The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-22
STATE PRESS.

Il Ar. Cleveland cOu4u just HOW I4dht
| himself more solid with the party by
coming out and endorsing some good
| strong man for the presidency. 1t Is
| not that some Of them have anything
| against him, but they are afraid OF
| him.-Durham Herald.
To what a point of seriousness mill
tarism in his country is being car
ried is illustrated by the fact that a
mimic war in which eleven thousand
troops will p~articnate is to
soon. Pretty soon We shall find this
count and some other playing at wa
just in order to know how to do when
the real thing deVelops.-GreensbOro
Telegram.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes
statistics showing the birth rate in the
states and makes a comparison be-
tween the southern and northern
| states, which show about a third great
er number of births prOpOrtiOnately
for the southern, and comments that
there is no race suicide in the south.
North Carolina leads all the state in
percentage with 3&.z, except Indian
| Territory, which has BAG. North Car
DINA al round is undoubtedly the most
productive state of them all.-Rocky
Mount Motor.
The cry of fraud and graft has al
| ready beer hurled at the Durham tenn
perance administrations All Of the
| town printing has been awarded to
| Captain j. B. Hunter, VINO is not d
printer and has no printing establish
| ment. The Durham Herald says 1t
looks like graft, and from this distance
We agree with our contemporary But
the officers of any town are going to
give their friends the best of it when
ever notwithstanding Reflector
A contemporary suggests that there
is a reVulSiOn in educational sentiment
about to set in in North Carolina. We
can IMAGINE nothing more deplorabie
hat might take place thar this. The
magnificent labor that has been eX-
pended in his cause IS Just now be
ginning to show fruitage. The en-
thusiasm is but penetrating the by
ways Of the state. A suspension Gt
the fountain head would now be ca
lamitous. 1t must be remembered
that the work so far has been but to
arouse the people to its importance,
The ways and means are far from
having been provided. Let there be
no suggestion Of stopping.-Monroe
Journal.
Let nobody with emptiness of mind
about a subject to write about and IT
a season with no power to thing so
berly write q word about the primar
system in our borders. We do not 1eeC
one and ought not to have n any
where. Wherever they have been tried
they have proved to be sources o.
strife, divisions and general demon
aliZatiOn. We hope we shall never Hvt
to see another. The plans of the faith
ers are good enough for us. Our ole
way is modelled after our form OF SOY
eminent, n our government Is tn
wisest, and therefore conducive Z
, higher achievements and greater sue
cesses along an lines than any othe,
on earth. Look over into Arkansas
Mississippi, and South Carolina an
r learn the evils Of the system. 1t is be
I cause there is so much fraud, detrac
= ton and widespread degeneracy, as
SEQUEL we are opposed to it out an
out.-The RObesrotan-
The Cleveland boom moves mild1;
On. Another man who has come GU
openly In favor Of the denomination O
the ex-President is Ex-Governor Fran
Brown, one of the abIest and wealth
lest democrats in Maryland. He say
: In an interview: Il am CT the opinio
that II nominated Senator Gonna
:, would carry Maryland. State prid
; alone would enable him to do it. TIL
~eoDle, however, want Cleveland. H
Is my ideal of a president, and whe
he vas chief executive his worst ene
mtes had to admit that he and he alon
was president That's why I admir-
him. and why + will do everything /
my power to elect him if he is nonIi
mated. I Nclaim for hfm the support Q
New York, New Jersey. Delaware, an
Mary1and: and there is a strong fee
ing IN his favor all through the Yves
, and northwest" Mr.. Cleveland's booT
IS getting a GOOD boost early In Il,
: day.-Charf6ttea Chrunicle.