viii
remain loyal I the party. but many
OF them 10 more than could reasonably
be expected OF them and we know that
a few at least devote more space 10
purely party matters without pay than
they can afford. II the laborer is
worthy Of his hire. 1t Is time pay day
for the press was rolling around-Dur-
han Herald.
The fuckers Of North Carolina should
petition the next legislature to pass
an act regulating the size and capacity
of all packages used in shipping fruits
and vegetables. Standard measures
injure no one, and removes a source OF
trouble and veXation TO all interested
in the trucking industry, North Carroll
IA could very p~rofitably adopt the
New York law relating to this matter.
Mt. Olive Advertiser.
Aycock's speech at the democratic
state convention was the greatest
speech that We nave ever heard at any
convention held in his state. and we
have attended every convention, with
only one exception, that has been held
by The democrats Of this state since
1865. We have never heard any man
Snrna &C il nor even Vance himself
and greater praise than this cannot be
given it.-Pittsboro Record
Under the present conditions. this is
what you do, when you unite in this
fusion combin with the republican
party. Past experience tells you, that
the result is a degraded government,
with a lot of negroes, and unworthy
white men in important places all over
the state, whenever these political dem
agogues get in power. The bosses who
started out a. populiSts, are still pre-
tending that they are separate and
distinct from the republicans, but they
make a distinction where there is nc
difference.-Clinton Democrat.
But things are different now. The
election of United States senator not
only goes directly into the election at
which members of the Legislature are
chosen, but it goes into the primary
contests of the m party al which
candidates for the Legislature are NOM
mated ASpirants to the senate enter
into the contest and endeavor to secure
the nomination of men in favor of their
candidacy. Thus, the election of n
tors by legislatures in these days has
all the evil elements that are supposed
to be attached to an election by the
people, and none of the benefits.-Win-
Ston Journal.
The r~evisionists Of the confession of
faith and the anti-CalviniStS have gain
ed a pretty strong recruit in Rev. Hay
Watson Smith, a native of Greensboro,
but now of Little Rock, who, as an
nounced in yesterdays dispatches, has
withdrawn from the Presbyterian min
lstry and will probably join the Congre-
g~ationalists. Rev. DR.. J. w. Stage, in
a communication elsewhere in this
mornings paper, brings out the inter
esting fac that Mr.. Smith recently de-
clared that one may deny the divinity
of Christ and still be a Christian, and
submits upon the statement the apt
comment that Mr.. Smiths proper
church associations are with the Uni
tarians.-Charlotte Observer.
Eye cannot serve God and Mammon''.
No man can his position in
the church as a Christian who offers
up his prayers to Coco Lord and to
Good Devil, through doubt as to
whose hands he will fall into. 1t is
equally true in politics. No man can
retain the confidence and respect of
honest people who fuses with republi-
cans n negroes on legislative and
county officers, and pirates of supper
to Bryan in national elections. Colonel
Harry Skinner administered a deserved
rebuke On Wednesday to Marion But
Ter and Cy Thompson, fresh from a
consultation and agreement with Mark
Hanna's man, because they were pre-
tending to advocate Bryan. while pur-
suing the course outlined by Pritchard
after his conference with Hanna.-Ral-
eigh News and Observer.
Senator Butler expresses a desire to
meet any gentleman who may expect
to be candidates for the senate and
discuss the constitutional amend
ment." Well, suppose he meets Cen
eral Carr at Lumberton, Colonel Wad-
dell at Wilmington, Mr.. Simmons at
New Bern, Governor Jarvis at Green
willie, and Mr.. Kitchin at Halifax and
tell each of these and other white citi-
zenS that there has been no such thing
as negro domination in those sections
and that the amendment, which will
prevent the outrages and public de-
bauchery carried on by virtue of the
influence of the ignorant negroes, must
be defeated. Mr.. Butler could have a
regular hilarious time convincing those
white people that they have not suf-
fered from evils he knows the amend
ment will prevent in future.-Ralei-g
Post.
AT the Halifax county republican
convention there were only three white
One of them registered at
a hotel where respectable folks are &C
commodated, but our Weldon CORE
spondent says "he was waited upon by
a committee and advised to leave"
not on account of his politics
but for other reasons even more OBJ
1ectionable than a white mans a%ffiliat-
ing with negroes in Halifax county"
The crime is one of such baseness that
IL Is best not to print it. If any man
that the white people of east
ern North Carolina are going to let
the negroes and sorry white men who
train with them return TO power in
North Carolina, he knows little of the
spirit that animates the people who
have suffered such rule in 1858, as
Wei as in 1863. They will not re-
turn to it, and the men who are con-
spring, either directly or indirectly 10
again impose ii upon those people, may