The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-09-27
OLIVER H. D0CKERY.
SUNKEN TO THE VERY
DEPTHS.
Something About the Man Who VIII
Never be Governor of North Car
olina.
LCol. VIM. L. Saunders. |

1t has long been the boast in our
Southern land that we did not fear
men or SANDER women that with us
wOman'S fair fame was a sacred
thing. But what shall we say to see
man born upon our own soil, as was
his father before him, having enjoyed
all the educational and social advan-
tages that wealth and high social po-
sitlon could give him, bred TO the bar
and for time a practitioner there, a
prominent member of the Old Line
Wing party, embracing as it did SO
many men Of the highest rank in
tellectually, morally, and in every
other way, prominent representative
Of that party in the Legislature, and,
in a word, for near forty years con-
nected in every way with the best peo-
pie in the State what shall be thought,
we say, when from the lips of such a
man is heard vile slander of an hon
est, respectable woman?
1t is a shameful case indeed; but
We must make up our minds what to
say about it, for it is just the case now
before US, as Oliver H. DoCkery, Rad
iCal candidate for Governor, Is the
slanderer and Mrs. Cleveland, wife OF
the President of the United States, is
the slandered woman. 1t matters not,
however, whether the slandered woman
be the wife of the President or the
wife Of the humblest citizen in the
land, provided only she is honest and
reputable, and this no man who knows
her, of whatever political creed, will
deny Mrs, Cleveland to be.
But to the slander.
Colonel Oliver H. Dockerv, Radi-
cal candidate for Governor, in his
public speeches charges that Mrs.
Cleveland, reputable white woman:
SO far deDases and degrades herself as
to kiss negro wenches.' - Now be
it known, lest it be supposed other
wise, that Dockery is white man, q
Southern -Dorn white man, borr
North CarOllnlan, we are especially
ashamed to say, who understands full
ly the vile reproach involved in tht
charge to which he thus gives the sane
| ton of his name. No man better thar
this same DoCkcry understands tht
odium and lnfamy involved in tn,
statement for which he has thus be
come sponsor and to which he thu
| gives currency, 'tO-wit: that a reputa
bic white woman is given to kissing
negro wenChes, charge that, if true
would shut in her face every respecta
bic white door in the State. We sa,
Colonel DoCkery understands fully th
force Of the vile calumny he is circu
lating, for in his own antipathy to ne
groes he went SO far when in the Leg
isIature as to favor driving every fire.
negro from the State, or forcing hin
to become a slave. No negro, h
thought, was fit for anything but sla
very.
What, then, shall we say about it
For one, we say he ought to be dis
owned by every white man, woman
and child in North Carolina, and
like Stanton and the writer's and othe
signers Of the horrible Legislative Ad
dress, consigned to everlasting in
fanny. With such men he has mad
his bed, and upon it he must lie.
But what a warning all this ough
to be to any one thinking about join
ing the Radical party! If Dockery
with all nis social, educational an
other advantages, be brought to tn
low, dirty level by his association wit
his negro and other Radical allie:
what can other men hope for? If
man with Dockery's antecedents
brought to open SANDER of an hone:
woman, what may be expected of an
other man who goes into the RadiCs
ranks? Can any man touch pitc
and not be dehled? Can any ma
become a Radical and not be dirty
Alas, poor dirty Dockery; how yo
have fallen from your former high e:
tate!
And this is the man who is parac
ing himself before the farmers Of ii
State as a farmer of farmers and the
special champion and friend! VII;
say you, We white men, farmers {
North Carolina; will you own him
We think not.
And this is the man who is goin
about over the State asking whit
men to make him their Governo
their chief magistrate! What Sc
you, We white voters of North Car
:; lima, who have wives or daughters
sisters or mothers; will you vote f
him? In Gods name. no, say We.
If the wife of the chief magistra
of this great country cannct esca]
the Shiny dripping from uncfean Ii
what woman in all the land is saf
| And Colonel Dockery says MI
: Cleveland kisses negro wenches. Wi
all the vile words imply! Think