The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-02
STATE PRESS.

of course many democrats r op-
posed to the Watts law, OF any tenn
perance legislation for that matter,
but e large majority are on the right
side, and as long as this Is the case
1t will hold good unit something bet
ter is put in its place.-Durham Her
Herald.
After patiently waiting what would
seem to be a reasonable length OF time
there has rs yet been nc explanation
of the mystery OF that missing hun
dred shares OF Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad stock. Who is the
deft-fingered or silent holder, and
what's the matter with the record?-
Raleigh Post.
Folks who talk most about settling
the g problem know least about
il. The negroes who do the talking
are usually the ones who spend too
much time loafing. Arson county has
d negro-Rembert J. Beverly by name
who has settled it by raising the first
bale of cotton of the year. Wanted:
More race problem settlers OF the Bev-
erly type.-News and Observer.
Judging from recent press reports,
Port Arthur is the toughest, most elias
tic and rebounding place on earth or
AA oAy ONAN~ A@N ONAA @DNeN -
must get up as many lime as il falls
barring it appears that up
to the present. writing il has not staid
down long enough at any one of the
numerous headline downs. to be
counted out. Today's dispatches seem
to indicate that it is getting weaker,
but there remains saving clauses and
h may still be in the ring.-Greens-
boro Record
Could there be put in one short par
agraph a more striking contrast of two
men than hat which Senator Joseph
w. Bailey made between Roosevelt
and Parker in his recent Brooklyn ad-
dress when he said: There stands the
president. with his feet on the consti-
tuition and his sword n his hand.
Here stands our candidate, with his
feet on the sword n the constitution
in his hands. Which would you
choose" There, if you please, is the
boiled Town essence of the politicaI
contest now pressing 20 us.-News
and Observer.
1t is all over now-the primary
and anything h a can be said or
thought will not change the result.
There are some changes needed in
Our primary system. The pulling and
hauling, the scrambling, the scuff1ing
$1,000 WI ~ lac pOAAS
should be done away with. The voter
should go into an enclosure and cast
his vote unmOleSted n unmatched by
any one, except the poll holders. We
do not condemn the primary system.
1t is the fairest and best way for the
people-all of them-to express their
choice as to candidates.. Some favor
going back 10 the old time convention,
but there is more room for fraud and
n nV-,.II nffnn IN tho onnxyantlnn Tho
there is in the primary.-Monroe En-
quirer.
If MI. Bryan is in arnes about his
support of Judge Parker, he should
give instant attention to New Jersey,
where trouble is said TO be brewing,
and in the name of Hearst and Bryan,
at that. They call themselves the
Hearst and Bryan boilers and q few
days ago issued a circular attacking
the regular democratic organization
of the state. 1t is said that they will
form a new organization to be known
as the Peoples Democratic party, and
d formal call will be issued for a con-
vention to be held in Atlantic City, on
September Z, when a candidate for
governor will be named, together with
a complete electoral ticket. Mr..
Bryan, at all events, should see to 1t
thai these boilers are not allowed to
use his name in furtherance of Their
''nefarious Observation-Disclosures Chron-
lcle.-
1t looks like the negro is in a fair
way to be supplanted by a better class
of labor. The New Bern Journal re-
Gently told that because of failure to
get hands to work on a railroad being
built from New Bern into Pamlico
county, twenty-five Italians were
brought down from the north to work
On the road, and they are making good
hands. The Kinston Free Press ais
tells that the contractor putting in
water works there could not get
enough hands, 81 sent to New York
for fifty Italians to put on III work.
These experiments with Italian labor
will be watched with interest n if
they prove successful will be followed
by other importations. 1t is said that
Italians make splendid farm hands
and those who have come south to en-
gage in farming have done we'll. This
may prove a solution of the scarcity
of farm labOr.-GreenSbOrO Reflector
Road work is perhaps the most sat-
| isfactory employment for %convicts, al
| their work on the Mecklenburg high
| ways prove. The only drawback is that
only twelve or thirteen miles can be
added each year, but then Such perma'
nent improvements as the building 81
Mecklenburg roads cannot be accom-
plished in a day."-Charlotte Obser
yer. We hope to see the day when tn
entire convict force of the state viii
be at work on the public highways
It's the place for hem In the frs
place, we need the roads, just sucl
ones as could be built under this meth
cd. The success must be slow, but lie
it be we'll done. The recent record a
made by the penitentiary in ~clearin.
money on it's farming operations 1
highly creditable to the men in charge
Now is the best time in the world t
stop, because it is only a question o
time when history will repeat itself
n the penitentiary will be found Il
the "suds." The farms of this stat
can be cultivated by the farmers, an
no honorable vocation ought i
be brought in competition with con:
vict labor.-Raleigh Times