The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-15
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COM ENT.

Congressman Dwight, Of New York,
traces republican prosperity to its lair.
He asks: Have we ever seen mora
prosperous times han we have had
under Roosevelt? Is there not every
| reason why we should want them to
continue? Do the people who oppose
| Roosevelt want to get better tir1es. or
do they want worse ones?' Did any
body happen to notice, by the way.
| whether the prosperity sagged any
while the great author Of it was lost
for two weeks in the Mississippl swamp
and the Colorado canyons?-News and
Courier.
The BROOKLYN Eagle says thai there
are peculiar reasons why the southern
democracy should find out what the
northern democracy want and endorse
it. The chief of those reasons it finds
in the determination of northern ma
| chine republicanism to reduce south
ern representation in congress and the
electoral college, and otherwise harry
and injure this section. We should saw
that the southern democracy has al
ready shown abOut all the Difference TO
the preferences Of the northern dem5c-
racy hat can reasonably be expected Of
it. For 80 years it has been putting I'D
the votes and allowing the northern de-
mocracy to put up the candidates. 1t
has, of course exercised a voice in the
selection of those candidates, but they
hav always been northern or western
men,. What more the southern demOc-
racy cab, with self-respect, concede is
not quite plain.-Virginian-Pilot.
Baltimore must now be reckonad
among cities where Independent bodies
of citizens devoted to the public well
fare hold a balance of power in the
11A1+tanS This rASIr1t &c nln NV ;,I
Gated in the election held last Wednes-
day. McLane, the democratic candi-
date, who appears to a been Victo-
riOus by the small margin of a few hun
dred votes. is described as an indepen-
dent, public-spirited man, whose nOmi-
nation was forced upon the Rasin ma
chine by the better element in the
party. EX-Congressman Wachter, the
republican candidate, was nominated
after a brisk primary contest with a
candidate of the machine Of his party.
For this reason, the independent Gle
ment was somewhat divided. 1t is GER
tain, from the closeneSs Of the result.
that if the issue had been Squarely pre-
scented between an unfit ring" candi-
date on the one side and such q man
as either McLane or Wachter on the
other, the ring candidate would have
been overwhelmed. The city is, Of
course. nominally democratic by n large
majority.-New York Post.
The Washington Post thinks that the
people of Indianola, Miss, were justifi-
able in refusing to have a negro post
master, but condemns IN unqualified
terms the action of the people in tne
neighborhood of Gallatin, Tenn, for re-
fusing to have q negro letter-carrier.
Strangely enough. the Post prints in the
same issue IN interview with Congress-
man Gaines, of Tennessee, in which
that gentleman shows that there is far
greater reason for Directing to a ne
gro l~etter-carrier in the rural districts
than objecting to Il negro postmaster
In a town. Mr.. Gaine points out that
the farmer leaves his house early in the
morning, goes out to work, and remains
away from home practically all day,
leaving his unprotected wife and
daughters at the house. He adds that
he has never known such luminosity To-
ward the whites as now exists among
the negroes of Tennessee. "knoWlng
the characteristics Of the negro and his
recently intensified luminosity toward
the whites because of the late discus
sion Of the negro question and the ne
-ro episodes in high places.
TN, -, q 7icnotoh