The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-08
STATE PRESS.

tiful, the boys can use them for pom
fires after the election.-Raleigh Post.
The failure of the grand jury to
find a true bill against any Of those
| Statesboro lynchers shows that Cap
tain Hitch knew what he was about
when he refused to fire on the mob
| Durham Herald.
| The proprietor of a hoochee-coochee
show is in jail in Charlotte for dis
playing his wares at the fair in thai
town. Such treatment would shu
them out of the state fair much quick
er than SO much talk.-Durham Herald.
1t is significant that the alleged odds
OF 3 to j on Roosevelt quickly dropped
to 4 to i and under when some of Par
ker's money appeared on the New York
curb on Saturday. Perhaps If a little
more Parker money would be forthcom-
ing the dds would " gone still low
er.-Greensboro Telegram.
II Parker were In and Roosevelt out
there would not be any question as to
how the election would go Tuesday.
Roosevelt if elected will ride in on the
good times and not on any individual
ity Of his or anything he might do to
advance the interests Of the country.
The truth Of the matter is his own
party is scared of him.-Hight Point
Enterprise.
The New York Evening Sun continues
to print evidence that the republican
candidate for governor of that state
will be overwhelmingly defeated. The
Brooklyn Eagles poll of New York
city, shows that Parker will lead Her.
rick there by thousands of votes. 1t is
fair to assume hat throughout the
state Parker will run about even with
Herrick n the state is therefore Par
ker's.-Charlotte Chronicle.
Jesse r.. Grant, younger son OF
Ulysses S.. Grant, that he
will support Parker for president. Some
people appear to be quite seriously i'm
pressed with the idea that the Roose-
welt conception of government is a
dangerous one. They are thus impress
ed, too, in the face of the scoffers who
.pooh-pooh the idea of there being any
danger in endorsing Mr.. Roosevelt
Greensboro Telegram.
The statement was published Satur-
day in New York. Mr.. Cortelyou would
attempt to defeat his course as the
champion c~ash-collector and also to
show that the trusts had not contribut-
ed to the republican Barrel, notwith-
standing all appearances were. to the
contrary. The New York World which
has been daily challenging him to I'M
dertake this task was particularly jub-
liant and published a long article upon
the subject full Of exultation and self
congratulation- But prudent Cortelyou
the ability to keep secrets, caused
his advancement SO we are told-has
changed his mind as it seems and lets
it be known now that there is nothing
to be knoWn.-Charlotte News.
"A democrat in the Eighth district
has asked The News and Observer to
state why it was that Blackburn,
though chosen code commissioner, new
er got the Job. The story of that scan
dal is a long and an Insavory n e The
black-and-tan legislature of 1895 de-
cided to establish 4 code commission,
the bill passed, and Blackburn was Sc
lected as one Of the commissioners by
the caucus His election raised a great
row among the black-an-tan leaders,
and, as there was no other way to get
rid of blackburn as commissioner the
bill establishing a o commission was
repealed. B~lackburn's antics" about
the bill received severes. censure from
members Of the b~lack-and-tan caucus
News and Observer.
Captain Hitch, who was dismissed
from the Georgia militia on account Of
his failure at Statesboro to protect
prisoners from the mob, wrote a sharp
letter to the governor OF Georgia on
corning his approval Of the court mar
tia sentence. The former captain
thinks the governor should have re-
viewed the finding of the court and
mitigated it's sentence, and because he
failed to do the latter, Ar. Hitch says
the governor vas derelict of his duty.
If the captain had displayed half the
nerve at Statesboro that he has in de-
Tending his course, the men ne was
protecting would never ave been
lynched, and there would have been no
charges nor observation-disclosures
Observer.
| Every year adds to the conviction
that a handful of New York capital
lists will soon control the railroad sys-
| TENS Of this vast country. The Rookie
fellers have just secured control of the
Union Pacific, and system after sys-
tenn is dropping into strong hands in
New York city. New England is losing
control of the transcontinental ines it
projected and built, and New York is
gathering them in. AT n time for
eign capitalists controlled many Amer
lean railroads, but today scarcely an
American railroad is in the hands OF
men in other countries. What the
foreigners have parted with New York
as a rule, has acquired. The Wander
bits, the Standard Oil interests, the
Goulds, Mr.. Hartman and about q
dozen other New York men control
every important system in the country