The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
aTATE PRESS.

Rooseyelts policy" He hasn't a.y
fixed policy about anything. He seems
TO act entirely on impulse as a hunIor
strikes him as each case presents Itself.
Rockingham Angio-Saxon
We believe that the democratic eau
Gus would do well To drop the whole
bunch OF s~enatoriafV candidates ana
name one who is not now a candidate
We are not particularly STUCK upon
Ransom, but he would reflect credit
upon the state n could perhaps 80
more for IL than any other man men
toned. a man who does not even
measure up to the Ordinary cuts a po@r
figure in the ,enate.-Durham Herald.
The most important matter that will
come before the county commissioners
recently elected in the various coun-
ties in the state will be the improve
ment OF the highways of our country.
We are appropriating millions of money
for building canals and railroads, yet
IS per cent. OF all the material that
passes over our canals and railroads
must in the first instance pass over PR
mary roads. namely, the highways
Lincoln Journal.
THE state is and Will remain strong
~ d~emocratic." says Senator Simmons
IN his statement issued in reply to Sem
ator Pritchard's sta cement. We hope
AAId 80 NAAN S~AAdNOA -
right. May the day never come when
North Carolina car not roll up a de-
cisive democratic majority. That day
will never come as long as the party
cleaves to its time honored principles
Of justice to all and special privileges
to none.-Greensboro Telegram.
This has been a good and prosper
Gus year in his section. Our farmers
have made excellent crops. which have
been sold at remunerative prices. and.
as a onsequenc everybody is happy
and contented. We have heard abso-
lutely no grumbling, but instead pao-
pie now talk abou how we'll they are
getting on and of paying the debts
brought over from last year. Another
such year and old Arson WI be in
better shape than she has been at any
time since the War-WadesbOro MaI-
senger.
While there has been a disposition
shown by the managers of Southern
cotton mills to reduce the number of
children employed n to dispense with
them altogether when practicable. and
as soon as practicable, the agitation
has been kept up by outsiders, not out
of sympathy with the children alto
gether' but because this child labor is
considered to be a factor in cheap pro-
duction which gives southern mills som.
advantage over northern minis, hence
so much talk about it in that section Of
the country.-Elizabeth City E~conoinizr
Some one said to Us a few days ago
that Mr.. Glib Patterson" looks and
acts just like he did before he ever
dreamed Of being elected to congress
and did it with an air of surprise. Why.
there should be no surprise about that.
1t ought to have been expected. He is
no empty-headed child of ambition. He
has some Of the very best sort of sense
in his head. hen he has been we'll
bred. His blood is AZ right Environ
ment has had its wholesome work on
him too. Surrounded by a people who
do great things morally. lawyers who
make speeches equal to the best in the
land and hearing sermons that meas
ure up to n he can expect to hear
anywhere and SO on, why should cleo
ton to congress be so great a thing as
to metomophose him-a man of such
sturdinesS of character, such rugged
common sense and such superb sur
roundingS. Watch the outpouring of
the latent forces in HIM, as the fire and
the responsibilities of his position are
felt bv and by in the opening of his
official life.-Rev. p. r, Law, in TIL.
Robesonian.
We publish elsewhere a letter from
ex-Congressman Cheatham, of Warren
county, who has been for many years
n of the most respected colored lead
ers of the republican party, in which
he replies to the charge of Senator
Pritchard that the negroes have not
been true to the republican party. The
suggestion that the negroes have not
been true to the republican party is 50
absurd as to excite surprise in North
Carolina. In every election ever held
in the state, including 1902, in every
county where the republicans We're
waging a party campaign. the negroes
have Obeyed the orders of their white
leaders always. When Pritchard or
dered them to vote for ~populists and
renegade democrats, hey ave so voted
almost to a man. EX-COngresSman
CheathaIn shows that the senator's ac-
ton in kicking out the delegates from
Warren to the state convention was
unwar1 anted from any standpoint TX
| ceDt that of kicking eli the negroes out
, because OF their color, in order to or
ganize a Icy white party in the STATE.
The republican delegates from Warren
were elected in the same manner as III
| all the past years when Senator PritCh-
ard gave them the glad hand. This
! year the We're kicked out in order to
fooc white folks. in hope that enough
white men would be induced to join tn"
republican party to offset the loss of
/ the negro votes. That was the sole
, reason why Cheatham and other regu-
larly elected negro delegates were re-
fused seats in the Convention.-News
and Observer.