The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-26
STATE PRESS.

Gold continues to go out of the coun-
try. When the democrats were in pow
er the republican rgans shrieked them
selves hoarse i've such a terrible ca
lamity. They couldn't think OF any
thing else. They writhed and frothed
and grew hystericai and had all sorts
OF Nightmares and fits. Now, the fact
is that republican management-had
caused tkis outflow. The gold will come
back, but not under present conditions.
Durham sun.
The president has 'reprimanded'
Postmaster McMichael of Philadelphia,
for selecting fo~rty-nine republicans for
clerks and rejecting the same number
OF democrats, and has warned him that
he must hereafter" obey the civil SER
vice law enacted by congress. Here
after" But Mr.. Observation-Disclosures
~ ~neglects To order that the illegally
appointed clerks be dismissed and the
Illegally rejected be appointed to the
places for which they were certified
Durham Sun.
Everything would seem TO Indicate
hat there is something wrong with
the unprecedented prosperity" talk
OF the republican spell-binders. We
have no sympathy whatever with the
disgusting calamity howl that is heard
at about this time every fourth year,
but il is an incontrovertable propo-
sition that the present unrest in the
industrial world, accompanied by num-
erous strikes and lockouts, shows
that there is now a necessity for a
political change, which may lead to an
irresistible demand on the part of the
voters for at least four years of dem
ocratic observation-disclosures Sentinel.
1t is feared tina it is the intention of
the republican campaign managers to
let the war record Of Colonel Roosevelt
sink into i~nnocuous desuetude. The
campaign book, which has just been
issued, devoteS eighteen pages to his
civ and political record, but only
eight mes to his distinguished SER
vices I'm liberating the Cubans from
the Spanish yoke of bondage. 1t is al
most inconceivable that the G.. O.. p.
managers want to put the Rough Rider
in the background and hide the light OF
the presidents military genius under a
bushel, but the facts in the case ap-
| pear to leave no doubt on the subject.
Raleigh Times.
Hon. w. A. Stewart, of Harnett,
democratic nominee for the house, is
being bombarded with letters asking
how he stands on the Watts bill. To
all o fthem he replies that he stand
with both feet on the democratic plat
IOfIn as aQOpIGu DIT NfSeHSDOTO. lid
| ought to, and will, satisfy democrats
Raleigh Post.
The Greensboro Telegram thinks one
should be an expert before %venturing
an opinion on the ~advisabfiIty Of leas-
ing the road. This may be, but we
take it thai the average man knows
as much about railroads and railroad
ing as the crowd that is now and has
been running the state road.-Durham
Herald.
The Reflector does not believe a man
| Who declares himself opposed to the
| Watts law las a right to ask for office
at the hands of the democratic party,
and the man who does so is inconsis-
tent. to say the least of it. The Watts
law is a democratic measure and en-
acted by a democratic legislature. 1t
was endorsed by the platform Of the
| democratic state. convention M was
made one of the principles Of the party.
The republican party has selected the
| Watts law as the chief point of opposl-
i ton TO the democracy of the state and
on this point is endeayoring 10 raiiy
its forces. Therefore we repeat that
no man who joins himself to this OPP
position, thereby putting himself out
of harmony with his party, has a right
to ask an office at its hands.-Green-
vile Reflector.
1t will require u long time for the
Georgia empty-gun militia to get over
il. 1t is alright to appear with empty
guns at the state fair, but when hu-
man life, and the honor of a state is
at stake. the soldiers ought to either
AVE their guns loaded or De at home.
The Tin soldier episode at StateSboro
! only added Insult to injury, n makes
the Georgia soldiers the laughing
stock Of the country. There never was d
mob organized on the earth that would
march up TO the muZzles of fifty load
ed guns at the top of the stairs if these
guns were in the hands of men who
would use them. Such an example
may cause trouble. and ever death 10
others in the future Certain it is, the
Georgia soldier must burn some pow
der before anybody in the future will
| regard them as dangerous.-Raleigh
Times.