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f X THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 189S: A TI HN IN THE TIDE There is one sign discernible of re turning reason among some of the of ficials connected with the present un holy, unjust, wicked and depraved state administration. The Messenger has pointed out the senseless war waged by Russell and his tools upon the great railways of the state that are indeed such blessings and conven iences to the people. It has shown the most unwise, oppressive and unconsti tutional discriminations against the railways in the way of taxation. We do not believe any thing more iniqui tous and vile has ever been under taken in North Carolina by public of ficials. Nothing the railroads could do or have ever done would compare "with it in positive injustice and sin save to withhold from stockholders an equitable share of their earnings. The conduct of Russell and those who have acted with him in the war upon railroads in this state, hua been with out justification and with much seri ous injury There has been a spirit of wanton persecution in the whole pro ceedings that has been as disgusting as violent and unreasonable. We said above there was a change visible, a sign of promise of better and wiser things. There is an indication that the railway commissioners are now being flooded with new light. They are perhaps tiring of the vicious and implacable antagonisms of the burly governor who thinks that the chief duty of man is to hate something either God or man, either the demo cratic party or railroads or all com bined. The commission should seek to secure and hold the good opinion of the better class of people, the intelli gence, the virtue, the patriotism of a state. It is a singular fact that the violent antagonism to the railroads has been a manufactured sentiment altogether. There has been no spon taneity in the opposition, but it has come from a comparatively small class who have worn collars around their necks and had rings in their noses and who have capered when Butler and Russell cracked their whips and said move. The Raleigh Post is pre cisely correct in saying this: "On this passenger rate question, not a single complaint has ever been made by the people or travelling pub lic demanding a reduction, save by Governor Russell and his little coterie of purblind malignants, who are ac tuated not by a high or honorable ! ublie purpose, but to wreak personal id partisan malice against one cor I ration and its chief officer in this s ate. The motive which has prompt- 1 and the viciousness which has iiaracterized this crusade, begun and prosecuted by the Russell-Butler com bination is without a parallel in the history of judicial or executive pro- J tucuiiigt) in mis siiiit;. The proceedings have been lamenta ble, most unwise, most hostile to the real interests of the state. The spirit lias been despicable from first to last, and Russell has been the "chief cook and bottle-washer" in the entire wrong doings. The Post says wisely: "But the despicable pretentions of the Russell proceedings are more than a hollow mockery. Coming from the chief executive, the man above all others sworn to execute fairly, justly and impartially, the laws, which laws are made as much, and are as sacred, for the protection of property as of liberty or life, it creates, disgust dis organizes business, and brings the en tire administration of public affairs into disrepute." It is high time that the end came. It is surely a right thing for the com mission to do now to cease to be the agents of Russell & Co., in their wild, mad war upon corporations. If they will exercise the functions of their office with wisdom and honor with an eye single to the good of the state, and not for revenge or to serve a bit ter, implacable demagogue, they will deserve the confidence and approval of all good and true North Carolinians. Iet all purposes to punish go. Let all narrow and impertinent partisanship bo thrown to the winds. Dare to do right Dare to seek the ends of justice and they will sleep better and com mand more of public respect. THE CASTLE HAYNE PHOPEBTY Democrats will have to be diligent for awhile in keeping up with radical falsehoods and slanderous charges and rebutting them. No one will believe any one of the gang who writes of democratic management without pos itive proof that will stand cross-examination. The lies told as to demo cratic contracts, will be all exposed and refuted. Mr. A. Leazer, who had -charge of the farms and whose man agement was judicious and efficient we have understood, has promptly written to Chairman Simmons in reply to Russell's letter of billingsgate and false indictment signed Mewborne. TVfr. Leazer shows that the Castle Hayne farm investment is misrepre sented. In 1890 the farm was rented at $400 for 600 acres. The phosphate mine was also worked by penitentiary. JTor the last four years the entire profits for farming and mining aggre gated $20,524. This is profits remem ber. Mr. Leazer says: "If the uncollected notes, two of them amounting to about $9,000 in stead