The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-09-05
HENDERSON, N. c., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER s. 1898

to the Populist Republican party. He
has been a appointment Democrat
and had he been able to get the office
he wanted he would be a Democra,
still. His change of front recalls the
tact which has been SO apparent in
North Carolina. that the strongest par
tlsans are the first to desert. When
Marion Butler was a Democrat hi:
paper was the bitterest foe the negro
ever had. When Buck Kitchen was a
Democrat he exhausted the invectives
of the English language in abusing the
Republicans and the Third Party
When Walter Henry made speech in
the last campaign he held up the very
people whom he has now joined as the
most arrant knaves and demagogues
ever known.-Wilson Aauaate.
So Mr.. w. R. Henry, of Henderson,
has gone into the Populist ranks and
will canvass for the Ocala fellows. II
they unite with the RAIDS, and canva IS
for the mastery in North Carolina we
think that Mr.. Henry would find that
his hot Democratic speeches Of last
year will be rather entangling
alliance. Those fierce and furious
Democratic speeches will never be at
peace with the efforts Of Populist flavor
and inspiration. 1t will be impossible
to reconcile the past and present, how
ever earnest and ingenious the plea.
Mr.. Henry has talents and it would be
better to "abide in the ship" rat her
than to take the leap into tempestuo us,
engulphing waters. We regret to see
his course, and because of his own in
terests. Stand by the old Democratic
ship and help win the harbor. Will
mington Messenger.
In this day of political fapdoodle-
ism, there is only moments surprise
when some knight, posing as the cham
pion of political party, suddenly spur S
from the side of the party to which he
has sworn allegiance, and crossing over
the field where he has laid low many
a political enemy, throws at the feet Of
his heretofore enemies, the manhood,
the courage and principles which have
sustained him in many battle against
these same enemies, whose cause he
now enters. The political flop of
Walter R. Henry, from Democracy to
populism is pitiful spectacle to his
every sincere friend. 1t is an exhi-
bition humilating and disgraceful. 1t
signifies that sordid spirit which must
have "spoils" regardless of honor or
principles. If every Democrat of the
Henry stamp would at once leave the
Democratic party, the party would be
infinitely better, it would know its
friends, and be prepared to fight open
foes and not become cankered by pre-
tended friends.-Southport Leader.
The Sun is not losing any sleep
over the pronunciamento of Walter r.
Henry, severe as it may appear, and
his departure from the Democratic
party. Men may come and men may
60, but the old party lives on just the
same. Just as good and just as able
men have left US before but it did not
kill the Democratic party. Back in
the early Sos Col. Patrick Henry
Winston, of illustrious North Carolina
memory, conceived the idea that the
government rested upon his shoulders
and that the Democratic party was
not fit place for him and with long
he bid us a lengthy
farewell. But the State did not turn
upside down. Patrick Henry is now
out West and his siren voice is no
longer heard upon the hustings in
North Carolina. His influence went
with him. We hope Mr.. Henry will
share better political fate, and while
he goes to work for the Popu-
lists in the eleventh hour, he will get
good, fine, large, fat office, and that
he will find no traitors, or treachery
among his new allies. Hope
he'll find them all perfect saints, ready
TO be translated to glory-and may
they 60 before they become messed up
in our earthly politics--Durham Sun.
F. A. Jinkins, Roxbury. Mass, writes: