The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-26
STATE PRESS.

Toe much cannot De said An fayor
Of good roads. and we hope this from
the American Farmer is not overdrawn:
State aid to good roads grows il favor
so fast that enthusiasts even expect to
see farmers trotting into town with
loads which used Il stall their teams.
saving them time. strength and ex-
pense irretrievabiy lost by the present
patchwork plan of road liking
Clarkton Express
The present likelihood Of England
taking a hand in the Far Eastern war
recalls TO mind the report circulated
several months ago that, in the event
Russia saw that she was certain to GET
the worst of it, h would drag John
Bull into the fight in order TO escape
the humiliation OF defeat at h hands
or the little japanese alone.-Winstor
Sentinel.
This discussion about reorganiza-
ton and r~eorganiZers within the dem
ocratic party is mostly hot air, and is
without any element of profit in it.
The St. Louis convention has given
us a platform and candidates that all
can support. That is sufficient; and
We need not bother ourselves about
how the party arrived at such a con-
dition OF affairs as to again be placed
in a position to present a solid front
to their opponents.-Kinston Free
Press.
The governor is said to be expecting
a third bid for the Atlantic n North
Carolina railroad within a few days,
and it's added that 'sthe o will in
all probability be leased this year."
Thus it seems that it is admitted that
the property might be doing better than
it is. But the grafters! Oh, what will
hoonrna ne fhQrn uyhan tho road OnQC
of the hands of the state? Their lot
is indeed sad to contemplate.-Charlotte
Observer.
In an interview in yesterday morn
ing's observer, Mr.. Locke Craig, of
ASheville. said: lit seems to me that
our party is again united. The prodi-
gals have come back and we welcome
them. We are willing that the fatted
calf should be killed Int that all shall
be merry, but the prodigals ought not to
'cuss' and swagger in the u as if
they were the whole thing It would
be interesting to know what class. in
Mr.. Crag's opinion, constitute the prodi-
gals.-Charlotte Observer.
The New York Herald makes an in
teresting estimate on the coming presi-
dental election which shows that re-
publican confidence has been greatly
dwarfed in the last few days. In this
estimate twenty-one states with 1876
votes are placed in the re-
publican column, eighteen states with
III votes in the democratic column, and
six states with 113 votes doubtful. Just
before the democratic convention the
republicans claimed everything but the
south.-Greenville Reflector.
The old anxioms, that the mills of
the gods grind very slow, but very fine,
or that chickens will return to roost,
was never better exemplified, than is
shown by the howl the northern and
western press is making about Is i'm
portation of the colored rae to- the
of Mason and Dixon's line. The
Sentinel, for example
the following question in bold
letters: Have we not about
of his G im~portation?' 1t
the people of that city are getting
inpatient with the conduct of certain
Gazette-Messen-I
rsr.
What IN the thunder has the register
Of deeds got to do with altering or ell
the present Watts law, or effect
.ng prohibition one way or the other, We
would like to know? Why should this
question be injected into the campaign
at this time2 That question has been
fought and won. We were in hopes
that the primaries would pass off with
out any e~ntangling alliances n that
democrats would select democrats &C
to their fitness without secret
" stirring up strife. The ace is not
always to the swift, no. the battle to
strong, and the candidate who at
tempts to arouse the passions or pre-
of men will suffer in the end
sur