The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-05
STATE PRESS.

Mr.. Bryan rays that imperialism viii
be the paramount issue of the present
campaign. The democrats will hardly
permit Mr.. Bryan TO u this campaign.
Judge Parker is now at the head of the
ticket-Sanford Express.
TIE attack being made on the south
by the republican party on account OF
alleged acknowledgements of negroes
comes with i'll grace from the party
| which long ago DISTINGUISHED the negro
in the District of Columbia. In order
to get free from negro voters n vot-
ing the republican party in, congress
DISTINGUISHED everybody in the district
white and black, but everybody knows
that the real purpose was to get rid of
the negro as a voter.3Chariotte Chron-
icle.
The people, whose interest in the At
lantic and North Carolina railroad con-
sists principally in the desire to see the
state reap some income from its invest
ment. will feel inclined to second the
motion Of The Raleigh Times to lease
the road to Mr.. Bryan. its president.
whose glowing accoun before the
Press Association was calculated TO
convince one that there's millions in IL.
We look to see Mr.. Bryan to make an
offer that will be an improvement upon
any heretofore submitted TO TIE COVER
nor Raleigh Post.
Their never has been such a worth
less report OF a great war as that
which drizzles from the censors and
cable concerning the Russo-Japanese
contest. Wireless telegraphy is all very
well, but a hairless service is what we
need. If some American c%orrespon-
dent on the shores of the China Sea
would throw down his pen and come
home and give the public a coherent
statement of the strength and attitudes
of the armies, he would do much TO
illuminate the situation.-Durham Sun.
If the contention tina is made in
Elizabeth City, and may be raised in
other towns, that have voted on some
branch Of the liquor question, either
prohibition or ~dispensary, a after they
ave tried the working Of one system,
and found it to be unsatisfactory, can
under the Watts bill call another cleo
ton, and vote on another branch of the
question is correct, then the provision
in the bill Ia an election of this kind
shall not be held oftener than once in
two years. is not worth the paper it is
written on.-Washington Gazette-Mes-
senger.
MI. Cortelyou estimates that the re-
publicans will get PAT votes in the cleo
toral college, while 1.-THE democrats will
receive only d55. But then there is no
danger of its being forgotten that Mr..
Cortelyou is both republican and a
campaign manager. Uncle Joe al
non says that Mr.. Roosevelt will be
elected by a larger majority than any
republican candidate has ever received
before. 1t must be remembered, in this
connection, that Uncle Joes was hum
orist long before he became a states
man.-Winston Sentinel.
A ia who starts the cry of pick
pockets" in a crowd had better be
watched. 1t was unbecoming in Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Mr.. Cannon in
their speeches OF notification and ac-
ceptance to insult the honest rank and
file Of the great democratic party and
it's excellent nominees, in saying that
the democratic party is hypocritical
and that it is not honest in its belief
in sound money. They cast an unjust
reflection upon every honest man In
the democratic party, and every DEM
ocratic voter in this country will feel
it his duty to resent such a base SIAN
der.-Raleigh Times.
Russia has had about as much as n
could we'll attend to since the war with
Japan began and in the midst Of her
war roubles comes internal u of
the most serious character. The
archist and the bomb call for a share
of her attention. The murder of the
minister of the interior was a most
cold FLOODED affair in the manner Of
it's execution, but it shows the desper-
ate character of the men are plot
ting against the lives of Russia's rulers.
So intent are these anarchists on STAY
ing that they are willing to die with
their victims to accomplish their ends
The murder of Minister Plehve at any
ordinary time would have alarmed the
government, but coming as it did when
Russia is bending all her energies to the
suppression of a foreign foe, it is well
calculated TO make Emperor Nicholas
misunderstanding Chronicle.