The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-18
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
SIaIE PRESS.

In Mr.. Cortelyou the president has
| evidently picked out a nan who knows
how TO make the corporations and big
capitalists contribute literally TO he
1 republican campaign fund. That
| seems to be Mr.. C~ortelyou's main
| qualification for the Craftsmanship OF
the national executiv committee of
| his party.-Winston Sentinel.
The republican leaders are sending
| circulars all over this county Dragging
| III a fellow named Meekins had Of
| fered Glenn $500 to nave a joint dis
| cussion and that Glenn was afraid
to accept the challenge. They are
welcome 70 all the comfort they can
get out Of UGH a circular. The idea
| of Glenn being afraid of Meekins,
II is enough to a a horse laugh
Chatham Record.
Thomas E. Watson. the populist,
candidate for president. seems to be
a kInd Of advance agent OF the repub-
lfcan party in the present campaign.
His assaults upon the democratic
| party and his evident leaning toward
Roosevelt in preference to Parker
shows very plainly the trend of his
canvass. The disguise is too thin to
deceive n one. least of all the dem~
ocrats whom the republican man.
ayers hope to denloralize through his
agency The lions skin is too short
to conceal the genuine hide which it
go imperfactly covers.-Dunn Guide.
General Joe Wheeler does not take
much stock in the peace conference.
His idea is that wars will continue.
Man" he says. sis a militant animal,
and the time is yet in the dim and
misty future when he will cease going
forth TO slaughter his fellow man.
Universal permanent peace is a
tiful dream. an illusion that the hu-
name will continue to cherish If
all men loved war like old General
Wheeler does, there would be no end
of wars, SUR enough. and universal
peace would in fact be but a dream.
Charlotte Chronicle.
In a speech at Chilicothe, O., Mon
day, Col. VIM. J., Bryan a that he
used to think he would be president,
and that he would be the Moses of the
democratic party, but did not think
so now. Moses, you know" he con-
tinued. "was slow of speech. and the
LORD selected Aaron as his speech
maker. 1 believe that I am the Aaron
rather than the Moses of democracy,
I am willing to be the Aaron of the
party, if our Moses. who has been so
slow Of speech, will but lead the peo-
pie out of the Wilderness" Pretty
good for Mr.. Bryan, but lie could not
resist the temptation to endeavOr to
take a fail out of the democratic can
didate.-Charlotte Observer.
We not only confess to a certain
degree of admiration for the oratori-
cal ability of Thomas c. Watson. but
we rather like his views On some is
sues now pending. For instance, there
is something commendable in h way
the populist presidential candidate ap-
proaches the Philippine question. He
says: LAS to the Philippines, I say
frankly hat I am at sea. 1 don't even
recall well what our platform says on
hat subject. AS q matter of fact, we
are all pretty much in the same boat
| there; only / wish Dewey had sailed
out of Manila harbor when he finish
ed up that Spanish fleet" This ut
terance is not only to be commended
for it's candor. but the truth
was told when it was said that we are
all pretty much at sea on the subject.
--Asheville GaZette-News.
The newspapers don't let up or their
discussion of the proposition that the
railroads ought to manage in some
| way to cut out some of their horrible
accidents. The killing of tw~enty-seven
people Monday on a Missouri Pacific
| Worlds fair train served to revive the
discussion which broke out with so
much emphasis several weeks ago
when sixty odd were killed on the
Southern. The Washington Post finds
a remedy in better coaches. The
New York World is inclined to think
that the railroads are sacrificing hui
man beings in d to make a show
of earnings. Other observations and
suggestions are offered by other pa
pers. Out of all the talk about this
matter some good ought to result
Railroad travel ought to be made
safer in America than it is.-Greens'
boro Telegram.