The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-11-14
CONCERNING RADICALS.
We find the following ''squawks'

We find the following 'squawks"
in the last issue of the Mother Goose:
ct is to be hoped that when the
SENTINEL sturns on the light and
"speaks out in meeting" its editor will
discover to the pur-blind Chairman,
Conrad few of those radical heelers"
that Crowded the Court House" dur
ing the trial of the Boyer league case:
1t is plain that Conrad found several
Democrats, somewhere, and that the
"radical heelers" who crowded the
Court House" were not much in his
wayw
We suppose that this, "squawk"
number one, means that the Goose IL
in trouble because Chairman Conrad
selected more Democrats than Repub-
licans for the jury that was to have
tried the BoyerTeague case. If so
the only explanation necessary to be
made to the people who are unblinded
by party prejudice is to state, as we did
last week, that Chairman Conrad is
every inch an honest man who would
not recognize either the ties of party
or kinship in the discharge of his duty.
But for the information of the Goose
we will state that the law says that a
Juror shall have certain requirements.
He must Cd be free holder and %
he must prove good moral character.
AS Mr.. Conrad appointed SO few OF
them the natural infere nee is that very
few of the radical heelers who were in
| the court house were free-holders, or
that they had such bad characters that
they were unfit to sit on a jury.
You may take either solution to the
| problem you choose, but the facts as
stated by THE SENTINEL are still true.
That they we're there in large num-
beis was evident to every occupant of
the courthouse who had eyes or nose.
That they came there by request was
proved conclusively by the evidence
given in, notably that of old man Mar
shall, a Republican, who exposed the
whole game when he admitted under
oath that DIR. league requested him
and his friends to come in.
So much for the G7ose's first lamen-
tation. Now for the second. Here
it is:
When the SENTINEL shows how
the Boyer league case has "cost the
county large amount of money" let
it be remembered that jackson" Boy.
er is the man who started the racket
and that the suit is his, not the peo-
tle's. The Democratic party is not
the whole of the county of Forsyth"
| We are not booted and spurred, in
the field to defend Mr.. Boyer but if We
were he would need no defense. 1t is
true that he started this suit, just as
every citizen in this great common
wealth has right to start any suit if hi
feels aggrieved. The ri ht to have oul
causes tried is the great bulwark of oul
liberties. 1t is not he who wants cas-,
tried who is to blame but it is he wht
bv the shrewd manipulation of SHARP
lawyers has the case postponed iron
time to time and piles up heaps of cos
for the county to pay who deserves thu
''cussing." Mr.. Boyer started the sui
but Mr.. league is the man who ha
had it postponed and it is he who ha
probably put the county to the ex
pense of an extra term of court. III,
is the guilty one. Let the punishment
Ct the peoples displeasure rest wher'
it belongs. If he had had righteou
cause he should not have avoided tn,
day of trial.
Let the people take the case and lie
them remember when next they stant
at the ballot-box the radical trick
that have been played them ard tn
costs they will have to pay for keepin,
a radical officer in Office till it was to-
late for the legally elected Democrat
officer to run him from his berth.