of $16,000 as per Mewborne, and these secured by collateral, which car ried a mortgage on the whole proper ty, had never realized anything, there was nevertheless a clear profit in the four years' operation of $10,000 or $11,000. That was truly most creditable and satisfactory management, and the gang ought to stop lying about, it. They will not turn on the light as to their own bad doings and take it out in defamations and false statements. Beware of liars. Suit was brought in Wake court to sell the Castle Hayne property to satisfy penitentiary claims. The democrats had refused to enter a contract with the phosphate company for 1897, because of its insolvency. What followed think you when th combine got in? They knew all about the situation and yet they at once. made a contract with the in solvent company. What followed next? They put convicts to work and when the property is sold by order of court, is bid in by fusionists board of penitentiary directors for $16,000; then after a time this bid is forfeited, the property is again sold, is bid in for $8,000 by Chadbourne, a member of the board at that time, I think, and by him leased to the penitentiary, no body can say at what price." We tell you that is a fragrant tribe. And this is the true statement as to the Castle Hayne matter. The rascals are run to cover. THE It VI XL, A I SI2 OF WAR There ha3 been so much slobbering in the north over the cause of the Cubans and making war on the score of benevolence and sympathy that it i3 a cheerful indication to find a paper now and then that takes the com mercial view of it. That the north, that made the war, for the south was not favorable to it outside of revenge for the Maine, did it more on business grounds than in behalf of suffering humanity is no doubt true. There was a good amount of the sentiment al rot indulged, as was the case over the Armenians by European powers, but there would have been no war if the commerce of the north had not been so much interfered with by the war raging in Cuba. It was the pocket nerve that was struck. The New York Times sensibly and frankly says: "First of all we went to war in our I own interest, to restore peace and tranquility at home and to safeguard them against the danger of repeated interruption. That was, in fact, onr only strictly legal ground of interven tion, as The Times demonstrated be fore war was declared. But this wras a motive of self-interest. So viewed, the war was not mainly a war of hu manity, but a war to suppress an in ternational nuisance that had become intolerable and dangerous to our selves. Self protection first." The Messenger consistently insisted that the one cause of wrar was not sentimentality or materialism but purely to punish the bloody and treacherous Spaniards for their infer nal work in their harbor in destroying an American naval vessel, and mur dering 266 Americans, resting under the American flag in fancied security. We never saw an hour when we would have sent a southern company to fight for the rapscallians who disgrace the very name of soldiers for liberty. The Times speaks words of soberness when it says: "It is well not to for get fundamental facts, not only be cause we ought not to let an admiring world go unwarned of its mistake when it praises us for wagging a pure ly altruistic war." IIKKVITIES In New York antagonism to the nigger runs so high it provokes a riot. And it all happened in "Hell's Kitch en," a very proper place. The Prince of Wales is a gay old fel low and hard to live with. His once handsome wife once left him and it is reported she has gone to her native Denmark. Wales is an immense gal lant of the royal kind. The machinery of the cruiser Ra leigh is said to be quite defective, so much so it retarded Dewey's advance upon Manilla. The Texas was at first much condemned, but Captain Philip took her in hand and had changes made, and now she is the equal of any war ship in the navy. The staid Philadelphia Ledger, re publican in good standing, says Sec retary of War Alger, a federal gen eral, is the weakest brother who has had charge of the war portfolio in a long time. And yet this warlike sim pleton directs armies in the field. Great is humbug! There are 3,000 Baptists congrega tions in Texas and half of them have no house of worship. Are much in little; always ready, efficient, satisfac tory ; prevent a cold or fever, care all. liver ills, sick bead- Polls ache, janndice, constipation, etc Price 25 cent The OBly Fills to take with Ilood's SarsapariUa. (D. MOJTIE FOLKS Durham has a new daily The Re cord. Mr. W. B. Holland i3 editor. It is published by the company that Is sues the weekly Record. It is for a white man's government and belongs to no clique, faction or combination. Success to it. Lieutenant Henderson, U. S. navy, and a native of Salisbury, has written a letter in which he gives Sampson all the credit for destroying the fleet of Cervera, and says the "Brooklyn kept so far off shore she hardly had any hand in the fight." That will be news to the marines. Cervera and the Spanish captain tell a very different