The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-04-19
REPORTER
ITS EDITOR REFUSES TO ANSWER
ssDEMOCRAT'S'' ARGUMENTS.

ITS EDITOR REFUSES TO ANSWER
stDEMOCRAT'S'' ARGUMENTS.
sfIf Telling the Truth on the Reporter
VIII Injure it, Then 1t Ought to Die. -
Either Admit or Deny Our Charges
Editor Danbury Reporter:
| DEAR REFoRMER:-In your last
you make statement which we can
not accept as the essence of truth.
You "notice us little to keep us
from thinking our articles are not seen
at all. We had about made UP our
mind that you had not seen them,
judging from the answers you made
to them. As yet you have not said a
word in answer to the points we made
in our first communication. Was your
refusal to do so intentional or an over
sight? We have called upon you
more than once to say whether our
charges were true or untrue. AS to
them, ycu remain silent as the grave
You twist, turn and dodge, but you
can't hide your sins against the Demo-
cratic party by muddying the water
in any such style. 1t is too apparent
to every one that you have acted in
bad faith towards your former politi-
cal associates and that the Reporter
has been fighting the party that gives
it support and existence. Because we
call you to account for such conduct,
you brand US as personal enemy,
when you say you don't even know
who ga Democrat" is. If you don't
know us-in the name of great Her
cules what have we said that savored
SO much of personal hatred, envy and
disposition to injure the Reporter?"
You surely do not understand the
meaning of ordinary English words.
But we are inclined to credit your in
telligence rather than your candor.
I our statements are unwarranted as
sumption and made for the purpose
of diverting the public mind from the
charges which welpreferred and which
you have never denied. Suppose (for
arguments sake) we were actuated by
i'll will in saying that your Democra-
cy was not orthodox and you shodld
no longer have fellowship with Demo
crats-that you were masquerading
as a Democrat and preaching Repub-
lican heresy-if those charges are true,
are you any the less deserving of CEN
sure?
| Our observation teaches US that the
hard pressed criminals are the ones
who always seek an acquittal by i'm
pugning the motives OF the prosecutor
So long as we prefer charges that you
dare not gainsay, you should have the
manliness to acknowledge your guilt
or offer some proof of your innocence,
instead of whining about the motives
which prompted our criticisms. Such
course would be more beftting a
child than a man who processes to run
a public journal and to teach the peo.
| pie politics and political economy
Your answers are the merest bosh and
poppycock. If we have told the
truth on you, confess it like man or
hold your peace If we have accused
you wrongfully, say so and strike is
sue with us.
"The public has no interest in ou1
personal matters" you say. True
enough, but you refuse to defend your
own articles on tariff and internal rev.
enue. You and the Republicans cal
the Reporter the "organ" of the Dem
ocratic party in Stokes. We have
been showing that this is not so.
If an "organ' at all, it must be O.
the Publican pawty." Were youl
gross assaults upon the Democratic
party personal matters ?" Was your
laying party responsibility at the
wrong door personal matter? Were
your absurd predictions as to the
course of the people at next election {
personal matter ?" Were your pro
Tossing to be Democrat and acting
the Republican private or persona
matter?" These were the points W.
made against you and you have ans
wered none of them.
You furthermore say you "can't i'm
agine what object we have in tryine
to iniure the Reporter, unless it be t.
build up ourselves by pulling yot
down" In reply to that we have thi
to say: If telling the truth on th'
Reporter will injure it, then it ough
to die. IF it cannot stand criticism
and the light of truth, it is unworth,
of public confidence or public patron
age. If the truth will pull you down
you must stand on a very unstable
foundation. But, for the life of us
we can't see how pulling you dow
would put us on much of "boom.
Can you imagine what object the Will
mington Star and Germanton Time
have in trying to injure the Reporter
Are they trying to pull you down
You assume too much in our case.
The Democratic party is a great or
ganization, and if you don't like ii
principles, it can very easily get alon
without you and the Reporter. Yo
> may put that little remark in you
, pipe and smoke on it till the cam
paign opens.
Now, "Brer Ephraim," there
nothing personal" in this letter. Sc
: if you can say something about you
, politics in your next. Dodging an
r evasion will do no longer. Either az
J. NIT or deny our charges. You mu
0 now stand to the rack, fodder or +
fodder. A DEMOCRAT.
April 18th, 49,.