The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-04
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

If the trustees of Trinity college &c
| cept the resignation of Professor BaS-
| sett. Bassett's friends will say he Is
| prosecuted. II they don't accept 1t the
| people Will severely criticise then
| Gastonia Gazette.
Let us be thankful that we are alive
! and kicking, and that We nave 81
muc to KICK about.-Charleston Post.
| Said in jest, no doubt. but that does
not keep it from possessing a good
dea1 of truth. Man is so constituted
that he would be in a bad fix if there
was no cause to protest. Why, he'd
| probably kick because there was
nothing to kick about. And it is just
as we'll that this is true. for a con-
tented man is generally a do-nOthInE
individual of little accOunt to himsef
or anybody else.-Charlotte Chronicle
It has bee said that North Carolin-
| ans lack state pride. yet the readers
Of the following paragraph from The
| Windsor (Bertie county, Ledger Will
] agree that there is one who does not,
we can see no reason why democrats
| north and west, should be getting hot
| under the collar over the PLATFORM, n
the nominee of the party. Let them
turn their eyes toward the Old North
State and cease their W~rangling, wire
pulling and worry. North Carolina
1 Has liz iI5IlI SUI u ~ W CC llIC
| party to victory. North Carolina can
furnish . score of men today. the peers
Of any statesman in the union, or Of
any nan who ever filled the executive
chair" The Observer accounts itself
a pretty good North Carolinian and
generally stands ready with an en-
dorsement Of anything good said of it's
people; but if it were called upon to
o. k. the claim that there are twenty
men in the state the peers of Wash
mgton, Jefferson. the Adamses, Jack
son. Lincoln and Cleveland. it woul6
find itself compelled to balk.-CharIotte
Observer.
The Charleston News M Courier
does not believe that the trusts are or
ganized to oppose Mr.. Roosevelt, the
latest flower and fruit Of the party OF
trusts and corporations" and that it
is utterly ridiculous to suppose for Il
moment that Mr.. Roosevelt will be an
t%agOniZed by the trusts and corpora
tions." Our contemporary has surely
not been reading the political news
of late. That the trust are against
Roosevelt is the only thing In his
favor. But they are against him. II
some one more hostile to them IS
nominated. then they will elect Mr..
/ Roosevelt. But the probability -
that they Will support the democratic
! nominee and one reason they are now
talking about German is that they
! think they can make q bargain with
him. The temptation to the DENT
cracy next year will be to nominate q
man that will have the support of the
trusts. 1t may be the temtatiOn may
yet be removed by the putting forth
Of Hanna as the successful rival Of
Roosevelt in the republican V
tion.-CharloOte News.
A press dispatch in this paper this
| evening says that Senator Beverage ls
now investigating the undOubted anti
! Roosevelt and prO-Hanna sentiment
that prevails in Indiana. That state,
it is said. would vote for Hanna in a
! national convention upo the drop OF
the hat. The bright paragrapher CT
the Washington Post say that he
Ohio statesman has out-Caesared
| Caesar in denying that he wanted the
) crown, but it looks as if he will have
to deny once more that he wishes the
republican nomination. One thing IS
certain, however, and that IS that south
ern republican politicians are pleased
when they hear such news as that
coming from Indiana today, tendin"
to show the tremendous popularity Of
Mr.. Hanna in his party.-AshevtIie
! GaZette-NeWS.
1t is remarkable the number Of
| CrdnhS IQdC OOD up whichever lIlS
president of the United States ap-
pears. Many of them are probably
harmless, but the officers cannot be
too vigilant in protecting the per-
son of the Chief Executive. A man
i who is fool enough to do what most
of these people undertake might hava
the murder mania in place of HARM
less Authorization Sue ~eXtraOrdl-
nary precautions may not seem SIX
actly appropriate is this free republic.
but they are observation-disclosures
Chronicle.
The panama junta has decided 10
ratify the canal treaty as soon as IL
is received down there. They are
making haste in winding up this mat
ter. Mr.. Roosevelt desires. no doubt
that II shall be a closed incident be
fore the next presidential campaign
Decentralization Seminal.