The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-17

IndL utCOg TICKET uOeS not aDpSaT u
be very popular. At least Il has beer
difficult to find any democrats who were
willing to be sacrificed Upon the altar o1
republican misunderstanding Index.
In Pennsylvania no man can vote un-
less he has paid his pO!l-tax. If it is
wrong in democratic North Carolina,
why do pious republicans practice il In
Pennsylvania.-News and Observer.
Mr.. Patterson, the independent gold
Observation-Disclosures oTulist can
didate for congress from this district.
says he has not accepted the nominA-
ton Of the republicans. 'Tisn't neces-
sary; but Mr.. Patterson viii not refuse
TO accept their votes. The republicans
are awfuIly sweet on Mr.. Patterson. and
vice yersa.-Reidsville heview-
Too much stress cannot be laid upon
registering. If you do rot register be-
fore the books close YOU anbot vote.
1t makes no difference how often or
how early o registered for previous
| elections, his time the party starts with
a clean page and previoUJ registrations
will not be considered a. all. The time
draws near for the closLg o. the reg
istration books. SO If you have not reg
istered this time. do so at once.-Dur-
ham Sun.
Those passionless and frigidly judicial
minded citizens who like = nom artisanI
report of a political speaking ought
surely to find their ideals satisfied in the
account sent to the Charlotte Observer
of Charlie McKeSSon'S " eloquent eff
forts at Cherryville Tuesday. 1t is real
~ So entirely colorless as TO BE- wonder
full. True, the correspondent appends
the generous observation that Hiss will
| receive a good vote there. but Mckes-I
son-whose side was MCKesson speak
ing on, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Gazette.
Where is our republican friend, Mr..
Slocomb? Where are you Mr.. Slocomb?
You must have been greatly surprised
when the field day" at Elizabethtownl
was over, and what went We cut for tol
find, a reed shaken by the wind?" Mr..
SlocOmb is to be congratulated upon his
decision to retire or rather his inability
to come out again after being so effect
lively retired. and who hit Billy" Slo-I
comb? Patterson hit him. and he hit
him a Numbering" lick, that's the kind
OF ticks he hits, slow, did you say? May
be so, he's not one of your fiery. fidgetyI
kind, all the time ''buttin'' into stone
walls, but I'll tell you what it's goodbye
Katy to the stone wall he does hap
pen to butt, and we are looking to every
good man. who loves 10 see the right
man in the right place, cast his vote
for Patterson.-Scottish Chief
Coal barons have the right to employ
only such men as they want in their
mines and to refuse to recognize or m
ploy union labor, and they also nave
the right to refuse to submit any and
all matters to arbitration. These are
their rights and have not been disputed.
Speaking of their rights further, they
a the right to close down their mines
for any reason until the scarcity of coal
forces the prices to whatever figure
they may desire. and there is now no
law that can prevent tncm. hat they
can do this is certain; that they will not
do it is not So sure. When it comes to
their rights, they have us where the
wool is ShOrt.-Durham Herald.
AS each revolution Of the earth
brings IS nearer the election day, the
situation il the coal regions Of Penn
sylvania, New, York. Ohio. Indiana and
Illinois becomes more acute-With re-
publican politicians. Mr.. Mitchell and
the coal kings have got the republican
statesmen of those states, specially
those hoping for an election next month
and dependent upon the labor vote to
pull them through, right where the hair
is short and hurts most. Mr.. Mitchell
knows whose thumbs he has got fas-
tened in the vice and. to tell the var
nished truth. we can't blame him for
giving some right vigorous twists to the
crank. The coal operators seem to
know also who the miners are squeez-
ing most Just now. and, after the eX-
p%erience with a similar POLITICAL situa-
ton two years ago are neither disposed
to give in now nor sympathiZe with the
republican statesmen who are most
frantic to get their own tails out of a
split stick regardless of the injury
others may sustain.-Raleigh Post.
\ republican speaker in New York
city. not aware of the fact that all anti
trust talk by spell-binderS of that par
ty is for buncombe and only for bun
combe, slipped up the other night. In
the course of his speech he a,d TO-
day Attorney General Knox at WASH
ington is prosecuting great ~conbina-I
street; defying Mr.. Morgan, if you
please; prosecuting great combinations
of capital in Wall street controllingl
great railroads in the northwest, underI
a republican antitrust law" BeforeI
the meeting adjourned the republican,
chairman called for the chief s%tenogra-l
pher and instructed him not to permit
the above sentences 10 be printed-soI
strike them out. In fact, he took all thel
speeches and had the page en- which,
the Objectionable assertion appeared
rewritten. He instructed the stenog-I
rapher thus: Copy this page and leaveI
that passage out. Hurry it up, SO wei
can give the corrected copy to thel
press" Now if the republican party isl
In n in these prosecutions, if it isl
not playing a double same why is it's
chairman SO anxious to suppress a plain
declaration like hat quoted? If proof
were needed that the republicans werel
dominated by the trusts, does not this
supply it?-News and Observer.
The Kinston Morning News has this
paragraph: 1.-The independents don't
seem to mind paying for ADVERTISED
ments. They have been running the
Durham county ticket among the ads inl
both of the Durham deilies since the
convention, and yesterday Chairmanl
Whitaker came out with a full page adI
against Judge Clark in the Herald. and
the editor remarks in the editorial COL
umn hat the paper was getting pay for
it." The Independent movement will
not have lived in vain If its conveys the
idea to all concerned that political par
ties, like merchants, manufacturers and
others. should pay for the PUBLICITY
they get. Why should they not pay the
newspapers for keeping their ticketsI
standing in their columns. for AMI
A.