The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-29
STATE PRESS.

The appointment OF Senator Cdcx-
rell, of Missouri, to a good position
would not be a bad move on the part of
the president just at this time-Dur-
ham Herald.
Roosevelt may make Statements that
he regrets that the south seems to be
hostile to him. But until he changes
his treatment of the southern people
they will not consider him serious Ia
such a Observation-Disclosures News.
DIR. Alderman has gone to WORK
promptly at Charlottesville. 1t IS not
ed that there is a movement on foot
to raise an endowment fund OF two mi.-
lion dollars for the great institution
over which the distinguished North
Carolinian mentioned has been caIlel
pres!de.-Greensboro Telegram.
That is good news which comes that
work has begun on the north end of
the South and Western railway to COM
plete the road to the coal felds of Yir-
GINA. This means that the road viii
be finished from Sprucepine to connect
with h Seaboard beyond the Blue
Ridge, at an early day, giving a short
ar ddircct line from thee oai fields to
the sea cOast.-Black Mountain Eagle.
1t sticks lots of peopIe-that thing OF
Parker corS~ratuIating Roosevelt. AS
somebody we'll said. it was not requ red
either by good taste or good politics.
R~OOsevelt's Acknowledgement, as curt
as cactus and COO as a cucumber,
showed what he thought of it. Imag-
me Lee, the first general and gentle
man Of his time, cOngratulating Meade
after Gettysburg, And imagine Meade's
thoughts if he had-Gastonia ca
Zette.
n-a - ~ 49,. .-.--
that has come from Washington re-
Gently is that Mr.. Marion Butler, for
mer senator from North Carolina, will
have the ear Of the President in regard
to the distribution of patronage in this
state. Butler stumped Indiana FOR
Roosevelt during the recent campaign.
He has been Il frequent and apparently
welcome visitor at the White house
since Mr.. Roosevelt became president
and altogether the story that he will
be consulted about North Carolina al
fairs is not at all improbable.-States-
vile Landmark
The Nashville American says: 1T
seems to be understood that President
Roosevelt will find a soft place for Sen
ator Cockrell to light on h re-
publican legislature of Missouri fires
him out of the senate. Then we shall
hear a class of small-calibre democrats
sneerilIg at the old Confederate brica-
dier's democracy" The prediction has
been borne out so far as President
Roosevelt is concerned, the choice Of
q canal commissionship and a place on
the civil service commission having
been offered him. AS TO he action #
the 'small-calibre democrats" hat viii
doubtless come in due time, but will
hardly be taken seriously by right
minded peopIe.-Charlotte Observe.
The labor problem does not bother
the Yadkin Power Company. 1t will go
to Italy and bring 5000 ~ablebodied
WOrkmen with their families. These
will be a permanent addition to our
population, for they will find work and
homes after the completion of the con-
tract with the power company. And the
letters they will write back home Will
bring in many of their kinsmen.-
Charlotte Chronicle. 1t is held by some
North Carolinians that nave given the
matter investigation that italians
would make the right sort of laborers
from abroad for the south-th best
of any to be had. The idea, Of course,
is to get them from the rural parts OF
Italy and not import the vicious classes
from the slums OF the cities.-Winsuon
Sentinel.