The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-30

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publication but is earnestly at woTk Or
his letter o-f<acceptance. That Will be
about his second utterance. will il not?
a man that proceeds on this plan viii
certainly never have any deniais TO
make.OGreensooro Telegram.
Senator Fairbanks tenacity in cling
ing 10 his office after being nominated
for vice president does not show the
greatest confidence in the result OF the
November election. and il contrasts
most frocibiv with Judge Parker's resig-
nation OF a life position and a high sal
airy. n his pledge never TO accept a
second term in case he should be elect
ed. And We have some postmasters
down here who are holding on like grim
death.-Durham Herald.
A dispatch from Esopus says Il story
has reached there 10 the effect hat ex-
Secretary of War Root declined TO run
for governor of New York because
President Roosevelt would not agree TO
give him a clear field for the presiden-
tial nomination in 1908. The tale sounds
"fshy," for Mr.. Root is n OF the
ablest men in the republican party and
doubtless knows a few things about
the uncertainty OF politics-especiaily
with Roosevelt at the head of the
ticket.-Charlotte Observer.
The frequent lynching and burning of
negroes in Georgia and Alabama the
past week will furnish material to re-
publican campaign orators in the nortl
and west who yet arouse the prejudices
of the people by talking about South
ern o~utrages.' The fact that negroes
are lynched and otherwise maltreated
in the north and west will have no in
f1uence on that class of voters n ara
constantly taught to believe that the
south js a land nF h1~ VIA iSm States
vile Landmark.
Allan Lock, an eight-year-old child,
was sent TO jail yesterday BY the may
or, charged with the larceny Of a quar-
ter Of a dollar and a child's shirt waist
from a negro woman, the wife of Rob-
ert Martin, who made the complaint
Fayetteville Observer. Could there pos
sibly be a stronger argument for a re-
formatory? a child like this ought not
TO be sent TO Jail, to begin with, and to
keep it there can mean nothing else
than hat it will come out a hardened
criminal. 1t is a duty the state owes
to itself and to humanity to provide an
institution for just such cases as that
noted above.-Raleigh News and Obser-
yer. Many cases like the above might
be cited, but this one instance should
be sufficient to convince anybody that
a reformatory is needed in this state.
" SCAlAiliSI.
A number of the Of the
state, referring to the dissatisfaction
with the primary in this county, speak
as if we had such primaries as are
held in Mecklenburg, for instance
what We suppose is a legalized prima-
ry-while as a matter of fact we have
nothing of the kind here. 1t is a pri-
mary in the sense hat it is the first
place where the ''keener'' can and does
get in his work. So far as he is con-
cerned he prefers it to the old plan OF
selecting delegates n taking no vote,
for he goes quietly to work long before
the event comes off and his "possibili-
ties" are we'll nigh without number.
| This is why there is so much kicking in
| this county. We are not prepared to
say however, that there would not
be almost as much kicking under a ie-
| galiZed primary as under the presen;
| plan, certainly until the new one had
| been tried for some years.-Greensboro
Record.
Davis, Fairbanks. Parker and Roose-
I Welt are typical Americans to be sure
| Davis, Fairbanks and Parker are over
six feet tall and were poor country
boys, BORN and bred on farms and love
it all yet. Roosevelt is city born less
than six feet tall by several inches
once delicate and frail by town life
but the p~rairies and the mountain tc
which he early hied away, changed til.
sickly n paid lad to a rough and
vigorous a All have ever had thu
greatest capacity for work. Davis
though an octogenarian, shows mos
activity and the agility of young anG
buoyant manhood. All of them Civ
their mothers credit for whatever sue.
cess and good that has marked theil
careers. The mothers of two of then
are living and tell of sound uses of tn
rod as a part of the experience of thu
past. These men are picked from Z
population of So 600, 900 for the votes O.
16, G00. 900 sovereigns whose scepters are
their ballots Typical Americans will
certainly be elected.-The Robesonian.