The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-19
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


In connection with the statement
that a republican senator in Nebraska
has escaped conviction on a time al.
lowance and that republican senators
in Washington resist an investigation
| of frauds in the postoffice department
the New York Sun, republican, asks
rs there a paralysis of republican
common ?" 1t would certainly
seem SO. and the further assertion of
The Sun that the old cry of Turn
the rascals OUT seems TO have some
chance OF being heard once more"
might mean something if the demo-
Gratis do not proceed to part COM
pany with their common sense
Charlotte Observer.
The discussion among the men in
congress who are leading democrats.
concerning the dinner given in New
York on n fourth instant to the Hon.
George b. Mcclellan, IS to the effect
that the speech of Hon.. Richard
Olney. of Massachusetts,, in naming
Grover Cleveland as the man who
should be nominated by the demo-
Gratis for the presidency. has COM
pletely eliminated himself from the
running, and injured the chances of
Judge Parker. inasmuch as HI was
considered the residuary legatee of
NV lilil5o III WdSHl1SlOH are
rapidly narrowing down to German
and Hearst, with Hearst in the Lead
Durham Sun.
1t was said hat the appearance Of
the barroom sections of the city of
Raleigh presented a most lonely as
pect on the first day of January, when
they were closed up. There will be
other towns in North Carolina within
the next year which will look like
wise. Prohibition movement in this
state is confined to no locality. 1t is
statewide. Its influence has already
been felt throughout its borders, but
its work is only begun.-The Robe
sonian.
Russia pauses like a crouching cat
ready to spring upon China as prey.
The cat sometimes has one eye on
the prey while the other is upon the
white man with a gun and the pause
is TO consider whether the white man
will shoot if she springs. China is
hypnotiZed by Russia. Russia is won
dering whether she dare strike the
blow now, or give it up for the pres
ent. 1t is not Japan, but England.
and possibly the United States that
causes Russia to Observation-Disclosures
Chronicle.
IEuSl LIZ. MChelWdy, OF the Cnar-
lotte News, to dish up something ORR
ginal for the readers of The News. In
yesterdays paper he claims that Wal
ter H Page soYed the seed which
fruits in such articles as hat in the
Boston Transcript defaming the Meth
odist clergy of North Carolina. And,
indeed, the famous phrase, 'herding
the women by the stagnant waters of
theology" does sound a triie Tran
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Telegram. -
1t is given out from Greensboro that
fifteen women and men from Gui.ford
and Randolph counties left recently
for Cincinnati to attend a "Hoi ness
school there for special Bible study.
They will all study to be preachers"
it is said, some of them now return
ing for the second term. There are
three terms a year and the school
now has 125 pupils. a large majority
of them being from North Carolina"
Randolph and Guilford have furnished
nan recruits to h insane asylum
from the ranks of the holiness people.
By the time these recruits get back
from Cincinnati more oom will be
needed at Morganton hospita1.-States-
Vile Landmark.