The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-22
WILMINGTON, N. c.
THE STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY

1t has been announced and promptly
denied that Judge w. P. Bypm was a
c~andidase for the position of chairman
of the n publican state executive COM
mittee.
The republicans could not do @ wiser
thing THAI place that honest, honor
able man at the head of their party
In this stale. From a democratic
viewpoint it is fortunate has the IT.
:mor is not tsIe.
1t is a faca, and there is no use in
arying to conceal the truth of it, that
many men who still stay in the dem
OcIatic party would vote the national
republican or even the state republican
ticket were that party ruled by such
men as Judge Bynum. There are
many men in thfs state whose incli-
nations are toward the republican
party on national issues, but who vote
with the democrats because their self
respect does not allow them to af-
filiate with the crowd who run the re-
publican politics of TINS state-men
principle than the dollars and cents
they can make out of has ging on to
the tail of the party in power.
When the republican parry OF tine
south purges itself of this class Of
hangers On, who stand by the party
simply for what is TO be made out of
it, and out in the open and
shows itself 10 be Il party Of prirci-
pies which it advocates in the belief
that they are for the good Of the
greatest number of the American citi-I
zens, then it will have a following OF
the respectable people of the state.
How can a party expect to be sue
cessful when it has nothing more than
the spOils of victory to draw men toI
it? The republican party of this state
today is nothing more than the hang
ers on Of the national administration,
-men striving against each other for
the offices within the gift of the pres
iGent and the heads of the different
departments. There is no patriotism,
no love of state or nation among them
All the members o fthat party in this
state want is to get on the government
pay roll. WHsi this is accomplished
they are satisfied, T.,
it is not to the best interests of theI
state that this condition should exist.
North Carolina would be better served
were there two political parties, each
striving against the other for control
Of state affairs and each striving for
that control ON principles Of state gov
eminent.
The democratic party today is IN
power in this state, chiefly because the
other party represents the men who
forced upon this state the evils and he
disgrace OF reconstruction days and
negro rule. No matter what political
issue is raised the majority of the
white men of the state look back to
the dark Gays OF the RECONSTRUCTION JS-
Rod and say they will have nothing
to do with the party which ruled IN
those times.
If the republican party expects ever
10 amount to anything in the south
it must Put such men as Judge Bynum
at its head and must show the people
of the south that it has turned its
hack on the men who are now repub-
leans only for what is to be made
out of it.
When North Carolina is divided by
two parties who are fighting for the
mastery on political principles We may
look to see the state take her proper
position among the leading states OF
the union; but she will not do so as
long as it is understood that she must
go democratic in order to protect her
people against a horde Of men who
are in politics for no other reason than
to get the spoils of Office handed out
by a republican national administ1a-
tiOn-