The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-16
THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN
It is Getting Hotter as the Weather
Grows Colder

The county canvass is getting in
teresting A SENTINEL man went to
the speaking at Oldtown Saturday
and found a crowd waiting to hear
the candidates.
About one O'Clock DR. league open
; ed the debate. He told hisside of the
sheriffs suit very prettily, but 1T
wouldn't go down, the people didn t
believe it. He said that SO subpoe-
mas were placed in his hands to serve
on railroad negroes and he acknowl-
edged that he served only twelve-the
balance of the men were out of the
county.
He tried to make a point that
Boyer was not ready to settle his
taxes on Sept. 1st. Mr.. Boyer fol-
lowed. He said that it was bad
crop year in 1889 aud if he had col
lected the taxes in time to settle on
Sept LIST he would have been obliged
to sell the property of many good
men who were unable to pay prompt
ly because their crops had failed. So
he waited on them and settled with
the county on Oct. LIST. Hesaid that
DR.. league did get a majority of the
votes cast, but they were illegal votes,
as was afterwards proved. He said
league was not ready for trial at the
February term of court-he hadn't
run down his voters. He was not
ready again in May and did not get
ready for trial until the second week
OF the fall term, when it was too late
to go into the case and so a special
term had to be called. He charged
that league tried to stave off the
case until his term should have ex-
PRED. He said that at the December
term, when league drew the jurors,
Kernersville. Oldtown, South Fork
and Winston, four of the biggest
townships in the county, were not
represented. Nine jurors were from
Clemmonsville and five were from Old
Richmond. Although every jury
drawn in the county for over 8 years
has been over two-thirds Democratic,
yet the jury that DR.. league drew
was two-thirds Republican. After
this jury was set aside the box was
brought into the courtroom and a
jury was drawn which was two-thirds
Democratic! He said he did not mean
to charge DR.. league with fraud, but
these were strange circumstances in
deed. The law says that no juror
shall serve oftener than once in two
years, yet on the jury which league
drew there was his book-keeper and
a man from Old Richmond, both of
whom had served within two years.
The judge saw that there was some
thing wrong with the jury and order
ed that a jury be drawn from the by
ISLANDERS.
He said he got a majority of the
legal votes and if the election had
been fair he would have beaten league
by $50 majority He said that on
the night after the election 65 negroes
who voted for league left on the train
and had never been back to Winston
since!
He says that if league beats him
fairly in the election he will submit,
as a law-abiding citizen, but if he
beats him by fraud he will law him
again.
On the rejoinder league claimed
that Judge Brown had ruled against
him every time and that he would fix
up the case for the Supreme court
even better than Boyer's lawyers
He denied that all the juries drawn
for 8 years had been Democratic.
Said that if it were so there must
have been some tinkering with the
jury-bOX. Said that, according to
the law, if a man paid his taxes the
preceding year his name could go into
the jury-box. He denied that his
jury was two-third Republican and
denied that there were no jurors from
Winston.
Boyer replied and repeated part of
the facts set forth in his first speech.
He and DR.. league both widely differ
as to the facts and the law. Boyer
said that some people blame him for
bringing the lawsuit, but if a man
were cheated out of a piece of land he
had right to trial by jury and SO if
he were cheated out of an office he
had the same right.
STAFFORD AND STANTON
Mr.. Hauser acknowledges that he
has been in office for sixteen years
and that he has made money out of
it, but he says he has worked for it.
Mr.. Stafford thinks that Mr.. Hauser
ought not to ask the people to make
him any richer. He says if he is
elected he will never try to hold the
office as long as Mr.. Hauser has had
it.
GRIFFITH AND LINvILLE.
Mr.. Linville says he hates to beat
such man as Griffith, but he can't
help it.
Mr.. Griffith says Mr.. Linville needn't
feel badly about that for he (Griffith)
will get between 100 and 1000 ma
jority. He says that Mr.. Linville
only comes to town once q month
but that when he is elected you can
always find him at the Alliance store
ready to serve the people and pay all
claims against the county. This
will be a great convenience to the
people.
Mr.. Griffith speaks for Mr.. P. A.
Cox, candidate for Register, who is
at home, sick. Mr.. Staunton makes
great promises about buying new
fixtures for the Registers office, fix
ing up new index at his own expense
&C., &c. But Mr.. Griffith says if the
people elect Mr.. Cox he will do the
business to the entire satisfaction of
the people. Mr.. Staunton' g promises
are chat, to catch voters
FULTON AND REYNOLDS.
John Reynolds opposes the county
government system. He says if the
Republicans had the Legislature no
Democrat could be registered (Listen,
DemocratsD Bames the Democratic
party for the new registration this
year. Says he is the man who pre-
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