The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-29
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1904.
GIVE US A REST.

It Is getting pretty hot on newspa-
per row in Raleigh. For some time
the two morning papers Of that city
have been fiinging hot mud at each
other. This lowering of these two edi-
tors has zone on until the public has
become sick and tired OF reading what
The Post editor thinks Of the editor OF
The New and Observer and of what the
latter has to say about the other.
These personal editorials in which the
public takes no interest have been
growing more and more abusive each
day. It Is time that these men should
decide to let up on their editorial bill
lingsgate or meet in a back lot and
fight it out. The public wants a rest
from this eternal pickering and does
not care much which of the above
means Is escorted TO, just so there Is a
cessation of this airing ad nauseam of
each editors private opinion of the
other.
Yesterdays s Of these two papers
give some hopes that the public desire
will speedily be gratiied; for this per-
sonal denunciation h reached a point
which surely must be followed by some
thing more conclusive in the settlement
of their differences than fighting at
long taw with pencils and printers ink.
That the little differences between
these two men hall be settled in one
OF the two ways above mentioned is a
contamination devoutly to be wished.
If they should resort to the duello it
may be possible that in order to settle
matters between all parties to the con-
troversy it will have to be- a duel of
the Midshipman Easy kind. But the
third party nay decline to be principal
in such mode of settlement of the
quarrel on account Of his CLOTH"
1t looks as if the long continued
wrangle had been brought to a final is
sue by the personal articles in the two
Raleigh papers of yesterday. The Post
editorial was:
ITO The Charlotte News, noting it's
vicious article of Monday evening in
reference to The Post we will say that
we have already characterized the
charge that it i%mpudently undertakes to
repeat as m~aliciously false.
I'm order to impress this upon both
the original slanderer and the willing
Charlotte imitator we will say once for
all. that the charge that The Post is
owned by or is the organ of any rail-
way or other corporation other than
that composed OF upwards of thirty
North Carolinians who constitute the
Publishing Company. is an infamous
lie. and the author thereof DR. those who
repeat it cowardly liars"
The News and Observer of the same
date contains an editorial in reference
to The Post which is headed: THE
Harlot of North Carolina Journalism
in which it winds up a paragraph thus:
For these and all other attacks upon
pubic virtue The morning Post has
come to be known as the har1ot of
North Carolina Journalism n decent
people entertain for it nothing but con-
tempt"
Now IL these gentlemen hin they are
odifying the public by such display of
yulgarity and foul-mouthed denuncia-
ton of each other through the editorial
column of their papers they are great
ly mistaken. Had each one long ago in
person and in manly manner resented
the insults heaped upon him by the 9TH
er he would have increased the respect
If the public for himself. AS it is each
issue of their papers containing such
matter as that above quoted brings
them into greater contempt and ridf-
cule. Gentlemen, go out to Rhamkatte
and wash your dirty linen there in pri-
vate. The public is tired Of hearing it
tapping in the wind and having it pol
lutte the air in public places.