The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-04-03

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Gov. ELLIS AND
Mr. PooL.-In reply to a charge made by the
Greensboro Patriot that Gov Ellis has proved
recreant to the best interests OF the West" the
Standard says:
but rhen or ho,c has Gov Ellis "proved re-
creant to the best interests of the West?" west
ern man himself, having served the Western peo-
pie in the Legislature and in the Executive chair,
he is charged for the first time with recreancy to
his own section. The charge has no foundation iE
fact. All his votes in the Legislature and all his
acts as Governor give the lie to the charge. He
the fast friend of the n. G. Railroad which
goes by the door of the Patriot, and which has
contributed so much to improve Guilford and the
regions beyond, while John Pool was doing all he
could to thwart and cripple it. Largely through
his efforts, and efforts of the great State party
whose candidate he is, the mountain or the tunnel
division of the Western Extension has been placed
under contract; that tunnel which Gen. Dockery,
the Patriots candidate for Governor in 1856
promised to bore, and which he refused to bore in
1867, John Pool as a member of the Senate
standing by and saying, we'll done Dockery. We
have the proofs of this in the Journal, and will
produce them in due time. The truth is that
John W. Ellis, if he capable of such bad faith
Gen Dockery exhibited in the Senate in 1885,
could "prove recreant" to onehalf the great inter-
ests of Western Carolina, and then show more real
evidences of deSdton to that portion of the State
than j ohm Pool has ever shown or ever will show
The difference between Gen. Dockery, the Patriots
candidate in 1856, and Mr. Pool, the Patriots
didate in 1860, is about this: Gen Dockcry prom
ised and did not perform; Mr. Pool has never even
promised, far as Western interests are concern
ed. All Mr. Pools votes in the Legislature, as
far have been able to examine them, prove
that he acted in that body as if there no
Western interests. He voted against the tunnel,
which the Democratic party, with the aid Of Gov.
Ellis, are now engaged in boring; he also voted
against the Fayetteville Coalfeds Road; and then
dodgcd the vote tie revenue bill to raise money
to pay for improvements, and without the passage
of which the State would have been driven to re-
pudiation. He did this, too, without hesitation
and most ungratefully. Yes, most ungratefully;
Western Extension, yet Thomas and Coleman, Of
for the Abermare and Chesapeake Canal, meas
1859 he opposed every effort to obtain an appro-
priaton for the Fayetteville Coalficld Road, yet
Maj Gilmore, the Senator from Cumberland and
Harnett, voted, as Messrs Thomas and Coleman
had done at the previous session, for the Alder
marie and Chesapeake Canal. He also voted in
1867 against the bill to establish the new Coun-
ty of Allegheny; and not content with voting so
indifferent was he to the Western interests, that
he moved on one occasion to postpone the bill in
definitely And this is the champion Of Western
interests Gov Ellis has proved recreant to
tie West; but John Pool, who has never treated
the Western people with common justice, much less
generosity, is all at their friend and champion!