The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-22
THE FINAL SLAP.
DEMOCRAT ANSWERS THE DAN
BURY REPORTER AGAIN.
s'If You are a Democrat in Thought
and Feeling, then You Should Talk
and Write Like One.'

s'If You are a Democrat in Thought
and Feeling, then You Should Talk
and Write Like One."
To the Editor Danbtuy Reporter =
Your last has been handed us and it
is our pleasure to give you an early
reply. Your answer is brief and not
to the point. In the outset, we charg-
ed that you had stepped outside of the
Democratic tracea That you have
never answered or denied. You have
studiously evaded that point and run
off on tangent of irrelevant matter
that had nothing to do with the charge
we preferred. AS your last shows a
disinclination to continue the discuss
ion and refusal to controvert our al
legations, our statements must be ac-
cepted as true. Therefore, we leave
the public to infer, without further
proof, what is your status in politics.
1t is not strange that you should
think our article ''too thin to merit a
reply" 1t would be difficult to write
any other sort on the subject we are
discussing. No man could take your
| politics and produce any thing but
thin" essays.
You fall into error-which seems to
be a habit with you-in supposiDg our
communications were not the off
spring of goodwill for the Democrat
ic party. but were born of personal
hatred" We deny the impution. 1t
was your hateful politics that brought
forth our criticisms. You claim the
"right to censure fraud and corrupt
ion in either party" We were exer-
cising the same right. Your course
was fraud" in the Democratic party
and we have been merely "censuring"
it. II some of our remarks seemed
personal" they were ELECTED by your
collateral tomfoolery.
| You are puzzled to know how we
saw your articles, being neither sub
scriber nor borrower of your paper.
We will enlighten you. We told you
expressly that we saw your pieces i'll
the Winston Republican and other
similar sheets. Your evasive answers
have been handed US by Democrats,
coupled with the request that we ''give
you HI" But we have chosen to
handle you charitably-in-as much as
you may very soon change your citi-
zenship to those dominions.
|. No, indeed, we were not actuated
by personal fatred" but by deeE
interest in the party's welfare. We
saw you drifting into the Republican
told and endeavoring to carry the
people with you.
| " e saw Republican papers invit
ing you and the people to come in
like the spider did the inspecting fly
To save you and those of your read.
ers who look to their county paper for
information and instruction from el-
tering the fatal net, we interposed our
"censure" with the hope of arresting
your course aad if that could not be
done, to warn the people against sham
Democracy. We desired to register
our protest against misguiding and
poisoning the minds of electors anc
| prejudicing them against party that
has always proved to be their best
friend. We think you have listened
toe much to Republican gush and
nonsense and have been misled there
by. The objection we raised was te
your putting the Democratic trade
mark on Republican ideas. Our
brand has grown popular and Repub
licaEs fnnst not use it on their shoddy
principles and cheap john practices
If you are a Democrat, in though
and feeling, you should talk and write
like one. 1t is enough to arouse th,
suspicion of all good Democrats to Sc,
the Republican newspapers, with fiat
terry and taay, leading you around b,
the nose and asking the voters of tn,
state to witness the performance. T.
stop such was the personal hatred
that caused us to "drop you fey
lines to let you know" the party wa
in no mood to tolerate any sucl
"thin" Democracy. If you are
Democrat, then show your faith b.
your works and preach Democrat
gospel to every creature.
IF you will earnestly repent of you
sins and renew your allegiance to th
bed rock principles of the Democrat
party, swearing the grand oil
Roman-eternal war on "our friend:
the enemy" we will condone your re
cent transgressions and let you g
your way rejoicing, provided you wi
sin no more. A DEMOCRAT
Dambury, N. c., March 10th.