The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-04
THE ROW CONTINUES,
The Air is Full of elimination and
discrimination.

INSTRUMENTATION.
News and Observer, Feb. "a.
You were right" said a R. publ
can yesterday, when you said in the
N-ws and Observer that the spirit OF
Pritchard was here 1t is here, and
it is lowering about 10 every nook
and corner of politics.
at is not here to conciliate, not
even to consider, but to destroy, and
it means to tear down every man
and every move that has a thought
OF action not dire cted or endorsed by
this new Republican autocrat.
81 have been fighting hopeless
battles in the Republican party in
North Carolina for twenty-five
years. said another Republican,
sand from the way things look now,
that kind of a fight has got to be in
augurated again, but I've got all l
want of it, and when the time comes
to begin over again, this battle
against the waves of party strife and
the storms of the enemy, I am going
to quietly pull for the Shore and
let the old ship drift where it
pleases."
1.-The result is just as / expected it
would be-" said another Republican,
and a member of the General Assem-
bly,, ''whtn the Republican party,
with hundred and sixty thousand
voters, was forced TO surrender to
| ninet cen hungry ex Democrats, and
now here we are a party with both
the National and State administra-
ton, to our backs, absolutely held
| up by this little corterie of place
hunters, who haven't got voters
enough behind them to fill the
/ offices they are claiming"
''There is only one parallel to the
treatment that our Governor is re-
ceiving," said another prominent
Western Republican, land that was
| the treatment melted out TO Governor
Curtis II. Brogden in 1874 by the
Democratic Legislature. l was here
during that Legislature, and the
treatment of Russell now reminds me
of the treat ment by the Democrats
of Brogden then. 1t was disgusting
Democratic proceedings then; it is
disgra ceful Republican proceedings
now
"Yes, and | am sick and tired OF
it, remarked another Republican,
land | think the best thing the Leg
islature can do is to adjourn sine die
and go home and stay there"
1--WE will show his autocratic Ex-
cellency thing or two before he is
many days Older" said one of the
anti-Russellites He is a big man
down in Brunswick and a pretty
lively old fellow, but he is out -classed
when he insists In entering contests
with Pritchard, Gudger Lusk, Boyd
Ewart and other minority Populist
friends, and if we can head him off at
one end of the lane, we can at the
other"
These are some of the expressions
heard yesterday, and the air was f,ll
of others like them, and the row il
the camp is not abating. The Gov
ernor himself is reported as saying
that he would be pleased to be re-
lieved of any of the responsibility
attached to naming trustees anC
directors of the institutions, but thai
he would like for it to be done In {
respectable manner; but he is nc
clerk to be commanded or dictated
to, and that he is not built of sur
rendering material.
The boilers are doing all In theil
power to hold enough of themselves
and the other forces together and to
hold them together, leaving few o
the institutions in their grasp, but
even some of the boilers are getting
uneasy.
| 1t is a big fuss, but only such {
fuss as might be expected to result
from a lot of hungry officers, who's
only hope and purpose is to gobbl
up some loaves and fishes. In tn
great scramble to see who shall ge
them, there is an evident purpose t,
knock down and drag out anybod.
or anything that gets in the way.
1--WE are the masters of the situa
tion," said a boiling Pop, land W
are going to carve the pie our wa,
or not at all"