story. Sampson was not even in the fight Lieutenant Henderson is on the Indiana. He has undertaken a big job to discredit the gallant Schley and give the honors to the jealous Samp son. A North Carolina excursionist by name of C. H. Howerton, found it rather warm for the season at Norfolk. He was arrested twice for debts by the sheriff, being in prison for one night. He paid $279.20, besides cost and law yer fee. The letters of Chairman Simmons and young republican Bailey have had a very disturbing effect among the Russell gang. A terrible explosive falling suddenly in a camp would not provoke more alarm and a greater "splutteration" than these missives in the shape of loaded epistles caused in the camp of the Russellites. One re sult is no little lying and denying, dodging and perverting. The Democratic Hand Book pre pared by Captain Samuel A. Ashe and Governor Jarvis, will be ready for distribution by 14th inst. It will prove a great help and should be wise ly distributed placed in the hands of those who will know how best to use it. Copies will be sent to county com mittees at four cents per copy. Each county can have twenty copies. It is believed to be a fact that Judge Adams, who will oppose Kitchin for congress, is a pronounced goldbug. Just now he wears the silver button and flaunts the free silver flag. He will hardly fool the democrats or Tom Settle. Major W. M. Robbins, ex -member of United States house and a demo crat of real ability, recently delivered an address at Gettysburg to a lot of northern people. He stated plainly the cause of the south in the great war. His remarks were in excellent spirit, and while he did not cover the entire ground what he said was in teresting and convincing. He pre sented views that must have awaken ed the attention of his hearers for to them they must have been novel, however well known to southern men who lived before and in the war. He left thoughts with his northern friends to be considered at their leisure. Among these was the following: "Another point: In the convention of 1787 it was proposed to stop the African slave trade immediately upon the adoption of the constitution and the formation of the union but a sub stitute proposition was carried to ex tend the African slave trade for twenty years after the ratification of the con stitution; so that this slave trade was not forbidden and did not end until June, 1808. "By whose votes was this proposi tion carried to extend that horrid traf fic twenty years? My friends, it was by the votes of northern states. Only South Carolina and Georgia voted for it among the southern states. Dela ware, Maryland and Virginia voted against it; North Carolina was evenly divided and her vote wa3 blank. The votes that was necessary to carry it came from New England and the mid dle states. Glorious old Massachu setts alone, I believe, voted against it in New England. This wa3 a point of history which came to our minds and made us feel how unfair it was that we should be denounced as we were on account of African slavery." Professor Charles E. Norton, is a gifted professor in Harvard Univer sity. He is not much in love with American character. Whether it is the "Down Easter" or the "Western Hoosier" or the "infernal southerner" who moves his anger and evokes his contempt we know not Probably it is a general dislike of all sorts and conditions of Americans. He has said: "I feel, with Horace Walpole, that 'I should be proud of my country if it were not for my countrymen.' " Is he really so much better than his fellows? It would be interesting to know what his "countrymen" think of him. In the Richmond Dispatch there appeared some stanzas addressed to this conceited and superior mortal. It rebuked him properly, pointing to the recent deeds performed in the pres ent war. In the last stanza but one it is said: "Read how for conquered foes the vic tors mellow grim defeat How grand nobility did there with generous deeds compete; Let these courageous acts of rescue open to your ken, And, if you love your country, then you'll love your countrymen," STATE PBESS For the first time in the history of Haywood county there were negro delegates In the republican conven tion.. "There will be more negroes in office," said Congressman White. "They are being made to order." The white folks, who have been shutting their eyes to these facts, must help their white neighbors redeem the state from radicalism and negroism, or they will debase Anglo-Saxon civilization permanently.