The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-06
STATE PRESS.

Some of them are going right ahead
| for another campaign in 1905. II the
| country could get a brief rest from poll
| tics it would be all the better. Run
| ming one campaign over into another is
| too much of a good thing.-Greenville
Reflector.
Says The Durham HeraIdS While
we do not know what is going to hap
pen, we do not believe that the presi-
dent is the man to be taken in by such
a man as Mr.. Butler" Marion Butler.
Huh, he's a slick article, If you only
knew it. It's his long suit to pull the
woo over the eyes of the unsuspecting.
Wilson News.
The expense of living at this time is
enough to almost stagger the average
man. Prices are higher on nearly
everything one has to buy and it is the
fortunate man who comes out ahead.
in such times every n who car should
pay his debts promptly and not make
those he owes feel any heavier burden
by having to wait for the money that
should have been paid.-GoIdsboro
Headlight.
The Charlotte Chronicle is again pro-
noting the scheme to establish a re-
formatory for young criminals. If any
skeptical person doubts the wisdom
of this proposition he has only to pass
by the police station in Raleigh while
of them are. being thraShed by
their parents by order of Mayor Powell.
The crying need of a reformatory will
be most aptly brought to his attention
by the leather-lunged youngsters be-
low.-Raleigh Times.
A negro named Tom Love is in Jail
at Waynesville, under sentence of death
for burglary, and as is naturally the
case, a petition is being circulated, ask
ing the governor to commute to life i'm
prisonment. Many of our best peo-
ple," says The Observer correspondent
there, believe if he escapes the gallows
a lynching is likely" 1t is to be hoped
that these people are wrong. A lynch
ing that anticipates the vengeance Of
the law is bad enough: one thai has
the effect of overriding it is worse
Charlotte Observer.
The south does not accept response
bility for Vardaman. The views Of the
Mississippi fire-eater do not represent
the people of the section in which he
lives, and as subsequent events have
shown, they are not the views of the
people of his own state. AS 500 as
possible after Vardaman's discourte-
GUS reference to the presidents ad-
miniStration Of the Mississippi build
ing at the exposition was published,
the merchants and other representa-
tive citizens of Natchez put themselves
on record in a telegram to the preSi-
dent of the eXposition.-Raleigh Post.
The most independent man in this
country just now seems to be the farm
or. This seems quite natural, for we
have always been taught to believe that
the farmer was the most independent
man on earth, SO when the statement is
made that such is the true condition we
q can easily believe it. This being true
there is one man who "a say honestly
! that he is glad and that he is not a bit
envious over the truth. The farmer
is naturally free and independent, and
When he ds not, things are not exactly
right. Whether it is his fault or not,
there must be something wrong when
this class of our citizenship is not pros
/ porous and independent.-Corcord Trib-
une.
! The public does not always appre-
clate how much it owes to a paper that
has the courage to use the waste-bas-
ket for impossible articles. Here is The
Southwestern, per contra, inserting an
article by Rev. E. E. Smith which inter-
! prets the de~liverance of the northern
assembly, on separate presbyteries as
a protest against state and national
legislation as to the suffrage, mixed
schools, social equality and the like
In that article, the Rev. E. E. Smith
suggests that we shall all have to carry
r%evolvers when once the negro sets
imbued with the ideas of h northern
church." Mr.. Smith will be a "reDre-
sentative minister by the time he get
into the northern papers.-Presbyteriar
| Standard.