The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
STATE PRESS.

Senator Fairbanks may be induced
to accept the republican vice presiden-
tial nomination If it be presented tc
him upon a golden plate with plenty
of kowtowing on the part of the
Roosevelt forces. The Indianian ap-
pears to regard ii as a sacrifice.-Win-
ston Sentinel
Sundays papers indicate tina Mr.
Glenn is in the lead in the guberna.
torial race. There is no question but
hat the fight will be holly contested
and that MANI ballots will be probably
cast before a nomination will be effect
ed. Should Mr.. Glenn fail to receive
the nomination Mr.. Turner will prob
ably be the second choice Of Robson
/ The Robesonian.
1t is reported that the object of Gov
ernor Odell's visit to Europe is to in
| luce either Joseph Choate. ambassa-
dor to England, or General Horace
Porter. ambassador to France, to come
home and run for governor of New
York. At the same time Senator Platt
Is trying to persuade Elihu Root to
make the race. The Knoxville Jour
nal and Tribune tells the truth when it
says In any even if either Of these
gentlemen should accept the race the
republicans of the empire state would
have a strong candidate. an unusually
strong one."-Asheville Gazette-News.
The result Of the election for alder
men remove the last straw atawhich
the whiskey advocates caught in their
efforts to prevent the establishment of
a dispensary in Greenville. They were
defeated at the dispensary election in
March, they were again defeated
in the injunction brought to restrain
the town from establishing the dispen-
sary, n o they have been defeat
ed in an effort to elect a board of al
dermen favorable to open saloons! So
1t goes without saying that the dispen-
sary will be established and be given
a fair trial under an administration
favorable to it.-Greenville Reflector.
According to a Boston dispatch. The
Transcript, If that city, after an in
vestigation of the textile conditions in
Maine, says that manufacturers seem
to think that the present situation is
a very serious one. not alone because
the higher price OF cotton and the dull
markets force curtailment, but because
there are southern mills that are able
to keep in full operation under the
present adverse conditions and under
sell New England mills in the New
York market, when sales can be
made" This seems hard, indeed, but
these New England mills are only BE-
ginning to feel the pinch Of the adjust
ment of the cotton industry to it's nat
ural condition.-Charlotte Observer.
This paper felt from the first tina
the difficulty between Judge PEBBLES
and the Lumberton bar ought to be
settled by the parties themselves. We
so stated several times. We knew
the parties were all sensible and we
hnliovn6 thQ~ To no roacnnoh1n on6 II
was upon this we based our hope in a
final adjustment satisfactory to all.
We think the following declaration
on the part Of the Lumberton bar Is
most conclusive Of the high character
Of both parties to this controversy:
THE respondent further denies that
it was his purpose or the purpose of
the other respondents, so far as he
then knew, or now knows, to reflect
the official character or personal /
integrity OF Judge r.. B. PEBBLES Or to
bring him into disrepute or contempt.
Raleigh Times.
Nothing car be said about a negro |
run cotton factory but some South
Carolina paper will pop up with the
Charleston experiment. The Whining
Messenger says: THE Columbia ,
takes up The Raleigh Times on
the latter's statement that the Cole
cotton mill is the only cotton fac
tory in the country ever operated by
n says the experiment was
made in Charleston several years ago,
but failed. The State does not under-
stand the point made by The Times
This cotton mill is owned, financed and
managed by negroes-not simply oper-
ated by negro mill hands. We thinkt
The Times right. This is the only cStton
mill in this country entirely under the
OF negroes" The Messenger is
also right In the Charleston instance 4
negro hands were simply employed. /
The Concord mill was originated, fin
need. buiIs and equipped by a r8egno
nd run by negro hands. 1t iS "the emily !
riginaL" To the e with that old (
ehestnuIi-Raleigh Chron-
Gle. {