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THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER; TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1898. A GLANCE AT THE IH.ACK AND TAN SHOW. ' The files of The Messenger show that it steadfastly through the months Insisted that the black radicals and the populists would unite. Again and again when there was much talk of an attempt to unite the white men the grand old democracy with the populists, it was insisted upon that the dicker between the traders Of 1896 and 1894 would be re peated in 1898. And so it will come to pass so it is daily coming to pass. It 13 a plain bargain and sale for the mackerel tub and the feed trough. Principles to the winds, let Blifii and Blackleg get together and "beat the idemocrats" and "elect everything from constable to bishop," as that trading black republican, one Linney, howled it out as if at a corn-shucking. And that is all there is in this miserable fallen party, that once even in North Carolina had force and abil ity and some pretence of principles. Now it is barter and blow and bragg and all for the "fixings." The one sen timent now among the radical bush .whackers is a blending of the two parties that hpld nothing in common eave the great, controlling principle of greed and grab. That was an ag gressive stink, political and personal, that filled Raleigh's infected atmos phere, when as John Dryden wrote it, "clouds of savory stench involve the sky." Let North Carolina hold its nose, and scatter over the whole state in great profusion carbolic acid, cin chona, salt and other political anti septics that may preserve the state from decay and paralyzing, death dealing stench. The saddest of all pictures ever taken by kodak or painted by artist is the Dan Russell picture in the black and tan pow wow. Read this and if you "have tears prepare to shed them now:" "Governor Russell entered the hall amid dead silence and sat half an hour with the New Hanover delega tion." Not a shout, not a word of wel come, not the slightest notice taken of the governor, a member of the pie counter brigade. "Solitary and alone" he sat amid the ruins of his own fame and mere was not a lingering "black cuss" nor one of the motleys who "was so poor as to do him reverence." A sad picture of decay and death. Let melancholy claim him as its own, and let Jeremiads be poured out in profu sion to his manes. Poor Russell! 'Alackaday! "And must Trelawney li3?" Alas! as the once puissant, ro bustious Dan curries himself with a potsherd te feels that the night with all of its terrors and gloom is upon him. He realizes the perishableness of human glory and the ingratitude of men and he recalls that "Its a very good world we live in, To lend or to spend or to give in; But to beg or to borrow or to ask for your own, Its the very worst world that ever was known." He even asked to be heard in the black radical show, but even that simple request passed unheeded. Then read those resolutions indorsing the Russell gang in the great wisdom, justice, honesty, economy of its deal ings and doings and then keep your risibles if you can. It might remind one of a gathering in hell of the devil land his imps, (see Milton for descrip tion) and the adoption of resolutions indorsing the tricks and performances of Lucifer and the economy with which he uses fuel as well as the jus tice and equality of his general gov ernment You tickle my elbow with a straw and I will scratch your back. Nice flat tery and fine unmeaning buncombe as read by that political Mephistophiles ifrom Buncombe. This is the first act ttn the show. I Let it be borne in mind that this Iblack and tan convention had the Ibrazen effrontery in North Carolina )to indorse the present unconstitution tal, oppressive and unequal robber tax fchat is a dead failure in producing revenue. What a set of humbugs and pretenders! Froth and demagogy. THE WAY TO VICTORY I For twenty years the custom or plan in North Carolina on the part of the democrats has been to save the Istate in each election by speech-making and general pow-wowing. There )are very true and intelligent demo jcrats who have aforetime said to us that they doubted if any democratic Candidate had been elected governor Since Vance was elected. That proba Jbly over-states the loss, and gives too Knuch credit to cheating. But it is well known to all men except the would-be Headers, that the fife playing and horn jtooting and brass bands and beating jof drums and tom-toms, and torch light parades and so on are all some thing of a failure, and no substitutes for rigid, intelligent, thorough organ ization in townships. The old Jarvis plan is worth all this empty sounding way of beating up recruits. Butler's house-to-house visiting is worth, all the campaign heroics and jawbations that can be held in a lustrum. The democrats do not know its efficiency and completeness because they have