The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-02
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| Both the democrats and h epubl
cans realize that the struggle for the
electoral vote Of New York is going to
be a hard M In an interview pub
lished in our dispatches yesterday Mr..
Murphy, the Tammany leader, said
that the success OF the national DEM
ocratic ticket in that state depended
largely upo the character of the state
| ticket nominated by the democrats.
There is no doubt that the republicans
think their success in that state de-
pends upon the character of the state
ticket they viii nominate-Savannah
| News.
Poor old Tolstoi, He has been thun-
dering anathemas at the ear in partic-
ular and war in general, while two o.
his robust sons have been vigorously
lighting for the little father. and
holy Russia" out in faraway Manchu-
ria. They are reported to be staunch
devotees not only to the military Idea
in the abstract and to patriotism, but
as well to the political ambitions of
Russia What makes the situation in
hnitely more dramatic. is the fact h
the Countess Tolstoi, in direct variance
with her husbands dearest theories,
views the course of her sons with SYM
pathy and Observation-Disclosures
Constitution.
The worst enemy of strikers is the
average crow of strike sympathiz-
ers." The action Of the mob yesterday
in beating the driver of a bread wagon
who had delivered bread 1t the stock
yards, and then burning the wagon, is
an example of their senseless lawless-
ness. The poor devil Of a driver was
probably a strike sympathizer himself
but had no excuse for refusing to do
the duty assigned him by his en-
ployers. Doubtless there was a hungry
family dependent on his work for
bread. If he refused to perform that
work. another would be found who
would undertake it's duties. and his
family would starve. The radical, an
archistic element that comes to the
surface during these surface turns
thousands way from the unions
Columbia State.
Russia is only half through with the
troubles caused by the acts OF her YES
sells in the Red Sea. She will have to
also explain to Germany. She may
save herself further humiliation by
giving Germany, without waiting to be
asked, the assurance she has given to
England, but whatever she may do
she has lost. She has changed the
friendship Of a powerful neighbor into
feelings Of anger and resentment. This
feeling of resentment is the more bitter
because of the attitude of friendship
hat Germany had assumed. h
openly expressed her sympathy with
Russia. She even mode concessions to
Russia that were scarcely compatible
with a position of neutrality. The fact
that in return her vessels were seized
make the offense doubly exasperating.
-TimeS-UniOn.
Tho T;~,a. n;erotah IoaS aof la~;ra
to raise the race issue in This cam
paign. Indeed, we hope that so far as
Virginia is concerned that issue has
been returned, once for all. But the
republicans have raised the race issue
in their platform, and president Roose-
Welt has but recently again forced his
upon the public. It was stated in our
Washington dispatches in Sundays is
sue that one of the old employees of the
government, after having worn himself
out in the service, had been compelled
to resign by reason Of i'll health, and
that his friends sought to ave his
daughter appointed in his place. But
President Roosevelt sent a telegram to
the department giving instructions to
give the place to a young negro man.
If this were the presidents only Of
Tense it might be overlooked, but it is
one of many acts of this character
showing the animus of the man toward
the negro observation-disclosures
Carl Schurz's letter to Judge Parker
will give little comfort to the republic
cans. He not only refuses to believe
that the democratic nominee was guilty
of a scurvy trick in sending that tele-
gram to the st. Louis convention, but
finds him quite as worthy of praise as
does Mr.. cleveland. That Mr.. Schurz's
opinion carries great weight with the
independent and German-American vot-
ers it is unnecessary to state, and we
shall doubtless soon have proof of the
Importance of his utterance in the form
of attacks upon him by the republican
press. The leading German newspap-
ers, by the way, which left the party
because of Organism, are now age
on behalf of Parker as Mr.. Schurz him.
self. Equally interesting is the fact
that Many republicans are declaring
their readiness to vote for the judge.
This is not merely proved by the letters
he is receiving, but in other ways, n
this republican detection will more than
offset the decision Of some gold demo-
crates, like Mr.. Oscar Straus, to follow
Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t is the teadify grow
ing belief that the president is tenn
peramentally an unsafe man which Is
winning these recruits for the demo-
Gratis. All the oratory of a Hay n a
Root, all their arguments that the re-
| publican party is the only one with ca
pacity to govern, canno make head
| against this as long as their candidate
is what he is.-New York Post.
| Brutall~ Tortured