The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-06
CURRENT

One time Teddy. n Strenuous.
failed TO drive his coxs into the cor
raj The senate refuses to take up
h Crum case and the president viii
have the pleasure Of another recess
appointment. II President Roose-
Welt had as much strength as he had
stubbornneSs he would be a verita-
re Sampzon--Fiorence Times
The japanese have been frustrat-
60 in their attempts 20 cross the
Yalc-"-The japanese have crossed
the Yalu In force.-Two japanese
columns have been annihilated BY the
Russiat's while attempting to make
q land. on the Laio-Tung PENN
suia-"- No engagement and slight
ski.nishe- has Is yet taken place be-
tween the two armies."-We are
wear Plelse shoot that Mole St
Nichol ; VIZ correspondent on the
pot, If he hes a vulnerable spot He
uses wireless biography and eats
Welsh rabbit aid mince pie for sup
per tlanta Constitution
Speak Cannc1's ruling in h
matter o. the Cochran resolution
was. OF cours entirely correct.
Whether A-. Cockr-n expected such
n ruling when he offered the resolu-
ton is beside the question. Some
thing Of more importance is the fact
that his demo ratio colleagues were
fully justified from a strategical
standpoint in ch cering hiI-l on. For
they stood To win whatever might
a Keen disclosed by the inquiry
prior TO the November elections Had
Mr.. Dalzelrs charge been sustained
they would have exclaimed, Aha!
And so YOU fellows were buying 1eo-
pie in 1896. As you bought one vou
must have bought others ] NV
many did you buy? Be honest, ne.
AMI confess that o bought h ele>-
ton" Had the charge failed, the
would have exclaimed in a burst of
campGign indignation, Was V e a
party n desperate? Here vas n de-
liberate effort to break down a man
who a served it in 1896 with all his
Observation-Disclosures Star.
That is an interesting letter which
Mr.. Walter Wellman, the prominent
Washington correspondent, wrote for
The Chicago Record-Herald a few
days since about the Hearst presiden-
tial candidacy. Mr.. Wellman notes
frequent rumors hat Hearst has
come to the end of his ready money,
and that he has spent 81, 500, 600 on
his campaign. At the outside limit,
Mr.. Wellman comedies Hearst $50
delegateS-or about one-Seventh of
the whole number-in the st. Louis
convention. BY dividing $780, 900
by $50, it will be found that each del
egate will represent. according to the
rumor of the amount expended, about
$40, 600 in cold cash. The correspon-
dent of The Record-Herald further
notes that most of these delegates,
after having discharged their obliga-
ton by voting for Hearst on the first
ballot, will doubtless hasten to place
themselves in the band-wagons of
candidates who hav some chance of
~ s- 80, T. - ~f ILL 1 a1F
advertising the CaliforoIa millionaire
has brought himself, his actual prog
resS towards the presidency has been
siight-slighter even than il appears
Norfolk Landmark.
It appears hat the idea of media
ton is acceptable neither to the men
who over the Ear and the empire
of Russia. nor the people whom the
Mikado helps govern. Recently it
was rumored that Edward VII, who is
the uncle of the Car Nicholas, and
King Christian of Denmark, who is
the cars grandfather, were about
to offer their services as mediators.
There may have been nothing more
than the usual irresponsible c1atter
Of foreign capitals, which is always
disturbing the siumber of the sea
snakes coiled about the t~rans-oceanic
cables, in all this talk: but neverthe-
less it brought forth a very plain
statement from Russia. A statement
which not only has the eeffct OF serv-
ing notice in advance that NJ kings
need andy IS mediators, but which
gives a pretty good line on the inten-
tons CT Russia is she wins out. The
wo-ld Gt large is Informed that Rus
STA intends 10 fight it out on that line
il it takes several summers. that all
the Of the empire will be
brought 10 bear, that Russia intends
TO wear the crown of victory If she
has 10 break a gal!us reaching for
the same: and that peace terms will
be made directly with the enemy
Atlanta Journal.