The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-25
STATE PRESS.

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there are not enough white republi-
cans in Rocky Mount to man the
postOffice. There are always enough
TO take care of the offices while the
negro does the voting.-Durham Her
aid.
At the present writing, there is no
evidence to the effect that the boy
colt instituted by the tobacco planters
against the trust will put the latter
organization out of business. In our
opinion it will hurt the planters more
tina anybody else.-Winston Sentinel.
The talk about the election Of State
Treasurer 3. R Lacy to the position
recently held by the late P. VI. Ar
thu . at the head Of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, will find a
cordial response in other than railroad
circles in North Carolina, though the
state would lose a mighty good treas
urer by his Observation-Disclosures News.
That's a very o explanation Sen
ator Tillman gave when, referring to
the fact that he lost his pocket book
containing railroad passes, he said:
"They stick them at me until I just
have to take them" It would only
have cost him two minutes and two
cents to return them with thanks"
if he didn't wan to use them. It
would have been better to have frank
ly said: II want them to keep from
paying railroad fare."-Ralelgh News
and Observer.
The man who has plenty to do and
is doing it is wanted on every hand
by people who I've something to dc.
It's easy to get a job when you al
ready nave one. Work always seeks
the man with his hands full. The
h nnjpSr hnmpS are fh0Ca IN Ehirh y,
cry member of the family is RESPONSE
BILE for the performance of some real
substantial work. The providing of
work for children. not ease and idle
is a sure way to gain their affec-
ton and highest esteem.-Raleigh
Times.
Another negro has been obtaining
money from his race, this time down
in Georgia, on the plea that the funds
were needed in the efforts TO secure
the passage of Senator Hanna's ex-
slave bill. The negro made his scheme
work to the extent of several thous-
and dollars before being detected. The
Ohio senator certainly did a lot OF
mischief, unwittingly, perhaps. when
he introduced that resolution in the
senate last winter, and it was a mis-
take he has been strangely dilatJry in
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES News.
According to President John Shelton
Williams. it will be 1904 before the
Seaboard can form Il physical connec
ton" with the Rock Island system
with which the former system has
amalgamated. This connection viii be
made at Birmingham, and II VIII re-
quire the time mentioned to make l..
In the meantime, and afterwards, the
between all the systems oper-
in the south will be amicab1e-
and we are sure progreSsive-he1pfu1
to the roads and the south.-Ral-
eigh Post.
There are times when the country
needs a rest. There are times when
need to get our minds of Of Ger
tain subjects. The average newspa-
per reader has heard so much on the
race problem" of late that rest would
do good. Let's nave time to digest
a bit of what we have heard and time
to forget a great deal of it. The great
of h has been said deserve
an early oblivion and the question
will not lose by being left silently
alone. Our neighbOrS of the north
need to reflect and we people of the
south need time to reneW our assur-
of good will to the negTo.-CDn-
cord Tribune.
If there is a mem who a been
the idol of the democratic party and
has lost his leadership by Teas-
of his intolerance, dictation ana
intemperance of speech, nat mar is
J.. Bryan, twice the candidate OF
the party for president. The Virgin
ian-Pilot, which has been one of his
most ardent supporters, and has sell
dom let the opportunity pass to de-
fend him, has the following to say OF
a recent speech he delivered: 1T Is
queer talk to come from a democrat
his assertion that the democrats put
a confidence game on the people
in 1892. With all due respect to Hon..
Jennings Bryan, we find our
selves unable to assent to that view"
Washington On. c. Gazette.