The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26

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ness why not annex the thing while
our hand is in that sort o. enterprise!
Raleigh Post
Messrs. Pritchard and Craig. who
have made out their schedule. left Con.
co-d out of the count Well. We VIII
manage to wag along just the same
Concord Tribune
senator Pritchard Is :" be with US
today and We hope ne NiE! pick out a
good ticket for the local republicans.
II Ia much more creditso-e 10 peat Il
good ticket and the senator ought 10 De
told that any old thing won't GOWN
ston Journal.
The vote Of Names republican gov
ernor is 1l.l53 less that two years ago
That's what VIII ki:chia's n Ed
Pou's speeches did fo- the radicals IN
Maine. II we could spare them 10
Maine for a whole campaign aHd Ih=
people would go oUI 10 hear tne' :
Maine could be brought into the ien1o-
cratic column.-RoCky Mount Sookes-
man.
The national negro Baptist I'VE
ton at Birmingham d.scouEtenanceo
the idea OF American negroes moving 10
Africa TO reside. Every thinking ne
gro o that the bes. place in the
world for him is in he Uniled states
n that the best part OF the l1ited
States for him is il ,hG soU;A.-G Gems
boro Telegram.
The truth is that Russelrs admit
istration was the most d~isgraceful IN
the history OF the state since 1868. In
1900 the man who attempted to de-
fend IL would have been hought half
crazy. Pritchard understood that But
now two years after, presuInlng that
the voters have forgotten the Infamous
% w. =. . ,o rinn nn1 hnS r-flGal 70 an
dorse it, Pritchard praises it in his
speech and puts in mis- platform a
claim that il is worthy Of all
dation.-News n Observer.
The so-called independent movement
in North Carolina politics, is, at pres
emit receiving a great Gcal Of attention
from the press of the state n from
politicians in general. This very fact,
this newspaper notoriety, which is
being bestowed upon this movement,
is apt to create in h minds of the
public a false impression. for the con-
sideration accorded this movement IS
not at all commensurate with its real
importance.-Pender Chronicle.
From the Columbus County Press We
learn hat the democratic senatorial
convention, representing the counties
Of Bladen. and Columbus, unanimously
nominated Hon. joseph A Brown of
COLUMBUS LOT Fe-eleCllOIl ~ lEc SeIldle.
He has proven his worth 10 his peo-
pie, his party and his state, and his
constituents have shown the highest
wisdom and true party and tate 10y
atty by nominating him for further
service. He will be elected.-Raleigh
Post.
What has become OF the populist or
ganization? When is their state cor
vention to be held. and where? We
have seen 10 account " it and nothing
said about it. Our opinion is that all
the convention that the old time popu-
lists will nave anything to do with
has already been held, and that is the
republican state convention, at Green's
boro, which sent out that fraudulent.
doughfaced, cheeky, deceptive, but old
time platform just like the republican
party III where Boss Pritchard made
that great big ranting speech, charac-
t~eristic of the rue republican mat he is.
and that he was whel the purchased
pOpulist votes elected Lin to the sem
ate.-SampSon Democrat.
President Roosevelt'S recent visit to
Asheville and our western towns was
received with pleasure by a patriotic
people but at the same time they have
we'll sized up the president and know
his visit to North Carolina was simply
to boom Senator P~ritchard's party and
Ills CoiluIOdSy IoI liz olilISu oL61StS
senate, but it will lake a heavier
weight president thar Roosevelt to
boom anything in the Old North State
where re~publicaniSm is as dead as a
door naiP' and is striving to make
itself alive through an INDEPENDENT
spirit among a bakers dozen here and
there gathered together -DupIin Jour
nal.
Republican leaders admit the Dingley
tariff law now in force is g~rievously
burdensome and oppressive in nan
particulars, but insist that its revision
must only be entrusted 10 its friends"
Well its friends have recently on
cluded a seven months session or con-
greSs. Not only did the democrats in
sist on the revision then and there and
the removal Of the burdens and Unequal
tiles which the republicans then II
there admitted permeated and pregnat-
ed the whole measure. but leading re-
publicans, such as Mr.. Bahcock, the
presesent chairman Of the republican
congressional campaign committee were
eve in their demands for
immediate relief of the people. Yet, IN
der all these favorable con htions for
immediate action by which r>lief could
be given the people, not n single mo-
ment Of consideration was permitted to
be given to a measure contemplating
such general relief. Mr.. Baboock even
went so far as to introduce a bill to re-
move the tariff, as he stated 1t, ON
articles that yield no revenue insist
ing that such a tariff simply inures to
the benefit Of those who control any
such commodity. since by it's aid they
can fix exorbitant prices in the domest-
ic market. Raleigh Post.
There is a lack of unity in the ranks
of the republican party today. Evil
dences of it crop out in .uttpg along
side of each other the two most inter-
esting and important political develop
ments of the week, the conferences of
five republican enate leaders with Mr..
Roosevelt, and the declina ton of
Speaker David B. Henderson I o accept
a denomination to ess form his
old district in Iowa. The conference
of the Big Five Of republican senators,
Hanna, Allison, Aldrich, Sp-oner and
Lodge. with the president at his re-
quest, had interesting results. It ap-
pears to have been determined that the
president was to W their backing,
and that virtually means the support