Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-02-11
OUR ZEB ON HIS EAR.
.sA BARE-FACE, NAKED, BALD
HEADED LIE,''
Is What the North Carolina Senator
Says Of the Charge Against Him in
the Telephone Scandal.

Is What the North Carolina Senator
| Says of the Charge Against Him in
| the Telephone Scandal.
| Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON Feb. Sth.- Cos, ip was
| spiced last week with remnants of the
! telephone scandal. Senator Vance's
prompt denial, "a bareface, naked,
baldheaded lie" affored as much amuse-
ment as it gained sympathy. No one
doubted the Senator's virtue, but the
expression was too original to be for
gotten. The bearing the question of
tariff, silver coinage and civil service
have on general politics is surprising.
They constitute elements heretofore
unweighed in the political gossippers'
estimates. Bi-metallists, who have an
organized lobby here, labor under the
impression that the future of the .. S.
depends on silver coinage; tariff re
formers, ON reduction of the tariff
civil service reformers, on an ''air-
tight, fire proof, and indestructible'
Civil Service Law OF course, there
are contrary winds, and then squalls.
THE SENATE
struggled against ignorance. thought
to learn whether it or Grower Cleve-
land was President. The fact was
freely developed that the Z. S. Sena-
tor, as rule, is an ignoramus. Jnn
other country, would men be elected
to positions they cannot fill. Yet day
after day U. S. Senators rise and not
only confess their ignorance, but un-
blushingly ask time for enlightenment
The Senator who states that he doesn't t
know this or that, is fit subject for
the inquiry. "Well what do you
know The question naturally rises
whether these men were elected T."
learn how to be or to be Senators. Mr.
Evarts entertained the Senate, with .
shower Of his most characteristic sen
tences, Oh the Electoral Count Bill, i,
which WAS recoinrnti,-,! Tie D;i,ots
bill uHderwent discussion. i it:t..rs
OF the week Vi as !<idd.ebergor' uu!osy
Of Senator Ingalls,, whom he likened
unto wheelbarrow.
THE HOUSE
eulogized Vice President Hendricks.
Bills were again super-abundant Gen
Cox submitted bill to regulate the
terms Of the Raleigh q. S. Dist. Court,
and to change the lines between the
Eastern and Western District. A war
claim of William Chester was present
ed by Mr.. Skinner Mr. Cowles sought
a pen ZION for Jas. Madison Pruitt. Mr..
Bland succeeded in having q vote
taken on a skirmishing silver resolu-
ton, in spite of the combined opposi-
ton of Morrison, Randall and Hewitt
The most ridiculous feature of the
week was an attempt to investigate
the rumors springing from the tele-
phone scandal.
THE DEMOCRATIC SPLIT.
on the bill to increase widows PEN
tions. This was natural, considering
she stupendous taxation involved. Re
publicans were eager to expedite the
passage of the bill on almost any. argu-
ment; pensions are part of their stock
in trade. Democrats lacking brains
or merits sought to pacify their con-
stituents liberality towards pension
measures supplies deficiency Of intet-
lect. But there were number, cour-
agous and brainy, who dread to pro
test against this perpetual increase of
taxation. Among these viewing the
question apart from politics, were
Messrs. Cowles, Cox, Bennett, Reid.
johnson, Henderson, and Skinner.
There are
TWO SIDES no rr1r
The Republicans are using their side
to recover lost support; they want to
tell the ex-soldiers, the G. A. r., and
all other relics Of barbarity, how the
Democrats refused to multiply the
burdens Of the tax payer. This, and
much more! They want the country
at large to understand that four -ffths
of the voting population must, not on
ly obey the other fifth, but support it.
This is the platform on which the Re
publicans stand. The Democrats who
objects incurs the displeasure of one
fifth ofthe voting population his days
are numbered. Unless he has the
courage to vote without fear or favor.
as some have, the poor devil of tax.
payer is entirely forgotten.
NOT SATISFIED WITH PENSION.
the Republicans would like to trans.
fer the government to the hands of ex-
soldiers. They feel sure of their sup
port SO long as, with the aid of weak
kneed Democrats, they can grant, re-
adjust, ard increase pensions. Natur-
ally, the amendment to the Civil Serv-
Ice Law. opening the doors to ex sol
diers, will receive Republican support.
They want to reach such poor devils
as the doctor who holds a 81, 200
clerkship, draws a pension Of s24.G0
per month, and has practice valued
at $4,000 per annum. Certainly, they
can not reach the poor devil of a sol
dier who never did clerical work, and
who, in number OF cases, never knew
how to "read, write, and cipher The
Democrat who breathes against such
reckless measures, though they have
not even the merit of equality, breathes
treason
THE TERRITORY OF oKLAHoMA
means injustice It is as just as the
injustice the Senate would heap upon
the Sivux reservation in Dakota. In
spite of an area of more than nine
millions in square miles, the Indian is
still being driven towards the setting
SUM- The Chickasaws, Clloctows. and
others whose lands are involved, have
instructed their representatives to fight