The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-20
STATE PRESS.

Livery lllIlt Il CIONu OIL lOTIleTn NE
grOes get together they seem to think
it in order to abuse Booker Washing
ton, but this is not the class he hopes
TO benefit. and if he will remain in the
south it Will do him no harm.-Dur-
ham Sun.
AS the farmers form their alliances
they should not overlook the fact that
a peanut factory owned. controlled and
conducted on the co-oDerative plan
would place them Independent of the
peanut trust which dictates prices for
the u~ncleaned and unsorted goobers--
Tarboro Southerner.
And so Walter H. Henry. the avoidu-
poise statesman who ran the gamut Of
democrat. populist republican and by
the grace of pie landed as a national
State Bank Examiner, has walked the
plank. Or is il not a better figure to
say that all the good being squeezed
out of that lemon It IS cast aside.
There are others,' says J. Wiley
Shook.-News and Observer.
The last day Of the repuion was
like the others. a day crowded with
interesting events. The entire affair
has been wonderfully successful. Moth
ing like it has ever been seen in North
Carolina before and naturally the nov
city Of it can never be realized again
Inc IIINIi no pI OlIlCIeu II dlt IICIlIS
rewarded in it's great success. They
are men who do things as their nan
agernent Of this weeks event abudand-
antly shows.-Greensboro Telegram.
General Nelson A. Miles has an am
bition to be president of the United
States. He is in Texas now busily
feeling the southern nulse as to the re
ception his candidacy would receive
In the south. Miles is the man who
first put shackles on jefferson Davis
when the latter was held a prisoner at
Fortress Monroe. This fact will not
strengthen his hold on the southern
vote. Because of this former governor
Lubbock, of Texas. an eX-member Of
President Davis staff. refused to meer
Miles a few days ago at Austin -
Rocky Mount Motor.
In his charge to the jury at Durham
court Judge Brown called attention
to the fact that there has been great
increase in crime during the last few
years, and while it was not the fault
of the law that some charged and were
perhaps correct in saving that it was
partially the faults Of the manner in
which the laws are administered. The
increase in crime in this country, he
said. has been greater han in r
country on earth considering the pop
u~latiOn. Speaking of hamicides me
said that the increase had been so
great as to be really alarming. In
this state last year he said there were
2S5 hOmicides.-OXfOrd Ledger.
The S~tatesville Landmark expresses
n curiosity in regard to eN-Bank
Cashier Dewey that is doubtless
shared in by a good many people in
the state. Specializing on the failure
of Dewey to materialize in New Bern.
The Landmark says 1T has been
whispered that a number of people at
New Bern are very anxious for Mr..
Dewey not to return" and 'One Won
ders if the withdrawal of the $4,000
reward offered by the directors of the
! bank was to prevent his return" An
other question The Landmark raises
is. if the state had any money in
Mr.. Dewey'S bank at New Bern when
it went to smash?-CharlOtte Obser-
! yer.
Paris has been visited by Booker
T. Washington, Of Tuskegee. and the
newspapers noted his presence in the
gay capital. LIE Matin has q sketch
Of him. preceding it with this interest
ing statement: LAS every one knows.
, he is the first cOlored man who has
had the privilege of sitting at the
! table OF a president Of the United
States. thai of Mr.. Roosevelt. and the
row raised for a time in America by
this important event NAV be remem-
bered." The presidents acceptance
of him as a social equal makes Wash
/ Ington an interesting figure to the
Europeans. LIE Matin interviewed
Washington "'in the apartment he
occupies in one of our great Paris
otels.-WinstOn Sentinel.
Mr.. John Dalzell. congressman Of
Pennsylvania. a republican leader and
I member Of the committees on rules
and ways and means in the house. in
an interview intimateS there is no
necessity for an extra session. He
says the republicans do not favor
tariff revision. while the session VIII
give the democrats an opportunity to
talk on the tariff. Also, that currency
legislation need not be expected, as
Roosevelt will doubtless use his in
fluenCe to keep Cuban legislation be-
fore congress and keep currency to
the back ground to rebuke the Wall
street magnates whom he CROosevelt)
thinks has brought about a panic to
diScredit him. Mr.. DalZell hints that
Cuban legislation will doubtless be
held off by the uga trust-Wilson
Times.