The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-09-05
In a recent interview Hon. Don

In Il recent interview Hon. Don
M. Dickinson, ex-Postmaster Gen
eral, said ''I notice that there are
many failures reported among the
woollen and cotton manufacturers
of New York and New England. I
see also that an extra session will, I
suppose, be called for the purpose of
stopping those commercial failures
by raising the tariff on woolIens
and cottons. The tariff is the Re-
publican Brown-Sequard elixir for
the ills of commercial life. New
England begins to feel the effects of
blood poisoning instead Of the new
vigor promised. Southern compe-
tition in the manufacture of cotton
will in three years make New Eng
land tariff reform section of the
country, if not a pronounced advo-
cate of free trade. The Democratic
platform of 1892 will be substan-
TALLY President Cleveland's special
message, because that message was
thoroughly Democratic.
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Let 'em scheme: A special from
Raleigh to the Richmond Times
says: at is reliably learned here
to-day that lengthy card will be
made public in a few days exposing
a scheme which has been entered
into by several prominent railroad
corporations in this State to defeat
the reelection Of Senator Vance in
1892" All the railroads in chris
tendon couldn't defeat Zeb. Vance.
Such talk, if not unfounded, is Ger
tainly silly.
There are seventeen contested
election cases awaiting the action of
the next Congress, all brought by
Republicans. OF this number three
are located in each of the States of
Virginia, West Virginia and Mis-
sissippi; two in Alabama and one
each in Indiana, South Carolina,
Maryland, Tennessee, Florida and
Arkansas. There were originally
nineteen cases, but two were with
drawn
Bob Inyersoll has been mistaken
for St. Peter by some unrestricted
immigrants; but Peter himself will
never make any such mistake. When
Bob knocks at the pearly gates, the
family resemblance, if there is one,
will avail him naught. Let him
hot fail, on any account, to provide
himself with the latest improved fire
xtinguisher. He cannot deceive
the good Peter.
If che who hesitates is lost"
somebody should be prepared to go
in search of president Harrison, Co
he still hesitates, and hesitates, as to
whether an extra session of Congress
shall be called. Some people do not
mind saying that it is fear and, not
hesitation that ails the President.
Perhaps it is and derhaps there will
be no extra session.
TX
Mr.. Frank Hatton has printed
fac-simile OF a letter written by Civil
Service Commissioner Roosevelt,
and he wants to know of the Com
missioner if the writer could pass
the examination for copyist. From
the looks of his writing Mr.. Roose-
welt must have taken lessons from
the late Horace Greeley.
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Here it is again! They had to
send to Florida for native of Vir-
ginia to fill the chair presidential of
the North Carolina Agricultural and
Mechanical College. Was there no
fit man in this State who could have
been induced to fill the place? Why
of course, there were dozens of
them
An esteemed correspondent writes
to the Washington Post from Car
thage, n. c., asking if the proposed
national flower will have to pass .
civil-service examination. This is
an important question which should
be carefully considered by the
friends of the several candidates for
this office.