The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-02
STATE PRESS.

One trouble is hat while people take
enough interest in politics to vote they
do not take sufficient interest to at
tend the primaries and help select the
Times
When a newspaper reaches the point
that 1t will not expose corruption in
public places simply because the Of
fender belongs to the same political
party as the editor its usefulness to a
community is past--DuTham Herald.
While on his way to London with the
Prince OF Wales, the Shah of Persia de-
clared that If the train were allowed to
go faster than 20 miles an hour he
would get out and walk The Shah
might safely be trusted with an auto
mobile.-Wilson Times.
In spite Of the many deniaIs, all the
southern railroads appear to be being
organized into a great Reorganization
or Morganized into a great ~organiza-
tion. Whichever way you may want
to put it, 1t amounts to about the same
thing.-Charlotte Observer.
Hon. Theo. F. Kluttz met with a
streak OF good luck the other day at
Sparta. He managed 10 get E. Spencer
in a corner and the latter he'd to join
him in a debate. Those VINO were pres
ent say that Kluttz didn't leave a
greasy spot of Blackburn.-Salisbury
Truth.
President Roosevelt has started on
his Swing round the circle" and will
make a number Of speeches during the
journey. Andrew n was the
president who i~naugurated this kind of
campaign for reelection but history
shows that his experience was not
such as to encourage emulation. If
President Roosevelt finishes his speech
making jaunt without saying some
thing that he may regret later, he will
be very fortunate.-Winston Journal.
Educational rallies gre needed in
Guilford and needed BADLY. Living a
few miles from town is a gentleman
who wants to fill one OF the offices of
the county. He has, like all good poll
ticians, been writing around to secure
support in the coming convention. In
one short letter he mig-spelled six or
eight words. "Pollytisian," almost"
etc., Were among the number. Here
is a chance for DR.. McIver to do some
home missionary work - Greensboro
Record.
Ex-Governor T. J. Jarvis was very
painfully, though it is thought not Sc
riously, injured in a runaway accident
near Asheville the other day He was
returning from a confederate reunion
at Salamanca river when the horse at
tached to the buggy ran away. He was
thrown heavily to the ground, receiv-
ing a deep cash over the right eye.
Just at this time the injury causes him
a great inconvenience, and the stat
is losing heavily, as he has been MAX
ing educational addresses at quite a
number of points.
The Presidents antitrust speech in
Rhode Island was a distinct disappoint-
ment to those who have looked to see
Mr.. Roosevelt pursue a strenuous pol
icy against the trusts. The speech was
words, words, words, nothing but
words" 1t promised nothing but in
dulged in harsh and incorporate criti-
ciSm of those who stand for the en-
forcement of the laws against these
outlaws of commerce. The trusts own
and control the republican party, and
it will do nothing to check them.-News
and Observer.
Would it not be we'll for the candi-
dates for the legislature in the various
counties of North Carolina. 1c let the
candidates for congress discuss the
trusts, the tariff and the Philippines,
and themselves talk for better schools,
better roads, the advancement of agri-
cultural interests and other topics that
deal directly with the development of
the state. To discuss these practical
questions will do much towal Dis educat-
the people along these lines and there
by bring about great Improvement.
Tell us something about what you
propose doing in regard to charging
asylums, better roads, improving schools
and building up the school interest,"
kinStOn News.
The coal strike is still on. J. Peirpont
Morgan, the financier, has returned
from EN1IrOnn on6 hasn't Caftla6 If.
Bishop Potter, the C~hurchman, hasn't
settled it, but says: while I still deep
ly sympathize with the striking miners
1 am afraid that strike matters have
got beyond my control. I am very sorry
that the strike annot be settled Sen
ator Quay, the politician, hasn't settled
it, and being asked why not, said: 81
have made the statement for the last
time that I will say nothing o this
strike for publication, and that is all
there is to it," President Baer, the
railroader, hasn't settled it, but says
with pious ferver: "Ths rights and in
terests of the laboring man will be pro-
-agitators, but by the Christian men to
whom God in His infinite wisdom has
given the control of his property inter-
ests Of the country" Meantime, winter
Is coming apace, coal is very shy. prices
are high, and the public is getting
scared. We can stand almost any sort
Of a strike better than u coal strike
Charlotte Observer.
The Baltimore Sun quotes Senator
Pritchard as saying that the ~Opportuni-
ty for building UP a strong republican
party in North Carolina is excellent. He
brings out, as the reason for the faith,
that North Carolina chestnut which re-
publicans ave been repeating ince the
wings and democrats organized the
conservative party in 1858. whIck in the
next campaign was called the "conserv-
ative democratic" party, and hen be-
came simply the democratic party. That
chestnut repeated by Senator Pritchard
is in substance: North Carolina was
once a WING state. There yet remain
a hostile sentiment toward democracy
1t will naturally, now that the negro
question is not uppermost, become re-
publican, During every campaign this
old chestnut has brought to the
surface, and after the election been
buried, only to be resurected at h next
TT ia an irideScent dream.