The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-01
STATE PRESS.

The republicans may hold Mr.. Roose-
welt down long enough to elect him
but this as far as they car hope to
carry it.-Durham Herald.
North Carolina will do all she a
to prevent it, but If Mr.. Hearst is nom
mated she will take a conspicuous part
in the funeral procession.-Durham
Herald.
II Governor Aycock, Judge Robinson
and others are trying to get at what
was said by what each recalls, 1t is no
wonder that things are getting a little
mixed. Two men don't usually recollect
the same thing the same way.0Greens-
Dor Telegram.
The city of Winston needs a whip
ping post and needs it badly. There
are some creatures here for whom the
mayors court fines and Imprisonment
have no terrors. They form a class OF
old offenders and their names appear
On the police docket as regularly as
the weeks come n go.-Winston Jour
nal.
Blackburn will very likely get the
republican nomination for congress in
the Eighth district, but worse things
than that might happen-his election
for example Happily there is little or
no show for his success at the polls
this fall. It would be a genuine mis-
fortune to the state to return a man.
such as he has proven himself to be,
to Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
It is curious how the win Of doc
trine veers around sometimes. We are
printing a news dispatch which tells
that Kenneth Square, Pa. where Will
liam Lloyd Garrison and Lucretia Mott
used to make the welkin ring in the
;n+aracfc ~ ahoIitinr hos inSiStad rrnnn
separate schools for the negroes, who
are resisting in the courts this order
Asheville Gazette-News.
Mr.. Bryan puts Hill, Parker. German
and Olney all in the same category as
representatives OF "the reactionary ele-
ment in the party" They have al
voted for Mr.. Bryan for the presidency.
Is that what he means by r~eactionary?
The signs multiply that Bryan is for
Hearst. In which case we might as
well get our crepe and go into mourn
Charlotte News.
Our leader in congress-, Mr.. John
Sharpe Williams. loses no opportunity
to put the enemy in a hole. He ha nc
only put them in a good deep hole In
connection with the postal scandals
n their refusal to permit an inves-
tigation that will investigate. but
every day or two walks around it with
something like a piledriver and let's
drop in upon them. And they do
squirm and bellow.-Raleigh Post.
Shortly before Napoleon III appropri-
ated the vacant throne Of France he
one day, it is said, asked a great wom-
an to explain the difference between
IAN accident" n a misfortune" IF,
h said, you were to fall into the
Seine. that would be an accident; il
they pulled you out again. that would
a misfortune" Very man with no as
sumptions og rateness fell that if
Hearst should get the nomination for
president it would surelv be an accident
and his election undoubtedly a misfor-
tune. But more than that. Not a few
feel it to be a fearful symptom that mis-
name should be written about SO serl-
ously in connection with he highest
and most responsible and honorable
office in the republic. That a man with
with no official training whatever. with
no known gifts as a speaker or a writ
err, with no commentator for a person
ally pure life hould be deliberately
considered as a presidential possibility
or an influential contestant, however
weak, in a national presidential nomi-
mating convention by a great political
party, has surely an explanation, and
when it is known it must be, to good
men, dreadful to contemplate--Win-
ston Sentinel
When it was announced from Ra-
leigh on the 10Th that the application
of McBee and Fincn for a receiver for
the Atlantic and North Carolina rail-
road was to be trapped, it was stated
in the same connection hat the pro-
ceedings for conspiracy brought by the
state against McBee and Finch would
also be dropped by agreement. Next
day this latter statement was vigorous
ly denied and the inference was tina
the case against McBee and Finch
would be pressed if it put them In the
penitentiary. But 10 and behold! A;
the hearing in Finch's case Saturday,
as told elsewhere, Captain Bill Day "up
and said there was such an agreement;
that Judge RObinsonn, counse for
Finch and McBee, had assured him
and Day was rather persistent at the
time in demanding assurance-that
Governor Aycock, Attorney Genera
Gilmer and the other counsel for tbs
state, and also the district solicitor, we
believe. had agreed not to press the
case against McBee and Finch; and
they even went so far as to get the
consent of the editor of The News and
Observer to the proceeding. Governor
Aycock denies that there was any
agreement, saying he had no authority
to promise immunity from prosecution
In the case (Which he had not, but he
knew if he agreed for the case TO De
dropped it would be). and in this Judge
Robinson partly confirms him but 1t Is
practically admitted on all hands tina
there was a tacit understanding tha'
the case against McBee and Finch
would not be pressed.-Statesville
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