The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-30


III. That we fully endorse the
course Of the News and Observer IN
its manful fight for the rights OF the
people-and long may its able stand
ard bearer. Josephus Daniels, stand
at it's prov as the Palladium OF North
Carolina liberty-and that we in eoHl-
mon with the people Of North Carolina
SO long as our Governor stands for
our rights-wfll eve uphold his hands.
(Signed)
"E. d. Pearsall, w. W. Miller. J. c.
Jones, W. A. Brown. Steadman Spark
man, T. E. Hays and many others"
Please do US the kindness to correct
this statement, as no such mass meet
ing has been held in Rocky Mount and
the signers of the article are not even
Rocky Mount people. The over
whelming sentiment Of the people here
is one of regret over the unfortunate
conflict between the state and federal
authorities, but having confidence in
the patriotism of Governor Glenn and
in the ability and fairness of Judge
Pritchard we are confidently looking
for a solution just and honorable alike
to both sides.
The prevailing sentiment here is
against. impassioned speech and bitter
newspaper attacks upon the judiciary,
either state or federal, and we believe
that any person trying to array III
against the other is an enemy OF both.
The people of Rock Mount are
quite contented just now with the i'm
prOvement in crops, expansion in trade
great internal improvements just be-
ginning, and a winning base ball team
and we are Hot trying to settle con-
stitutiOnal questions that belong to the
courts.
AS we have said above, We publish
this communication to The News and
Observer, which has been refused pub
LEGATION by that paper, by permission of
the writer of the same. Had The News
and Observer published the communl-
cation showing that it had been IN Tie
wrong and had done the Rocky Mount
people an injustice we would not pub
lish the same here; for the place lOr
correction of such an error IS III the
columns of the paper which made the
error, but as the Raleigh paper
whether purposely or inadvertently
making the errOr-refuSeS Or neglectS
the correction we publish h letter,
thinking that such action on our part
is due to the people of the town VINO
have been maligned by that paper. We
also feel that it is due to u readers
that they, after having read in Our
paper The News and Observers article
stating that this paper had been cen
sured by the people of Rocky Mount IN
mass meeting, should know that the
paper which published the falsehood
had failed to correct the error.
It is true that The News AMI OBJ
server did in it's issue OF yesterday
make a lame and unintelligible pre-
tense of making PREPARATION to the peo-
pie of Rocky Mount for the SANDER it
published On them on the day before.
We find on one of the inside pages or
that paper of yesterday the following
article under the heading here given:
WAS ROCKY MOUNT"
Resolutions Supporting Governor
Glenn Were Sent Up From Pen
der County"
"a series Of resolutions supporting
Governor Glenn in the course he has
-,.c,o1 ~ ,ooo~J tn tho --oi1r0o6 r0to
matter and the complications gOWing
out of it. was printed on the third
page of this paper yesterday, and
through some u~naccountable error
were dated Rocky Mount"
No one can tell from the above
where the mass meeting was held.
According to the first line of the head,
Rocky Mount is again announced as
the locality. The second section of
the head, Our readers will notice, says
the resolutions were sent up from
Fender county while the body of the
article gives one the whole universe
from which to guess in determining
the locality Of that alleged mass-meet-
ing. However, information to
us from persons in this city who kno"
the men whose names are attached TO
the so-called resolutions Of the mass
meeting that those men live in on
about the town of Rocky Point. We
are not personally acquainted with any
of them and we do not know to what
party they belong or what is their
standing in their community. With
one of them we have in the past had
an epistolary acquaintance through his
frequent contributions to this editor S
waste paper basket.
One word more and we hope to be
done with this subject: Will some
friend in Rocky Point tell US where