The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-06
GUTHRIE FOR CLEVELAND.
An Appeal to Third Party Men Which
Should be Needed.

An Appeal to Third Party Men Which
Should be Needed.
The recent open letter of VIM. A.
Guthrie, of Durham, is attracting
attention far beyond the borders of
North Carolina. Such papers as the
Atlanta Journal are commencing it's
teaching. 1t should be borne in mind
that Maj. Guthrie has formerly been a
Republican.
In the outset he places side by side
the plank of the Republican platform
of 1860 which maintained that the
rights of the States must be main
tanned especially the right to control
their domestic Institutions with the
plank in the Democratic platform of
1892, which condemns the policy of
Force bill.
He maintains that no substantial
distinction exists between these two
planks. In 1860 the Democratic party
sought to force slavery upon Kansas
policy. Now in 1892 the Republican
party, turning it's back upon it's for
mer policy, seeks to invade and vio-
late the rights of the States.
He voted with the Republicans in
1868, he says, ''as choice of evils be-
tween civil government and negro
suffrage, and military government
with no suffrage at all and just such
laws for our government as Gen
quarters at Charleston, S. c., might
see fit in his fancy to prescribe. 1
voted with the Republican party in
1868 to get rid of the military. Could
l consistently vote in 1892 for men
and measures to bring the military
back 20
eve have had enough reconstruc-
tion of the South for one generation
at least. |, for one,
believe today in the doctrine advoca-
ted by Mr.. Lincoln in o1S6O, even
though it be given the color of law,
that the 1awleSS invasion by armed
force of any State no matter under
what preteXt, is among the gravest of
crimes Believing as I do that all
other party differences pale into insig-
nificance when considered side by
side with this. and as the only hope of
giving effect to my sentiments on this
| 1868, / shall cast my vote in this cleo
tion for Mr.. Cleveland in preference
| to Mr.. Harrison"
In conclusion Maj. Guthrie says:
ga word to you, my Peoples party
| friends. A few weeks ago you tender
| ed to me, without my solicitation,
| your nomination for the highest judi
cial office in your gift. / thanked you
then, and I still feel and shall ever
| feel grateful to you for this manifes-
| tation of confidence, though / had to
| decline it. Since then the Republi-
can managers, who hold the Republic
| can party in North Carolina by the
| throat, have, as is reported and gen.
| orally believed, broken faith with you
and put up State ticket. The dan
| ger now confrontS you of turning over
our State government to men who ia
| vor the National Force bill with it's
attendant evils and the vote of North
Carolina might decide that contest.
Let me beseech you as patriots, re-
buke that spirit by your votes and let
| us stand together and maintain inviO-
late the rights of the States which
are essential to that balance of pow
er On which the perfection and endur-
ance of our political faith depends.
That balance of power, once subvert-
ed and destroyed, we may bid long
farewell to the constitutional Repub-
lie. We may expect too, in its stead
to be governed by orders from the
headquarters of a Military Chieftain
such as our eyes have seen in this
| Southland not very many years ago.
/ myself would prefer the very worst
system of civil government to the
best form of military despotism.