The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-05-03
THIRD PARTY MOVE.

briefly, temperance and local option.
It favoring anything having a ten
dency to make men better, happier
and wiser, but we believe that these
are moral questions which should be
treated as such by the church and
school and not as a party policy. In
other words we believe the third
party movement is huge mistake.
Third party men themselves adj
NIT that they cannot hope for many
years to carry either the state or the
nation, if ever. 1t requires such
ripening of sentiment as will pro-
duce a radical change in our funda-
mental and constitutional law,
which is not the work of day or
a single generation.
Then, as no definite or immediate
results are possible it follows that no
immediate good can come from the
movement.
Not only this, it will produce
positive harm, in this way,-nearly
all the proselytes come from the
ranks of Democracy. They are
conscientious men who have been
deceived into installing shadow for
substance theory for facts, by the
false logic of the third party leaders.
These are the men who are captured,
and they come to very large extent
from Democratic ranks. They can
not proselyte Republicans, for they
are not usually the kind of men to
be reached by arguments apparent
ly based on reason and truth. They
are as a rule men of little intelli-
gence and virtue and therefore open
to no kind of argument, or spoil
seekers whose ends are best served
in the party of frauds.
Hence the men who are led into
the third party ranks are honest,
Conscientious Democrats. Now
this does harm. 1t is really
helping the Republicans, for every
vote cast for the prohibition ticket
by Democrat means Just one vote
for the Republicans.
We have read DIR. Abernathy's
articles in the Morganton Star with
great interest. DIR. Alternately is a
temperance man, but he sees the
danger lurking in the new party
move. We believe as DIR. Aber-
nathy does. The Democrats of
North Carolina cannot afford to vote
for a theory when it will result only
in Republican victory. In the word
of President Cleveland's message It's
a condition and not a theory
with which we are dealing. Dem
ocratic supremacy is necessary for
our States welfare. 1t is this party
that rescued our Southern land from
peril and it is to this party that we
must still look for security.
We have seen our State and
county treasures robbed by radical
rogues. Some of the eastern couH-
ties have seen negro officers domi-
neer over the white citizens and to-
day the State is called upon and re-
fuses to pay debt of nine millions
of dollars Especial tax bond which
was saddled upon her by the ras-
cally Republican officers just after
the war.
The law-abiding, honest citizens
of North Carolina can not afford
to risk anything this year. They
cannot afford to open the slightest
breach when Republican wolves are
bowling round the door. Their
welfare is at stake. Democracy
means honest government. Republi-
canism means corruption, favoritism
for the rich and oppression for the
poor. Therefore beware of the
third party move. Beware of the
specious sanctimonious arguments OF
its leaders and vote the straight
Democratic ticket. Therein lies
safety.