The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-06
OUTING IN THE SOUTH
BY MOUNTAINEER OF NORTH
CAROLINA
LOYAL TO BRYAN's CAUSE
Was Received With Typical SOuth-
eFn Hospitality Everywhere
Theories as to LincOIn's An
Lcestry-SOuth Prosperous.

Attorney ]. NJ Hawthorne has just re-
turned to St. Paul from a business trip
in the South, which took him to the
mountains of Western North Carolina
and while there he met many of the
mountaineers and was entertained by one
of them in a primitive hut, where the
fact of his being a friend of w. j Bryan
caused him to be received as an honored
and distinguished guest. Describing his
trip TO the G | b e, Mr.. Hawthorne said:
THE climate of Eastern Tennessee and
Western North Carolina strange as it
may seem, at this season of the year. is
almost Identical with that of Minnesota
In Western Georgia and Eastern Ten
nessee they had a very heavy frost Sept.
10, but / was told the winters are very
much milder
THE crops are the same as ours except
that peaches grow luXuriantly. The
country in the vicinity of Asheville is very
hllly and l do not think that within a
radius of forty miles from that CITY 100
acres of land could be found perfectly
level
My business brought me in contact with
the people who reside in the mountains
to the southwest of AsheviIle. Many of
them are illiterate, but they all appear
Intelligent. They are honest, but indolent
and physically they are, as a class, fine
specimens of manhood and womanhood
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their dwellings are not as good as the
average horse stable in Minnesota but
they are kept neat and clean. They are
very hospitable to strangers Jackson
county has about 100000 people, all DEM
ocrats, and consequently they have no
locks on their doors.
The people are very religious, being
principally Methodists and Baptists and
fhey are courteous among themselves
and to strangers. In fact. l was charmed
on the whole with the mountaineers and
could not help feeling indignant at some
of the shameful yarns which have been
published about them.
HONORED AS BRYANS FRIEND.
Life has its compensations I have
been the recipient of a good many good
natured roasts in the newspapers and
elsewhere for supporting Mr.. Bryan and
have been plastered all over with such
titles as j. Mexico The Silver Son.
of-a-Gun,' etc, until I began to feel that
the tide would never turn. But back
in the mountains of North Carolina
struck another current. I took a supper
OF pork, potatoes, corn bread and some
horrible coffee. After supper my host
in order to impress me with an idea of
the excellent family he had married
into, told me how his wife's uncle had
actually shaken hands with Mr. Bryan
I, OF course, improved the opportunity
of fmpressing him with the Importance
of his guest by telling him I was a
warm friend of Mr.. Bryan. and that I
knew him intimately. That was
enough the man was doubly honored by
having a friend of Mr. Bryan under his
roof. One of the fourteen children was
sent two miles to a neighbours to Dor
TOW some flour, sugar and good coffee,
while the old man himself chopped the
head off a fat chicken. In the morning
sat down to a breakfast fit for a king
and as / passed in my coffee cup for
the third time I said to myself This is
indeed compensation for the roasts 1
have received for supporting Mr.. Bryan
HAVE THEORIES AS TO LINCOLN.
THE people claim with scarcely an ex-
ception that Abraham Lincoln was born
at Ocona Lufty, in North Carolina; that
his real name was Abraham EndIoe and
that Mr.. Lincoln himself admitted that
his name was Endloe but that he took
the name of his stepfather, Thomas Lin
coin. 1 met Capt. w. A. Endloe, who is
claimed to be a nephew of the great
president. He was proud of the fact
but modest about it, Mr.. Lincoln's half
brother, Wesley Endloe, is living at the