The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-18
STATE PRESS.

The convention of this. the Eleventh
judicial district promises TO be a daisy.
Every county IN the district has 4 can
didate FOR either Judge or solicitor.
Ssme OF the counties. notably Rocking
ham and Surry. have three candidates.
-Webster's Weekly.
Vance is still wondering where are
the votes that sir Cooke was TO give
Mr.. Shaw III return for q from Vance.
Frank Spruill a doubtless explain
ell this to his own sstisfaction.-Tar-
boro Southerner.
Once more Office seekers Will seek to
make North Carolinians hate each
other. Let Christians frown them
down. There is a better platform to
get in On than hatred and passion-it
is love for North Carolina and North
Carolinians.-BiDiical Recorder.
The state democratic convention
which meets in Greensboro next We'd
nesday will be a lively one. True,
there is no very great amount OF work
to do. III lots Of people are interested
in ii just the same.-Gastonia Gazette.
The Wool and Cotton Reporter states
that $50 mills nave been built in the
south against 41y in the north during
a period Of three years. The possibili-
ties of the south are simply incalcula-
BILE Does not the future Of America
lie largely in the south?-Waynesville
Courier.
The democratic convention held in
the court house and in the presence OF
everybody was largely attended by rep
resentative democrats from all over
tho county Tho nrnnaQ6inc c ira nYrh
lished in full In this issue. From all
reports u party is in fine shape and
will give a good account for itself.
Mr.. L. Thomas propose 20 give
Judge Graham a So pig for a ride on
the oxford &Coast Line railroad to
Dickerson's by the first of September,
and if he does not the good natured
judge is to roll HIM there in a wheel
barrow. Wonder if he is a doubling
Thomas?-OXford Ledger.
The hum of the threshing machine
is heard in the country, but it moves
from farm to fran too fast to suit our
liking, as It is an indication Of a short
crop and we ear our allowance of bis
cult will be short, but we are thankful
the cOrn crop is very promising as corn
cake is a very good substitute for
biscuit.-Pilot Mountain News.
h Beers lost 300 men, killed and
wounded, n $4,000 prisoners. Their
army all told never aggregated 60, 900.
The British army on the ground eX-
ceeded 2S0, 900 men. Under the circum-
stances we are forced to contend that
the English victory is due more to di-
plomacy and anc han to military
genius.-Winston Sentinel.
The republicans lac a queer sort of
judicial convention at Wilkesboro
Wednesday. They nominated Judge
Starbuck and adjourned to meet at
Rural Hall August 18th, declaring void
all the convention had done. 1t wasn't
stated Judge Starbuck thought
of this sort of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Telegram.
Secretary Moody of the navy is
counting utter destruction by arrang-
ing to transfer some of his dry land
admirals to actual set duty. 1t will
De an awful blow to Washington So
ciety n won't improve the navy, so
what's the good of it. Why not let
'em shine where they are considered
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The Winston Journal thinks that
every vote in the Greensboro
ton against the primary is a vote for
the lection of Mr.. Pritchard. We can
10 see it hat way. A democratic legis-
lator would elect a democratic senator,
and if the legislature goes republican
it will elect a republican, primary or
no primary.-Durham Herald.
The democrats may as we'll get ready
to face Theodore Roosevelt as a presi-
Dental nominee, and they should not
make the mistake of undertaking his
popular qualities. He was born with
a silver spoon in his mouth; he comes
from one of the oldest and best families
of the land; he is bookish and essential
ly aristocratic, and yet he hides all this
under western or Rough Rider manners,
and is today a popular leader, stronger
his party, and full of ambition
and energy.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
The suggestion that North Carolina
place a statue of Vance in Statuary
Hall in the capitol at Washington is a
most appropriate one, and should be
carried out. Though most of the other
older states Of the union have placed
statues there in honor OF their great
men, North Carolina has neglected it.
and we have there no representation
whatever. We cannot better than be-
gin with a statue of Vance, and lilo
it up with one of misunderstanding
Citizen.
1t was a funny thing that at a din
ned in London Tuesday night Hon.
Don M. Dickinson, of Wisconsin, a
democrat, should have brought out
Ambassador Choate for the presidency,
and funnier still that in doing so he
should have said that sit is very near
the hearts Of the American people that
he shall go from the court of St.
James to the presidential hair and l
wish he may get there" The fact is
that if anybody except Mr.. Dickinson
has ever thought about Mr.. Chate for
the rresidencE ne has kept the thought
to himself.-Charlotte Observer.
President Roosevelt seems to be drift
ing further and further from this party
or his party from him, either way you
choose In his Fourth of July speech he
advocates regulation of trusts, yet the
republican congressman continue to
protect trusts. In the same speech he
expresses the hope that the Philippine
problem will be settled along the same
lines as Cuba, get a republican con-
gress refuses to mold out such a hope
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