The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
CURRENT

The News wrote of Walter Daniels
plea for pardon that II was a pardon
that ought not to be granted" We
suppose Charlotte Is today OF The
News opinion on that subject Not a
week elapsed after the Communication
Of his sentence before ne was gambling
again in Charlotte. The News ex-
presses Its sympathy for the victims
Of misplaced confidence who signed
his petition for pardon and Is o in
clined to rub IL in. Maybe the next
time the governor will know whom 10
believe wren The News goes out of its
way to say that a pardon ought not 10
be granted. Our city administration
has had a hard enough time conyicting
these alleged gamblers" as The Char
lottte Observer styles them. and IL did
not like the interference of the chief
executive in the city's fight against
this evil. We uppos that the next
move will be to let off Walter Daniels
bondsmen. 1t was a scurvy trick that
be played on the governor, bondsme1
and Observation-Disclosures News.
The News and Observer is in receipt
of letters and messages from all parts
Of the state approving its insistence
upon full investigation Of the Godfrey
bond matter to the end that all the
v~iolators of the law may be punished
In all the history of the state there
has not been so scandalous a sequel
to a robbery. If a man can have his
bonds stolen and the receiver of the
stolen goods can extort $500 from him
without prosecution and punishment
h courts of justice are worse than u
farce. Where is Pace? Where is
Stanton? Where are other witnesses
offered by Jones? A rigid cross-ex-
animation of each in open court woul
no doubt disclose some clue that would
lead to putting stripes on. the robber.-
News and Observer.
Many newspapers are now engaged
In the pleasant occupation of giving
agriculturiStS advice as to the manner
In which they should conduct their
farm operations during the present
year. Some of the papers are advising
them to plant more cotton, while others
are TELLING them to beware of increas-
ing the acreage devoted to the fleecy
staple The Messenger and Intelligent
Ger has not presumed to advise it's
farmer friends as to their business
since it told them, several years ago.
to hold cotton for a higher price, and
h price straightway grew beautiful
ly lower until it dropped from 1915 to
something like eight cents. The truth
OF the matter is the average farmer is
just about as able to take care of his
" business as are persons engaged
in other callings, and the great
amount of advice given them by ouL-
siders in gratiuous and wholly uncallad
for.-Wadesboro Observation-Disclosures
GER
It begins to look as If those New
Orleans cotton bulls who some weeks
ago predicted 20 cents for cotton be-
fore the end of the season were not he
u rnn n-- that Manu. crID.Da@I Of fh4
time. Spot cotton reached 16 cents on
the Charlotte market yesterday, while
the July option in New York closed at
1888 to &c. 80. Perhaps never before in
the history OF the industry have 50
many new high records for the sea-
SON" been established, prices touching
new points almost every day,-Char-
lotte Observer.
There may be. some difference of
opinion as to whether or not Senator
Simmons is right on the Panama
question but no one has been found TO
say his speech was not able, f0EcefUl
and dignified. Mr.. simmons bids fair
to become one of the leading lights in
the senate.-GreensSoro Telegram.
Now, does the south want a demo-
crat in the house? There is just one
way to get him-make a democratic
platform that will repel populist ap-
prevail and nominate a democratic
ticket that will repel populist support,
and the next president will be a DEM
ocrat. And there is no other way TO
do it.-Washington Gazette-Messenger
There is talk of General Miles being
nominated by the democrats for pres
ident. His nomination would hardly
please the southern democrats, espe-
cially those who fought under the
stars and bars in the civil war. Gem
eral Miles is not liked by the confed-
crate soldiers. They Will never forgive
him for the way he treated Jefferson
Davis at the close of the war. Let
the democrats select a man acceptable
to all sections of the country If that
kind of one can be tound.-Sanford
Express.
, The time waS-not SO very long age
when Liverpool fixed the price of
American cotton. She does not now,
a fact hat the English mill interests
think over with bitterness these
days.-Winston Sentinel.
Elizabeth City is strictly a church
city of its size a "a of a greater
~proportionate church membership, or
more prosperous churches. Certainly,
We can claim the highest rate of Sab
bath attendance. 1t is not necessary
10 make comment. FAB CITY
has prospered because 1t has not foc-
cotton God.-The Tarheel.
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