The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-03

Pembroke. Robson county today. but
| Mcclellan who is a personal friend Of
| Glib Patterson, will not pose as the de-
coy duck Of Slocomb or the republican
party."-Fayeteville Observer.
Colonel Bryan was telling US a few
days age that everything was too cheap
on account of the scarcity of money in
the country and that if money became
abundant prices would rise and every
body would be happy. On the other
hand, the republicans were preaching
that low prices were best and that if
there was a general increase, wages
would be the last things to rise. Now,
prices have gone up and the democrats
are trying to prove that the republicans
caused it, while the republicans say the
conditions are the best evidence of their
wisdom and the results of prosperity
Presently people will begin to suspect
that there is a good deal of humbug in
pOliticS.-Richmond News.
We waste what a Yankee COM
munity would live upon. We brow
away thousands of bushels of vege-
tables and fruits in their season, and
when they are gone buy the canne
goods put up by our considerate north
ern friends who know that we must
have them. Corn from Maine, peaches
from Jersey, tomatoes from Maryland,
and even sweet potatoes raised and
canned in Massachusetts nave been sold
in h Waycross market. We are sleep
ing over our rights and throwing away
our opportunities. We must turn over
several new leave if we would be in-
dependent, and as the natural outcome,
happy.-Waycross (Ga.) Herald.
Whatever may be thought or said
of Theordore Roosevelt, the president,
Teddy, the broncho-buster is a man
every inch of him, and his fight for his
Gfe-his political life-in the face OF
bodily anguish and real peril, proves
it. 1t is not yet known to the public, but
it Is known to him, that the decree to
turn him down has gone forth. He has
had the courage to tell certain we'll
known republicans leaders to mind their
own business leaving him to mind his.
They do not like it, of course Wall
street, so-called, is behind him. They
think the republican party also. And
there o have it. The president
started out fiat-footed and alone
alone in Cuba'-to make his own fight
in his own way, and-'To be continued
in our next. louisville Corier-Jour-
nal.
The republicans of Michigan would
like to have Alger for senator, and
therefore the party becomes RESPONSE
BILE for him. But why this is so it would
be difficult to think, except that he has
a great fortune and his record needs a
a "~vindication." If these two facts
are sufficient for the party, the fact
is not creditable to it nor a theme of
congratulation to the country. y gen
eral who did his duty without special
distinction as did the great majority
of the privates in the ranks, a rich
man who made his money out of lum-
L hnr ip tho I'D farh;o~4l Without
materially assisting in the development
OF the state or lettering the condition
of a people, a politician whose career as
a statesman was so di~Screditable that
William Mckinley was anxious to es-
cape the burden Of carrying him and
it. If republicans desire hat the SEN
ate shall be nothing but a rich mans
club or the national hospital for infect
ed regulations, then the nomination Of
Alger and his triumphant election have
sufficient reason and authority.-F1or-
ida Times-Union.
The white republicans of Virginia are
bestirring themselves and are making
ready for a fight with the democrats.
In spite of their recent protests they are
glad beyond expression that the negro
has been eliminated and they see an OPP
portunity that has not presented itself
to them since Mahone'S overthrow
Some Of them are frank enough to
confess as much, and to confess that
they are glad to have lone with the
negro. There is a suggestion just here
that we would throw out to our critics
at the north. 1t has been time and
again asserted by the northern republic
can that the democrats OF
Virginia determined to get rid of the
negro in order to perpetuate the rule OF
the democratic party. The fact is that
the best way to perpetuate the rule OF
that party in Virginia were to keep
the negro in politics, and democrats
know it. There was no question OF
democratic supremacy in Virginia sc
long as there was a great mass of ne
gro voters to contend with. Democrats
thoroughly understood that, and some
tional convention, were opposed to any
change in the suffrage plan, on the
ground that to eliminate the negro
would be to make it possible for the
republican party to succeed. But the
great body Of democrats would not lis.
ten to such reasoning. They saw thai
b negro I a been for years q
source of corruption in he state n
they determined to get rid of it in or
der to purify the politics of the state
no matter what should be the effect or
the fortunes of the democratic party
They determined to purify the polite.
OF the state and then let the result:
take care Of themselves. This IS q
simple statement Of fact and it vii
probably be a revelation to some OF tht
republicans at the north who have beer
misled.-Richmond Dispatch. =.