The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-09-20
TOM REED In TRAINING.
WASHINGTON FRIENDS WANT
HIM TO BE PRESIDENT.
Good Reports Coming in to Democrat
ic Headquarters-Muc Inter-
est in Our Senatorial Contest.

ic Headquarters-Much Inter-
est in Our Senatorial Contest.
Correspondence of the Sentinel
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-Since the
big victory in Maine, the Tom Reed
Republicans here, have put them
selves in training for the fat places
under the Government. Reed has a
large following in Washington which
is not confined to men from his own
State. These men compose the most
jubilant crowd you ever saw. They
are devoted to the fortunes of the
jolly and cultured ex-speaker and be-
lieve firmly that he will be the next
President of the United States. They
are also claiming the next House of
Representatives. All this however,
is an empty claim.
At Democratic Headquarters the
talk is in very different strain. Re
ports received there are of an entirely
different nature especially from the
great West where the reduction of the
tariff is looked upon with especial IA
vor. There is also slow, steady, and
sure business revival all over the
country. There is also an increased
confidence in the integrity, ability and
sincerity of Grover CleYeland, three
attributes without which no man can
successfully stand for very many sue
cessive years before the people. The
people ultimately find out what "a
mans real character is and by this
they judge and reward him. Every
day adds to the popularity of Mr..
Cleveland. The people trust him.
They may not always agree with him
but they always know just where to
find him. He has never deceived
them. | venture to predict that when
this administration ceases to exist,
Grover Cleveland will be at the height
of his popularity.
1t is reported that Mr.. Theodore
Roosevelt contemplates resigning
from the Civil Service Commission to
accept the nomination of Mayor of
New York.
Much interest continues to be felt
here in the outcome of the Senatorial
fight in North Carolina. Yesterday
every Democrat | saw asked me what
L knew about it. | told them | could
not tell how the Legislature was GO
ing to vote but one thing | thought l
knew better than my alphabet and
that was: North Carolina will have
two Democratic Senators, one from
Ulc duii one lEOfu bIlc w CSU ana
that there was no dearth of Senate
rial timber in either section of our
grand old commonwealth" 1t is
reflection on the State to intimate she
has only two men who can represent
her in the u. S. Senate. Any intelli-
gent boy knows better than this, and
any patriot ought to be ashamed to
admit it.
The engineer of the Light House
Board tells me that it is more import
ant to haYe powerful fog horn at the
projected Diamond Shoals Light
House than light because no light
has yet been discovered which can
penetrate fog for any considerable
distance. He also tells me that the
idea now is to build light iron
structure kinstead of a solid stone
Onel similar to that which was wreck
ed. So far, the Light House Board
has found only a sand bottom for the
light house. They have bored in vain
for a rock bottom. The new iron light
house will be erected on sand in TWEEN
ty feet of water. 1t is natural to sup
pose that it will be quite shaky
home for the keeper and not very at
tractive place during the average
storm off Hatteras at night. In spite
of this, there are plenty OF applica-
tions on f.e for the position.
The President has designated Chds.
w. Dabney as Chairman of the Gov
ernment Board of the Cotton States
and international Exposition which
will be held in Atlanta in 1895. DIR.
Dabney is well known as the former
State chemist of North Carolina. He
is now hrst assistant secretary Of Ag-
riculture.
The Cotton States and Information
al Exposition bids fair to be of more
benefit to the South than any move
ment of recent years. Secretary Hoke
Smith is making especially strenuous
efforts to make the Government ex-
hibits as extensive and as Successful
as possible. Through the medium of
the Geological Survey, he will have
very fine showing made of the miner
al resources of al the Appalachian
region. TARHEEL.