The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-06
STATE PRESS.

! In some quarters it is being predict
I. ed that If the Atlantic and North Car
! DINA railroad is not leased the DEMO
cratic ticket will be knitted in Noyem
Der. We dom believe this will occu
TO any extent. Most democrats think
too highly OF their party to desert il
because they can't lave their way in
disposing Of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad. We have no means
OF knowing What will be done with
the road but we should like to see th-
state hold on to il and yindicate it
I self.-Greensboro Telegram.
The s~tenographer and typewriter has
become an essential factor in the con
duct OF business and the professions.
Twenty years ago there was not one
in Charlotte. Today there is a little
army of them. Ninety per cent. of
them are women These have taken
possession Of the field, practically. 70
the exclusion Of the men. The young
lady s~tenographer is not only a use
full member of an office force, but she
exercises an influence for nkatness and
cleanliness in the office and for The
elimination OF roughness in the con-
duct OF business.-Charotte Chron;cIe.
The Winston Sentinel would like
to know" says the Charlotte Observer.
just for curiosity what kind OF an
exhibit North Carolina really has at
the st. Louis exposition. Some writ
erS on the subject" it continues, say
that ii is a fairly creditable show,
while others lain that it is a disgrace
to the state" The Observers infor-
nation, public and private. is to the
joint effect that it is a middling sorry
layout. About right. Keep it going
down the line. too, until North Caro-
lima is Soundly ashamed of herself for
making such a poor show.-Burlington
Herald.
The republicans are working hard
in Main and Vermont. and are also
putting forth desperate exertionS in
Massachusetts. They are not afraid
of losing Vermont and Maine, they
are mighty afraid that they will not
get large enough majorities there. AS
to Massachusetts, they are actually
frightened, for although that state has
never voted for a democratic candidate
for president, she has upon several
occasions elected democratic govern
ors. n S., 1000 republicans of Massa-
chusetts have signed Petitions for re-
ciprocity with Canada, which the dem
ocratic party and Judge Parker are i'll
favor of, while the republican party
and President Roosevelt are not
Winston Journal.
Nobody, So far as we know, wants
n governor to make any undue
haste to lease the Atlantic and North
Carolina road. The advocates of O
lease, and that seems to take most
everybody now, are satisfied 20
know lat the governors face is in
h right direction, n that he has
decided to make the lease at the prop
er time and with the proper securities.
This paper has never discussed tlte
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who shall lease this road. We want
it to get into the best hands possible
and we are Perfectly satisfied to leave
this in the and Of those whose busl-
ness it is to ass upon this and other
details of the Observation-Disclosures
Times.
In last weeks issue of The Guide
We noticed an article on gambling by
our young men, and signed "One eye,
il We remember correctly. That writer
acknowledged that he was an eye wit
ness. and saw these boys with the
cards and their none laid out and
gambling on the Sabbath day. What
did brother "One eye do? Nothing
at all. Just gave them a little lecture
through The Guide instead of placing
them in the clutches of the law. This
thing has been going on in Dunn For
years. and the a claimed for not
DISdhIhS II op . we Oh SCI Lic
proof" Now here is one man with
the proof. but don care to have his
name in it."-Dunn Guide.
1t was plain to be seen from a d:s-
patch in yesterdays paper that Chair
man Babcock, of the republican con-
gressionaI campaign committee, is
thoroughly uneasy about republican
control OF the next house. He ac-
knowledged that it is the closest con
gressional campaign he has gone
through since 1898: and The New York
Herald. carefully n dispassionately
reviewing the political situation in the
country. concludes that however the
presidential election may result, the
chances favor a democratic majority
in the next house of representatives.
This gives the republicans something
else important to hustle about; TOR
even with a president and senate OF
their party. many of their schemes
would be blocked if the democrats
controlled the house.-Charlotte OBJ
erver
If it were not for the position oc-
cupied by Secretary Wilson-that OF
| secretary of agriculture-it would
hardly be necessary to notice his UNI
provoked fling at the south as report
ed by Mr.. Pense in these columns yes
terday. Mr.. Wilson's attempt to dis
credit the democratic party by saying
that it's voters came from the back
| alleys of the south, is unworthy OF
the republican janitor at a republican
| club. to say nothing of a man who
| holds a cabinet position, and that sup
| posed to be at the cad of the inter
| ests of the farming masses of the
| country. But, considering his posi-
ton, such causeless spleen can on
| ly injure the weak and purile man who
| INDUCES in it. No intelligent man
| north or south. white or black, believes
| there is a word of truth in it They
| know it is merely the mad. political
| raving Of a man who is lacking in abil
| ity to engage in a sane and courte
Gus discussion of campaign issue ano
is trying by cheap clap-trap to arouse
| sectional ~animosity. Out upon anc