The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-13
STATE PRESS.

1t was no surprise to find, in read
ing about the last 'lunatic' at the
White house, that he had lived for a
time at Paterson, y. ]. That town
car turn out madmen if any town can.
Greensboro Telegram.
And so Mr.. Dewey will excuse him.
self on the plea of persecution. Didn't
steal half what they say. The moral
sense of a man who can make a dis
tinctiOn between stealing $50 900 and
800 900 is just the kind to prompt him
70 say, We'll. I'm a rascal, but some
body else is, tOO."-Monroe Journal.
Some Ohio idiot has said that the
south has nothing in the way of farm
ing implements better than a bull
plOw." Whereupon the Southern Farm
gets red in the face and is delivered Of
an elaborate reply. Solomon replied
to all such asses. when he said: An
swer a fool according to his folly
Raleigh Times.
Defaulting cashier Dewey has been
heard from. He has written a long
letter from nowhere to our enterpris-
ing contemporary. the News n OBJ
server. Like most thieves who are
about caught and spent out" he is
sincerely repentant and ak of build
ing himself up" etc. If he would ar
4 C44SS lie DdldIlJC uut HUH Hill with
his victims the general public would
be muc more disposed to put faith
in the sincerely of his repentance
Rocky Mount Motor.
Was there ever a greater fasco than
the result of the Iynching investiga-
ton in Newcastle county, Delaware.
by the courts which have just ended?
Eight Indictments were asked for, and
not one was nae by the grand jury.
There has been considerable wind and
legal lore exhausted on this lynching,
and the result is the same as that IN
other states. 1t is very evident now
that people in Delaware are opposed
to indicting themselves as much as
they are further south, and that they
believe in lynching negroes for out
raging white women. too.-Winston
Sentinel
Judge Neal seems t be the whole
thing. At Wilmington last week he
discharged an entire jury for bringing
IN a verdict which he did not regard
as warranted by the testimony. Flu
ture juries will probably ascertain
Judge Meals opinion before retiring
from the bOx."-Salisbury Sun. In this
our Salisbury contemporary is not as
fair as usual. Judge Neal is a Just
Judge. 1t is not uncommon for judges
to set aside erdIctS or to dismiss
juries. and if the testimony in this
Wilmington case was as published.
this jury should have been discharged.
Charlotte Observer.
The Durham Herald says: "Of
course we believe the south would
support General Miles if he should re-
ceiVe the nomination, but it will kick
like thunder to keep him from getting
it," We are emphatically of h opin-
ion that this thing has gone far
enough. The south would not support
General Miles We're he to receive all
the nominations between this date and
the final cataclvsm. Should General
Miles receive the nomination., the
south would nominate a candidate of
it's OWL, support him and be defeated,
as usual, by the republicans. For our
own part We would prefer defeat three
times a day rather than suffer one
hour of Miles. The south will go the
limit for the democratic party, but
Miles is beyond the limit. We will
add, it is. of course, practically i'm
possible for General Miles to receive
the democratic neutrality-suspicious.
willie Reflector.