The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-12
STATE PRESS

Senator Buffers term as senator
pired yesterday. No tears. no howsfs-
Raleigh News and Observer
1t seems h the bottom dropped
out of the full dinner pa immediately
after the eleryon.-Durham Herald
As nothing has been said about free
passes during the legislature il 8 sup
posed The members are using mileage
bo~oks.-Durham Herald.
Senator Pritchard's speech boiled
down means that this legislature is a
mob. was not legally elected. and
therefore cannot elect a United States
senator That Is the radical answer TO
the demand for peace In North Caro-
lina!-Raleigh News n Observer.
Mr.. Buffers last act in the senate
win be like the demand OF Oliver
Twist-calling for more OF the peoples
money. But IL will do Mr.. Butler no
good. IL the salaries are increased He
will not be there to draw morSand
that is a great consolation-Durham
Sun
Never. in the history OF the country.
has such q deadly blow been struck
at free speech in congress as that dealt
by Speaker Henderson when he delib-
erately withheld from publication In
the Record a speech delivered by Rep
resentative Lentz. OF Ohio. and turned
IL over 10 Representative GrosvenoE
TO be revised. This 5 imperialism with
a vengeance.-Greenville Reflector.
Senator Pritchard took occasion TO
make a political speech in the senate
Friday. his theme being political con-
ditions in North Carolina We haven't
read the speech. Life Is short But
we note that he repeated the same old
republican falsehood-that there never
was any negro ominatio in North
Carolina nor n danger CT any
Statesville Landmark.
The t~reasurership OF the North Car
DINA railroad is sought by a gentle
man in Guilford whose endorsements
for the place are not only numerous,
but of the most satisfactory kind In
all that so 10 constitute fitness. That
there are others equally deserving and
competent is not den ed but by right
and justice the place should he given
to some one in the district at least
Greensboro Record.
We do not think of any one who is
quite so well qualified as Captain Ashe
TO write a history Of the state. He
knows much about North Carolina; he
has the temperament OF an historian.
he has patience and for re-
search. and he has facility and feliei-
ty as a writer. Captain Ashe could do
his state no greater service nor bu Id
for himself a worthier or more endur-
ing memorial than by undertaking this
work with which his name has been
associated in the public press as IL has
long been connected with IL in the
public mind.-Charlotte Observer.
AS Mr.. Butler went into the senate
there went into the house new men
also, and other new men still two years
later-men holding new and strange
doctrines. which were to be at once
enacted into laws under which the
people were to be again prosperous and
happy. All of these new men are gone
from the halls of congress and the
most of them are forgotten. And zone
of the things for which they stood
have ever taken the form OF law. 1t
is reasonable to suppose that, owing
to the logic of events. they have de-
parted from some OF the views which
pears to have changed in some OF his
ideas.-Charlotte Observer.
Butler preached the gospel OF despair
and advised rebellion against the exist
ing order of things rather than endure
the lesser ills. His scheme worked.
1t landed him in a body for which he
was ill-fitted. His constituency trust
ed HIM with interchangeable devotion.
Through all the vicissitudes and vacil-
lations of his political career. they new
er wavered. but carried him from tri-
umph TO triumph, until at last they
gazed in open-mouthed admiration. as
he looked down upon them from his
dizzy perch wrapped in egotism, self
ishness and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Truth.
We hope the honorable Jeter feels
better since his political ~harangue IN
the United States senate. 1t Is scare
ly worthy of serious consideration to
those who appreciate the fallacies it
contains. 1t certa My cannot harm
North Caolina at home and Pritchard
hasn't enough influence in the senate
to do any harm there. His speech was
politics of the smallest type all the
way through. We are not surprised
at it. therefore it has failed TO agitate
US. 1t is only what might have been
expected of a man who rode into pow
er upon u despicable methods as
Pritchard did. The people of North
Carolina have r~epudiated him and his
class, and having been justly chastised
by his own people he naturally feels
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