The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-07-16
THE MADISON NEWS AND THE
POLITICAL. ISSUE

goes out OI us way u Ttdu LIE
SENTINEL lecture on it's alleged
lack of fealty to the Democratic
party, forsooth because the Sen
TINEL sees fit to announce in its
columns it's answering faith in
Grover Cleveland and it's wiling
ness tosupport him, should he be
| the candidate of the Democratic
party at the coming election for
the presidency of the United
States. THE SENTINEL thinks it
knows it's business and it will
continue to entertain such an
opinion, until it is convinced of
its error by some better aut hority
than it believes the Madison
News to be. THE SENTINEL is
not around hunting up endorse
ments of it's views on Grover
Cleveland, but if it was it could
find them among the ablest and
purest statesmen, among the
most patriotic and the best in
formed editors in our country,
and among the largest Lumber
of people that live in America.
Because the Madison News has
permitted itself to become con-
taminated and corrupted by the
teachings of such hypocritical
South haters and disorganizers as
Charles A. Dana of the New York
Sun it must not arrogate to its
self the privilege of complaining
of and criticising those who have
a better right to an different
| opinion.
Grover Cleveland has been n
sincere friend of the South, he has
not only proven it by his
words but he has proven it by
his works. He did more DUR
ing the term ofhis administration
to break down sectional lines
and weld this country into one
common Union than any other
man has since the remnant of
Lees ragged army were disban-
ded at Apomatocks court house.
His civil reform measure gave
offense to his party and made
for himself many an enemy, yet
he was but following out the lines
OF policy mapped out.byhis party
at Chicago and made a part of
their platform at the convention
at which he was nominated.
Civil service reform had long
been the battle cry and Grover
Cleveland won his fight with
those words imblazoned upon his
banner; he was honest and he
was truthful, and the promises
that he made his people were
self imposed duties that he had
the honor to discharge, if all the
world stood up against him. He
is the embodiment of honesty
and the very breath of patriot
ism. To say that he is the friend
of the money power and the
monopolists sounds as foolish
as it is false. Could the world
ask for more emphatic refuta-
ton than that uttered by him
in his message on the tariff ques-
ton in which he denounced it as
wilful and wicked robbery, un-
necessary and without the
shadow of an excuse for it,
when a different expression from
him land an expression that his
party would have endorsed
could no doubt have saved him
the presidency of, the United
States; but duty to his people
demanded somthing else and if
it had cost him a throne he would
not have hesitated about giving
it. 1t was the money power ON
one side and people on the other;
the money power won, Grover
Cleveland lost, and that money
power Immediately entrenchedit-
seffin a position inwhich it sought
to wiring billions from the people
and then squandering them away
that it might have a pretense for
collecting more. Two years after
this, this same money power
was defeated. Upon whose
principals and whose policies
was it driven out from the
places of profit and trust? Every
one knows that it was by follow
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