Ridicule and broad assertions rather
than argument based upon facts and
reason are his political stock in trade.
Henry Watterson draws the follow
ing comparison in his paper, the
Courier-Journal:
Grover Cleveland stands on fair,
fighting ground of the people's choos
ing. Benjamin Harrison stands on an
island, detached from all popular be
longings and interests, washed by the
waters of partisan corruption, fortified
by the guns of partisan despotism and
victualed by the capitalists and cor
porations whose life depends upon a
government of force and fraud.
Maj. Wm. A. Guthrie, of Durham,
is out in a lengthy card declining to
accept the nomination for Associate
Justice tendered him by the Third
party convention in Raleigh last week.
W. R. HENRY, ESQ.
He is Doing Good. Work For the
Democracy in Eastern North
Carolina.
Our townsman, W. It. Henry, Esq., is
doing yoetnan service for the cause of
Democracy in the eastern part of the
State. He has spoken at a number of
places, and we hear good reports of him
at every appointment.
A correspondent writing from Frank
linton to the Xews and Observer, under
date of tho 16th, says:
The many readers of tlie News and Ob
server, in Franklin, read with great in
terest the glowing account therein pub
lished of the great work ourJarvisand
Carr and other prominent citizens are
doing in the present campaign. We are
proud of them, and feel that with such at
the helm that the old ship of the Democ
racy must be safely anfhred in victory's
port on election day. But our Jarvis
and Carr have no more valuable ally
than in the person of that gifted and
eloquent citizen of Yance, Walter K.
