The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-03
GOOD OLD DEMOCRATIC DAYS
Superintendent of School. in lack
son Wants Crawford and En-.
thusiasm Worthy Idol
of the People.
Editor jackson County Journal:

Editor jackson County Journal:
The time is fast approaching when the
hosts of democracy in the Tenth Con-
gressional district will have to select .
standard bearer for the fight this fall.
The present representative in Congress
from this district has had two terms,
and the people have thereby paid him
any political debt that his friends may
claim as due him, and this year We
want to go back to those good old DEM
ocratio<days when there was enthust-
a congressional campaign meant q sea-
son of great enlightenment for the
masses of our people on questions politi-
cal. 1t is natural, therefore, that the
minds of the people of this district
should he turning almost as one man to
Hon. w. T. Crawford as their leader in
the great fight to be waged this fall.
siasm and victory in the minds Of our
mountain democrats
Crawford never made fight in which
he did not lead his ticket, and he never
made a canvass in which he was not tri-s
umphantly the superior of his opponent
in debate.
Mr.. Editor, we want to go back this
year to those good old times when the
democracy of this district stood aggres-
sive and militant IN the face OF their
political enemies, with Crawford in the
lead and victory always sure. No man
who keeps up with public affairs has
failed to observe the apathy and indif-
ference which have been apparent in.
Cur congressional contests Of late years.
The fire and spiritof the old days has
been consp spieuously absent. -.
~ am not familiar with the. N hole dis
trict, Mr.. Editor, but Spw that the'
western counties are enthusfsstica in.
favor of having Crawford lead In the.
fight for Congress this year. He is
known in every home in the district and
as he is plain man of the common poo-
pie, they delight to do him honor. There
has been no man since the great z. B.
Vance that has had the hold on the peo-
pie of these mountains that w. T. Craw-
ford has. Personally, he is IS clean as
woman; officially, his record is with
out a stain; intellectually, he stands
among the great men of the whole state;
as debater, he has not superior in the
state; and in the rounded completeness
of his public and private manhood, be
is in every way fit to be the idol Of his
people.
have no word of abuse for any other
democrat who may aspire to the honor
able position of seat in congress. but
when am so sure that the people want
a particular man as am that they want
w. T. Crawford this year, / feel that it
is duty owe myself and the great
party of which am an humble member
to speak out for the chief of our choice.
Mr., Crawford has meyer ceased to fight
valiantly for the democratic party in
every campaign that has been waged,
whether he was q candidate himself or
not. He is one of those democrats that
you do not have to hire with "a Office TO
be loyal Wherever the fight has been
hottest and hardest there you have al-
ways found this patriotic son OF the
mountains, and am sure that the party
in this district will honor itself by NOM
mating Haywood's gifted son at the
congressional convention when 1t 10 held.
With best wishes for The Journal, I
am, sincerely yours,
w. L. HENSON.
Painter, N. G., April II, 1905.