The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-09-19
FIFTH DISTRICT POLITICS
BRER BROWER, BRER goshen AND
ALL THE OTHER BRERS.

The Winston Correspondent of the New
York Times Writes up Our Friends the
Enemy a Little.-Tom Settle After
| Brewer.
From the Neu York Times.]
| The National Administration seems
fate'l to make unfortunate appoint
ments in this State. The selection OF
DIR. w. HI. Wheeler to be postmaster
at this place was a surprise to all the
people and intensifes the fight against
Congressman John NJ. Bro wer. Capt.
J. w. Goslin, editor of the Republican,
was an applicant, but Notwithstanding
his continuous services during the
past twenty years in behalf of the Re
publican party he was not able to
command the Endorsement of Mr..
Brewer.
Capt Goslin has been identified
with the Charles A. Reynolds wing OF
the Republican party in the Fifth
Congressional District. In the cam
paign of 1886 he supported Reynolds
for the nomination, and after Brewer
was nominated the Republican did not
support Brewer, who was, however,
elected. Reynolds, Goslin, and their
friends did not support Brewer last
year because he voted for the Mills
bill, SO that Brewer felt that he was
under no obligations to give Goslen
the Postmastership at this place. DR..
| Wheeler was not known as an appli-
cant. He was appointed solely on the
recommendation of Brewer. The ap-
pointment OF Goslin would have heal
ed the breach and secured the support
of the Republican. 1t would have
added much to the chances of Brewer
for denomination next year. Last
| year it was felt that Brewer deserved
denomination, because he had re-
deemed strong Democratic district.
He has now had an Endorsement by a
second term, and there will be siren
uous effort made next year to beat
him for third nomination. Brewer
is fond of saying that his vote for the
Mills bill secured his re election. The
appointment of Wheeler will split up
| Forsyth county so badly that the Re-
publican majority in the district will
be iped out.
The appointment of Jonathan D.
White as postmaster at Greensboro is
also well calculated to defeat Brewer
for denomination. Mrs. Settle, the
widow of Judge Thomas Settle, was
an applicant for this office and ought
to have been appointed. Her husband
was the idol of North Carolina Re-
publicans. He was the one leader
whom they all delighted to follow. He
died suddenly last November, of heart
disease, and left large and dependent
family. It was felt, as her indorse
ments will show, that Mrs Settle was
entitled to the place. and every prom
inent Republican, except Congress
man Brewer and Thomas B. Keogh,
of Greensboro, was heartily in her ia
vor, and we're surprised and disguised
that she should have the slightest op-
position.
The Keoghs and the Settles have
been at war for several years. Keogh
and James E. Boyd. who edit and
publish the North State, are now back
ing Congressman Brewer, although
Boyd did not vote for Brewer last
November. Having failed to have
Thomas N. Cooper appointed Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue for the Wes-
tern District, Boyd and Keogh are
now assaulting the Administration for
the appointment of John B. Eaves
as Collector through the influence of
DIR. John j. Mott, ex- Chairman of the
Republican State Committee and the
real leader and head of the John
Sherman contingent in this State.
Eaves is the kinsman of j. G.. Logan
Harris, of Raleigh, and he and Mott
secured the appointment of Eaves. In
return for this service number of the
friends aud relatives of Harris have
been appointed to Office by Eaves,
and DIR. Mott has secured the appoint
ment Of SO 1nany of his family by
Eaves that the North State keeps
standing at its masthead this question:
els public Office a family roost?" Brow
er opposed Eaves for Collector, and
Eaves has ignored the recommenda-
tions of Brewer.
Collector white, of the Raleigh dis
trict, was also opposed by Brewer, and
White has also ignored the recon-
mendations of Brewer. In conse-
quence of this the North State very
shrewdly takes the position that
Brewer is not only the embodiment of
opposition to the Internal Revenue,
but that he is opposed by the revenue
officers. Ifanything can force Brow
er's nomination and election next
year, this attitude before the people
will have that effect. Brower's rec
concentrations for all the larger and
more important places have been
turned down, and the administration
appears now to be trying to reconcile
him by wholesale appointments of
those whom he recommends for post
masters. 1t is not believed that Mrs.
Settle would have been left out in the
cold but for this bribing process of the
| administration.
But it is altogether probable that
Brewer will receive his coup de grace
next year at the hands of a Settle.
Young Thomas Settle is now Solicitor
of this judicial district. He lives in
Rockingham county, which formerly
gave 100 Democratic majority,
which has been reduced to 100. The
refusal to appoint his mother unties
the hands OF young Settle He is now
| a candidate for the Congressional