The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-13
CLIPPINGS FROM our EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

Judge Long is entirely right when he
! says thare ought to be a law compelling
kchildren to support their aged and af-
Aicted parents. We hope. however, e
sAch a law should be placed on the stat
utA books. that the loafer or bum will
! final no shelter under its provisions.-
salt5b&Z Truth,
Had Colombia not been Unfortunately
greedy she might have got a large
lump of money hQm Uncle sam. Now
the prospects are Upright for her get
ting nothing whatevS-unless the re-
publicans. at the wind up. give her a
few millions to placate her, as was
done to ease SPANS pain Of separation
with the Philippines,-Winston Sentinel.
Maryland is q state that the south
particularly likes to see go democratic.
1t is by right a democratic state. 1t
went democratic this time without a
constitutional amendment restricting
the suffrage, but the margin was not
large enough for the situation to ap-
pear perfectly satisfactory. A consti-
tutiOnal amendment would make as
surance dOubly sure.-Greensboro Tele-
gram.
Ex-senator Murphy emerges from the
New York campaign a figure of nation
al Importance. 1t was by his ShreWd
ageme that the reformers were
overthrow. This turn of events rem
ders important an incident of recent
political history. Several months g
ex-senator Smith of New Jersey made
public a letter which he received from
ex-senator Murphy in which the latter
said that he himself was an advocate
of the nomination of eX-President Clev-
Gland for presidency on the Democratic
: tick Of 1904; and that Tammany Hall
would be hustling in behalf Of the
Seer of Princeton if he were nominated
again. If Murphy is sincerely in favor
of Cleveland he will be in a position al
most, to dictate to the next national
convention its choice of a nominee.
Murphy has won Greater New York.
1t will not do not to listen to him.
Will he throw lis owe to the fisher
man of BuzZard's Bay? 1t is ! question
of national interest.-Ashevilla Gazette
News.
Its readers have of course understood
that much the greater part of what
II oDSSINSI has lldu ~ say NICIlIN III
past year about Mr.. Cleveland as the
presidential candidate of his party in
1904 has been said in jest. We have
noted, with interest and qualification
blended, the rising tide of C~levelandism.
and have adverted to it frequently,
not often in seriousness, but to break
it off"-as the slang goes-in those who
have blackguarded him SO Ou~trageOusIy
~, tho n,St and hay va lpIaa thaiT Iact
! to make life unsweet for us. But it IS
a case compelling levity to give way
to gravity. The tide had swollen for a
year until Mr.. Cleveland had become a
possibility; the result of the New York
election last week makes him a strong
probability. The New York Herald-an
incompatible weather v~ane-declares
that the democratic victory in New
York city and the total overthrow of
Tom Johnson in Ohio may be reason
ably taken TO mean the nomination of
Grove cleveland by the democrats
next year The Herald" it says. lis
informed hat Tammany will stand in
favor of the nomination 0f Grover
Cleveland next year and that Judge d.
Cady Herrick, of Albany, Will displace
. Hill as the nominal state leader, and
may be the candidate for GOVERNOR
: Charlotte Observer.
We suppose it will be in order to
: call attention to the Vindicati9n of the
South in the proceedings of Uncle Sam
uel, these last few years. Uncle Sam
. thought that Cuba was justified in the
high crime Of rebellion against Spain
and actually aided and abetted Cuba in
its secession. Uncle Sam thought that
Hawaii had better be governed by the
white people and devised d. scheme Of
! limited suffrage that goes q heap farth-
er than any southern suffrage amend
ment to q state constitution. Uncle
Sam actually began to talk about the
Filipinos. who are certainly higher il
the scale of life than the negroes, as
untitled for self government in very
much the some way that the southern
people have been talking these forty
years and more about the negroes, and
actually tOlerateS slavery in the Philip
pines. And now Uncle Sam is justify
union, and is backing up that state in
its SOrdid attempt to get the zone for
the Panama canal all to itself. Uncle
Sam, in other words. under the eXigen-
cies of national politics. has successively
taken the southern positions as to sIaV-
cry, the ultituesS of some races to rule
themselves, much less the white people,
and as TO the Righteousness of rebellion
and the innocency OF secession. Verify
the world 20 mOVe.-CharlOtte News.
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