The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-13
MANLY MARSLENDER
An Appeal to Third Party Men to Re
turn to Democracy.

IHE SENTINEL puDllSneS herewith
a letter to the Washington Gazette
from w. FL. Marslender, who has been
a Third party believer, but who was
/ manly enough when convinced that
he was wrong to come out and say so.
He deals in facts and not in generali-
| ties and all Third party men will do
well to think over them. He says:
find that the Republican party re-
pealed the tax on Incomes, Railroad
| Companies, National Banks, articles
| of luxury, etc, ETC., amounting to
over S105, 100000 yearly, relieving the
rich of their share of taxation and
burdening the poor by putting tar
| if tax on the basis of consumption
that the plain people need and must
use.
[ find that by high tariff they
| make trusts possible and encourage
| their formation.
| find North Carolina pays out to
| the Federal government including
| tariff, revenues and for protecting
| Northern manufactures over $14 900,
| 600 annually, i. e. over SIS per capita
| when North Carolina has only in Cir
| culation about Sc per capita Paying
| out more than we have, l do not won
| der we grow poorer while Rhode
| Island, for instance, rich manufac-
turing State, by sectional and class
| legislation, pays scarcely anything Ton
| the basis of consumption to the Fed
eral government and has per capita
circulation of over 1861 and grows
! icher.
| In 1860 when the Democrats had en-
| tire control of the government / find,
according to Senator Berry, that the
| expenses of the government were s.
per capita, in 1892 under Harrison the
the gross expenses will be $12 per
| capita.
| In 1860 when the Democrats. were in
power 80 per cent, of the money of the
| country was in circulation, now only
| 20 per cent. is in circulation and that
| is held almost entirely by the North
| ern protected manufacturing States.
| / find from 1850 to 1860 the value of
farms in the United States under 20
| per cent tariff and Democratic rule
| Increased 102 per cent or more than
| doubled and the farmers owned one
| half the wealth of the country. From
1880 to 1890 under a Republican tariff
| of AZ to 60 per cent the value of farms
| decreased and the farmer owned one
| sixth of the wealth of the country,
and that in 1892, 14,60O people owned
more of the country's wealth than
81, ,OOO 900 others did and this to be di-
| rectly traceable to a class legislation.
AS to our State government l find
that we pay about So, 600, 900 for Fed
eral pensions and only about $50, 900 to
our own disabled Confederate soldiers
and the windows of those who died
for US. | find that under an honest
| Democratic administration the scar
pet bag" State debt has been reduced
from about S32 per capita to some
thing over 81 per capita while it has
steadily lowered taxes.
| will not vote for the Third party
because | regard its principles as un-
sound. President Polk whom the AL
lance has apotheosized l do not be-
lieve would have endorsed the Omaha
platform as it now is. The course of
the Third party leaders in this State
has not merited my admiration or
commanded my respect and l repudi-
ate their duplicity and leave them in
disgust and contempt. | believe the
Third party to be the ally of the Re
publican. The prominent part taken
by negroes and old line Republicans
in the Third party State convention
and its action forces me to believe it
was dominated by Republican
spirit.
Even were this not so, Independent
action can only secure Republican
| aScendancy, as one hundred and fifty
votes of former Democrats in each
county will secure Republican victory
and Harrison electors with all the
miseries and vices of negroismi in its
train.
I will not be party to assist our
leaders in their lust for gain and
schemes of lf-aggrandisement by
imposing upon the ignorance and cred
ulty of our people.
| would not vote for Weaver because
he voted NO." in the 44th Congress to
) repeal military law in the South when
/ was disfranchised.
| III n nd hny Cfn 6nl or
ed to burden US with $500, 600, 900 extra
: pay for those who laid waste oul
fields, burned our homes and ravishe6
: our women.
: He took money from feeble ole
white men, robbed the helpless wO
:, men and fatherless children Will,
military governor of Pulaski, Tennes
see. He has been the most malignant
South hater and persistent enemy o
| our people and in his rabid utterance
against us in comparison would maxi
Infamous old ThaddeuS Stephen ap
pear our friend. His record ais
: shows he endorsed the Nationa
i [ Banks.
e / will vote the Democratic Stat
e ticket because the platform and can
i dldates of that party more truly reI
resent reform and Alliance principle
i than the hoodlum gang and visionar
h projects of the Third party.
e / will vote for Elias Carr because {
e think he is the first bona ffde farme
:, candidate for Governor in the histor
O of our State and is true exponent Q
t reform principles bearing aloft tn
!. peoples banner in the Democrat
n party.
ii I fought for North Carolina fou
Il years, and now my patriotism demand
+ that / stand by my State in the hou
n OF the most imminent peril. In N
i old age / am unwilling to vote to SUI
d render my children to negro suprem;
,e cy and to bind them more securely i
the fetters of misruleor to crush theI
| beneath the expressions of tariff tal
alton for fraudulent pensions.
will not vote for Harrison because
O. regard him as a weak, corrupt, part
o. san puppet in league with such Ill
I. ScrupulouS men as Raum, Elkin
\ Woods, Dudley and Wanamaker, an
70 because he represents the worst ell
n mentS of paternaliSm, nepotism, Gel
70 tralization and sectionalism.
n Twill vote the National Democrat
ticket because the period of that pa
n ty's rule is the history of our create,
70 prosperity, and because it has ev,
,S been the friend of the masses. TT
I. last Democratic Congress endeavort
II to give US free wool, free bagging, fir,
ii cotton ties, free binding twine and
10 limit the free importations of tt
rich, thereby saving the consumers
this country about $175, 100000 ann
ally, but the Republican Senate sa
is ssNo."
will vote for Grover Cleveland b