The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-06
THAT TRICKY DoCKERY.
Now You See Him and Now You Don't.
Read His History.


In July, 1870, at Fayetteville, dur
ing the discussion there between Col.
Dockery and Col. Waddell, then op-
posing candidates for Congress in the
Cape Fear district, while Waddell
was speaking Col. Dockery rose and.
interrupting him, said in his biggest
voice and most bullying. brow-bea
ing manner: off the statement the
gentleman has just made is ever re-
peated / shall reply to it with mono
syllable" and thereupon resumed his
seat. It is said that had a pin fallen
it would have been heard, SO great
was the silence that ensued. Every
body saw the crisis What the result
would be no one could tell-perhaps
bloodshed, and no little of it. Wad-
dell was slender and youthful looking
and by no means a match physically
for the burly Dockery, but he would
have plenty of friends if he showed
fight. Wonld he do it? The result
will tell.
When Dockery sat down Waddell
rose and, addressing the crowd in his
softest tone. said, smiling as he did SO:
"Fellow citizens, you have heard what
Col. Dockery has just said, and you
know what it means. 1t means that
if repeat what / have said he will
denounce it as lie, and you know
what that means" Turning then to
Colonel ''Dockery, and approaching
him until he could almost touch him,
he repeated the statement word for
word, and then as it were, shaking his
finger in Dockery's very face, he
said "And now. Colone. Dockery,
what are ycu going to do about it -
To the surprise of every one Colonel
Dockery's reply was, still keeping his
seat, "Oh! pshaw, Wadde.l, 1 don't
want to have any personal difficulty
with you" And then such shout Of
laughter and derision went up as made
the very welkin ring. And no "mon.
osyllable" was uttered and no blood
was spilled.
During the same campaign, at the
pls ce for speaking near Lilesville, in
the county of Anson, Col. Dockery
stated that ewing to violent sicknes:
the night before he was physically un
able TO take part in the discussion and
he hoped that under the circurnstan
ces his opponent would decline
to speak. Col. Waddell, in re
ply, said he disliked to disappoint the
people, but as there was much in hi!
speech about Col. Dockery, and as hs
could not strike sick man, he woul5
not speak. The people, much dissat
isfied and displeased, insisted tina
Waddell should speak any way, bu
he absolutely refused to do so, ant
left the ground, and went to the house
of a friend, some three or four milel
off, to get his dinner. He had barrel,
gotten there, however, and been mad
comfortable, when messenger rod
up In post haste and announced tina
Dockery had suddenly recovered ant
was speaking away for dear life, max
ing all sorts of Misrepresentation
Waddell at once returned to the spea
king ground and, they do say, CAV
the burly Dockery scoring he woult
remember to his dying day if his hid
wasn't SO thick and his memory so bad
using more "monosyllables," polysyl
tables and all sorts of syllables, thar
were ever before heard to fall from th
lips of so soft spoken, mild hammered
slender built and christian a gentle
man in the same length of time. An
the valiant Dockery, like other lamb
generally, when led to the slaughter
opened not his mouth. This inciden
is related lest Judge Fowle also be ia
ken in by Dockery's cry of bein
"sick."
It is said the demagogue's healt
always breaks down before join
campaign comes to natural en'
Selah