The weekly standard., 1869-09-22
Repudiation and the Democratic Party.

The Standard charges that the Democratic
party is in favor of reputation, whereupon the
Sentinel takes up the cue, and proceeds to defend
the Democratic party against the charge This
seems to US to be altogether unnecessary if it is
not in fact a work of suEererogation. But the
Sentinel says:
1.-THE Standard bases its charge of reputation
against the Democratic party, on what the Sails
bury Examiner has seen fit to set forth as its plat
form, without pretending to speak for the DEM
ocratic party"
The Sentinel is right. We do not pretend to
speak for the Democratic party, though we have
always been Democrat and expect to die one.
The editor of the Etanainer only is RESPONSE
BILE for the reputation platform" he "has seen
fit to set forth" He does not ask the Sentinel,
nor the Democratic party, nor the STANDARD,
nor the Radical party, nor any other paper, or
faction to endorse his platform. He is satisfied
with the endorsement he receives from the
laboring men, from the taxpayers, OF all shades
of political opinions, in middle and Western
North Carolina. These are the men he is pleas
ed and gratifed to know endorse him.
As for the so called spokesmen of the Demo.
cratic party the people care very little for their
peculiar opinions, as it respects. the great ab-
sorbng question of epudiation.-Salis6uy
Examiner.
The Sentinel contains long communica-
tion from the agent of the CORNELL series
of books which were rejected by the Board
of Education. A copy of the same was
handed to us to publish, but as Mr.. CONNER
waited until the other book agents were
gone before presenting his manifesto we de-
clined to publish it. If he was really anx-
ious to have the relative merits of the diff
ferents books fully discussed, he should at
least have given the gentlemen representing
other houses an opportunity to reply. As,
by waiting until they were gone, he did not
do this, we declined to open such one
sided controversy.
As to the action of the Board, we believe
it to have been the best that could have
been done under the circumstances. The
BARNES series, we understand, are in extern
sive use, and such a wholesale change as
is advocated by the Sentinel would have
brought heavy expense upon the people.
However as the Sentinel is bound to snarl
and yelp about something, it had just as
well yelp about school books as anything
else
We give the above from the Examiner
because of two things-frst, we wish to
show how shamelessly it advocates repudia-
ton, and secondly, how shamelessly it saps
at oLr revered neighbor of the Sentinel
We think-it grieves us to be obliged to
say so, but duty demands the sacrifice-we
think, that the sentence 1--WE have always
been Democrat" is intended as slap at
our illustrious friend of the Sentinel We
hope not, but it certainly looks very much
as if the Examiner thought somebody else
wasn't Democrat Of long standing.
We also demand of the Examiner an ex.
| PLANTATION of its singular declaration that
''the people care very little for the peculiar
opinions of the so-called spokesmen of the
Democratic party" Our neighbor is mod,
est, and will not rebuke this outrageous mu-
tiny himself, but we wish to see the Exam
iner explain this singular language Other
wise we shall think it don't "tote fair
And then it says the Democratic" party
doesn't favor repudiation, but that the
people do. This seems to be an admission
that none OF the people belong to the De-
mocracy. We have often thought so ourseli
but didn't expect the Examiner to 'fess
up" so soon.
We demand of the Examiner that it cx-
plain itself.