The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-29
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

1t may be all right. but we venture
to observe that If President Roose-
welt was caught around these diggings
carrying a concealed weapon ano
brought up before our Honorable Re-
cOrder that judicial officer wouldn't
do a thing to him.-Charlotte News.
The governor has put his foot down
Of the proposed lease of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad. He
doubtless thinks that the time is just
about here for the road TO begin max
ing zone and if 1t IS now Is not the
time to let the property go. Seems
terway and other advantageous cir
cumstances are going to make the
road profitable, surely the state which
has been sinking money 50 long
should have the benefit.-Greensboro
Telegram.
The state department officials con-
firm our minister's advices that the
Panama canal is in a hopeless state
Senator MOrgan's contention that the
opponents of the isthmian canal Op-
posed the Nicaragua measure IN order
to side track it on to the Panama
route. knowing that the affairs of the
French company were in such u mud
died condition and the opposition in
| Colombia was so great that the Pan
anna canal proposition could not be
confirmed, may have been correct
Wilson Times.
Mondays dispatches from Raleigh.
telling of Governor AycOck's decision
on the matter of leasing the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad. puts an
| end to the lease question, for the pres
ent. The Journal has been against
every lease proposition thus far put
forward. because there has been moth
ing in these propositions, as it seemed
to The Journal, to Indicate that those
Immediately concerned, stockholders
! and the people who depend upOn this
railroad in order to do business, pa
IRONS and those living along the line.
would receive greater benefits than
they now get. under the present ad-
ministratiOn.-New Bern JOurnaI.
The city of Greensboro is 20 have a
reunion of nonresident sons and
daughters of North Carolina, on the
18th of October, and asks the state
to join in the invitation. There is
hardly d state in the union which is
not indebted to some native of North
Carolina for distinguished service.
The movement is one that should be
heartily entered into as it will foster
Il beautiful fraternaI feeling, and will
impress upon the country nose ideas
for which our sturdy old m
wealth stands. 1t is to be hoped that
the states sons and daughters will
| come together on this occasion and
make it Il glorious success.-Durham
u
Would it be any very great harm
for Colonel J. c.. L. Harris to tell US
whether his client who is a perfectly
straight man is white Or black? If
he can not tell us what color he Is,
would it be within the bounds of COM
mon decency and honesty Tor him to
tell us where he lives? We would
like to know, whether he lives in
Jonesboro, Sanford or Raleigh. If the
people only knew what color the client
is and where he resides they might be
able to catch the burglar But, if it
would be Il sin for MIR. Harris to tell
us who the client is that las white
wings and is on his way to heaven,
and don't want his friends n loved
ones to know it, might ne tell US
whether his clients friend" who got
into trouble and had to leave the state,
got into trouble about the bonds OF did
he have some other trouble besides the
bonds?-News and Observer.
Anent the proposition OF Senator
Carmack of Tennessee, to begin an
agitation in the next congress for the
repeal of the fifteenth amendment to
the constitution of the United States,
The Washington Post expresses the
opinion that the best policy IS to let
sleeping dogs lie" The Post in con-
ffrmatIon of it's judgment compares a
of The Cleveland Plain Deal
er, q northern democratic paper, with
one OF The Boston Advertiser, a
strong republican paper, on Mr.. Car
nack'S proposition. The Plain Deal
er says: while Senator Carmack
1l0 homo tp aconnonlich nnthInO homo
fetal by his announced purpose, ne is
likely to cause mischief. The attempt
to annul the fifteenth amendment is
apt to arouse resentment and strength
en- the demand for enforcement of the
fourteenth amendment. 1t is good
policy to let sleeping dogs lie. And
his is what The Boston Advertiser
says: The southern states may dis
franchise the negro and the north be
silently tolerant. When it comes to a
campaign to magnify this silence into
a speech of approval northern antipa-
thieS are at once aroused and all
other national questions are dWarfed
in the face of the new issue" If the
north will only pursue a policy of 81
lent liberation in regard to the SOuth'S
acknowledgements of the negro, the
south Will be content. But will the
north do this? Will it suppress Mr..
Crumpacker, with his agitation for the
! reduction of southern representation in
congress? If it will not, then we are
sure to have Mr.. CarmaCk to the front.
Both men are violent. Both are fire
eaters. They complement each other
as a~gltatOrs, and both ought TO be sup
pressed. The country is sick II tired
of the negro problem 1t is sincere
ly to be hoped this sleeping dog may
lie MISUNDERSTANDING Chronicle
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