The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-28
STATE PEESS.

Not being a republican, Butler says
he cannot support Mckinley, blu he
has supported some much smaller re-
publican potatoes down in this coun-
try.-Durham Herald
L is more honest for some pretended
populists to throw off their disguise and
show their true colors as real republi-
cans for they can no longer fool any
oody.-Pittsboro Record.
Wanted at once-a white man in
Wilson county or IN the state to dem
onStrate successfully that Mckinley
negro office holders T better than
Butler negro Observation-Disclosures
News.
1t should be an axiom in the cam
paign for president, TO quote from the
Nets and Observer, that Mckinley
negro officers are no better than But
Ter negro officers" Nor are some Nc
Kinley white office holders any better
than the Butler would-be office hold
ers who were r~epudiatel al the polls
last Thursday.-Laurinburg Times.
We had lots of faith in the amend
ment, but We never thought it could
whitewash and deodorize a North Car
DINA negro organizing radical or Nc
Kinley's negro appointees and make
them smell sweet to the white voters
Of the state. The blessing in the
amendment is that it will rob them of
their strength.-Rockingham Anglo
Saxon.
The oxford Public Ledger says
There are negro postmasters in q
towns in North Carolina, appointed by
Mckinley. a vote for Mckinley means
voting to continue these negroes as
postmasters. A vote for Bryan is vot-
ing TO turn them out and not to APP
point any more negroes to office in
North Carolina" That explains eX-
actly how the negro question is mixed
up in national politics.-Charlotte
News.
The southern white people feel friend-
ly to the colored man, they want to see
him succeed and are anxious to aid
ored man go to work along industrial
lines and strive to better his condi-
ton; leave alone intermeddling with
politics, which offer him nothing but
the dead sea fruit of disappointment,
and be obedient to the law and we
will assure him he will find no frmer
friends on earth than the white man
of the south.-Winston Journal.
If the and individuals,
in this state, who want TO go into the
republican party, would do so, and
stop so much high sounding talk, they
would have more of the respect of the
people than is likely 10 be theirs if
they persist in their present course OF
Stabbing the democratic party in the
back at every opportunity, though still
claiming to desire its success. North
Carolinians have always despised hy-
pocracy and double dealing-Wades-
boro Messenger.
Let every voter show his colorS in
this contest If one prefers Mckinley
and what he stands for, let him have
the manliness ito say so. If one pre-
fers Bryan and the principles of the
democratic party, let him act in &C
cordance with such preference. But,
let there be no masquerading-no sail
ing under false colors-no pretending
to be for one candidate and all the
while ~covertly knitting him in the in
tereSt of the opposing candidate. Let
us have a free and pen contest, char
acterized by the utmost frankneSS.-
Winston Sentinel.
The negro federal office-holders in
North Carolina, appointed by the fed
eral government, are a. obnoxious to
the good white people of the state as
were those elected to offices by the $780,
600 negro voters and the few white re-
publicanS among US n having effect
ually disposed of the negro voters and
made it impossible for negroes to be
elected to any office in the state, the
Mt Olive Advertiser is right when it
says, 1T now devolveS upon the dem
ocratic party to rid the state of those
negro postmasters who have thus far
succeeded in conducting their duties
just about we'll enough to keep out of
the Observation-Disclosures Herald.
This is evidently a resurrection of
nat P~ritchard'S abortive attempt
to organize a Lilly White republican
party in North Carolina, and it will, in
all probability, meet the same fate of
that OVeme Because there are a
few rich men in Charlotte, n at other
points in the state who are anxious to
go into the party that owes its origin,
and continued existence, to hatred of
the south and it's institutions, is nc rea-
son why that party is any more respec-
table now h it has been at any time
in the past. 1t is the same old party
it has always e and southern white
men who join it, from pecuniary con-
sidsrations, are simply bartering hon
or for gain.-Wadesboro Messeregr.
The race issue in the national cam
paign is being discussed by some of
the papers in the state. Some contend
that the negro should not be taken
into consideration in the national
campaign, and others are ~contending
that the negro is IN issue. Well, we
have no quarrel about the matter.
The people of North Carolina spoke
out on the negro question two weeks
ago ana In0y are HOl going TO vote
for a man who has appointed as many
negroes to office. Let us not make
the negro an issue in this campaign,
white men. Let us simply go to the
ballot box and vote for Bryan and
Stevenson and all the democratic plat
form demands and leave the negro to
vote for Mr.. Mckinley" as he will
do in spite of the world, the flesh and
the observation-disclosures Enquirer.
There is no fear of negro domina-
ton after the amendment goes into
effect, July, 1902, but we must remem-
Der that the negro votes in the No
vember election, n as this is the last
vote from the great bulk of negroes,
naturally a full negro vote will be
polled, therefore, to prevent the re-
turn of the only negro congressman,
George White), and the appointment
of negro postmasters the white peo-
pie must go to the polls and vote for
Bryan and u democratic members
of congress. This is just as essential
now as it was in 1896. The good white
people don't want to revive the old