The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
CURRENT

The republican campaign handbook
reduces the whole republican CAM
paign to the level of ward politics by
charging that Judge Parker sent his
telegram to the St Louis convention
by collision. and that IL was "a trick
to deceive the voters Of the United
states" Referring to this. the Brook
Ign Eagle say hat the text book is
smirched-"-Vfrginian-Pilot
The ~predicament Of the truly stall
wart party organ, nowadays, Is caIcu-
lated to melt the stoniest heart. Here
are the democratic organs circulating
all sorts of wild-eyed roorbacks about
Mr.. Rooseyelt-more vicious, il pos
sible, than any of those of which. up
to a month go. The New York Sun was
the eager and untiring p~urveyor. And
there are the republican organs vocif-
erations about issues that are not in
volved. that cannot possibly become
involved. and that would amount 10
very little if they were.-Washington
Post.
State Senator Cubbison, of Kansas.
in presenting enator Fairbanks to a
republican audience in his state the
other day, said: IF President McKin-
ley had lived Senator Fairbanks would
almost certainly have been the presi-
Dental nominee at this time. but. I'M
der the circumstances. all we can do
for him now Is to elect him to the
vice-presidency and then nominate
and eject him president four years
hence" The circumstances. of course.
are Theodore Roosevelt. Because Of
him being fastened on The party the
republicans are not able to do what
they would like to do. They have to
take him. against their will. But they
ought to control themselves against
public expression of their dissatisfac-
Characterization Post.
A valued correspondent of The Sun
calls attention to the filthy condition
of the bank notes and g~reenbacks
kept in circulation in The country
| towns. with the inevitable effect of
spreading all name of contagious
diseases broadcast over the land"
Every n now and then, even in the
cities, receives a note which Is foul be-
yond description. 1t is Filthy lucre"
in a most real ems But in the rural
districts the evil is more marked. ow-
ing to the apparent indisposition of the
country banks to exchange their dirty
| paper money frequently for fresh,
| clean, crisp new notes. The govern
ment offers new notes in exchange
for old ones. if h handlers Of soiled
notes will but send them for exchange.
4 1t is not only nicer to pay out clean
notes, but it is to some extent a duty
| of the banks in city and country to do
so. AS Jul correspondent says, dis
ease is spread abroad by notes which
| circulate after having been too long
In the hands of the public. Every
touch of the hand leave a microscopic
part of it's substance upon the note,
and it is always possible, or probable,
hat the filthy note. which has passed
! through a hundred hands bears on it's
| surface dangerous germs of disease.
/ In The interest of the public health
the practice of exchanging old notes
| for new should be more generally Gull
Observation-Disclosures Sun.
The brave surviving confederate who
took up arms on one side Of a contro-
vcrsy which could be settled definitely,
everything considered. in no other
way than by force of arms. is today
among The most loyal supporters of
flag and country. He has accepted
honorably and finally the decision
rendered on the field of honor. His
share in all things typified by the flag,
in every tradition, every glory, every
security of country, is as large as that
Of any other man, not excepting The
noble survivors of the federal army it
{ self. He fought with American valor
as his conscience dictated and lost.
The vfctors fought with American
bravery as their convictions ordered
and won. Their victory is now the
confederates' 10 fully share. enjoy and
profit by. There is no feeling of hos
tility to flag or country in the United
States outside a few oficeholders and
officeseekers, who obtain their ends by
appeals to prejudice. The south il
afflicted with a few such men-happf-
ly growing fewer year after year
They are stumbling blocks to southern
progress. They belong to a period
ls~A -.
p~resent-day continentalism.-Louis-
Vile Herald.
From the military point of view. the
Japanese nave played havoc with the
theories evolved by the latest interna-
tional collisions. 1t is easy to recall
the assertions made in England. for in.
stance, as a result of the Boer var
Attacks upon rifle pits and forts anC
h~and-to-hand conflicts were authori
~tatively relegated to he past by mos
of the experts who wrote of the les
son of the great South African strus
gle-particularly when the militar.
panic of 1902 swept owe Great Bri
tain. The bushwhacking methods o
irregulars, of the Canadian and Aus
tralian moWted troops, were pro
claimed the tactics of the future, an
it was accepted as settled that no sol
diers the world over could face a
snort range the nre Oh the Odern low
calibre rifle. But the Japanese hav
gone back to the old style of lighting
The dispatches TEEN with accounts O
desperate charges over trenches an
into Notifications, assaults in compar
atively close order. and tell of the fire
quent meeting of the steel. Thus.
appear this morning that at one stag
OF the attack on Liaoyarg the Rus
slams could lear the commands of tn
TananacQ nfioarC tho frnnnS helm COR
arated only by an embankment. Agar
we read of the hostile forces actual
stoning each other when their ammu
milton gave out. and of the Russia
officers drawing swords and pistols I
repel q charge precisely as did We
lington's in Spain i'll 1S09.-New Yor
Post.
Terrible plague, those itching pestel