The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-25
STATE PRESS.

we wish We were as certain that
some of our white murderers would
be hung as we are that our negro muir
derers will meet that fate.-Greenville
Reflector.
A test is to be made of the vagrancy
law in this state and the cases will
come from Raleigh. At present it
seems that a case must be very clearly
made out before a conviction can be
made. The law is working we'll in
Georgia and u people are anxious to
enforce such a law. 1t would drive
many of the idle loafers of the towns
to work either in the towns or in the
cOuntry.-GastOnia News.
In less than another year the dem
Ocrats of the nation will be called
upon to name a candidate for the pres
idency. The names most prominently
before the public now are Senator
German, Of Maryland, and Judge
Parker, of New York. The people of
the south seem to prefer Senator Cor
man, yet Judge Parker would be &C
ceptable to them. But how Senator
other question. Will the democratic
party allow him to dictate who its
nominees shall be in the next COnTen-
tiOn?-SmithfeId Herald.
There are fourteen of them now The
! Salisbury u says: There is another
candidate to be reckOned with in the
gubernatOrial contest and his friends
propose to push his claims. The gen
tleman referred to is Mr.. l. Banks
! Holt ,one of the most prominent man
ufacturers in the south. This state
ment is authorized by a prominent pol
| iticIan of eastern North Carolina, who
was interviewed by The Sun represent
| ative this morning" 1t is possible
that the fifteenth will appear. A War
entOWn paper intimates that a pro-
| hibitiOn democrat will be brought out.
! Winston Sentinel.
When women get into any phase of
| politics, whether they appear as Carrie
4 Nation or Mother Jones'" or whether
they act under the auspices of the w.
c. T.. l.. or some other organization,
they never fail to do something foolish
as well as unbecOming to their sex.
The W. c. T. T.. or at least many of
them, are getting up petitions to I'M
seat Senator SmOOt, of Utah. 1t will
be remembered this matter has been
before some ecclesiastical bodies and
! failed of support, on the ground that
there was nothing against Senator
Smoot, for while he belonged to the
Norman church, he neither believed in
nor did he practice polygamy.-Ra-
leigh Times.
All the bishops are having their
SAY about lynchlng. Lately we
have mentioned two Methodist bishops
who gave public expression to their
! views. A special from Cleveland, O.,
head of the Episcopal diocese Of Ar
kansas. He is a northern man who
has had his eyes opened living south.
He says he does not justify lynching
but can find no other remedy adequate
to suppress the crime for which lynch
ing has been made a punishment by
the people of the south. He says
| further that it would be we'll to leave
the solution of the race question to the
southern people. Evidently this is a
wise bishop. Not every man who
comes south is able to put himself into
the southern way of looking at things.
Greensboro Telegram.
Those Malay subjects of ours, the
little brown FIllipinos, are getting
thoroughly Americanized. The very
latest evidence of their change Of
heart and determination to adopt our
ways, is to demand a raise of salary.
} They are preparing a strongly worded
petition to the American congress in
which they clam that the Filipino
! commission ought to be reOrganized by
the addition Of more natives to it,
also that the American members are
getting right much more pay than the
Is IlleIIlDeIS- I'D OuI1u llnS q
we'll grounded complaint. How our
carpet bag representation over there
will take on to the proposition SO we'll
calculated to touch the average Amer
lean heart remains to be seen. Have
ing given them the water cure and al
most everything else bad we ought to
give them a little something OF the
good things of life.-Rocky = Noun
Motor.
1t is a fact hat speaks vc!umes for
the south when the cold figures show
that for the year ending August the
t~hirty-first the cotton mills of the
south have exceeded the mills of the
north in the number of bales of cotton
used, and this for the first time in the
history of cotton industry. The figures
which show this are that for the
twelve months ending with the thirty
first of August, 1903. the southern
mills consumed 1000, 729 bales of cotton
as against 1861. 635 bales consumed II
the northern mills. This IS a proud
record for the southern industry and
it is only Il forecast of a still greater
increase. Taking the past ten years II
consideration the increase Is really
remarkable. In 1894 the records show
that the northern mills consumed over
twice as much cotton as the southern
mills. Well can it be said that the
development of the southern textile
industry is the marvel of the past ter
vearS.-NewS and Observer.
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