The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
CURRENT

The result in Oregon is no surpris,
except in the size OF the majority
That, in the circumstances, is re.
markably large. 1t may be said thai
the campaign ran itself. Senator
Mitchell. though not Indifferent Il
Things, did not even go home. He Il
n OF the strongest men of the state
but felt IL entirely safe to remain In
the east where he had business. Hi.
judgment n information about tn.
situation Justified his absence. Hi.
services were not necessary. The par.
ty had victory in its ~rasp, and al
n a remained was the polling OF tbs
votes Mr.. Roosevelt will probably
have even a larger vote in November
Washington Star.
We note i'm some quarters a truly
lamehtable disposition to keep alive
n controversy over the capture OF
San Juan hill by The Rough Rider
Despite The New York Suns. kindly
efforts to remove all doubt by mar
shaling an array of witnesses, includ-
ing Colonel Roosevelt, himself, to
prove that he really did cad a
charge up some hill other than that
OF the sugar kettles-apparently a
sufficient warrant for h much el
plotted Hero-of-San-Juan-hill claim
The Washington Post continues 20
raise its voice in doubt, and hee and
there are to be found officera and
men of the regular amy who pesist
in saying that not a single Rough
Ride. not even The Rough Rider him.
self, had a part in tina famous
charge-Atlanta Constitution.
Parker will fail to carry New
York" This is the excellent reason
offered by the radical democrats. he
Simon-pure Bryanites, for a conven-
ton at Cooper union to protest against
the nomination of Judge Parker at
st. Louis. They are stricken by the
fear that Parker will prove a weak
candidate. Such a protest from such
a source should not go unheeded; for
the Bryanites are the greatest living
masters of the art of failing to carry
this state. They lave sounded all
the depths n shoals of defeat. In
1896 they put forth heroic efforts and
mad the satisfaction Of seeing a plu-
rality of nearly 270,0 600 against them;
in 1900 they contrived to lose
New York by over lao, 600. They can
speak from abundant
and with complete author
York Post.
A st. Petersburg special says that
the Novoe Vremya has been discuss
seriously a report that tire United
intends to cede the Philippines
to Japan. While there is no evidence
of any such intention at present, the
dea Of such a cession is not new, and
1T is scarcely to be questioned hat in
fullnesS of time Japan would be
glad of its naturalization. To the
world the Russo-Japanese conflict
a struggle between reli-
sious intolerance, ignorance, supersti-
ION, ~illibera1ity, oppression and sor-
lid commercial selfishness on the one
AMI all the opposite forces and
on the other. Japan IS to
'front.' as the champion of religious
enlightenment, liberality,
advanced civilization, in all that mn
plies to the individual and in govern
ment, and free and fair competition
n trade.-Ricnmond News Leader:
A brief review of the history of
oopuitsm will discover it's leaders as
having done remarkably we'll by their
Individual fortunes and that none
IL them are now conSpicuouSly active,
n their zeal to- sacrifice their time,
abor and money for the benefit of
he plain people" for whom in thei
earlier days of their career they shed1
oceans of tears and uttered |
whole libraries of burning, sympa-
hetic words. Marion Butler and
u. Towne, capitalists; Thomas !
author and lecturer; James !
3. WeaveE, protesting democratic pol !
Simpson and PETER, enjoying !
'ompetencfes as a resuft of the no /
they gained; w. J. Bryan, !
newspaper publisher, agriculturist. !
'rator, lecturer, having accumulated {
small fortune in the pursuit of pop J
list fads. MI. Bryan is still active, I
Tot having yet reached the degree of !
success achieved by Butler 7
nd Towne~- but he, bids fair to get /
here before he is through.-Chatta- !
Timex.
The returns from the Oregon cleo |
indicate no dissatisfaction with :
he national administration and show I
% diminution of the usual republican !
najorities. To5be' sure there is an ex- 1
optional condition> CT affairs on the /
slope. The acquisition of the (
philippines and the War in the far /
have greatly stimulated local /
rade. The administrators isthmian +
policy is So popular that no com !
faInt is made as to the means taken 1
D achieve the ends. Local logic .
makes a stimufated the |
irect consequence OF imperialistic |
and republican majorities !
ere to have been expected. But it is /
one the less desirable that the east J
hould have an early glimpse of theel
fol1tlcal status from the far western 1
of view There are plenty of |
eopie in this section of the country
mo are certain that, because Newni
.ork d~istrusts~ the president, Mr.. |
roosevelt and the entire republican,
administration, are to- be bundled I'M
tremendously out of office. They I
hink that if the, democratic parry \
nds by nominating a sane and safej
nothing is to be feazed
rom preliminary Guarrels or the A-
orts of tupenny bosses to manipulate
he party machinery to their own ad-
-antage. Such a belief finds in the
oregon result a rude awakenire-I
York World.