The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-30
PRINCIPLES AND CANDIDATES.

Lately in Washington there were two
able ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Black
burn. The latter is reelected to the
senate after an interya! ana 6orman
would like to be returned. 1t Is SAID
that he is quite hopeful Oh success.
They agree in the ooinion that Bryan
will not be nominated in 1904. They
agree also that the next campaign Will
he tonight on new issues n new cam
dIdates. But they must be 'true-blue,"
unfaltering democrats. Fellows who
are coouetting with the republican ad-
ministration and seeking to divide the
grand old democracy, will not be
thought of. The "dyed-in-the-woof'
democrats Will be nominated. Hill, Of
New York, is favored by them. They
think that with his great ability as an
organizer, his personal popularity, his
vigorous attack on the present iniqui-
tous. unjust, unconstitutional high rob-
Der tariff tax, and the known republic
car p~rofiigacy in the use of the public
moneys will be a powerful leverage and
can lead to democratic victory. They
appear TO ignore the foreign conquest
scheme and the most inconsistent and
un%friendly treatment of Porto Rico and
the censurable course as to Cuba. The
Washington correspondent of the Char
lesion News and Courier. from whose
special we obtain the above outlining
of the views of the two leading demo-
Gratis. gives this:
There is but little encouragement.
from a political standpoint, to be de-
rived from a general attack upon the
{ lministration's Philippine policy. This
government has gone so far in that
direction that it is almost impossible
to suggest a practical remedy by which
the American forces can be withdrawn
from those islands. There are. other
questions nearer home and of greater
interest to the American people, which
might be pushed to the front and made
party issues by the democrats. The tar
If question offers an inviting field of |
operations for the democracy. The re-
publfcanS are wide open on this sub |
ject. and it is believed that a vigorous
attack OF the present law would appeal
with especial force to a large majority
of the American people at this time"
The attentive readers of the Messen-
ger will recall frequent efforts to show
up the wrongs and inequalities of the
present outrageous republican tariff,
and to insist upon a vigorous, unflinch-
ing war upon it's vast and ruinous Z
schedules. Mr.. German did not COM
nit himself to Hill. The correspondent
writes that "there is in democratic
circles a growing sentiment in the di-
rection of former Senator David Ben
nett Hill as a presidential possibility.
Wherever o go and wherever the |
subject OF national politics is discuss
ed the name of Mr.. Hill comes to the |
from as the most available candidate
of the democratic party. Practical pol
iticians agree that If the democrats
hope to succeed in the next national
with a leader whose democracy cannot
be questioned. and one who has the
courage and ~audacity to meet and COM
bat the stone-wall organization of the
republican party"
1t is too soon to begin to work a boom
for Hill or any other man. Before three
years many important points may oc-
cur that will change much the present
political aspect. Possibly the next con-
.gress may cause by its legislation, or
its failures-by it's sins of omission and
commission, a great Formulation and a
decided passing from present outlook
or phase to another. 1t will not do in
1901, to agree upon all the issues or the
for 1904. Await develop
ment. Let the politicians be quiet and
await the unfolding of events.