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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1880
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR notes show a National Democratic ticket listing Gen Hancock for president and William English for vice president. Mentions a New Orleans audience and a 186 year date fragment, with garbled names and locations making full details unclear.
The piece lists presidential electors for North Carolina and outlines public speaking events in multiple counties with dates in September. It notes campaigns by Kenan Armfield Scales and mentions Garfield in Congress, Judge Buxton, and the Supreme Court decision on limitations against married women, plus a claim of $40,000 funds from the Republican National Committee for state campaigning and a warning about money in politics.
The piece surveys Republican and Democratic standings, noting poll tax rulings, Congressional bill support, and Hayes's Westward trip. It cites census party splits in the South, alleged frauds, property values, and criticizes several officials while praising or mocking figures like Beast Butler, Pool, and Daskin with sharp, period-voice commentary.
Democrats from Virginia face internal party divisions over local issues unseen by outsiders. The piece urges unity for a national campaign, warning that any faction resisting compromise becomes an aider of Radicalism and an enemy to the South, with consequences for regional judgment.
Col Armfield is praised for his legal knowledge and persuasive speeches in Congress while a critic denounces Haldon Kirk war ties and money decisions by Jenkins. The piece warns voters that Jenkins, a Republican State Treasurer candidate, faces scrutiny over paymaster funds and transfers to support Kirk operations.
The North Carolina tobacco industry unfolds at the state fair with a grand tobacco exhibition. The executive committee announces an exceptional prize series including $2500 cash for the best ten pounds of five cured tobacco with bright wrappers plus a standard fertilizer reward, plus further premium levels for second and third places.
The Raleigh Observer reports a bold offer scheme to award various fertilizer quantities and a plow for top twenty five pound lots of sun-cured shipping leaf tobacco. Planters may send tobacco to Winston warehouses by October 13 for forwarding to Raleigh for judging by Col. A B Gorrell, Chief Marshal.
Corrected weekly by J. E. Gilmer outlines varieties of leaves and wrappers with descriptors such as red teat waxy fifi bright and fancy mahogany. The note catalogues common and good wrappers alongside calory and tive waxy qualities in a detailed yet terse list.
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