The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-01

UOnus &Ol,t&1.VI, an0 Ne may cash IN
hand $49, 490.73
IT required all of the small fund turn
ed over to this administration by the
last administration to pay rhe out
standing obligatfons contracted before
We came into office. 1t viii thus appear
that this administration has saved
to the state through the operation Of
the ~penitentiary as compared with the
former administration $685.. $40. SO. In
other words. while Gov. Russelrs ad-
ministration cost the state s22S, $3.50
this administration has made for the
state $1lo.s15.13~ When our Republi-
a friends talk about the extrava-
gance OF this administration. I would
cali their attention TO these plain and
simple facts and figures. / would re-
mind them il TINS administration has
cost nearly four times as much as that
OF Gov. Vance. as they allege in their
platform, that il is paying 500. 600. 90
for public schools: that IL IS paying
$2O0, o0o.o0 TO the Confederate soldiers
and widows: that it is maintaining at
Morganton a hospital which Is caring
for one thousand insai,e: that Ii is pro-
viding for SAT negro insane at Colds
ooro; that ii Is running the Agricultu-
raj n Mechanical College at Raleigh
supplying education to more than five
hundred boys; that 1t is conducting the
State Normal and Industrial College
for young women at Greensboro, where
more than 500 young women are being
taught and prepared to teach the chil-
dren of the state; that it Is paying for
242 children at the Deaf and Dumb In
Stitution at MorgantoE; that IL is con
Quoting h "A. and NJ. College for the
education of negro youth at Greensboro;
a vt is paying interest on the bonded
Indebtedness of the state; hal il Is
maintaining two schools beyond the
mountains for the training Of the young
men and women Of our western coun-
ties; that it is conducting a department
Of agriculture for the benefit or the
farmers of the state, for their instruc-
ton and guidance; that it is supporting
Board of Health of the state for the
protection of the lives of its citizens
against disease: h it maintains n
Corporation Commission Is a mean
Of securing fair treatment of the people
at the hands O. the corporations; that
it supports a Bureau Of Labor Statis-
Department for the protection of the
people against exorbitant rates of insu-
rance and against fraudulent companies
n infamous incendiaries; hat il sup
ports an Orphan Asylum for white
children and one for colored children;
that it conducts fou nomal schools
for the training Of negro teachers:
that we are supporting a Soldiers
Home which cares annually for more
than one hundred old Confederates;
that it is paying out thousands Of dol
lars to defend a suit against the state
brought in the name of the state OF
South Dakota at the instigation of per-
sons who are seeking for more than
appears in the suit, in which suit, the
last Republican Governor and Fusion
list Senator appear against h state,
no one of which expenses did the state
hav TO bear in the great administration
Of Gov. Vance, but many of which ex-
nses have come to pass by reason of
his wise provision and on account of
his recommendation.
1t may be remarked in passing that
it seems strange that our Republican
friends should go back to Governor
Vance's administration to find one
with which to compare mine u%nfavora-
bly-they are manifeStly paying me a
high compliment by associating me
even by contrast with the greatest Of
all our Governors. I thank them for
their consideration in forgetting Gov
ernor RusseN's administration in talk
Ing about mine.
h administration has spent mucn
money and it is glad of it. There was
need for expenditure of one There
was a demand for it and We have met
it. 1t undoubtedly appears cheaper to
neglect the aged, the feeble, h in
firm, the defective, to forget the chill
dren of this generation, but h man
who does it is cursed OF God and the
state that permits it is certain of des-
truction. There are people on the face
Of the earth who take no care Of the
weak and infirm, who care nOught for
their children and provide only for the
qualification of their own desires, but
these people neither wear clothes nor
dwell in houses. They leave God on.
of consideration in their estimate of
life, and are known to US as savages.
The Republican party in this state
in their platform expressly declare
themselves in favor of the education
of the masses; in favor of generous
public aid to all charitable institutions
Of the state and the enactment Of PEN
sion laws more liberal and just to the
old Confederate soldier. If they do
favor these things, then they must
vote the Democratic ticket this year,
for what they favor, we have already
accomplished, and so far from being
satisfied with our work, we stand
ready to obey the command that we
go forward"
Speaking of the Republican platform
me that it takes occasion TO
the practice Of the present
administration in its ef-
fort to make common schools a part OF
the Democratic machine, to be run for
purposes. l have sough dill
to find cut to what partisan
any act of this administration
sought to convert the pub1c
The only partisan thing that
l can think of which has been done
this administration and the Demo
legislature is to so arrange II
that we will not again have the posi-
bility in this state OF negro school,
committeeman over white teachers
We have made this change. We abide
# and shall make no apologies for 1t.
Apart from this lam prepared to show
that this administration has diligently
sought to keep the public schools free
from all p~artisanship. 1t has endeaV-
to it's utmost to invite the coop
of every man Of whatever par
ty and without regard to color in the
great work of educating all the chill
dren of the state. It has done less
than it hoped, but all that it could,
along his line, and it has the gratifi-