The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-05-10
THE FOWLE AFFAIR.
The StatesvilIe Landm ark's Article
and Judge FoyvIe's Reply.
From the .StatesoilIe Landmark.

IDC6lS, OF HGVST dShcu dU
1. IF Judge Fowle is the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor will not
the report of the Fraud Commission
be drawn on us in the campaign And
will not that report show that he re-
ceived $4,000 of the same kind Of
State bonds and in the same transac-
ton in which Judge Watts was brib-
ed And will it not be further shown
that Judge Fowle afterwards offered
to give up those bonds to the State
thus showing his guilt and guilty
knowledge ? And will not these rev
Citations make every honest Democrat
hang his head in shame and feel that
he is not much better than Republi-
can?
2 Will not that splendid oration,
which Judge Fowle always delivers at
ebrations, on memorial days, on the
4th of July, and every stump in a
campaign, become little threaubare
in being repeated i'll every county in
the State? And will it be complete
and satisfactory answer TO the report
of the fraud Commission, and also to
the position of the Republican party
on all the issues of the campaign, in
Guiding the "Siege ofLucknow
3. Had we not better pominate a
man with clean record, like Judge
Gilmer, for instance, for whom we
would not be called on to blush, and
who, unlike "One Speech Hamilton"
could discuss the issues as they arise
4. Has not Judge Fowle, whilst
sulking in his tent, as he has been ac-
customed to do after every nominal
ing convention, negotiated with the
enemy and offered to take Phillips
gold? And have they not his letters
showing this =? They say they have
and can produce them.
| hope, Mr.. Editor, that you will
publish these questions, and that eve
ry Democratic paper in the State will
copy them, so that they may be an
swered before it is too late for the
Democratic party. DEMecRAT.
[Under ordinary circumstances we
would not print the above, but the
source from which it proceeds gives it
a dignity above the ordinary run of
anonymous communications EDI-
TOR LANDMARK.
JUDGE FoWLEs REPLY.
From the Raleigh Nc,os- O5serrcr.
MY attention has just been called to
an article signed Democrat" in the
Statesville Landmark which demands
reply at my hands The writer in
quires 'If Judge Fowle is the Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor will not
the report Of the Fraud Commission
be drawn on us in the campaign, and
will not that report show that he re-
ceived $4,000 Of the same kind Of
State bonds and in the same transac-
ton in which Juge Watts was bribed /;
and will it not be further shawn that
Judge Fowle afterwards offered to
give mp those bonds to the State, thus
showing his guilt and his guilty
knowledge? E? And will not these reve-
lations make every honest Democrat
hide his head in shame and feel that
he is not much better than Repub.
| Ecan ?"
I am frank to say, that if had
anything to do with bribing or at
tempting to bribe Judge in 1869 Of
at any other time it would be Grim
inal in the Democratic party to place
its standard in my hands.
But any such intimation is false
hood, and without the slightest foun
dation in fact.
| did return the bonds received by
me for legal services in 1869 to thc
railroad company for whose benefi
they were issued-because after they
were paid to me, / received informa
ton which in my opinion made suci
action proper in my part-but 1t i
absolutely false that at the TIME thu
bonds were paid to me [ had any in
timation that Judge had been i'm
properly approached or had any sus
picion that such was fact.
AS to my sulking in my tent afte
every nominating convention, | vii
appeal to the good people of Nortl
Carolina who heard me in the cam
paign in 1876, in 1880 in behalf 0
my successful competitor, Hon. /. }
Jarvis, in 1884 and at other times.
AS to the charge hat after ever.
nominating convention or at any 9th
er time l had negotiated with the Re
publican party or that there were an
of my letters to show this, | woul
simply say that it is absolutely false
and / defy the author or any othe
man, be he Republican or Democrat
to produce any such letter and pub
lish it.
Information has come to me fror
/ time to time that in maLy parts of tn
t State slanderous charges like thes
: have been Systematically circulate
t against me for the purpose of preven
| ing my nomination, but it has bee
! done in such a manner as to prever
: any public reply.
This communication has given II
the opportunity of declaring their u
/ ter falsehood.
e Considering the fact that SO consi'
1 cradle number of the people of Il
3 State have seen fit to honor me wit
: their support and of my unsweryir
: devotion to Democratic principl
: for so many years, l call upon tt
4 Statesyille Landmark to publish tt
o name of the author so that the pc
pie may see whence came this attac
!. DANIEL G. FowLE.