The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-09-29
A DANGER SIGNAL SET UP !!
The Moses Who Led Us From the
Egypt Of Reconstruction TELLS Us
HOW TO REACH THE FRONT Ed LAND!

Our Beloved Leader From the Nebo
Heights of Honored Old Age Sees
the Danger of His People-Over
80 Years in the Wilderness and
Canaan Has Not yet Been Reached!
MY FELLOW CITIZENs.-For many
years past | have been in the habit OF
visiting you in person during impor-
tant campaigns and addressing you
upon the political issues of the time
Being on this occasion prevented this
privilege by the condition of my
health, and earnestly believing that
the questions to be decided by our
November elections are of vital i'm
pOrtance to the public welfare, l am
induced to contribute in this way my
share in the discussion of them.
| regard the situation as most crit
ical.
Since 1860 the legislation of our
country has been almost exclusively
within the power of one political par
ty. Naturally it has ceased to be gen
eral in it's beneffcence and has become
local and partial in the extreme. The
law-making power has become the
fearfully efficient implement of such
classes. corporations, cliques and COM
binatiOns as could by fair means or
foul obtain control of it. 1t has been
made to subserve purely personal ends.
In divers ways the taxing power of
the government has been perverted
from public to private purposes, money
is levied thereby to enrich manufac-
turers, to suppress rivalry in business,
and in every conceivable way to help
the favored few at the expense of the
many. The varied cOrruptIng lnf1u-
ences upon the business world ariS-
ing from this legislation produce their
natural effect. The classes whose bus
mess was thus favored flourish apace,
whilst the unfavored have experienced
in the midst of peace and plenty all
commonly felt only in times of public
calamity; and the extraordinary spec
tacle is presented of nation whose
aggregate wealth is rapidly and vastly
increasing, whilst the individual
wealth of its chief tOilerS and wealth.
producers is diminishing in proportion
thereto.
From the Republican party, with
it's disregard of the limitations of the
Constitution and its natural depend
ence for support upon the money of
the people whom it had enriched, all
of this corrupt legislation has pro-
ceeded. Without it there was moth
ing evil done that was done.
1t follows as an undeniable truth,
that whoever directly or Indirectly
upholds, helps or supports that party
is friend to the corruptiOns which it
has produced, and is an enemy to
those who would repeal that legisla-
tiOn and reform the abuses founded
upon it. There is no escape from
this.
The Democratic party, on the con-
trary, believes in the strict limita-
tions of the Constitution, and has, as
party, steadily opposed all abuse of
the taxing power, or any other power
of the general government for private
purposes, and has increasingly advo-
Gated the most absolute and perfect
equality of all citizens in the legisla-
tiOn of the country.
There is not single wrong or injuS
tice of which complaint is made in
our laws for thirty years past which
can justly be charged TO the Demo
cratic party. Not one. 1t has ever
been a break-water against the tyran-
nical tendencies of the Republicans;
and though in minority has been
able to prevent some of the worst leg
iSlatiOn eyer attempted and to modify
other laws which in their original iniq-
uity would have been intolerable.
This statement of the acts and pur-
poses of the two great political parties
cannot be truthfully denied.
Now what is the situation What
is the manifest duty of our people to
do in the coming elections
The two great political parties in
to which our people are mainly di-
vided are once more in the field with
their platforms of principles and
their candidates, State and Federal
thereon. The Republicans profess all
of their old doctrines from which
have come the evils of which the peo-
| pie complain; they glory in that abuse
| of the taxing power which has made
a few rich and millions poor, and
| seeking new fields of injustice and op-
preston, they openly declare their in
| tention to take from the State the
| right to control the election of theil
| own representatives, which is the
chief bulwark of their rights and
| liberties.
| The Democrats re-affirm their ad
herence to the Constitution, their op
position to tariff robbery, to banking
| monopoly and to corporate oppression
in all it's forms; and their desire tC
| leave the power to control elections
| where the Constitution left it, anC
| where it has resided for more thar
/ one hundred years. Primarily il
l
especially no Southern Democrat
could hesitate for single moment
as to which of these parties deserved
his support.
But new party has arisen which
is endeavoring to make the people be
lieve that the Democratic party is NJ
longer to be trusted. The argument
to prove this is travesty on common
sense: That because for thirty year.
they have as a party steadily opposed
all abuses and have not been able a.
any time to prevent or reform them
therefore. it is no longer worthy o.
the support of those who desire re
form. The meaning of this is, the
Democratic party has been guilty O
being in minority. Its sin consists
in not having done that which il
could not do! Then let it be condem
ned, whilst the Republican party
which has had the power and actual,
did all these things, and still has tn,
power to undo them and does not, il
acquitted. Nay, we will help it t,
keep in power by betrayihg and des
troying its only enemy.
Therefore, as the Democratic party
with its vast organization in ever,
State, county and township in tn,
United States, with it's control of on,
branch of Congress and comprising il
the popular vote large majority O