The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-30
Williams and Brewer.

NJ Brewer addressed alarge audience
in Browns Opera House Thursday
aft rnoon.
The Argument was opened by Mr.
Williams in patriotic, clear-eilt
speech that had the ring of Democrat
ic honesty in it.
He discussed the Mckinley bill and
showed its enormilies. Said that
even Gods sunlight was taxed by the
Republicans, for they had increased
the tariff on window lights. Showed
how the poor man was Disseminated
against because his shoes, hats and
tools were heavily taxed, while the
tax had been reduced on the luxuries
used.by the millionaires of the north.
He denounced the tobacco tax pro-
vision in unmeasured terms. He
| poured hot shot into his opponent
on this point. Said that Brewer had
been promising to help repeal the in
ternal revenue system, yet, when he
gets to Washington he votes for a
law which only reduces the tobacco
tax two cents a pound Ca provision
| which helps only the manufacturers
and at the same time adds to the
burdens of the farmers by requiring
every tobacco-growert to keep a record
of his sales for the inspection of every
revenue noser who demands to see it.
His handling of the money question
was good. He showed how the Re-
publicans had squandered the peo-
pies money in illegal pensions until
now there was a big deficiti instead of
a surplus. When Cleveland left the
white house there was a large.sum of
| money in the treasury but now it has
vanished.
The bayonet bill came in for it's
share of denunciation. He asked
Brewer why he voted to put federal
Dayonets over his people. He was
| willing to trust the people and be-
lieved the elections in North Carolina
were fair and honest. He said he be-
lieved in the people of North Carolina
and was willing to trust his cha noes
in their hands, But Brewer wanted
northern bayonets to help him.
He said lie was in hearty synpa thy
with the workingmen of this country.
He had followed the plough handles
| and knew what it WAS to earn his liv-
ing by the SWEET of his brow. Ii the
people elected him he would serve
them faithfully.
MIR. Brower's address WAS the most
peculiar harangue we ever heard. He
talked very fas and seemed excited,
His throat wouldn't go off properly
and his voice was hoarse and Strident.
His wits went wool-gathering. From
pillar to post he went, quoting from
the congressional record; repeating
strings. of fgIres in such a bewilder-
ing way that his hearers were not
aware of the point he was trying to
make, half the time.
The only two points that were per-.
fectly clear was that he charged Mr.
Williams with having hired Moore to-
run against him and with belonging
to the Farmers Alliance.
Mr.. Williams denied that he had
hired Moore and said he did not need
any help tc beat him (Brower.) As
to the Farmers Alliance, he was not
ashamed to acknowledge that he be-
longed to it. He was proud of. it
believed in it's principles-;nd
thought none the less Oft because it
had biack-balled Brewer.
Mr. Brewer referred to the charges
made by Mr. Bradfield and said that
Mr. Flood, of New York, had roomed
with him in respectable part of the
city and he had letter to that effect.
1t may be of interest to our readers
to know that Flood is the same kind
of a hair-pin as Brewer They are
cronies in Washington and if there's
any meanness going on they are usu-
ally both to be found into it, equally
deep.]
Mr.. Brewers defense of his vote on
the Mckinley bill and the Force bill
was shadowy. 1t was "talky talk"
He said there was no bayonets in the
Force bill. AT the same time he
says, himself, that if this bill were
law he could put Mr.. Williams in the
penitentiary He said the McKin-
lev bill actually had cheapened the
necessaries of life! Every hearer
knew this was false.
The discussion, we believe, did
good. The Republicans were not en-
thusiastic over Brewer, while the
Democrats went away believing that
Mr. Williams had presented argu-
ments sufficient to induce any fair,
patriotic man to vote the Democratic
ticket.
Winston Always Ahead.
Last week was one Of big shipments
of manufactured tobacco. From
Monday to Saturday the total
amount of stamps sold here was
$2O,476.O4.
During the same time the stamp
office in Danville sold 80, 1896 and
the Register, of that city, makes the
following note: Shipments of plug
and twist were small and will contin-
ne to grow smaller until the end of
the year when the tax reduction will
go into effect" -
Thus, while it is seen that other
markets are declining in the amount
of their shipping, Winston's manu-
facturers are steadily gaining.
In Respect TO M. w Norfeet
Whereas, In the dispensation of an
inscrutable Providence it has pleased
the all-wise Governor ofthe Universe,
to cut off by the hand of death our
| much esteemed and beloved fellow
member NJ. w. Norfieet, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That while we bow in
humble submission to the decree of
Him who "doeth all things well !"
yet we cannot but deplore the loss Of
one, who, in all the varied relations
of life was ever distinguished by an
integrity of character, purity of
heart, and exemplary Christian vir-
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