The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-03
STATE PRESS.

The greatest error of Mr.. Addicks
is that he has purchased the Del
aware legislature on the installmenI
plan instead of in block. Many sensa-
tors have bought their seats by the
latter method n the public has for
gotten about it.-Durham Sun.
The press OF the state is denouncing
in no uncertain terms the action of
the president IN turning down San
Wick in the face OF his avowed pur-
pose of leaving open the door of
hope" for deserving colored men.
! There is probably no colored man in
all the south holding a federal office
that comes more fully up to the re-
quired ideal of a worthy colored man
than is Sam Wick, Wilson's ~ex-post-
master.-Wilson News.
Mr.. Roosevelt has adopted the plan
Of royalty and determined to swing.
through the west strictly incog., which
means without forming unpleasant ac-
qu~aintanceS while en- route. He will
only carry with him to aid his invis-
ability and lightning chances to suit
local complexion, but two secretaries,
one doctor. three stenographers, three
messengers, two secret service men.
one pOetnaturalist, representatives of
3 press associations, representatives
Of three illustrated papers, one official
photographer, and two telegraph ope-
ratOrS. 1t will be impossible to rec
OgniZe q mar in this crowd.-Raleigh
Post.
Says the Washington Post: The
North Carolina officials have penned
up a man who declines to pay a fine
because he refused to be v%accinated.
Is there anything in our constitution
to punish a man because of his medi-
cal vieWS?' Perhaps not; but there
is something in there hat permits
the punishment of a man who does
not obey the laws of the state to which
however. it happens that the person
in question went to prison of his own
VOlitiOn-in fact eXerted every effort
to compel the authorities to send him
there, so The Post will please subside.
Charlotte News.
There never has been such an OPP
portunity for young men with an in
dustrial education as now. Take arch
itecture for instance. The demand is
greater than car be supplied. This de-
man, toe, as will be seen by the Manu-
facturers' Record and other industrial
papers, IS largely from the south. This
is but n Of tie numerous avenues
of Industrial activities the south is
NIIAl1 liz VIC 1lOp| ~ \ Ooi AAOAA
tiles greatly enlarged in North Caro-
lima, so that not only more of our
young men can be accommodated in
our technical schools, but that they
may receive the very pest training to
be had, so that they may take their
places among the best prepared stu
dents in the country.-Raleigh Times.
According to recent reports sent out
from Washington the Hon. Charles
Warren Fairbanks plan for gathering
in the delegates that may go up
from the southern states to the next
national convention is the establish
ment of newspapers in Richmond, Va.
Raleigh, n. c., Greeneville, Tenn, and
Birmingham, Ala. From these CEN
tiers sweetness and light are to be ir-
man from the banks of the Wabash
showed along. Such a plan is not with
out its advantages, out if Mr.. Fair
banks is relying on that alone he is
doomed to sore disappointment when
the time comes for a count of votes in
the convention. If he simply want to
spend large wads of money, we know
of no better or quicker route to that
end than a few subsidized political
newspapers, but if it is delegates that
he's after he could not do better than
take the advice of the Norfolk Vir-
ginian-Pilot: Get some old stager
who knows his business to take a large
roll of the long green and get busy
even from Washington to New Orle-
ans. For. look, you. the southern
'~dilligate" to republican conventions
may read. but the men who choose
him don't. They run more to dollar
bills than to MISUNDERSTANDING
Citizen.