The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-01-09
A WHOLE BROADSIDE
OF ATTACK ON ALL THE REPUBLI
CAN BOSSES


Brewer, and All Get a Basting-The
Best Democratic Document of the
Season.
Editorial in WINSTON Republican Of J5en. p
Disagreeable as the admission is, i,
the face of the splendid Repub lean
triumph iii this section and Congress
ional district of a year ago, yet it is a
fact no observing man can now deny,
that if, at the Inauguration of the
present administration, a committee of
astute Democrats had been permitted
to prescribe a policy most beneficial
to their party and detrimental to con-
tinueG Republican success one to
most thoroughly digust. dishearten
and disorganize Republicans through
| out the 9th district, they coul not
have prescribed one more effective in
producing these results than the one
President Harrison and his admins
tration has pursued.
We do not believe these results dire
full as they are to party harmony ,have
been intended, for the general policy
of the administration on national
questions has been sound and salts
factory.
The administration has beeu badly
advised-nay more, imposed upon
and it is the object of this article, in
the line OF duty as a public journal,
that The Republican proposes to go to
the root of the matter, pointing out to
the administration and the people the
mistakes, to the end that they may be
corrected on the one hand, and the re
sponsibility for the evil fixed where it
rightfully belongs on the other.
The Republicans of this Congress
ional district have watched with pc
culiar interest the line Of policy
adopted by the administration towards
our people here, the great majority of
whom worked 50 faithfully and hard
to bring about the great triumph the
party won throughout the district.
| Above all other places in the State our
interest was intensified by the very
peculiar situation arising FROM the de
fection and treachery Of the Repre-
sentative in Congress, the Hon. John
NJ. Brewer, who, elected as Repub
lican, voted against his party on the
only political issue passed upon in the
5Oth Congress.
Whether this detection aud treach
cry was the result of Democratic pur
chase or bribery, as many of our peo
pie Indignantly maintained, it is not
now our province to discuss. 1t is
however, a fact we'll recognized that
his treachery was cautiously planned
ant consumated at a moment when il
became, if not impossible, at least un
advisable, for our people to measure
out the punishment he deserved.
| During the first few months after
the Inauguration of President Harri
son, and while his record was fresh il
the minds of the Republican leader'
at Washington, Brewer was very
properly ignored by the administra
tion. He had his candidates for U
| S. Marshal, for Collector of Interna
Revenue, U. S. District Attorney, anc
not single man anywhere for sin
gle position in the State wnom he re
commended and indorsed received an
appointment, outside fourth clas
postmastership or clerkship in tn,
railway mail service. On the con
trary in the case of the Assistant U
s. District Attorney for the Western
District of North Carolina, indorses
by Brewer, was not appointed unit
after he, Brewer, had withdrawn hi
Endorsement. He was almos. entireI,
ignored, and with him the small
group of political tricksters of thi
State, whose highest standard of pol
Itics is treachery. For years thes
political jackals haye joined iu poll
tics just as footpads take the road 70
plunder; and up to date they hav
truckled, bsrtered and betrayed, no
only those around them. but also eacl
other, and all without highe
thought than personal gaiu. Experi
ence has taught them the fact that
fiom a united and unanimous part
they Gan expect nothing, and so thei
constant effort is to rend the body poi
itic to pieces, in the hope of plunde
from the fragments. When Collecto
Eaves was appointed Brewer a.
nounced his intention to fihgt his col
firmation through the commissione
> he attacked his appointees; Il x
, Revenue Agents were turned loose
, raid the district, and in Surry count
alone, around Brower's own home, 2
, distilleries and hundreds of dollars {
property were reported destroyed b
these men in a single week, who ha
i for four yoars previously drawn thei
salaries under Mr.. Cleveland withou
even having discovered the territory
. Assessments against distillers who ha
, operated under surveys made an
> with storekeepers and gaugers az
b pointed by the government and kef
: in by the approval Of these Democrat
!, agents, follow next, amounting I
thousands Of dollars. As if enoug
had not already been done to disgu.
thp people with a system naturall
distasteful and hateful, an order il
e creasing the capacity to three gallor
' per bushel was promulgate
{ In tho mean time, the exigencies
: the country and the reforms pledge
y by the party demanded that Coz
/ gress be convened in extra sessiu
r and President Harriron decided
!. Issue the CALL 1t was now that IL
l occasion and the traitor again me
J. The Republican majority in the Houl