The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-29

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week and will publish number two
next week.
! POLITICAL srRAws.
1t is given out now that Col. Boyd,
Of this city, and of K. K. K. motor
iety will play second fiddle for D. L.
| Russell, on the Republican ticket for
Governor Greensboro Patriot.
| ly present for the second name on the
Presidential ticket Gov. Isaac Gray.
After a careful examination of the
whole field and conscientious cen.id
Grafton of all the elements that will
enter into the next gubernational cam
paign, we have come to the deliberate
conclusion that the man who, above
all others, stands out as the ftte.t to
receive the Democratic nomination for
Governor of North Carolina is the
present Lieutenant Governor, Major
Chas. M. Stedman.-Shel6y Neso Era
A gentleman of Lenoir county is
in receipt of letter fro m minister
Jarvis in which he says he is not a can
didate for the gubernarorial nomina.
ton.
News from Asheville is to the eff
feet that it is probable that General
Z. B. Vance will be the next Dem
ocrat candidate for Congress from
that district
DR.. R. L. Abernethy, President of
Rutherford College, esteems whiskey
and the Republican party in North
Carolina about on a par. He says
that party has not only sold itself to
the Liquor Dealers Association in
North Carolina but, that it has "gone
to the devil"
Rev. j. c. Price, President of the
bury n. c., is in favor eff the re-eiec-
ton Of Mr. Cleveland to the Presi-
denoy, notwithstanding he declined
the Presidents appointment to the
Liberian Mission.
The Lenoir Topic reports the Re
publicans as saying that they intend
to put Brer Liuney on their ticket as
elector for the state at large this year,
and after carrying the Legis-
lature, elect him to the United States
Senate to succeed Ransom
A Democrat" in the Wadesboro
Inteligencer dominates Col. Walter
L. Steele for Governor
The Wadesboro Messenger wants
Hon. r. T. Bennett nominated for
Governor.
1t is reported that a movement is
on foot in the Seventh District to Sc
cure the nomination of Sam Brad
shaw, Esq, of ASHORE, to succeed Mr..
Henderson in Congress.
Burke county fired the first politi-
cal gun of the campaign. 1t has al
ready held its Convention and elected |
delegates to the State and Congress
sionaI Conventions. They instru Ct
ed their delegates to vote for Hon. A. |
G. Avery for Supreme Court Judge.
The Raleigh Signal nominates ex-
Governor Brogden for Governor.
Shades of ye departed politicians, why
come We back to haunt our dreams
Not Brogden,-rather the :.
Mr.. T. Fl. Shoemaker, of Fall Greek
Church, was in Winston last week
and says the following ticket seems to
meet with the approval OF Yadkin
county Democrats For the House,
j. T.. Shugart; Register of Deeds, j.
D. Hamlin; Sheriff, Robert Lee
Poindexter; Congress, Jno. S. Hen
derson; Governor, Chas. M. Stead
man.
We are not nominating any one for
Congress in this district, nor do we in
tend to do so, but we do intend to say
this much, that although Mr.. G. B.
Watson will not be candidate before
the convention and does not seek the
office, that in our humble opinion,
there is no mau in the district of
whom he is not the peer in every re-
spect and the superior on the stump.
Few men possess in the same degree
the essential qualifications for success
where a joint canvass is to he made
with bold competitor in the field. IF
there is a Republican that can beat
Mr. Watson, it is useless to nominate
anyone else. ~ speaker must be
nominated man of magnetic force
and canvasser of ability. Now pick
him out from the list Let's have the
best.-Kernersrille Neaos.
Now word TO the Democrats of
North Carolina. Va CANNOT DIS
BAND. We have no choice. Power
is opportunity opportunity is duty.
When we accept the trust of the State;
when with uffaltering faith she put
her hopes in our heads, we went too
far to turn traitor and lay tnerl down
again. Where can she look but to US
We know what the failure of Demec
racy means. Plumber, misrule and
negro ascendancyl We have had a
taste of that. Rum demands our SONS;
negro rule takes our DAUGHTERS
{ draw not needlessly the color Line.
Haying Travelled through the North