The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-05
STATE PRESS.

does not poSSeSS.-Durham Herald
Keep the good roads movement NOV
ing. 1t is a matter of great Importance
TO our people The dollars spent in 1t
will yield good interest at n outset
and through the coming years. Don't
retard the movement, but push it along
with increased vigor, If poss.ble.-Win-
ston Sentinel.
They say now that ex-senator Butler
is the real power behind the throne
in this independent movement" OF
course. 1t is just Butler reviving his
old methods, and getting the fellows
that used TO fight him to carry out his
plans.-Wilkesboro Chronicle.
AS a drawing card % the state fair
your Aunt Carrie Nation will draw a
crowd, and no mistake. A good sized
barrel ought to be provided so she can
give an object lesson in destroying
whiskey with her little hatchet. AS ar
attraction, Carrie will beat all the side
shows which have been excluded
News and Observer.
The republican text book says that
President Roosevelt did not arraign the
trusts as wholly bad. Perhaps h work
ingman who has to pay SO for a ton OF
coal. or the laborer who has to carry
a beefless dinner pail because OF the
inordinate prices of beef, will take the
same view of the question. And then
again perhaps they won't.0Greensboro
Record.
The endorsement Of Hon. Robert y.
Page, the democratic nominee for con-
gress, by the republicans, at Lexington,
yesterday, was not unexpected The
RAIDS knew that it would be impossible
for them to beat Page, and they hope
by endorsing hin to embarrass the
democrats. But that's all right; lei
them vote for him If they want to: it
won't hurt NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mes
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
While the republicans are shouting
prosperity and telling what grand
things h tariff has done for the labor
ing man there comes IL diScordant note
from Massachusetts,. The bureau OF
statistics of that state was not willing
to subserve the republican campaign
bureau at h expense Of truth as a
branch of the sensus office has done
and it's statistics show actual condi-
tons instead of faxed 1igures.-Greens.
borO Record.
Worlds Work is either an inventor
or a ~discoverer. 1t says that "by n
ture Mr.. Roosevelt is conservative and
never rash" That is wide of the rea,
Mr.. Roosevelt. He is courageous, he is
Industrious, he has great ability in
many directions, but he doesn't know
the meaning of the word conservative
n his whole public career shows that
"raShnesS' characterizes him.. Senator
Carmack wasn't far wrong when he
said that Mr.. Roosevelt was like q Ger.
tain horse whose natural gait is run
ming aWay.'-NeWs and Observer.
The news from Charleston is to the
effect that Nnn KO1nitZ lie in the lead fOr
the state senate and only lacked about
200 votes Of having the necessary ma
jOrity. He will be in the second race
unless a box is thrown out under a pro
test, on account of alleged irregularities
when he would be the nominee. In view
Of these facts. it seems that Senate
Tillman'S alleged threat that he would
moi do anything in congress for the city
by the sea if it sent Won KolnitZ to the
senate seems not to nave caused a
stampede from that Candidate.-Char-
lotte Observer.
The republican state convention in at.
tempting to criticize the present state
administration for extravaganza found
themselves compelled to endorse the flu
sion rule. Two years ago the republi-
can state convention refused to endorse
Governor Russell's administration and
he became furious and Colonel J. c. L.
LIZ CIICSNCo lIIC - " y
EXPRESSING his Own indignation at the
polls. Now a brief wait of two years
has proved long enough for that party
to forget so the Greensboro convention
comes to the front with praise and COM
incubation for the fusion rule which
they were not willing to openly endorse
at their last convention.-Raleigh
Times.
AS in times past since the civil war
so now,f 1T is not s o much the democratic
free traders who are forcing the tariff
issue to the front as The western re-
p~ublicans. Representative EDDY of Min
neSota, who has been travelling about
some in the west makes this statement:
The sentiment in favor of tariff revis-
ion is very strong in tina. section.
Every republican state convention west
of the Allegheny mountains has de-
clared for it, and every congressional
candidate nominated is pledged to it,
more or less strongly, in his acceptance
speech" This is pretty nearly true
If not quite true. The great
trouble with the high tariff party has
always been that it cannot construct a
tariff which will not hit It's own people
somewhere in this great country
Springfield Republican.
After the organization of the tobacco
AASSs Ni1S paw III Do\N SlSdO11y "Slli
down until the farmers found there was
little profit in its cultivation, though
purchases for export presented the bot
tom falling out of certain grades of to-
bacco. Then the war between the
American and Imperial tobacco trusts
long slumbering, broke out. AS a result
tobacco has gone up in price and the
farmers are now receiving prices tina
are remunerative. The feared and eX-
pected threatens to happen. A tele-
a from London yesterday says:
Officials Of the British and American
tobacco trust are to have a conference
September II with the purpose of ar
ranging a satisfactory price schedule
This is taken to indicate the end OF the
tobacco war and the temporary defeat
of the American trusts attempt to cap.
ture the European markct."-News and
Observer.
We can say. of a truth. with ap ex-
perience of a third of a century in the
political affairs Of the State, never be-
fore nave the nominations of any party
included so small a number TO whom
objection vas or could be, with reason,