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

EIihu Root, it is believed. has fully
made UP him i'm dnotn etaoin gcs
made up his mind MOTTO be the nomi-
nee of the republican party for cover
aor of New York. Elihu fell down 80
decidedly on his speech notifying Fair
banks that he doubtless feels SOME
what out of heart.-Greensboro Tee
grain
In addition to a work house the
county commissioners may Dol find
it necessary to enlarge the jail. There
are nov sixty-two prisoners in jail.
Where they are keeping them is not
help if we could have more terms OF
court. without this we are helpless
Greensboro Record.
Or. F. E. Clark, among the other
wonders he has accomplished, succeed
ed while in South Africa, in getting
the Dutch and English societies of the
Christian Endeavor together in i
meeting held in his honor. When we
think that the Boer war has been over
so short a time n the American Civil
war has been over forty years, 1t is
perhaps a hint to American Christians
to get together that come fro mSouth
Africa.-Presbyterian
Those industrious republican gent
lemen who are striving SO hard in their
campaign speeches to compare Vance's
state administration with AycoCk'S
present administration, and assert that
it costs more to run the government.
should not forget that we are growing.
Their arguments on this line is a very
lame duck they have brought out.
But why don't they compare Aycocks
administration with Russelrs? All!
there's the rub. The shoe pinches a
sore toe.-Durham Sun.
There has been a suggestion that if
Judge Parker is elected Senator Til
man, of South Carolina, should go into
the cabinet, and that If Mr.. Roosevelt
is elected Mr.. Marion Butler, now an
ardent republican, should go into the
cabinet. While neither Of h gentle
men named are likely to get cabinet
positions in any event, the prospect of
such a thing coming to pass makes
low or Watson. populist. We agree
with The Herald that such a prospect.
makes one want to take to the woods.
-Statesville Landmark.
There were several homicides in
North Carolina last month and it was
shown in the preliminary trails that
in a majority of cases the party woh
was guilty of the crime charged had
been violating the law against carry
in concealed weapon and that this
was the direct cause of the trouble.
1t is too often the case that the pistol
toting" habit, which has become SO
prevalent Of late, is responsible for the
commission of crimes that should have
been avoided. AS We have recently
urged, there is no greater menace to
the law-abiding spirit Of a commmuni-
ty than is furnished by the man who
stalks about the stree,s with a pistol
in his pocket, and the full penalty pre-
scribed by law should invariably be
imposed upon every one who is found
guilty of %indulging in this perniciouS
practice.-Winston Sentinel.
Says the Mobile Register: I'VE have
been asked frequently what it was that
Governor Vardaman said about Pres
ident Roosevelt's mother. Reduced to
decent language it was that prenatal
influences alone will account fol- the
characteristic of that lusus naturae,
Theodore Roosevelt. No Self-reSpect-
ing paper can get it's consent to print
the language that Governor Vardaman
actually used. That fact, by itself,
should teach the governor what a hor-
rible blunder he made" The Register
is right. We were surprised recently
when the Baltimore Sun reproduced the
Vardaman editorial. We note a dispo-
sition to attach blame to the postmas-
ter general for the publication Of the
editorial, but if We remember Alright
hat official simply characterized the
editorial as vile n indecent, with
out quoting therefrom.-Asheville Ga
zette-NewS.
President James A. Bryan of the At
lantic and North Carolina Railroad
Company, has called a SPECIAL meeting
Of the stockholders of the company
for September LIST, to consider the
question of a lea e of the road. The
regular annual meeting OCCURS the
fourth Thursday in September. There
is naturally SPECULATION as to why there
should be a special meeting called so
cloe TO the date of the annual meet
ing. While it would seem better that
the road should be leased, those who
advocate this disposition are not dis
posed to press t to the disadvantage
of the private stockholders. There
should be some plan that would lea
to a settlement of this whole matter.
Sooner or later the settlement will
probably be by lease, but it may not
be desirable to press the subject or d
lease at a special meeting calld SO soon
before the regular annual meeting
Charlotte Observer.