The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-12
OUR POLITICALLOAFER.

OUR POLITICAL LOAFER.
Things He Sees, Hears, and Reads that
Show the Drift Of Opinion.
The Statesville Landmsrk gives
Walter Clark a good send of in its
last issue.
Owl Sherman to Owl Blaine: "Ta
Whit, tu Whoo! Me too f'-Lyneh-
burg Virgi'aisn.
The Charlotte Democrat thinks Col.
Jno. Henderson would make a good
governor. and he would.
What the Hon. Bill Morrison
wants to know is why in the thunder
Cleveland didn't say SO before.-Er.
4
The report that the President s
Message was prematnrely discharged
is denied. But nobody as yet has de-
MED that it was loaded. Shelby aurora
Senator Vance, in spite of trepid-
alton and weakness, has resolved to
put his broad bottom on the civil SER
vice plank in the Democratic platform.
State Chronicle.
The Salisbury Press admires Lieut..
Governor Steadman and wants him to
sit down in Mr.. Scales chair. It calls
him the "beau ideal of the young
Democracy of North Carolina"
Lieut.. Governor Steadman thinks
that the Democratic State Convention
ought to be held early this year, that
the campaign will he an aggressive
one from the start. And in both
these opinions the Chronicle has heard
many leading Democrats concur
State Chronicle.
Judge Clark, some of our contem-
poraries seem to think, has the inside
track, at this writing, for the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nomination but
Lieut.. Gov Stedman is still OH his
legs and has record for long dis
tance running. If our own Gilmer
should enter the race some chain light
ming would have to be used by the
nag that beat him Greensboro Pa
triot
The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Times says: "Sena-
tor Ransom and representatives Hen
derson and Cowles, of North Carolina,
called on the President, and in the
course of their conversation intimated
that they could not support a bill
framed on the provisions of his mes
sage, as the people of their State were
unit on certain features of internal
revenue repeal, which sen timent they
were compelled to respect That is
right, keep it up. Do something tor
the people. You have been trying
hard and you will succeed.
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Pearson were
recently domiciled at the same hotel
in Paris. Mr.. Blaine telegraphed his
"views" about Mr.. Cleveland's mes.
sage. Mr.. Pearson writes his views
on the same subject, and grows red in
the face over the threatened reduction
of taxation. just keep cool gentle
men, Mr.. Cleveland and the Democ-
racy will take care of the working
men, will knock off some of the taxes
gathered by monopolists, and will cut
down and modify internal revenue
taxes and abuses as well.-AskeuiUe
Citizen.
Blaine's comments on Cleveland 8
message were most unfortunate for
the Maine statesman, as has been seen
in the replies from some powerful Re-
publican sources, among them the
Chicago IrtLxns. If Cleveland had
planned to entrap Blaine he could not
have been more successful in bringing
him to grief. The Caroline Sentinel
dresses off Mr.. Blaine in the following
pointed and appropriate style:
"'His angle rod made of sturdy oak.
His line cable which in storm ne'er broke
His hookhe baited with dragons tail,
And sat upon rock and bobbed for a whale.
"And caught Blaine and dispatched
him while pleading for protection
Who ever thought that Mr.. Cleveland
had as much fun and ticklishness in
his composition as that? Go up head
Grover! .
Any we'll informed man knows the
coming campaign will be a hard
fought battle especially in North Car
olina, and it behoovss the Democratic
party not only to organize, which
must be done, but we must have a
leader that will enthuse and inspire
the confidence of all the people; nc
one questions Judge Clark's ability
as such leader and standard bearer
for the great campaign of 1888. H.
can and will rally the old and the
young, all classes, from the mountain.
to the seashore, for he is a man of tn,
people, live, thorough going and will
make one of the most progressiv.
Governors that has ever stood at the
helm of this great commonwealth
| CORRESPONDENCE New Berne Journal.
The Real Test Of the Journalist.
The bureau of journalism in John.
Hopkins University is now in ful
blast, but the boys who graduate i.
this school will not be entirely famii
| lar with the wavs of journalism til