never tried it. We believe there is but one way 'to carry North Carolina against the "nigs," their motley allies and the Butler gang of populist trad ers. It 13 by organizing in every town ship in every county in North Caro lina. WTe believe that with plenty of work and money and zeal and heart that North Carolina can be redeem ed this year. It is the stay aways that have given over the dear old state into the hands of niggers and "white trash,'" plotters, schemers, traders and grab bers. In 1896 McKinley received in North Carolina 155,222; Bryan 174,488, Pal mer 578, Levering 635 total vote poll ed was 330,953. We look in vain for a book we have used with the numbers of electors in North Carolina in 1890, according to last census. That will show the number of stay-aways, the class to be brought out. Making an allowance for increase in eight years of both electors and total voting pop ulation there are not less than 40,000, we feel quite sure, who do not vote in North Carolina. So soon as we se cure the number of white and black electors in 1890, according to the cen sus, we will give it It is very sure that if the democrats rely this year upon canvassing and organizing by "picnics" the end will be a very much of "a picnic" for the combine. Campaigning by picnicking is a very grand and toothsome idea! It 13 a splendid invention for the en emy. Go to work actively, resolvedly, in an intelligent, practical, business like, common-sense way and organize all the townships. "Picnicking" will not do it any more than speech-making and will carry North Carolina. "Them's our sentiments." THE CllliriE AND THE IIEJT1EDY The Messenger year by year has sincerely deplored the great preva lence of crime in the south, and par ticularly among the negroes. It has deeply regretted the many lynchings that have occurred through the years and it has sorrowed over the causes of the lynchings. The insufficiency of the courts, the desperation and sav agery of the brutes who assault white women and little girls, the steady growth of the most infernal crime were all condemned, and it was felt that lynchings would never cease un til the black devils were all hanged or their brutalities ended. Every week almost some white woman of charac ter is most cruelly, inhumanly as saulted by some roaming beast, and frequently an incensed peo ple become a law unto them selves and stamp out the vil lain and marauder as they would stamp out pestilence and nre. Last week, in Virginia, a negro was lynch ed for a most infernal crime. The white men avenged the deed. The re ligious papers, the pulpit, the press generally may denounce lynch law and call it mob law, and the reign of violence and what not; they may call for more stringent legislation to sup press hangings by mobs, and brand all as half-civilized who do not cry out against lynchings for rapes, but until the villains cease their damning and cruel and awful work the life of the rascals will not be safe if they are caught The ably edited Norfolk Virginian-Pilot has a vigorous editorial on "Lynching is Its Law and Jus tice." It has much that will be read with satisfaction by tens of thou sands of the best people in the south. They know the nature and preva lence of the crime and the need of a prompt, terrible remedy with which to meet it We quote from our Nor folk contemporary: "Should ' a rattlesnake, or a mad dog, be tried before killing? Should a murderer, incendiary, or highway man, caught in the act, be allowed to complete it and to appeal to all the delays and chances of law? If you, or your people, or your property, be feloniously attacked, will you await the laws, or will you act at once in self-defense? If a mad man be on the streets, marauding and slaying all he meets, must we take out a warrant for him, arrest and try him, before we disable him and stop his wild career? ' "The negro who has just been lynched at Charlottesville was far worse than any rattlesnake or mad dog, far worse than any mad man or criminal and by his nature and course had outlawed himself utterly. To recognize in him any right to the pro tections and processes of law would be to mitigate his offence, aggravate the outrage upon the lady, and to add to the shame and horror already in flicted upon her. "No decent white man, endowed with reason and the proper respect of manhood, should or could restrain himself in the presence of so foul a crime. It would disgrace justice and defile the courts to treat him as an innocent man." 1 DREVITIES. It is said to be a fact that one fourth of the regular United States army is composed of foreign born men In the navy the foreign element is 52 per cent of seamen. So much of the excellent fighting is done by faithful, brave men born outside. Of the men lost on the Marion 40 per cent were foreign. The United States exceed Germany in population by 22,000,000. Emperor William should take note. This coun ry Is not France. In 