Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1860-04-13
The Difference Between Gov. Ellis
and Mr.. Pool.

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In reply to a charge made by the
Greensborough Ratriot, that Gov. Ellis
has proved recreant to the best interests
Of the West" the Standard says:
But aoheaa or Aoao has Gov. Ellis ssprov-
ed recreant to the best interests of the
West A western man himself, having
served the western people In the Iegisla-
tnre and IN the Executive chair, he is
charged for the first time with recfeancy
to his own section. The charge has no
found fact Ali htta votes in.the
Legislature and all his acts as Governor
give the lie to the charge. He was the
fast friend of the N. @. Railroad which
goes by the door of the Patriot, and which
mas contributed so much to improve Gull
ford 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 tun-
mel division Of the Western Extension has
been placed under contract; that tunnel
which Gen. Dockery, the Patriots candi-
date 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 were capable of such bad faith as Gen.
Dockery exhibited in the Senate in 1856,
could prove recreant' tc one-half the
great interests of Western Carolina, and
then show more real evidences Of devotion
to that portfen OF the State than ] oln
Fool has ever shoWnxor ever will show
The difference between Gen. Dockery, the
Patriots candidate in 1856, and Mr. Pool,
the Patrlet's g candidate in 1860, is abont
this: Gen. Dockery promised and did not
perform !; Mr. Pool has never even promis-
ed, as far as Western interests are con
|cerned. All MIR. POOLS votes In the eg-
islature, as far as we have been able to
examine them, prove that he acted in that
body as If there were no Western inter-
ests. He voted against tae tunnel, which
the Democratic party, with the aid of Gov
Ellis, are now engaged In boring he also
voted against the Fay yetteyiIle Coalfields
Road and then dodged the vote on, the
revenue bill to raise lnoaey pay for inn
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which the State would nave }been driven
to reputation He did this too, without
hesitation and most ungratefuly. Yes
most ungratetully; tor IN 1867, though
he voted to defeat the Western Extension
yet Thomas and Coleman, OF the W est, af:
terwards voted for the appropriation fol
the Albermarie and Chesapeake Canal, a
measure to benefit his own constituents
and though i'll 1850 he opposed every
effort to obtain an appropriation for the
Fayetteville Coaltields Road, yet Mai Gil
n1ore, the Senator from Cumberland and
1arnett, voted as Messrs. Thomas and
Coleman had done at the previous session,
for the Albermarle and Chesapeake Canal.
lie also voted in 1867 against the bill
to establish the new County 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 indefinitely. And this is the champi-
on of Western interests Gov. Ellis has
'proved recreant" to the West; but John
Pool, who has never treated the Western
people with common justice, much less
generosity, is al at once their friend and
champion!