The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-06-27


be. This organization has received
everything it asked for, and it has
not been at all backward in asking.
In no administers ion since Washing
ton has it welded the power it does
now. This seems a little queer when
it is remembered that the war ended
more than twenty five years ago.
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President Harrison IS anxious to
call an extra session Of Congress,
but hesitates to do so unless assured
that the new States will not follow
the example Of Montana and stray
over into the Democracy. That
would indeed be an unfortunate pre-
dicament fer the Administration
nine months after it started out I'M
der the most favorable auspices.
General Jubal Early, in his speech
at Winchester few days ago, de-
clared that the Confederate cause
was right, that the Union forces had
three to one in every fight with the
Confederates, that the Confederates
whipped the Union soldiers three
times out of four, and that he wasn't
bit sorry for anything he had ever
done.
When the official list is called the
next National Houseis likely to stand:
Republicans 1863; Democrats 1862.
The three new States will send five
members, which will increase the
aggregate membership of the House
to $50, and there will probably be
slight increase in the Republican
majority.
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America for Americans" is the
motto of the Patriotic Sons of Amer
lea, an organization that held its
thirteenth annual meeting in Wash
ington last week. They left disgust
ed with Harrison because he refused
to allow one of their badges to be
pinned on his coat when they visited
the White House.
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On our local page will be found
a charming Indian love story in
verse, written specially for THE
SENTINEL by George III. German,
ESQ.,, brother of the associate editor
of this paper. 1t is admirably
written, and is well worth your pc
rusal. Read it.
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Sergeant-at-Arms Cmady of the
u. S. Senate is feeling very dubious
about his reelection when the Senate
meets, He is. however. improving
each shining hour by button-holing
the Republican Senators.
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DR.. Cronin was Republican.
Who knows but that he may have
been removed by some Of his hun
CRY fellow partisans who feared that
he might set up claim to having
been Gan original Harrison man ?''
FIX
SO great is the pressure for office
on Superintendent Porter of the
Census Bureau that he has announ-
ced his purpose of seeing applicants
only on Mondays from 8 to u
o'clock.
Had Father Noah lived to read
the accounts of the Conemaugh
flood, he would have congratulated
himself that he had excluded all re-
porters from the ark.
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IF wages decline 10 to 80 per
cent. during Mr.. Harrison's first
term, what would happen to the
wage workers in his second term?
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Selling cheap and buying dear
never made any man rich !; and the
American farmer is the only person
who seems to think otherwise.
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The Irvine trust is so graspine
that it would not leave the North
western farmer enough cord to tic
up his mortgages.
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With the advance in the prices OF
sugar, it is we'll to remember how
much our teeth are injured by
sweets.
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The Henderson Gold Leafs offer
ed tor sale. Brother Manning con-
templates removing to another State.