--Raeligh News and Ob server. The ignorant and vicious brute who in his degradation and deprav ity, stalking the highway in some lone and fated spot brutelike poun ces upon an innocent and unsuspect ing woman and accomplishes his crime, has the palliation of his brut al ignorance and savage nature to plead his mercy. But the man who under the guise professional duty, commits, a like crime deserves the halter for his deed, the rack for his brutality, the stake for his fiendish ness and at last the most intense tor tues of the fanatics most vividly pic tured fiery lake forever hereafter. And there are such men. If you know your man and likewise his guilt, the sooner you assist him to the en joyment of those infernal ecstacies the greater the duty you have dis charged. Elizabeth City News. It is of the utmost importance, in every point of view, that North Caro lina should be relieved of the incubus of misgovernment which fusion has put upon her. The reign of corrup tion, extravagance and incompetency which prevails is not only intolerable in its immediate results, but it affords a spectacle which cannot but have an evil effect upon the youth of the state. The case is one which rises above party politics; the peace and prosper ity of all the people and the good name and future well-being of the common wealth are involved in the contest of this year. There is no safety for our people, no hope for the future, apart from the success of the democratic party. Let us hope, therefore, that this party will be wise in its nomina tions and in all respects so demean itself during the campaign as to arouse the enthusiasm of its own vot ers and command the respect of its enemies. Charlotte Observer. MOUTH CAROLINA Charlotte's mortality for July was 41, of which 27 were negroes. Murphy Scout: A novel sight was seen on our streets last Friday after noon, says The Elijay Courier-Sentinel. It was a man who said he was from Asheville, N. C, and was moving- him self, wife and three children to Mariet ta. The man was working himself to a cart, pulling one of the children and what seemed to be their luggage. The woman and other children were walk ing. He had pulled the cart all the way from Asheville. Asheville Citizen: Criminal court proceedings were made interesting to day by the effort of Jesse R. Starnes to secure the release of ten negroes who had cases in court and who want ed to join the volunteer army. Mr. Starnes cleared five, and they will go to Fort Macon to join Captain Leath erwood's Maceo volunteers. The court agreed that the remainder of the pris oners could go if the costs could be arranged with the solicitor. Raleigh Times: Judge Clark was given forty days by the board of trus tees of Trinity college. This, however, is not the final decision of the "court." The judge intends to turn the tables and inflict the costs on the prosecution. Mr. Will Worlds, a young Raleigh boy is on the United States auxiliary cruiser Howard. A letter dated Santia go was received from him a few days since by an old acquaintance. Mr. Worlds witnessed the destruction of Cervera's squadron from a distance. Charlotte Observer: Yesterday morn ing as Officer Black went to put his pistol in his hip pocket, he dropped it. The hammer struck the floor, and the pistol was discharged, the ball enter ing Mr. Black's leg, passing through the flesh, and striking the bone. Saturday night as one of the melon venders from the country was coming up West Trade -street a crowd of pick aninnies held him up, surrounded the wagon and took every melon he had. The house of Mr. Wiley Clark, at Grouse's, Lincoln county, was destroy ed by fire Saturday night. The fire was discovered barely in time to save the occupants, Mr. Clark and three aged kinswomen, who are invalids. The contents of the house were burned. Parties in on the Air Line last even ing brought news of a killing which oc curred near King's Mountain yester day. A negro named Harrican Bla lock was shot and killed by Will Ware, a bar keeper. The ball took effect in the back of the negro's head. He died al most instantly. The shooting occurred before 12 o'clock. Mr. H. H. Win chester spent Sunday in Monroe. He was telling yesterday on his return of a serious affair which happened at Mr. Elias Stancil. an aged citizen of Union. Mr. Stancil was out in the field when he was attacked by an ox that belong ed to Mr. Frank Hana, a neighbor. The animal gored him in the stomach and head. Mr. Stancil is the granfather of Superintendent Stancil, of the convict camp. He is SO years old, and his re covery is not looked for. Mr. C. A. Kraus lives on Mr. Willis T. Wilkin son's place, near the city. Last week Mr. Kraus had some trouble with a negro who was working for him. They had some pretty hot words, and Mr. Kraus ordered the negro to leave. Sat urday night about 10 o'clock, as Mr. Kraus was sitting in his house near an open window two negroes came up to the window and threw rocks at him. During a severe storm which visit ed Lincolnton and surrounding coun try' Saturday afternoon, lightning got in its work at Mr. Thornberg's, who lives several miles from town. Mr. Thornberg, wife and child, were in the room. The child was sitting on its mother's lap. Mr. Thornberg was in the opposite part of the room. The pic tures were hung with wire. The light ning followed the wire and finally dug a hole in the wall. Mr. Thornberg an 1 the child were badly stunned. He re gained consciousness that afternoon: the child not until Sunday, but was not rational when last heard from that afternoon. Bueklen's Arnica "Falve. The best 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. 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