The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-17
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

RussN has given us a pointer. TIE
diggingkof the canal across the isthmus
is not unlike the running of the Trans
SiberiaA road through Manchuria,
Both coNtries are preserving peace
and prote1~g their interests,-Wllson
Times. I
The deposltfo3 of Senator Morgan
from the chairiNanship of the canal
committee may have been good politics
but it was a brutaN hing, all the same.
and another step in <he Panama mlce.
which seems to grow deeper and more
lotte News.
A revolution in central or N,South
America is nothing new under the
sun. and we eve are surprised to
hear Of a new one. We are especially
we'll prepared for the news from Pan
ANA, because the people Of that llatle
state have been murmuring much
against Colombia, fearing that, by its
avarice and stupidity, Colombia might
defeat the canal scheme in which
Panama is so deeply interested.-Golds-
o Headlight.
Mayor Mcclellan was bigger than
Tammany, for the reason he had so
much better character h their "a
ers usually possess. The Wonde will
be if they do not repudiate him before
his time is out. Tamrany is for Tam
many, and nothing else, and When the
mayo speaks aboIt cooperating with
all of his New York fellow citizens,
WHITTIER IL, y voted fer him or not, he
is going a step b-yond where Tam
many usually gces.-Raleigh Times.
The administration en- Consul-Gen-
eral Gudger to Panama on The presi-
dents yacht, commanded by Admiral
Coghlan, on the ground that the moral
! effect of sending the presidents own
| boat and Admiral Coghlan will be very
| great. OF course it will. Isn't Ad-
miral Coghlen the gallant tai Who pet
| petuated that soul-stirring ballard.
"Hoch der Kaiser? If the sight
doesn't throw those PPn9ma hat-malI-
ers in a fit it ought tO.-Greenville Re-
! flectOr-
Full of charity that thinks nc evil"
| according to The New York Sun. "the
| hopeful and pacific DR.. P9rkhu1st looks
| INTO the seeds of time and opens he
| almanac of fa te," TO this effect: "'With
| January 1st, will commence two years
mere CT hell on earth. We are going
to have twenty four months of an
opC1 city. People are going tO have
| all the gambling. all the whiskey and
i III lit llOuNIOSs liz "oIll '4-N
they w mt 2 good deal. The new ad-
| miniStratior come. in with the dtlD-
| crate i Iterti)n of prorOtlng drLnl-er-
reSs, gamblirg and leChGiy as sc much
mateIia to be cow rtad into dollars y
And worst CT all. l -rha,-, Or. Park
hurst himself viii remain in the me-
| Notwithstanding Chronicle.
There is a suggestion now that Ra-
leigh have two dispensaries. Why not
establish thr.e end T. 1t Aldei men s.
| park, Griffis and Novel; in one; Alder
| men Andrews Rogers and Smith i'll
numper two; and AID + men Boylan,
Rogers and Upchrrch ir number three?
1t seems to b. 6, ttl>d thai man
| Separk is to n mage the Gispensaly y,
and tC be assisted by Aldermen NOVEL;
and CrEffiS i is a species o favorit-
! ism to give jobs in TIE d~ispersary to
these three an1 lea We the other SIX Of
the Big Nire out Il the cold. If 1t IS
determined to make a farce of the DIS
| pensary, we vote 10 give every alder
man, who voted against giving it q
| fair trial, a job. instead OF giving u
monopoly of jobs to three Of them.-
News and Observer.
THE Charlotte Observer does not
taking him by and large. admire the
| president, and it has grown well be-
{ yond the age of partisan blindness, too.
| 1T comedies his ability n hCnOrS n m
| for the rectltude of his purpose. Now
we wish Thu Observer would tell Us
| what it mears by that statement.
| What are the presidents purposes"
Does The Obsel vel happen to know;
does anyLody ?'-Cnar1eston
! News and &C Lrier. Who, excepting
himself and his God, could know what
any mans particular purposes are?
What The Observer meant to indicate.
IN a very general way, was its belief
that the presidents general purposes
are patriOtic: that. for all his blunder-
ing, he means well by the country.
Anybody might have understood that.
Our contemporaries challenge IS cap
tiouS.-Charlotte Observer.
! Senator German is the DID leader and
| his presence in the senate will be IN
VARIABLE. But the new democratic
| leader of the house is the finest kind Of
| a man. He is a scholar. to begin with,
| was a tuden of books and of affairs
at the universities of Tennessee, Nir-
| glnia and Heidelberg, Germany. He
is a man Of serious aims and sober
pose He speaks with great eff
tiveness when he does speak and IS
heard bv both sides with great respect.
He is not the man to ppose a good
| thing just because his party happens to
be in the opposition. Gormon and Will
liamS Will between them play about as
pretty a game of real politics this
presidential year as Uncle Sam could
we'll wish to look at before he makes
up his mind whether to be a republ.-
can or an Old-fashioned. unterrified,
interrupted democrat.-Charlotte News