The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-18
PROOF POSITIVE

THURSDAY we referred, briefly, to
the statement made by the Union
Republican that THE SENTINEL, in
its report of the proceedings of the
last meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, distinctly states that Massrs.
Jones and Gray made speeches ad
vocating the Cook bill now before
the Legislature, etc.
We branded the Republican 3
statement a hare-faced lie, and lis
order that our readers may see how
thoroughly inexeusable and without
the shadow of foundation was this
lie, we reproduce here every syllable
that appeared 10 the report referred
to about the railroad and the lease !:
The lease of the North Carolina
Railroad was discussed by Messrs +
b Jones, E. E. Gray, R j. Reynolds,
A H. Eller, Frank Brown, II. +
Fries, G W. Hinshaw and others.
After a lengthy discussion the fol
lowing resolution, introduced by E
E Gray, was adopted:
CIV Whereas, we believe that the re
cent lease of the North Carolina Rail-
road to the Southern r ilrO d Com
pany is greatly detrimental TO the
best interests OF the State as whole
aud the General Assembly of North
Carolina now in session should do all
in rs power to annul said lease here =
tOfOre made.
ID. - Nv hn hn r
Commerce, Merchants and Traders
Union, Tobacco Board of Trade and
other citizens of the City of Winston,
in meeting assembled, that we do
hereby request and strongly urge
our representatives and all other
members of the General Assembly
co obtain and secure the enactment
of such law as will result in a can
tellation of said lease.
Resolved, further that a copy Of
tn Sc resolutions be transmitted to
our representatives in the General
Assembly at Raleigh.
On motion of r J Reynolds, a
committee of two was appointed to
wire our representatives iu the Leg
islafuTe the resolution adopted re-
garding the lease Of the North Caro-
lima road. R j Reynolds and f E
Gray were appointed.
The resolutions were telegraphed
to Raleigh today"
There it is, just as it appeared,
without any comment whatever-a
plain statement of the proceedings of
the three commercial bodies, as
gathered from the minute book of
the Secretary of the Chamber.
Read it carefully and see if you can
conceive upon any other hypothesis
than a deliberate, premeditated pur-
pose to perpeurate a base and ma
licious lie, how the Republican can
say that this report "distinctly
states that Messrs Jones and Gray
made speeches advocating the Cook
BILL" and that The SENTINEL dam
aged our town in it's attempt to pat
our representatives in a hole"
To the contrary, THE SENTINEL
was opposed to the feature OF the
Cook bill which sought to annul
charters looking to a Southern con-
nection for Winston-Salem and our
readers will remember that we
sounded the alarm in this matter
some days previous to the meeting
of cur commercial bodies. Moreover,
the action of the meeting, as ey-
pressed by the adoption of the reso-
lutions, by an over~ helming MAORI
ty, was in harmony with our views
upon>the lease question, and there
fore, there was no motive on our
part to misrepresent the proceedings
of the meeting, even if we had won
the distinction GU of d.. and had
been so debased as to be guilty of
such contemplate act.
The proceedings OF that meeting
we're not, however, in accord with the
views of Lieut.. Gov. Reynolds, q
etockholder OF the R publican, and
herein, we presume, is the milk in the
cocoanut-the basis for the concoc
ton of this miserable lie upon The
Sen rINEL.