The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-04-07
HOLT FOR GOVERNOR.
If THE SENTINEL


The time is rapidly approaching when
the people of North Carolina will be called
upon in convention to name the man who
is to be the chief executive of this Common
wealth for four years.
This is most important office and one
that the Democratic party should be very
careful in naming the man to fill.
There are many qualifications necessary
in the man who is to fill this important and
responsible office. He should be wise, dis
Greet, and, at the same time, faithful to ev-
cry duty, and energetic to advance the ma
terial interests of North Carolina, protect
her credit, maintain her integrity and keep
her fair name ''unspotted before the world"
This is largely business office, but at
the same time, one who fills it well must
needs have political sagacity as well as
craftsmanship SO as to guide well and safe
ly the ship of state in all seasons of adversi-
ty or peril.
There is no man in all this Common
wealth who today occupies to a greater ex-
tent the attention of the people of the State
in connection with this high and sacred
trust than his Excelleney, Thomas NJ
Holt, who now so satisfactorily fills the of
flee of Governor of North Carolina. Called
at a time least expected and suddenly away
from his private affairs, the emergency
brought about by an act of all-wise Provi-
dence, he has signally displayed those char
acteristics and qualifications necessary to
to the faithful discharge of the duties inn
posed upon him. 1t weuld be perhaps ex-
aggeration to say that he has made no mis-
takes, Cor to claim that would be to claim
infallibility, but it is safe to say that he has
made as few mistakes as any in the long line
| of his illustrious predecessors, and none of
any magnitude or importance
Governor Holt. ACCORDING to partv ISa oe
and precedents, is entitled to this nomina-
| ton and today is the choice of nine tenths
| of the Democratic party of North Carolina
When we say that he is entitled to it, we
mean this that it has been the custom of
the Party, and indeed of both parties when
| the Lieutenant Governor has been called to
| fill the executive chair by circumstances
| and under Constitutional mandate, and has
| filled it ably and acceptably, to accord to
| him the courtesy and the compliment of a
unanimous and a cordial nomination. This
was the case with the Republican party
when Gov. Caldwell succeeded the late Coy.
Holden
So it was with the Democratic party
when Gov. Jarvis succeeded Gov. Vance
upon the latter's elevation to the United
/ States Senate.
When 1t is conceded that Governor Holt
has filled this office with signal ability and
l
| point TO long years of party service, char
acterlzed by a record Of unswerviug devo-
tion TO duty and unfalteriug fidelity to the
| behests of his party when all this is conced-
| ed, it must nseds be, by all candid men,
| then we say that we feel warranted in
claiming that he is entitled to the nomi-
| nation for Governor at the hands of the
Democratic party.
Besides the injustice that world manifest
ly b. done him by failure to nominate,
the party might make a serious mistake by
nominating another who might perhaps
not so creditably fill the office. In him we
have wise and safe executive. 1t might
| be dangerous to the interests of the State
| and unwise in the extreme to substitute any
other for him whom we have tried and
whom we know. The old adage is. that it
| is unsafe "to swap horses while crossing the
| stream" and recourse to the wisdom OF
this adaSe may be useful to the Democratic
party of North Carolina in this critical
juncture of its affairs
| We belive that public sentiment is rapid
| ly crystalizing upon Gov. Holt. This is as
| it should be, for it is better and safer al
ways to hold on with tenacious grip to those
| we know have proven true than to enter the
treacherous sea Of untried experiment.
Let there be but one sentiment in the
| Democratic ranks and that is that we shall
| do the best for the interests of the Demo
cratic party and to this end let all 9th er con
| slider ations be subordinated. We know
f, that We can make no mistake in nominal
ing Cover Holt and let us do it with hear
ty and cordial unanimity.
A DEMOCRAT.