1890 there were 4,000,000 women and 18,000,000 men engaged in this country in gainful pursuits. In 1860, there were but 10,000,000 workers in all, and of these but 500,000 were wo men. A great change. Women are in the labor problem now with strong array. Thy bring down wages and give the men a harder time, and many are very lazy and general oafers. Rev. Dr. Sam A. Steel, one of the most gifted of the Southern Metho dists of his age say about 40 is edi tor of the Epworth League Journal, we beleve. He and "brother" Stalh man are having a tussle. Steel wishes to wipe out that money scandal and Stahlman wants Steel to pay him some borrowed money. Steel says he wishes to raise the big lobby money paid to "brother" S, in order to "re deem the honor of the church which is as dear to me as my life." Stahl man is reported to be a member of the Methodist church and he is refer red to as "Judge." The Atlanta Constitution says General Fitz. Lee has been side-tracked at Jacksonville. If he were to gain laurels in Cuba he might be in Mc inley's way in 1900. In Charleston there are sixty cases of typhoid fever out of ninety cases that are serious among the soldiers sent there from Chattanooga. Hunger did the work for the Span iards at Santiago. Rice was the only food they had left. To storm the city it is now said would have cost thou sands of lives. We are glad the Span ish stomach was so empty. IIOCTE FOLKS Russell called the negroes "savages," and he holds to that brand. Harry Skinner said in Pitt county in 1896, that "the negro is not fit to hold office.' Of course not, but Skinner is trying hard to hold office by and through Sambo. Sambo is ready to help and forgive. They have kissed and made up. In Beaufort county the negroes are reported as something- sick of Har ry as a boss. In the late negro conven tion more of the black bosses were not present "says the Washington Messen ger. The negroes are talking "sarce" and blowing for independence. We think it probable that the big talk will end in vapor. Even white republicans were absent. A negro tells the Wash ington Messenger that this means that the "negro has got his fiill of fusion, and Harry Skinner in particular, and he no longer is to be herded like dumb driven cattle, and now proposes to run his own boat, and to sink or swim." In Wilmington the motleys and blacks are thick as twins and as loving as maidenhood. The blacks get a full share, and the few motleys who get the best pickings generally are all happy and united and snooze nightly in loving embrace in the little political truckle-beds "happy as lords." This is a fine example of enlightened progress and the higher civilization! A snow in Yancey county was re ported for Monday last. Come this way and warm yourself. What a state an iceberg and a frying, pan. The resolutions adopted by the little and big "nigs" in New Hanover, under the sway of the forceful motleys, at tract attention all about. They were marvellous to behold. Think of any gang not just escaped from the lunatic asylum essaying to indorse and eulo gize Russell, the played out. The Ra leigh Post notes: "As we understand it, a colored citi zen whom the governor fired out of his office a little more than a year ago, was an active partisan of His Excel lency in the convention that adopted the resolutions quoted. But the negro does not mind a small matter like that any more than he does being called a savage, so long as the governor (and here is the milk in the cocoanut) ap points negroes to office." We see it mentioned in the newspa pers that ex-Senator Jarvis, of Green ville, and ex-editor Captain Samuel A. Ashe, of Raleigh, are to prepare a dem ocratic campaign book for 1898. A most important idea, and the gentle men to do the work are the very best possible to be found in the state. We are indeed gratified that they will un dertake to perform this service for the White Man's party in a White Man's campaign for the redemption of the good old state. The republican party taxes the peo ple and protects the rousts. The peo ple should annihilate both the repub lican party and the trusts. WTinston Sentinel. nn LnJ Should be in every family PoBfls meaicme chest and every traveller's grip. They are invaluable whpn th itnmarh Is out oi order: cure headache, bilionanes- and all .'v?er troubles. Mild a&d efficient. cent. (QKQXQ STATE PXXESS The populist of the sixth district have either become "gold bugs" or they consider it more important to carry an election than to- maintain any show of consistency. Another queer thing about the doings of the populists down in the sixth, is, that Dr. Nonnent the representative of the Russell faction, which has been sup posed to be on good terms with the populists, bolted the republican con vention and came out as an independ ent candidate, yet he did not get a vote in the populist convention. New ton Enterprise. That there was no question of prin ciple, but