The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-11
STATE PRESS.

The indications seem to be now that
Judge Parker will give Senator German
a good fight for his money. The stock
of the New York man is rising all thu
while and ne is decidedly more in Cor
mans way han he was a few weeks
ago.-Greensboro Telegram
In line with an editorial paragraph
in yesterdays Chronicle about AR
CleveIand's' letter declining TO be a can
didate for the presidential nomination,
The New York Sun prints an article in
which it is shown that a nomination
for the presidency has never been le-
fused when rendered by a great p0lit-
zeal party, speaking through its nation
al convention" Mr.. Cleveland Gould
not break the record and he would .IJt
if he could. If the national Democratic
convention gives him the nomination
ne will be Obliged TO take it, and that
done, the man does not live who could
beat him.-CharIOtte Chronicle.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
has handed down "A decision holding
that in any case Of the buying and sell
ing of a vote, the real criminal is the
man who buys the vote. They are al
ter the right man now. The man who
does the buying must V money. He
is usually d man Of influence and posi-
ton. and often the friend or agent OF
a candidate. The man who sells IS
generally a poor devil of a fellow who
mounts to little or nothing-a man
who has sunk so low tina he would
sell his birthrighI for a ness of pot
tage. He is a degenerate, or not fax
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hold of the buyer it is then after the
man really responsible for the bribery,
and is in line to bre k up the growing
crime-a crime that would destroy the
free government-News and Observer
Judge Fuller used to tell the story
on himself, that he found a man in the
far West who once asked him his State,
his business and his religion. The Judge
told him that he was a No IN Caroline
Judge n gave him his UNCONVENTIONAL
prefer nee. All! said tie WeEtcrner.
You believe in hell and harging and
calOmel.' Mr.. Glenn has one Of Judge
! Fuller's qualifications for the office Of
Governor. And if he will Il
hell. hanging and calomel' platform,
| that is, that the guilty men must suffe"
L whom the courts convict, he'll sweep
the State from CurritJck to CherCkze e.
r The people are getting prCfanely tired
of a platform of Hades, pardons ald
soothing syrup.-Charlotte News.
That was a very ugly, unbecoming
piece of business IN which the Trinity
students engaged. after the trustees
had adjournd. The students who en-
gagged in this foolish demonstrate an
were doing what they we've att-mpt-
ing to condemn and rebuke IN the p.rt
Of the editor of the News and Observer,
namely, the exercise of tree .peeLn.
"Oh, liberty, the crimes that hav bean
committed in thy name!" Most people,
at least reasonable people, will refer
this action to the indiscl atiCn Of school
boys. though some will aIgu- SCI ioI.
that it reflects the teaching at Trinity
College. This, of COul &c, is unjust and
not true. We received a typewriter
communication early yesterday morn
ing, containing ct elaborate account
of the hanging Of the editor of the
News and Observer, which We promptly
consigned to the waste basket, as pos
sessing no interest for right-minde6
peOple.-Raleigh Times.
The Kemp-Hunnewall marriage at
Newport the other day was a distinctly
divorce event, as the Columbia State
truly remarks. The groom had been
divorced and hic former wife had re.
married. The brides dame of honor
ha dbeen divorced and so had Ter uncle
who gave her away. Eleven perso ne
attended this marriage, five of whom
had been divorced. The wedding cere-
mony had been performed by the judge
who had two hours before granted the
bride a divorce from Mr.. Kemp. Such
a coterie of divorced persons at this
ceremony was no accident but was nat
ural to their Circle of Society These
people were of the four hundred tito
people belong to the Hundred
a set who flock by themselves, and
who are of course entirely too choice
socially TO waste their fragrance on the
common herd.-AsheVille Gazette-NeWS
The Durham Herald sayS: TT has
appeared all along that all Mr.. Roose-
welt had to do was to walk up and take
the nomination. but such a job as this
is not had for The asking and a good
many things can happen in six months.
There his been a marked change in the
political situation in the past six
months Mr.. Roosevelt had both the
nomination and the election cinched-
now he can feel sure of neither.-Win-
St0r Seminal