The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-18

Just think OF General Carr being sec
ond in a senatorial primary n nobody
knew that he was a candidate. Won't
the fur fly when the caucus meets,-
Winston Journal.
II President Roosevelt has taken the
stand which yesterdays kilograms re-
ported, the country may expect TO see
4 battle royal between a republican
president and his party Even his enc
mics concede his sincerity and this be-
ing true the fight is on--Winston Senti-
mel.
The people of Charlotte may be
scared about the smallpox situation,
but it is dollars to cents that fever has
claimed ten victims where smallpox
has claimed one and nothing is thought
Of 1t. OF course an epidemic OF small
pox is to be deplored, yet there is no
use of going into Mysteries over it
Durham Herald.
Methods in the treatment of small
pox. the prevention Of the spread of
this disease. all go TO prove that clean
Illness and quarantine are not enough.
but hat vaccination is needed. and
where 1t is not sufficiently done by the
people. voluntarily. it should be made
compulsory.-New Bern Journal.
1t is stated that the president has be-
come convinced that his party must put
IN some good work to avoid being de-
feated in the mex presidential cam
paign, and has called n cabinet meet
ing to devise a way to save the day.
The president had as we'll bow to the in
evitable. for the handwriting is on the
wal.-Salisbury Truth.
1t is said President Roosevelt has
made it plain to members of his cabinet
that he believes it incumbent on the
administration to aid in every way to
secure legislation that will satisfy the
neople by curling the trusts. The Deo-
pie have no reason, We think, to nope
for any relief from the trust or high
tax evils through the republican party.
-Kinston Free Press.
We may now soon expect to have
Booker T. Washington debating ap-
pointmentS in North Carolina. The
condition in other states has already
reached a stage where white men If
they are to secure office, must first
lave the endorsement of Washington.
He controls the southern patronage and
we suppose that he will be expected to
deliver the votes of the south to Roose-
welt in the national convention. Wash
ington has made the mistake of his
life by entering politics.-Raleigh Times
A republican administration organ,
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, says: The
evils ascribed to the rusts are still lit
tie better han conjecture and the pres
ident pleads for publicity in order that
he nay discover what they are" Think
of it, the president of the United States
not knowing what the evils of the trusts
are, will you! And that when every
in the whole country has felt
what President Mckinley aptly styled
1.-The enhancing of prices to the gen
eral consumer" at the hands of these
trusts!-Greensboro Reflector.
The showing made by the democracy
of the nation on Tuesday of last week
! Is proof enough that the party is not
moribund nor lacking credit with a
moiety of the people but little short OF
a majority in the face of recent genera
gerrymanders in republican states
by reason of additions to the quota vi
their representation in congress, the
democrats came dangerously near gain
ing the house Of representatives ane
scotching the wheels of the republican
administration for the latter half Of it
term.-Goldsboro Headlight.
l If the new movement" therefore, i
r because of the senator's d in th1
matter. and intended to r~e-organize tn
= colored voters into a solid body for pol
e litical pos it SHOULD be discounte
nanced by all lovers of peace and goo
S order in the state, no less by intelllgen
colored people THAI their best friends o
the white people. We want peace j
I. / Ills SldlS, LII SOoo PSSpiS VI Si >A~N
and races want it, and no such can loo
upon any movement, though it ma
come in the shape of a fractional hgh
i in the camp of the enemy, understoo
x always to be for spoils only, with eve
y patience, much less with sympathy
Raleigh Post.
The lily white republican party i
the south is a failure, and its most re
a cent sponsor, President Roosevelt
% having realized that fact, is THROWN
the leaders down as rapidly as posslbl
and giving fat jobs to the big guns
le the DID black and tan radicals. n
are the bully boys who go to the natlor
al republican conventions and sell the
a votes in job lots for cash down or pa!
ing places in the government servic
President Roosevelt is a candidate II
the nomination and he sees that I
d needs the votes Of the black and "a
Or delegates; therefore the organizatlc
" of the so-called respectable republ1ca
~ party in the south has been postpone
w TO a more convenient
IN Waterman.
lie The suffrage amendment adopted l
S. the people of North Carolina two yea
t. ago was expected to eliminate the n
~ gro as a political factor. This it h;
W done. But the elimination of the neg
o. voter was only one Of the promised r
suits of the amendment. The peop
were promised not a WHIT less ciedi
and Enthusiastically the elimination
the political evils that came into O
political life with the advent of neg
Sc suffrage. These were the things mo
surely expected among us, and it sho-
not be treason to plead for them no
ne We believe that the campaign just en-
.er ed has shown some progress iowa
these conditions, and we hope that tn
n. will yet come in all their hoped for fu
o. ness. And as one reason for the fal
n. hat is in US, we are glad to print II
all week three brave messages that-appea
nd ed in three influential North Carroll
n. napers one day last week.-Progressi
Farmer. CThen follow editorials fro
The Presbyterian Standard, of Cha
lotte, The Charlotte Observer and t
n Wilmington Messenger. -Ed.)
The late elections did not bring
the front a promising presidential CO