The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-11-10

JOHN REYNOLDS FALSEHOODS.
He Denies that He Said Let the D.
Negroes GO"
Correspondence of the sentinel.1

! Correspondence of the Sentinel
| GERMANToN, n. G., Nov. 2.-One
John Reynolds spoke here Monday,
the 31st, to a mixed crowd of both
colors composed largely of Republi-
| cans, and a few Democrats who lis
tened a while to his misrepresenta-
| tions and left.
| His first effort was to convince his
| cOlored hearers that he had been re-
ported falsely as saying when the col
ored brother bolted the Republican
! convention in Winston, 'Let the
| ID negroes go, we can do well
| enough without them" He said he
''had niver sed anySuch thing" but
begged the negroes to remain in the
| Republican fold and not disrupt the
party. Mr.. Fits, the colored candi-
date 1n:your county, said in a speech
at Rural Hall that Reynolds did say
LET the ID negroes 60" and
| many think Fits is as truthful as
John Reynolds. Now here is a jewel
| of consistency that may be reconciled
between the brothers of the G. o. p.
Among other things Reynolds said:
'"The Democrats might make respect
able sausage meat for the cannabals,
but were unfit for anything else"
''He appealed to the negroes and
told them that the Republicans found
them and that they ought to stand
firm to the old party. He asked them
what had. the Democrats ever done
for them. Nothing, absolutely
nothing. Now, in the name of every
one of the Gods at once, upon what
meat doth this, our Johnny, feed"
that he will not see what every intel
ligent man in North Carolina must
admit, that the Democrats have had
control of every branch of our State
government for 15 years, and negroes,
as well as white fellows like John
Reynolds, have enjoyed all the free
and prosperous times.
AS to the free schools, he said: ''The
men in those days who sent their
children to the old-time free schools,
were too poor tC send them any where
else and were considered as paupers.
This was, | think, blow at his
white hearers, for l am confident
there was not a man 40 years of age
who was under the sound of his voice
but who received the little education
he may have had from the free
| schools taught before the war This
| is sad reflection on his own intelli-
gence, for before the war North Caro-
| lina'S common school system was as
good or better than most of the
| States.
| He said: '"The heavens wept when
| Cleveland was nominated and the an
gels had to go back and tell what a
| sad thing had happened to this
| benighted world; and just wait until
| the 8th day of November if you wish
to hear the greatest howl that ever
went up you will hear it among the
Democrats"
Well, we might say to him in the
language of Shakespeare, ''If you
| have tears, prepare to shed them now,
Or wait until Nov. 8th.
''As for poor little Buxton, of
| Winston" he said, ''he hated to jump
| on such little man as he was, but if
he (Buxton) got in his way, he just
| had to go bright over him. He couldn't
| help it,"
| Our opinion about crawling over
| Buxton. niS that an inSurmountable
| difficulty would arise in the attempt
to get over such a little man as BuX-
ton, and as Mr.. Reynolds would take
a near cut and divide between his
| legs, Buxton would scarcely notice it
as much as the OK did the gnat on his
| horns.
In conclusion it appears to me that
| it was an effort to convince or keep
| the ignorance in him by glaring mis-
| representation throughout, but l am
reliably informed that his effort made
US of several good Democratic votes,
| or rather food for cannibals.
| Hon. John A. Barringer will speak
here next Saturday night, 9Th inst.