The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-06-30
MR.. OATES Is CONFIDENT.
lie Believes that Cleveland will be Elect
ed in November.
WhiteIaw Reid and His Rat Office
Tammany will Support the Ticket
"A Tiger Guarantees that Hill will
be Found enthusiastically Sup

Tammany will Support the Ticket
"A Tiger Guarantees that Hill will
be Found Enthusiastically Sup
porting the Ticket.
Special Correspondence of The Sentinel
WASHINGTON, June 27.-Great as
Mr. Harrison's egotism is, his mind
has been in a disturbed condition
ever since he knew that Mr.. Cleve-
land woold again be his opponent,
and the conferences he has held
with the members of the Republican
National Committee. which is today
in session here, have not had a ten
dency to add to his serenity. Th csc
men are practical politicians and as
such they fully realize the situation
and by some very plain talking they
have endeayored to open Mr.. Harri-
sons eyes to the dangers which con-
front him, and there are indications
that they have at least partially
succeeded.
GREAT UNANIMITY.
Nearly all of the Democratic Sen
ators and Representative who at
tended the convention have returned
to Washington, and, when one con-
siders how many of them left here
in favor of nominating some one
else, it Is really surprising to find
the unanimity of opinion which now
prevails among them regarding the
strength of the ticket and its cha n
ces to win. Some of them think the
fight will be harder than others do,
but they all think that with united
off
be elected, and the Democrat who
doubts that such ali effort will be
made is yet to be found. Represen-
tative Covert, Tammany member
of the House, says: ''The ticket will
receive the united support of the
New York Democrats; there are no
traitors IN Tammany Hail." An
other Tammany member says: II
have no authority to speak for Sena-
tor Hill, but | will stake my exist
ence that when the fight begins he
will be found in the thickest of it
working for the election of the tick
ct. His much caricatured motto 81
am Democrat is not sham"
Mr. Stevenson's nomination for
Vice President was most enthusiast
tically received by his very large
circle of personal friends in Wash
ington.
REGARDING wHITELAw REID.
Whitelaw Reid was one of the orig
inators of scheme to get something
for nothing, which has since become
more or less popular with newspaper
correspondents and others having a
pulp with the Congressional ap-
nnintipr n0uorc II vroo !, IL,
in 1865 that Mr.. Reid, while serving
as Washington correspondent, was
appointed Assistant Librarian of
Congress, at salary of 81 500 per
annum. Mr.. Reld was duly sworn in
and for quite a long period he drew
the salary, While a negro whom he
employed at $50 per month did the
work. Thus it will be seen that Mr..
Reid made an early beginning in the
thrift" which latter was the cause
of his making the N. Y. Tribune a
'rat" establishment, and OF his vio-
lating the alien contract labor law
by importing cheap foreign laborers
to do the stonework on his Ophir
Farm residence.
Speaking of Reid, he made hurried
trip to Washington as soon as he
learned that some of the Harrison
men were scheming to drive him from
the ticket, and as soon as be got
here he made bee line for the White
House, where he proceeded to read
the riot act to Mr.. Benjamin ii.
whom he accused of having instigat-
ed the anti Reid plot. He frightened
Mr.. Harrison, it is said, by claiming
that it was only his (Reifs) being on
the ticket that had prevented an
open revolt of the tricked Blaine wing
of the party, and threatening, unless
the scheme to ask him toretlre from
the ticket was at once squelched, to
lead rebellion against the office
holders nominee. Mr.. Harrison plead
ed ignorance of the whole thing,
Notwithstanding proofs presented
by Mr. Reid showing that it had
originated with men whose relations
with the White House are of the
closest and most confidential nature.
1t is good news to Democrats that
Reid will stick; he will throw thou
sounds of votes to Cleveland and
Stevenson, which they would not
otherwise get.
MR.. OATES CONFIDENT.
Representative Oates, of Alabama,
is not one of those who are in doubt
as to who would be elected if the
election of Presid EN- should be
thrown into the House. He said,
speaking of that possibility: ''In the
South the Third party may succeed
in wrestling South Carolina and pos
sibly North Carolina from the DEM
ocrats, and in the West that party
is strong in Kansas, Nebraska and
the Dakotas, and, if it abandons
some of it's visionary schemes, it may
draw enough votes in the silver
States to take those States out of
the Republican column. If neither
party controls a majority of the
electoral college, this House would
elect, which makes it certain, in my
mind, that Grover Cleveland will be
the next President of the United
States"
The investigation of the Pension
Office will not be completed until
next winter, but the committee will,
probably this week, present rep ,rt
to the House embodying it's findings
up to date, very dirty and disgrace
full findings they have been, too.