The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-20
ST PRESS.

The North Carolina negroes who
are taking the cue from Spence Black
burn and others OF his crew and
Tor trouble They should remember
That North Carolina is still white and
mai II Is certain TO remain so.-Ashe-
Vile Citizen.
Some of the vicious negroes OF Gull
ford county-fortunately they repre-
sent a minority OF their race here
are doing more TO demonstrate the ne
cessity OF 2 constitutional amendment
just now than all the stump speakers
IN the state combined-0Greensboro
Patriot.
We have lived 10 see the republican
party in this state shed crocodile tears
In copious showers for the oor white
man, who are abundantly able 10 take
care or themselves. After this there
is no accounting for hat may happen.
and We should not be surprised TO see
the negroes turn white.-Durham Her
aid.
A Greensboro man whose character
mas been attacked by a lawyer while
ne was appearing as a witness n a
case, took the first opportunity after
the adjournment of court TO assault:
the lawyer The witness has our SYM
pathy and we hope he ave the lawyer
a good one. There is entirely too
much of this sort of thing in our
courts, and. the law seems TO afford
witnesses no protection.-Durham Her
aid
The desperation of the fusionists is
beginning to know no bounds. With
the failure to disrupt the democratic
party by every falsehood known, they
were enraged, and their rage increased
as they saw the democrats in solid
line when the campaign had gotten
underway good and the mists a been
leared away. But this is nothing COM
pared with their chagrin and disap-
pointment when they beheld the begin
min of a large exodus from their ranks
or the best and most honorable men of
their party. The populist as a party,
nave deserted them, and many of the
pest republicans are doing so every day
Greensboro Telegram.
When the negroes elect a white man
TO an office We have negro rule and
likewise when negroes hold office we
nave negro rule. This is bound to be
so. The office holder is bound to rep
resent the people who elect him He
IS TO respect, and love and ad-
mlre n praise and feel near to the
people who put him in office. Then it
Is just as plain as noon day sun that
We nave negro rule when white men
are elected by negro rule. The negroes
say this is true, and also say that they
would not vote such a ticket if they
did not know it. On this subject no
white man can dispute the negro's
Word.-Lexington Dispatch.
Charles B. Aycock has gone east,
having finished a canvass of the noun
tain counties the like of which finds
no comparison in the popular mind
this i the Vance campaign of 1876.
1t is the very highest praise to speak
of 1t as worthy of comparison with the
n in 1876; but there is no need to go
further. There was never but one
Vance, and a century will perhaps
roll by before his equal is seen. A
man may we'll deem himself highly
honored to have his name mentioned
not alongside but in the same cate
CORY with that of the stupendous
prodigy of mirth, alo and wisdom,
who wrought our first great deliver
ance from reconstruction woes Time
but deepens h impression left upon
the states character by that master
full man.-Morganton Herald.
Unless registrars stand firm, the
Black-and-Tan gang will have every
negro boy on the books and secure the
registration of ten thousand South
Carolina and Virginia darkeys as they
did in 1896. The federal prosecution
bluff" will not scare any democrat.
1t will be thrown out of court when it
gets into ourts not under the domi-
nation OF Holton n Blackburn. h
Charlotte Observer says that more
than five hundred negroes in Charlotte
township, when asked by the list TAX
ers if they had made tax returns a
yea ago, stated that they had not
made such returns, and a great many
of these gave, as their reason, the as
sertion that they had come to this
township from South Carolina since
the first Of JAnuary.-Raleigh go
Observer.
The proud brave Anglo race has
never won the letters OF political af-
filiations and domination of an infe-
rior race long. And just as sure as
old ocean breaks down the barrier
hat holds it in unnatural bounds,
just 50 sure will the white race break
the letters of negro domination. There
is no use of trying to battle against
this ocean of power n influence OF
the white race; its wave of pOpula
demand may peat quietly, but inces-
sanity for a time, but 1t does not
move out of it's path the obstacle that
restraints it's freedom, blocks its pro-
gress, or degrades its manhood. then
there comes a time when a fearful
storm arises, and a storm of popu-
lar wrath will sweep away every OBJ
stacle that impedes it's progress to a
higher realm of thought and action
Winston Journal.
In his speech here yesterday ','@e
Adams, the republican candidate for
governor, said that if the negro vote
was eliminated that the democratic
party would be eliminated utterly in
North Carolina; THAT the democrats
knew that the amendment would not
eliminate the negro and that they did
not want it eliminated. Judge Adams
idea was of course to present the con-
tention that the democratic party
thrives and has its being entirely on
the color line. If he really belleves
this it is passing strange that he n
other republicans do not join - with
the democrats and help to eliminate
the negro vote; that would be a QUICK
way to get rid of the democratic par
ty. So far as the Landmark IS con-
cerned il is free to say that If the color
line all that holds the democratlc
party together in this state, her We
arc willing To abolish the negro as a