The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-31
STATE PRESS.

IL SuIl the W0Ole luluS up IN a rev
words the committee accuses nobody
Of anything, but is clearly of the opin-
ion that IL it was conducted differently
ii would be Of greater benefit to the
state.-Durham Herald.
Is Booker Washington the dark
horse" to be running mate TO Roosevelt?
Inasmuch as the republicans have elect
ed two negroes as delegates. one of them
might be chosen as the dark horse
News and Observer.
The case of Judge PEBBLES and the
Lumberton lawyers will be pulled off
at that place tomorrow. Trying his
own case, and with three lawyers ap-
pearing for him, his honor should be
able to secure an acquittal handily.-
Charlotte Observer.
According TO the report of the COM
mittee of investigation into the affair
OF the Atlantic and North Carolina rail-
o the management was not corrupt
and the road has enjoyed a fair degree
OF prosperity. Looks very much like a
complete vindication. doesn't it?-
Greensboro Telegram.
A bull fighter at Juarez, Mexico,
thinking he had given the death thrust
to the wretched animal forced into the
ring, turned to bow to the savage au-
dience and receive the plaudits of the
gaping multitude. lust at this juno
ture the expiring bull made a lunge
and gored the matador to death. Bully
for that bull. and may there be more
like him. If he could nave treated the
whole gang of spectators in the same
way the higher his reward in that
bovine heaven into which brutal bull
fighters are not allowed to come-Dur-
ham Sun.
The unprecedented number of indict-
ments at the recent term Of the court
for the Illicit sale of liquor at Belle
Haven, and only one conviction. the
only negro accused of violating the law,
ought to be an object lesson to our citi-
zens as to the difficult problem of en-
forcing prohibition. Time and again
has the prohibition town of Belle Haven
been held up to our citizens as a model
Of nat prohibition would accomplish,
and yet in all the history of the county
more cases ave occupied the attention
Of the court from this point charged
with the unlawful sale of whiskey than
has ever been known during a single
term--Washington Gazette-Messenger.
The Concord Times gives the result
of the primary in Cabarrus county,
prefacing the vote by townships with
these remarks: The democratic town.
ship primaries last Saturday were
very poorly attended, and little inter-
est has been manifested in the result.
The friends of Major Stedman did some
good work for him, but the friends of
the other candidates did not put forth
any special effort in their behalf" In
one of the townships Glenn, Stedman
and Turner each received one vote only.
The largest vote in any township appear
to hav been II for Turner. IA for Glenn
and ii for Stedman. The primaries
must indeed have been poorly attend
ed" Major Stedman got a majority in
county.-Winston Sentinel.
1t Is natural n proper for men to
see the same things in different lights,
and while the three gentlement Of the
railroad investigating committee were
able to agree, from the evidence, upon
a report, it might be hat everybody
else would not agree with them, know
ing as much as they do. We quite con-
cur with The Morning Post, of Raleigh,
that 1.-The public will not question that
the conclusions are drawn honestly and
stated fairly, III other people, equally
competent to form a judgment from evil
dence submitted, would like to look'into
the matter themselves" The Post as
sumes that the evidence taken at the
investigation will be given to the public,
and calls on the governor to "let it come
out But how? 1t would make a
book.-Charlotte Observer.