The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-26
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The correspondent Of q thorouehIy
reliable newspaper in his report Of he
service over the dead body of Marcus
A. Hanna in the senate chamber says
that 10Th Senator Platt and Senator
Scott wept openly. That Is perhaps
the most touching tribute that the
dead senator received Men like Plat
n Scott do not weep easiiy-men
who have been through all the rougn
and tumble n the ups and downs of
politics and OF businessmen har-
dened to the chances and adversities
Of life. Plainly there was something
In Marcus A Hanna that caught and
held men-Virginia Pilot.
Exactly what the game OF Col. w. J.
Bryan is has not been revealed. Mo-
body knows whether it Is personal,
political or business. He Is wandering
about the country delivering free lee
lures by invitation. Whether he Is
running a personally conducted solo
campaign with the hope Of reviving
h Bryan boom. is laboring in the in
terests of his young friend, Willie
Hearst is trying to advertise the
Cmomoner. is merely unable to stop
talking or is INDUCING himself in
the luxury of hearing his own voice
and seeing his name in the newspa-
pers is the mystery. However tina.
~ liz 40 oiiiSCINy SI6d5-
ed in making the country deathly
tired and sick of him and in
pulling up his own popularity by the
roots. His latest quoted utterance
was at Atlanta. where he vindictiyely
attacked Mr.. Cleveland, using the re-
Gently published letter Of the latter 10
the saturday Evening Post as his .ext,
With curious blindness to the facts,
he attempts to throw the blame of all
the democratic party's misfortunes on
the man who led it to the two victories
1t has known in fifty years, and 20
prove that the man who led it to the
two worst defeats it has known in fifty
years was and Is right and the only
safe leader.-Richmond News-Leader.
Senator Teller Of Colorado wants 1t
distinctly understood that he has not
the slightest idea of being SO foolish
as to resign his seat in the United
States senate because Of the proof
that has been given in the case Of Rep
resentative Shafroth that fraud was
practiced at the polls which returned
the controlling democratic votes to the
legislature which elected Mr.. Teller
senator. Mr.. Teller is wise. 1t Is all
very well for Mr.. Shafroth to give up
his seat when the republicans were
about to GUST him, bat it is very differ
ent in the case of Mr.. Teller. whose
- ~ tAiC oCiiolS SCot ID " SSI
questioned by competent authority. 1t
1t would be a gratuftOuS exercise of
high morality for Mr.. Teller to resign
his seat and that would be out of place
in present politics.-Charleston Post.
Europe. and especially England. is
looking round the world for sonIe
land which will grow cotton. A writer
in the London Times thinks that ne
has discovered a kind of cotton para
disc in the Soudan, which he says is
the finest in the world. We are rather
inclined to doubt hat statement, for
expert agriculturists tell US that cot
ton which is grown nea the equator
has a much shorter fibre than that in
a cooler climate, and is therefore OF
less value. But this writer makes an
astounding proposition az to the man
ner In which cotton cultivation in tke
Soudan should be begun and carried
on. He proposes to import negroes in
large numbers from the southern
states of the American union for that
purpose, and have them teach the ma
tiveS of h Soudan how to grow the
crop. The main obstacle to this plan
Is the fact that our southern negroes
don want to go to the Soudan, and
we don't want them to 60. The
southern negro has no yearning to go
back to he land from which his faith
rs SoAiiC. Liz " SSiy well SollStlG
right where he is. and knows that he
is doing a great deal better here han
he could hope to do in any other quar-
ter of the globe.-Atlanta Journal.
Isn't it a bit singular that the most
violent anti-Russian sentiment that IS
being expressed in this country is
coming out of the north. while most
Of the sympathy for the czar and his
people Qittle enough, it is true). is be-
| ing expressed in the south? 1t seems
that just the reverse ought to be the
| case If it be true that during the civil
war Russia was the friend of the
north and sent over a fleet Of warshipS
to give moral support to the northern
cause when ii was thought that Great
Britain might do something for The
benefit Of the south. The incident has
been often referred to, accompanies
by such expressions as "our good
friend Russia by persons in authority
at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NewB.
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