The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-06-20
POLITICS AND PELF.
10. GALDWELL'S RESPECTS TO A
NEW APPOINTEE

10. GALDWELL'S RESPECTS TO A
NEW APPOINTEE
The Kind of a Collector ssReiiable,'
Eayss VIII Make. Democrats Should
be Pleased, Because He VIII Make
Republicanism Odious.
[Fs'ona the Statesvale landmark
Eaves is best known to fame as the
chairman of the Republican State Ex-
ecutive committee, and it was over his
name that the Reliable" literature
was issued from Republican headquar-
tiers last fall. Secret circulars were
sent to Republicans ali over the State,
designating them as "Reliables' and
urging them to prevent Republican
poll holders from attending the polls
in order to invalidate the election.
They were urged also to supervise the
election to see that no frauds were
perpetrated @ with the assurance
to them that Harrison wcnld be elect
ed and that the "Reliables' should be
provided for. They were in every
case to be men 'who were not afraid
of the devil" This circular abounded
ins suggestion of unlawful acts and was
altogether of such a character as be-
gat for the name of Eaves an odi-
BUSINESS which attaches to few names
within our borders. But these tactics
were as asinine as their author was
unscrupulous, for this circular fell at
once into Democratic hands and its
infammatory character inspired Dem
ocrats to such work that our majority
in the State was twice what it would
otherwise have been. That It's result
was exactly the opposite of that in
tended does not, however, relieve it of
any of its baseness and while the
Democrats may thank its author for
the time.iness of the help he gave
them, they regard him with none the
less aversion.
During the campaign Of last fall two
new railroads we're under construction
at Winston and numbers of negroes
focked there from South Carolina and
elsewhere. These offered to register
with the view of voting, but as many
as could be spotted We're denied regis
tration by Maj. John G. Young, the
Democratic registrar for the township.
Thereupon came a letter to Mai.
Young from the Republican State
headquarters, signed with the name Of
J. B. Eaves, informing him that Har-
rison would De elected and threaten
ing him with Albany peniitentiary.
Let us be fair about these state
NIGHTS: 1t is claimed for Eaves that
these outgivings were not his, but
were those of one Lynn, Northern
man whom Chairman Quay had sent
| to North Carolina to take charge of
the campaign, and tnat Eaves protest
ed against the employment Of such
methods, declaring that they would
not do in North Carolina Neverthe-
less, upon this showing he permitted
these circulars and letters to go forth
with his name to them and thus had
guilty knowledge indeed, loaned his
name, however unwillingly, to un-
scrupulous attempts to defeat the will
Of the people at the polls. If this de-
fence is we'll founded, it is shown that
he was facile tool and made craven
surrender to a man who had no right
to exercise any authority over him.
IF this is true he is not fit to be trust
ed with the collectorship of this dis
trict or with any other place of power
and responsibility. 1t is said again
that when these documents we're sent
out Eaves was at home in Rutherford
county and knew nothing about them
until after they were circulated; that
then he refused to repudiate them,
saying that he would assume the re-
sponsibility of them. This defence of
course destroys the other. and if offer
ed as an Improvement upon it as fail.
ure, for if he assumed the responsible
i.y the act became his quite as fully
as if he had performed it. If defence
No. l puts the case upon the proper
ground he is weak and Enthusiastically
if defence No. 2 puts it upon the prop
er ground. he is vicious and unscrupu-
lous and the defence need not be offer
ed, for the documents themselves un-
explained prove nothing more than
this, except, indeed, that their author
is also stupid. The reader can regard
the "Reliable" business just as he
chooses, but to our taste it is just the
same whether taken straight or with
explanations in it.
And this is the man who is to be
collector for the next four years We
haye very weh-defined ideas of what
sort of an administ. alton he will give
The office will be run according to the
laundering "Reliable" bulldozine
fashion, for politics and pelf Boot:
and spurs, brass knucks and Winches
ter rifles, swagger, bluster and inso
lence will be inaugurated and follow
the reign of peace which the dsstric
has enjoyed for the past four years
The hatred of the revenues" which
has so nearly died out of the hearts O
the people under benign admins
tration of the laws, will be famed
to flame, and the hectoring by which
it will be sought to over-awe the peo
pie vii, result in a Democratic tida
wave which will sweep over the west
like the waters of broken reservoir
down Pennsylvania valley. In thi:
view of the case the appointment o.
Eaves is cause for sincere congratula
tion among all Democrats, though
upon the score of personal comfort
that of Cooper was very much more
to have been desired Many a mis-
guided citizen Of the fifth district o1
North Carolina who last fall voted fol
d Harrison on the assurance that his
election meant good times" will in
/ eide of xoor contract (sroirf