The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
J STATE PRESS.

AThe Nashville. Tenn. News declares
that the talk Of nominating Grover
Cleveland is the rankest folly. "
have no fear of such a blunder being
committed by the democrats" It says,
for it would be a surrender to TIE
interests against which the party has
been and is now COMMITTED" The
Chattanooga Times retorts: Seeing as
how the party has been knocked out,
beaten almost to lifelessness and dis
credited almost beyond recovery, it
would seem TO be a pretty fair PROPOSE
ton if the interests to which the party
has been and Is now committed would
lust quietly surrender and put other
interests that can win in CONTROL
There may not b. much for q quiet
surrender but certainly. as The o.
! server remarked a few days ago, The
fnger-board is pointing the party TO
the old combInation-the South, New
York. New Jersey and Connecticut
! and to "a return TO the old school %
! politics. to instruction which instructs
and TO leaders who lead somewhere -
Charlotte Observer.
! Nothing better illustrates the steady
| advance Raleigh has made than the
story told IN four pages Of today's
News n ObSerVer-fOur pages II
, which will be found pictures of the
! citv's -four chief office buildings and
advertisements of leading banks, bus
mess houses. railroad offices, agencies
and other sorts of enterprises having
headquarters or offices in Raleighs
sk~y-scrapers A few years ago if any
person had suggested that the business
of Raleigh would make these sky
snraperS profitable, many would have
thought of him as among those who
build castles in the air. And yet they
pay good dividends on their invest
ment, and next g a the Masonic Tenn
pie. an eight-story office building, IS 20
be erected on the cOrner of F'ayett@.
Vile and Hargett streets. This will
give Raleigh the most magnificent Of
flee buildings of any city of its size
in the south.-NeWs and Observer.
A prayerful reading Of the treaty n>'
. gotiated, signed. sealed and delivered,
wherein Uncle sam was certainly the
party of the first part and the "Frincn
! gintleman from Cork" delegated to I'M
cork the canal business for Panama,
party of the second part, we are con-
strained to admit that the party Of
the first part aforesaid did then and
there, with or without malice prepenCe.
secure about all there is on the 18TH
mus worth having or necessary to end-
BILE our folks and all other navlgatOra
to dodge the other Horn. If there IL
anything left for Colombia or any
body else to fight for no deponent hath
so far arisen to testify. We shall fee
disappointed if there is. While we arr
setting his unpleasantness between
~neighbors we want it settled right. anc
no one is prepared to contend that this
treaty doesn't settle it right-and bach
up the cOntentiOn.-Raleigh Post.
If Senator Smoot a to be tried 6y
the crowd who are trying to get hin
out of the senate, he would be forum.
ate to get off with the loss of his OF.
flee. The spirit OF persecution is no
yet a relict of the past. especially !
the stake consists of an office. If w
) could get to the true inwardness of tn,
. business. this whole thing is engineered
by someone who is specially interested
; in Smoot's losing his place.-Raleigf
Times.
: There seems to be quite a distinc'
revival among the newspapers through
out the country, of a disposition Il
criticise Mr.. George Vanderbilt; frs
for coming to North Carolina anC
Asheville in the beginning; and seconC
: for NOV leaving it." as they choos'
! to allege. AS We have before had oc
, casion to state. Mr.. Vanderbilt has no
{ abandoned his home here, temperate.
l closed. because of a trip abroad; so tn,
latter charge of our contemporaries /
!, as untrue as the former is unjust am
~uncalled for.-Asheville Citizen
Since so good a soldier as Genera
Kitchener has been thrown from nj
horse. it may be hat we will lave q
let up some on General Miles, who iel
off his battle-charger while leading a:
!, inauguration parade down PennsyIva
, MIA avenue in Washington some year
ago. The British general has n littl
g. better defence. however. than til,
American, InasmuCh rs it appears thd
he was in a tunnel in the ark at tn
time of the accident. What degeneral
: times we are living in, The creates
: generals of the greatest nations of tn
: earth unable to SIT their horSes'-AShe
: vile Citizen