The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-09-04

acduqudFCcfS anu on salary 10 ASSIST In
laws, goes to see the commits
siener of Internal revenue, who AS the
ear OF The president who has the pow
er to appoint The supervisor, and
through these ordinations Mr.. Webb
expected to get the office of census su-
pervisor, and Long wants the flavor
of a recognition" Cthat is, almost any
Office found lying around loose), and
for it. is willing to ssltisd n.y entire en-
Jaueuce" Gnfuence).
Does any man of even the most or
binary understanding believe that Mr..
Brewer, holding. his seat III congress by
the grace of this revenue ring" hav-
ing men like Woody deputy collector
in the paid employment of Inc govern
ment to keep him posted on the polit-
ical affairs OF his district, and standing
cheek by jowl with him in close politi-
cal utilization, thanking him" for past
fayors and seeking more at his hands
and inviting him "to write at any
time," is himelf honest in advocating
a repeal of the internal revenue laws
Are you surprised at his vote in
Congress to pass the Lodge election
bill to put the election machinery into
the hands of men who treat public
offices like chattels on the market, to
be bought and SOLD, and who would, if
they could, perpetuate their power
with armed soldiers at TIE polls?
Webb would make an excellent
election supervisor" put on good pay
with an army at Lis back, now
wouldn't he? And what is more, the
Revenue Ring" claiming to be the
Republican party, might put him
there, too. Republicans-you who ere
Republicans from principle and tot
pay-how can you prevent men ] :
Woody, Webb, Long and ali : ,
from gaining the ear of Republ ::
President The answer is easy. e
against Brewer, and put "Baldy'' Nil
liams, a Democrat, who is a.sJ an
honest man, in his place. Break the
link in this unholy chain by which
corrupt revenue officers reach the { IF
of Republican administration, n
Washington.
History tells us that the time was in
Rome when even the highest Offices
we're put up at auction ard sold to the
highest bidder, and Roman guards in
Quoted the purchaser into office. Not
many years thereafter Roman liberty
persisted. II the offices must be sold,
1 believe a public auction is rather
preferable to sneaking back-door
performance in secret. It has at least
the appearance of more fairness in the
sale. These men would divide up and
parcel out the offices of the govern
ment among themselves like William
the Conquero- did the estates of the
Saxon barons, after the battle of Hast
ings, among his soldiers, which re-
suited in the establishment of the feu-
dial system of land tenures that for
centuries was the most grinding and
oppressive slavery recorded III history,
hardly excepting the Jewish bondage
in Egypt, and traces of it can be found
in English laws to-day, after the lapse
of more than eight centuries. Mr..
Brewer, writing to Deputy Collector
Woody, speaks of w. R. Neal as your
William. Yes, Woody's Bill Neal,
Woody's Webb; my John, your Jack;
just like slave-owners thirty years ago
spoke of their slaves. Yes, white slaves
now, ready to take public office-a
trust created for the great and noble
purposes of government, to be prosti-
tuted at the bidding of a petty back
woods revenue officer. Republicans,
do you like the picture? Is it over
drawn?
A word to you, my colored Repub-
lican friends. I shall never cease to
remember with gratitude your votes
given to me on several occasions in the
past, and no longer ago than the last
election for high and responsible po-
sition; but you have ordered by sol
emn resolution in convention at Raj
eigh last week, composed of intelli
gent, educated, representative men of
your own race, that must leave the
party. You have resolved,
if correctly reported, that your race
alone is the Republican party in North
Carolina, and no white man, soihoM
1ny exception, can be trusted bv YOU.
You have by your action shown that
you have no higher conception of the
lightly and responsibility of American
than to get office, and that
lone but your race should have the
,fices. so far as you could fill them by
iour votes. A few days thereafter you
hook hands with the "Revenue Ring"
ind resolved with acclamation that the
Lodge election bill should be forced on
he people.
IF this suits you, then l know where
,ou stand as a race. l joined the Re
publican party, and cast my first vote
or it IN 1880 reconstruct the Union
N a basis allowing you all your polit-
cal rights equal to my own. and am
ontent still that you should have
hem. but am not willing for y,.u to
arter away with few revenue off
ers, my own liberty, rights ana priyi-
ages with yours. Mark my predic
ion: ii you follow that crowd under
our Lodge bill resolutions adopted in |
in Raleigh last week, you
Tiil soon find you selves like Mr..
Noody's official papers-"lost in the I
goods, They would barter you and !
our liberties away for their own polit-
cal gain with as little remorse of con-
cience afterward as the slave driving
peculator sold you and your ancestors
nd their wives and children as chat
els thirty years ago, and they would
at up your liberties as citizens as a
)utchman eats che ese.