The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-22
STATE PRESS.

The Charlotte Observer advises h
Legislature to pass all the necessary
appropriation bills and adjourn in
Thirty DAYS. We fear this advice Is
ltoo sound to he heeded-Tarboro
ISoutherner.
The Salisbury Sun informs us that
Wilkes county will be lifted out of the
leighth district and dropped down in
the fifth. That will be one way to
make the congressional delegation
from North Carolina unanimously
democratic unless something unex-
pected happens at the next election
Raleigh Post.
Minnesota republicans advanced as
a campaign argument against John
"A. johnson, the democratic candidate
for governor, that his mother once
took in washing and his father died
in the poor house. Result: A ma
Ijority Of more than 10000 for John
son in the face of a tremendous plu-
Irality for President Roosevelt.-Win-
ston Journal.
It is no wonder that Pennsylvania
gave such a tremendous republican
~ AN1%OA
says one ward with a total registration
of III had 675 fraudulent registra-
tions. 1t says further hat "a chicken
! coop and a dog kennel were given as
places of residence for fifteen voters,
and intimates that chickens. dogs and
fieas were voted. And this is the re-
publican Observation-Disclosures News.
Mr.. Taggart thinks hat Joe Folk
is a coming man for 1908. The New
York World mentions Folf and W.
/. Douglas as men for whom the flu
ture nay hold a great prize. How
ever, there is no telling what four
years may develop. 1t is toe early
yet to talk about a candidate, though
the democratic party could well be-
gin right now and get in shape for
putting up a better fight in 1908 than
it did in 1904.-Greensboro Telegram
The Archbishop of Canterbury is,
lamong very many other excelleneies,
la humorist- In 81 a~fter-dinneI
speech just before saving farewell Ii
America, ne gave these parting shots:
I have taken a part in the wild whiri
of Philadelphia, a lived among the
activities of New York life, and have
tasted the hospitality of Boston and
noted the quiet modesty of it's inhab-
itants." And now if the Archbishop
will only write a book on America
Presbyterian Standard.
Governor Haywood, of South Caro-
lima, has lone the right thing in re-
voking the commission of Squire W.
o Bales, of Pineville, as a notary
public. Bales was conducting a mat
rimonial bureau and pursued such
methods as to reflect upon the credi;
of the state of South Carolina. BALES
has married thousands of couples the
past few years from Virginia and
North Carolina owing to the laxity OF
the marriage laws of South Caroi|r-l
over those of the other statAs-Gas-
tonia News.
1t has been a mystery to know
where the fun comes in with those
hunters who spend weeks in the woods
and get wet. catch cold, have pneu-
monia and ~whooping cough, and the
rest. but it is all plain. Asking about
it, one of them said there was no fur
in the hunting but plenty of it wher
one returned home and told lies abou
it. thus inducing others to try IL
Something like a snipe hunt. Fisher.
men are good at a story telling, but
it seems bird hunters are catching w
with them-Greensboro Record.
The Crumpacker plan cuts two
ways. Mr.. Thomas Pence, in the
Morning Post shows that an infiu.
entail faction of the republican party
thinks that the Crumpacker plan il
a tacit approval of h southern
amendment which have disfrancllis
ed such a large portion of the negr,
population. This faction sees that /
they give these amendments their in
ferential endorsement in this way b,
saying "you have acted within you
rights. but we are going to cut you,
representation the event tn,
northern vote, which holds the bal
ance of power in so many states
would be MORALLY offended. Henc,
the republicans are by no means
unit in regard to reductionA The.
will have a long and difficult road t,
travel should they conclude to mon
key with the south's suffrage.-kins
ton Free Fress.