The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-10-15
Mr.. PEARsoN's ATTEMPTS TO TR1FIH

WITH THE PEOPLE.
Mr.. Pearson's courseis utterly in
explicable to us and many of his
friends. AtSwannanoa on Wednes-
day, in his speech, he took occasion
to reflect severely upon the town
authorities and people of Asheville
and charged upon them an attempt
to have passed a law which would
shift all county taxes upon the
country people, really repeating hi S
circular letter No. l. which was ex>
posed in the CITIZEN on Wednes :
day. In addition to this, he actual,
ly attempted to take advantage OF
what he knew to be typographical
error in the House journal, and im-
ply that he did not introduce the
measure to amend the charter Of
the city of Ashsville, but that Mr..
Pou did. When Mr.. Gudger asked
him the question whether or not he,
Pearson, introduced that bill, he
tried to evade it and referred to.the
Journal which he stated ''rarely
made mistakes" but when pinned
down by Mr.. Gudger upon
the pnint Mr.. Pearson finally re-
luctantly admitted he introduced it.
He could not be made to do this
until Messrs Jones and Gudger had
produced the record showing that
the bill, as per Mr.. Pearson's. own
endorsement, was introduced by
himself. He also relied upon his at
tempt to deceive the people into be-
lieving that he had the objeetiona-
BILE section struck from the bill
when it was under consideration by
the House, yet Messrs Jones and
Gudger showed FROM a certified
copy of the original bill as original
ly introduced, that section was
marked out before it was ever intro
duced, therefore was never before
the House, and the amendment of
fered by Mr.. Pearson to strike it out
was not only unnecessary, but was
trifling with the House. Mr.. Jones
read from Mr.. sPearscn's pamphle
of last Spring that he therein claim
ed that he ran his pen through tina
clause as soon as he read it, which
shows that, last Spring he remem
bered no such section was ever in
troduced and therefore must hav,
known when the bill was before th'
House that his amendment which
hesimpudently brags about n ow wal
entirely out of place.
Take his circular and his oper
attempts to deceive made at Swan
nanoa in the presence of the people
I and weigh all. only goes to prove t.
: what methods Mr.. Pearson will re.
sort to deceive the people. If h,
will openly try to deceive them thus
how can they rely on his assurance
about other matters? Does he TAX
the people to be fools2 He vii
surely find out his error in this i'm
putation upon the intelligence anC
I integrity of the people of Budcombe
The people can well see that NJ
/ Pearson has never charged upol
3 Messrs. Jones and Gudger anythin,
, half so disgraceful as his own con
duct in connection with this Ashe
vile charter bill. Messrs. Jone
+ and Gudger met every point on thi
/ as well as all others of interest t,
, the people, in a manly, honest. eff
/. fective way, which carried convic
| ton to the minds of the hearers, o
} Mr.. Pearson's hypocricy, deceitful
/ ness, and utter unreliability. Jone
and Gudger have made friends 8
far for themselves and democracy
There are other points in MI
} Pearson's remarkable speech whicl
we will notice.