The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-28
STATE PRESS.

Every now and then we SEE WHARF
some fellow has stood up and said he
would like to vote. again for old man
Cleveland This is not the WattersOn-
ian idea but it is a pretty good display
of common sense on the part OF the
fellow who thus expresses himself
Concord Tribune
The discriminating editor Of the Com
moner of Lincoln, Nebraska, who has
undertaken to designate the only pro-
CT men for the democrats to consider
for the presidency. has come to a head
at last. His second choice is Major
Head of Nashville, Tenn; that is, Mr..
Head is the second gentleman named.
but those who lave been and all who
may be named can we'll be taken as
Mr.. Bryan's second choice."-Raleigh
Post.
The Riverside cotton mill at DanVille
has set a good example to southern
cotton factories by establishing a ten
hour a day system. This is long
enOug to work a man, to say nothing
of women and children, and the day is
not far distant when factory owners
generally are going to realize that
shorter hours are productive of better
results in every way than an Excess
sively long work day.-Ashevilte Cit
iZen.
The impression prevails that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has a set speech on the
negro question concealed in his clothes,
and Will spring it on the country when
he gets out of Yellowstone park. If
Private Secretary Loeb knows his bus
mess he will how his chief eX-
President Cleveland aid on this sub
ject. and urge n revision of the manu-
script to save hin from looking like
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Winston Sentinel.
There is something significant in the
! announcement of the war department
that it is ready to furnish riot cart
ridges to the militia of the various
states, so soon as they shall hav COM
piled with the provisions of the Dick
bill. The regular establishment has not
been provided with riot cartridges and
few of the state organizations have
ever been called upon to use them, and
they were not furnished by the gov
ernment. The act suggests some dark
and unpleasant thoughts. We presume
the North Carolina state guard has
considered the Dick bill carefully
Charlotte News.
Correspondents in various places in
sist on bringing out candidates for
governor next year, referring TO this
dIlu lIdl StIlllCIll1I1 So DCAlS "NN"Nt
, candidates. Colonel John S. Cunning
ham, of Person, n Major Chas. NJ,
Stedman, of Greensboro. were among
those thus classed recently, but Colonel
Cunningham, who was in the city the
other evening, says he has made no
such announcement or authorized it
while the same can be said of Major
Stedman. though both gentleman have
no doubt been i"mpOrtuned to make the
Trace. We know this to be true OF
Major Stedman but he has so far re-
fused to let his name be placed before
the public. But correspondents are
much like the newspapers; they want
something to write OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Record.
In talking to the South Dakota farm
erS the other day President Roosevelt
took occasion to refer to what the re-
publican administration had done fol
them. through the instrumentality q
the Dingley tariff bill. There is ne
record that the farmers gave him Other
than n most respectful hearing; but
there is every reason to believe thai
when they had waved goOdby to tht
presidential train they turned away II
silent meditation upon the facts which
/ the president did not tell them-thatt It
Dingley tariff does two things to tn
farmer; limits and restricts the are
& III winch lie may sell HIS pIOuu%I7
practically holding down the price
thereof; and compels him to pay mo
nOpOly prices for most of the article:
which he requires about his home and
his business, including clothing, boots
: and shoes, wire. implements, cutlery
glass carpets and innumerable Others
Greensboro Patriot.
That Kansas City political speecl
r making performance Monday nigh
: was a spectacle for both gods and men
We are told that the affair vas give,
in honor of Gum Shoe Bill Stone ID.
; the democratic club of Jackson county
, Tha in itself vas bad enough, bu
when William j.. Bryan. who twice le'
\ his party through n slaughter hous
I into an open grave" announced to
waiting world that Grover Cleveland
the onIy democratic occupant of tn
White house since the civil war, hat
T. left the party weaker than ever befor
= because it had been betrayed by his ad
y. ministratiOn the limit was APPARENT
l.. : reached. This would be lu6icrOuS if
S were not for the fact that The Candi
[ date was apparently speaking seriOu
= ". The bitterness of defeat seems
n be driving the iron deeper and deepe
into the Nebraskan's soul. else hi
+ Judgment regarding the eternal 1Itues
, of things would not let him make sue
l a show of himself.-CharlOtte Observe