The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-06

lOi IuC oCteCI GLASS VI WDtlcS W COHtTOl
the government. My opponent says
he is a farmer and never was a lawyer
Now 1 want to ask Col. Doekery If he
did not vote for Harvey Quick, a me-
gro lawyer of Rockingham, against
John w. Sneed, good white farmer.
I want to ask him If he did not vote
for Felix Jacobs, COL, for coroner,
against a one-legged white soldier. I
ask him if, in 1882, he did not vote
for N w. Harllee, a negro, against
A. w. Mcdonald, white, for Register
of Deeds. I ask him it they were not
the nominees of the Republican party.
I ask him if his antipathy to lawyers
only extends to white lawyers?
He says he is opposed to the present
system of county government. He
claims that we ought to have the right
to elect our county commissioners and
magistrates, etc. The present system
was the system of our fathers. [ ask
if any money has been lost to the
counties through the present system.
/ know of not one.
If the county governme mt is repeal
ed how will it be in Halifax and other
Eastern counties ? I was at More
head while the Teachers Assembly was
in session, and 1 never saw fuer
body of young people than those teach
ers in my life. AS I looked upon the
lovely young lady teachers from the
middle and western sections of the
State | thought: Happy are you West
ern girls, for If the present system Of
county government is repealed it will
not affect you, but your unfortunate
Eastern sisters will, in order TO teach,
becompelled to submit to an exam
ination by negro superintendent.
never force this upon the Eastern peo-
pie. (Cries of "No never never!')
The next thing will be to repeal ex-
isting town governments. They will
have negro mayors and negro police
men, and nothing pleases negro bet
ter than to lock white man up. They
would have each district to elect its
own Judge. Negro Judges would be
elected in the East, and under the
system of rotation you would have
negro Judges to preside over your
courts in Union county and all the
counties in the State.
Now one word as to our ticket. We
have nominated for president that
man of destiny, Grover Cleveland.
We elected him once ana We will
elect him again. For Vice-President
we have nominated Allen G. Thur
man, the "noblest Roman of them all"
and the Red Bandanna will wave in
triumph next November.
A distinguished southern Republi.
can says that while he was in Con-
gress Southern men were treated as
interiors by Northern Republicans
and for this reason he declined a re-
nomination for Congress. Blow
your-Horn Billy Smith was the man.
Since Cleveland's election you see
Southern men in the cabinet, in the
diplomatic service and on the Su-
preme Court bench. Ii Grover
Cleveland and Thurman are elected
you will see that the appeals to Sec
tionalisrn will disappear. As long as
the Republicans try to make a solid
South and solid North SO long you
will hnd bitterness and sectionalism
I long to see the time when Northern
men will feel at home among US, and
we can feel at home among them.
When the Republican party was
in power Colonel Waring was arrest
ed in Charlotte for criticising the
military authority. Under Republi-
can rule freedom of speech and free
dom of the press were unknown. Joe
Turner was arrested in the night, and
taken half dressed to Graham and
thrown into prison for criticising the
acts of Gov. Holden. The Democrats
have never imposed upon freedom o.
speech or the freedom of the press
but under Republican rule in thil
Safe the writ of habeas corpus wal
suspended. Mr.. Stanton, one of ths
nominees one of the nominees on the
ticket with Col. Dockery, voted fol
this act. War was declared on tn,
people. John Kerr, DIR. Rome and {
number of other good men were arrest
ed. A drum head court martial wa
appointed to try them. You mer
who were in the war know what |
court martial means. The court mar
tial was about to convene when Geo
w. Brooks, Republican Judge, is
sued the writ of habeas corpus ant
stopped the military proceedings. Al
though Geo. w. Brooks is dead,
shall always feel grateful to him fo
the act. I have been informed tina
he was so disguised with the injustic
practiced by the Republicans at tina
time that he said he would neve
| again voted the Republican ticket.
Now | ask you, on the 9th Of No
vember to unite, shoulder, to shoulde
elbow to elbow, and help roll up 40,
900 majority for Grover CLEVELAND
and Daniel g. Fowle.