The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-20
STATE PRESS.

The Salisbury correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer who sat up all night
to report the particulars of a lynching
n ust have been in possession of inside
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
There has been some violation of tho
town ordinance in section 20 of the town
laws. The law makes il a fine of e. for
any n to loiter, loaf or lounge around
the outside of a church while a congre-
cation is assembling or ngage in wor-
snip, or dispensing after the service. 4
habit OF going to cuhrch without in
tending to go in and take part in the
worship is contrary to the spirit of our
town laws and is not looked on with
favor by the good people who attend
church for the purpose Of Worship
Gastonia News.
The Miles-Roosevelt quarrel is get
ting to be very tiresome. The head of
the army was snubbed again by the
president and others at West Point
commencement Miles was made to go
way back and sit down, being seated
Tar behind the other prominent guests
and oit OF sight Of the audience. and
later on Mr.. Roosevelt shook hands
with him in a hurried manner and i'm
mediateiy turned his back upon him.
As long as Miles is retained at the head
or the army 1T is necessary that he show
W "a puDllC OCCdSlOUS OIL a military ma
ture like the West Point commence
ment, and decency demands hat he
should at least be treated with common
courtesy.-Charlotte Observer.
Under the party law and party prece-
dents there can be but one set of DEM
ocratic primaries and one democratic
convention in Mecklenburg county this
year. We have known for some time
that under the guise of democracy eff
Ont r-4-1 s-- t.
move and put out an indie
pendent ticket in this county. Many
democrats who oppos the oath in the
primary have signed protests to that
effect, but we have an abiding faith
that when they see the purposes Of
these agitators to disrupt the party they
will have nothing further to do with
this movement. Already sentiment is
rapidly turning against such a move.
and we believe that it will utterly and
ANONYMOUSLY fail, as it ought to-
Charlotte News
Ever since he has been in congress
Hon. John H. Small. of the First dis
trict of North Carolina, has been work.
ing for an inland waterway from Nor
folk to Beaufort. to escape the treach-
erous coast off HatteraS. He has sue
ceeded in having an investigation order
ed looking into the practicability of the
measure as it was finally passed by the
river and harbor conference, says the
Raleigh Post, carries an item for an
investigation by army engineers of an
inland waterway, sixteen feet deep,
from Norfolk, Va, to Beaufort inlet,
and for a report as to the ACCESSIBILITY
of securing either the Albemarle n
Chesapeake canal or the Dismal swamp
canal for a part of this inland way. A
sheltered course for vessels of COM
| merce has long been one Of Mr.. Smalls
legislative aspirations, and he is now
we'll on the way towards realizing it,
Henderson Gold Leaf.
President Roosevelt certainly knows
how to keep the country guessing. 1t
is hard to tell one minute he is
going to do the next. 1t seems that it is
hardly worth while to take him serious
ly in anything he says. In addresses
and public speeches he has had many
nice things to say of the confederate
soldiers and the southern people, n on
other occasions, if correctly quoted, he
has a some pretty hard things to say
of them. He made a bad break in his
speech on National memorial day At Ar
lington cemetery, for which he is being
severely roasted by the press, especially
the northern preSs.-Sanford Express.
Now as England will not require old
| man Kruger to take the oath Of allie
glance it would be in keeping with the
eternal fitness of things to allow Colo
mel Lynch, an IriShman who fought
with the Beers, and who has been
elected to the house of m from
Galway, to take his seat--Wllson
Times.