The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-22

opinion and the editor of the Repub-
Iican and all other scaiiawags will lie
disappointed if they expect us to fall
in line with any sentiment that seeks
to condone the miserable political
combination whose slogan was,
anything to beat the Democrats"
even to ''fusing with the devil"
Before the election, against the
personal character of some OF the
Republican candidates and leaders
we had nothing to say, but against
their party we had much to say. Our
position is the same now.
Against some of the candidates
and leaders we wrote and now see no
reason for changing our opinion.
For instance:
We then said the editor of the Re-
publican deliberately INDUCED in
falsehoods and we proved it by his
own witnesses. That charge and
that testimony holds good today.
If the editor of that paper can
ease his conscience by contrasting
our position with that OF other Dem
ocrats he is perfectly welcomed to
do SO. We are frank to say, how
ever, we do not admire the course OF
any Democratic leader or editor, who
argued before the election that it
would prove disastrous to elect the
| fusion candidates and then after
| they have been elected seeks to show
that these same men are equal to
their predecessors and paints their
attachments in glowing co]ors, from
all of which it might be inferred that
no harm will result from their cleo
ton. Germane to this line of thought,
we copy the following, with our en-
dorsement, from a recent issue of the
Asheyille Citizen
eve observe that a wonderful
change has come over the spirit OF
| the dream of some of the Democratic
newspapers. The Mary Ann Butler
of ante election notoriety has become
by heaven alone knows what kind
of Transformation Mr.. Butler.
There are signs of his becoming the
Hon. Butler before the moon fades;
and that he may even become Col.
Butler before the ides of March seems
now to be a startling possibility.
AS we write there appears above
the editorial horizon this paragraph
| from our always esteemed cOntem-
| porary, the Charlotte Observer:
"Mr. Richmond Pearson, of the
ninth district. is patrician, a man
| of substance, a gentleman of educa-
| ton and travel. He is graduate oil
Princeton and was United States
consul at Liege, Belgium, under
| Grants presidency. He is an intel
lectual man and a strikingly engag-
| ing speaker. His manners will at
tract any one with whom he is in
contact and upon whom he cares to
make an impression, and he will en-.
terrain in Washington and do ii
right"
The Observer would not have
printed this paragraph before cleo
| ton; why should it do so afterward
| And if it were to attempt to tell WI at
manner of man the new representa-
tive is, why not tell the whole-6hs t
| no one in the ninth district has one
| particle OF confidence in him politi-
cally, that he is neither flesh. fish nor
| fowl, end SO on to the end of the
darkest chapter of all Buncombe
county's political history.
| The truth is the same now as before
November 6, and public documents,
| expected from Congress, can be dis.
pensed with for the sake of accuracy.
1t is beautiful, of course, to be on the
| side of the winners, but it is not
pretty to be shifting for the sake OF
conciliating an arrogant victor