The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27
.. WILMINGTON Ne c., OCTOBER 27. 1908.

all The danger CT territorial antago1-
isms. Now We must see that there
shall never come any antagonisms or
the Glasses or antagonisms between
capital and labor. Treat each man &C
cordiag 10 his worth as man. DON'T
hold for Or again st him that he is eth
er rlcn or poor. But If he is rich and
crooked acid it against him; if not rlch
but crooked, then hold it against him.
But il he is a square man stand Dy
him. Distrust ali who would have any
one class placed before any other. Otn-
er republics have fallen because of the
unscrupulous rich or the unscrupulous
poor VINO gained the ascendency. w:o
substituted loyalty to class for loyal
ty to the people as hole"
REFERENCE TO THE RACE PROR-
LEM
Referring to the race problem. TO
which Governor Davis had alluded, tie
President said:
Tine worst enemy Of the negro race
is the negro criminal, and above all tho
criminal Of the hideOus type so often
hldeOuSlv avenged. Every repltah'e
colored man owes the duty to himself
anu TO his race &c hunt down THAI
criminal. Now as tC the white mans
side: Now to avenge one hideous crime
oy another is to reduce the avenger
to tae heastlal level. Another thing
which makes tEis lynch law so abbot
rent y thai three-fourths of the crime
for which It is Invoked are for Others
than that against the women OF .he
country. Governor, you and | and al.
others in authority owe It to our peo-
pie 10 t,ri"e out the reproach and the
menacc OF lyncn law in the Unite1
States. We can afford to be divided
on questions Of mere partiZanship. t2r
comparatively the difference Of tariff
and the cfl reno. are of no cursc
queu,e After all the real question IS
that OF decsncy jn the life OF the home
and honesty III pI3ic life. 1t makes
little difference i'll the long run wh7th-
er Democrat or Republican is Pres
id"n'. 10: l. makes every difference
I" have all cur pl tlic officials no lest
and clean. The candidate is the can IL
date Of the party but the Presidel, il
lie Is worth his salt, is the President
Of the whole IcnLle. You can't ret
go'd public life until you have go1G
private HE
The P:rsicen,.al party passeG
through .U..ts dc nsely hacked with
cheering men, women and children to
the Albert Pike Ccrsistory. where the
luncheon was gwen.
Judge q. M. Rose, formerly president
of the American Bar Association, in an
addr ess, said that President Roosevelt
had proved himself the President ct
every man, woman and child under
the protection of the American flag
The President joined in the applause
which greeted the remark.
The President was wildly cheereG as
he rose to respond.
AS the President sat down the cur
tain teck Of where he was seated as
cenheL and tableau was presented
i"enty- five boys, ,a::i attired in ::
SAILOR sit formed = gro: y, which spec
tacle ven the Pr".idcn. & applause
THE NAVY IS THE "BIG STICK =.
He rose and said he believed his
auditors knew how he felt about the
navy of the United States. The navy
of our country, ne said, was the Unit
ed States "big STICK" which would
never be used against the weak, un-
less the weak put themselves in a
position like 4 bad child, wherein
chastisement was necessary. He added
that the ''big stick would be kept in
such condition that the necessity for
it's use against the strong would never
arise.
Lieutenant Governor Lee responded
to a toast "The State of Arkansas,
and the Presidential party went TO
the Rock Island station along a route
which was lined with people, The
special train lef-: for Memphis at 4
o'clock,