only by policy, in the popu list proposition to cooperate with the democratic party this year is evident from the rate at which fusion between populist3 and republicans is being consummated. The populists of the sixth district have nominated a re publican for congress who was pre viously nominated by the republcans on a platform endorsing McKinley and Russell. In the seventh district they turned down their representative who had been previously elected twice in succession, to make place for a can didate who had the approval of the republican machine managers of the district Raleigh Post. There are evidences of growth and prosperity on every hand in North Carolina. Probably one of the clear est evidences to those of the state, is the increasing number of educational institutions, the greater average per centage of attendance, and the inter est manifested in the cause of educa tion in the state. University is educating more of the masses of the people of the Old North State than ever before; the Baptists will soon have finished their new university for women at Raleigh and the State Nor mal and Industrial college is not be hind in its noble work of educating the girls of the state, many of whom like the boys, are struggling up out of ignorance and poverty and islation. A careful examination of facts, however, would show that there is a larger number of colleges and preparatory schools in North Carolina to the population than any other state in the south, and, as a general rule, these institutions are liberally pat ronized. It is the public schools that we need to thoroughly overhaul and improve. Sanford Express. NORTH CAROLINA Windsor Orient: Mr. Jesse Hoggard, of Helena, tells us that in his section the populists have nearly all gotten right. That they are not doing any great amount of talking, but they are only disgusted with the party. High Point Enterprise: Just two miles from here on the road to Thom asville, Sam Swaim has a blacksmith shop. He makes horse shoes for the trade. Since he has been at the busi ness he has made with his own hands 160,000 horse shoes. Asheville Citizen: Linney's conven tion bolted him in the Eighth and Shu ford was defeated outright in the Sixth. These gentlemen should take lessons from the astute representative of the Ninth. When opposition ap pears, give in an office. Durham Sun: S. I. Gooch received a telegram from Oxford which stated that during the storm Sunday after noon two of his nephews, sons of his brother, Dudley, were killed by light ning. The telegram did not state any of the particulars, except that it oc curred about 4 o'clock. Washington Messenger: The many friends of the Rev. Dr. Payne will re gret to hear that the condition of his eye is such that he was compelled to return to Richmond Monday and an other operation may be necessary. Dr. Payne has been suffering for sometime from necrosis of the bones adjoining his eye and has been operated upon twice in Richmond. Charlotte Observer: Mr. Sam Mc Murray, of Cleveland county, fell in a well Friday, near the Cleveland Mills, and was killed. A lady chang ed cars yesterday at Statesville from the Western road to the Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio. It was discovered that the lady's clothes were on fire. She didn't know it until apprised of the fact by a gentleman in rear of her. Mr. Atwell, of Mooresville, extinguish ed the blaze with his hands, getting them rightly badly burned. A ne gro by the name of George Home was killed by a train at China Grove last night, his head and one foot being cut off. Mocksville Times: Much has been published one way and another con cerning the road from this place to Mooresville and in order to set the matter right we will try and give the facts. The track has been put down and the train can run to the river, within six miles of town, where a temporary trestle is being erected so that a material train can pass over and the track be completed to this place. It will take something over a week to complete the tn?stle and at least two weeks longer to complete the track. Regular trains can hardly be expected before September 1st. Clinton Democrat: The Democrat has received a letter from Mr. Walter C. Gore, a Sampson boy, who was in the battle in front of Santiago, July 3rd. He escaped without injury and has since been promoted to the office of sergeant. His term of enlistment expires in a few weeks and he expects then to visit his old home in thi3 county. Mr. James M. Powell, of Taylor's Bridge .had the misfortune to lose two horses and a mule last week. Two of them were fine animals and the loss falls quite heavy upon Mr. Powell. Bucklcn'a Arnica Salve. The test salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refund ed. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by R. R. Bellamy. Postal Reflations for Santiago. Washington, July 21. 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