The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-07
CURRENT COM ENT.

SadOr, fOrSsSS trouble Oh dCCOCuC CL
the presidents decision to send the
Car that Ki.hfneff petition. Some of
that trouble will probably alighc upon
the noble count, Who is expected to
keep embarrassing matters from COM
ing TO a head. Count CasSini is g very
experienced diplomat, but he is 10 WI
Ting Fang.-Norfolk Landmark.
The president wishes it known that
he has not been moved by Russis's ac-
lions in Manchuria to send the Jewish
petition to ST. Petersburg, n also
that he is not mad with Count Cassini,
the Russian ambassador at Washing
ton. But he doesn't explain why he IS
undertaking to forward the paper,
government. as Russia has duly warn
er the United States.-Charleston
News and Curier.
In his latest sensational pulpit cxfi-
bition the Rev. DR.. Len G. Brough-
ton, of Atlanta, has struck = live wire
in the person of Colonel Tom B. Field
Broughton says Fielder is a lobbyist
and Fielder says much worse things
thar that aboutBroughton. For once
this Incorporate preacher has met bis
match in the talking line. Fielder
promises to make him apologize or
prove his case-which IS the way such
agitators should always be treated
Columbia State.
The appointment Of Hon. Holmes
Conrad. OF Winchester, Va. and Mr..
c.. J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, to as
Sist the Department of Justice in the
prosecution of former officials of the
p~ostoffice department in Washington,
indicates that President Roosevelt APP
rrncio-ce tho o-a I-ity of the situation
and is determined that those persons
who have been indicted for criminal
acts shall be held to a rigid account
ability before the law. While prose
cutting those who ave already been
indicted. the president should see 20 it
that the inquiry into the management
of the pOstOffice department continues
with u~ndiminished energy and con,-
pleteness. The statute of limitations
may as stated, restrict the number OF
prosecutions, but it should not limit
the scope of the neutrality-suspicious.
more Sun
A special dispatch to the Priladel-
phia North American from Washing
ton says that Secretary Moody has q
| serious wage question to deal With, the
machinists and pattern-makers en-
| plOyed at the Washington Nav Yard
| having t~hreatenedto cause trouble be-
| cause they are Disseminated against.
| The machinists upon d fair increase o.
! pay, and the pattern-makers have
| ''deSided to remain at work and de
| mand a. congressional investigation up
/ on general conditions at the yard II
| their wages are not advanced. Nine
hundred of the 1900 machinosts en-
ployed at the yard are union men
They could stir up a big row between
the government and the b unions
A strike would seriously embarras:
the navy yard as work in all depart
ments is being rushed on guns FOR war
ships now being built This is an in
teresting state of things, n Nigh
very easily be turned to good accoun
by the government if Their were NOR
business and less politics in the settle
| ment of such Questions.-News an,
Courier.
Hon. Charles Emory Smith is emit
tied to bear off the palm for fuss an
fury from all his competitors who hay
replied to the charges of Mr.. 5. "
Tulloch in regard to ~crookeduess !
the p~ostofice department. Mr.. Payn
Mr.. Heath and the rest, have bee
guilty of no small achievement in ii
line of shuffling and undignified ar
vulgar personalities, where what W.
wanted was merely a simple, stralgh
, forward, dignifed statement IF fact
; But Hon. Charles Emory has laid the
t all in the shade with the foilowin;
The Tulloch gang-it would digniI
Y them too much to call them conspir;
l tors-apparently had their way FOR
\ time. Now see how the whole brot
= of pestiferouS mosquito liars are hy1l
V for covert The broadside of the fo
e mer postmaster general at thei- me
n dacity duplicity, collision has )
T them ~scafpering to find an escaI
e The wriggling gang Of liza
have lied at every phase of this pa
a ticular matter. Ananias has a riv
y Hereafter the browning comparison
le mendacity will be: He lies like
n TullochI' "-Virginian Pilot
IT It is difficult to take Mr.. c. E. SIM
seriously. We refer to the H
Charles Emory Smith, former pc
master general, and, of course, spe
for ourselves only. We see in SIN
of only an amusing and a futile pers'
o. That is a question Of Temperance
a. But Mr.. Smith has been dealing son
what fuently in epithets. 1t has see
=. ed to him proper to call people liza
Williams, slaves. &c, and to Sm'
ID over every one who a offended /
ne the thick, rank butter of his disappr'
or al. Thus it happens that certain T
s. iSONS-Mr. lullOCn dillclIS OIIitIS-
of subjecting Smith to critical and
wholly reverent examination. We
D not feel inclined that way eursel
From our point of view the forr
postmaster general is a rich and II
low contribution to the gayety Of
tons. The fact remains. however.
we state it. Smith is under strict {
is rather hostile observation. SIEVE
ng citizens. Mr.Tulloch prominent amt
them, have concluded that II may
come advisable to take a hack
Smith. We regret this. AS We see
matter. it will serve all needful 2
q; poses to give Smith whatever rope
to wants and sit down in the shS
u Some may protest that he has
es enough already, but We are not
in these. Perish the thought that
:. would put a curb upon Mysteries
= otherwise muZZle a good thin
" Washington Post.
in No man or woman in the state
Ill hesitate TO speak we'll OF Chamberla
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