The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-07-04
superior Court Clerk Of clsyslsnd

Superior C6Hrt Clerk Of Cleveland
county. he admits leaving the party
in 1892 and was elected Clerk during
the fusion regime. Evidently,
friend chad 90 eye TO business" just
like Richmond Pearson, Marion Butler,
Cyrus Thompson, Hal Aver, John Fow-
Ter and other t'sweet-scented mOrtals,r
who started on q similar excursion
about that time and landed into fat
places, for q brief period. shortly after
wards. But it was not long before the
people came to their senses again and
their unfaithful servants, elected under
promises of reform and who had brought
degradation and ruin upon the State
were "cast into outer darkness, where
there has been weeping and crashing
of teeth ever since. There is always
weeping among Notwithstanding radi-
Gals.
That "song and dance" the Shelby
editor gives concerning political condi-
tions in Cleveland county at the. time
he deserted his colors. sounds unnat-
urai to q person who is acquainted with
the type of democrat that ~"invest" that
good county at present. tt is so unlike
them to make any offers of q compro-
missing character that we must confess
to a degree of surprise, if what the Au-
rora says be true. If Cleveland was the
banner democratic county in the State at
that time, why should the leaders there
have made overtures, of the character
suggested, to any would-be deserter?
It all sounds mighty strange to us. The
Cleveland democrat of this day and
generation" would spurn such a sug-
geStiOn- But maybe this is just another
case of a political deserter ''paradlng
his virtues" (?) before the public. We
know nothing about the contest referred
to after the election, but presume that
there must haYe been some good rea-
son for it, Otherwise, it should not
have been made.
The reference TO the result of the cleo
ton in 1894 is immaterial. 1t will be
remembered that there was an appre-
ciable fall-of in the democratic vote
throughout the State, due to the idea
that, with the negro out Of the way,
there were little need for effort on the
part Of democrats. The showing in
this senatorial district was most graft
flying to the State Committee, under the
circumstances, and quite sufficient to
place the editor of the Aurora among
those who ram" But inasmuch AS that
Scribbler has endeavored TO discredit
the efforts of the writer, who happened
to be chairman of the senatorial com
mittee at the time, we wish to call atten
ton to the fact that we had the manage
mOnt of the congressional campaign in
the tenth district on hand at the same
time, thus preventing concert of action
in the senatorial fight. And will the
editor, who 'also ran" tell his readers
that the democratic majority in the
tOnth congressional district that year
under the direction of NJ. L. Shipman'
was increased from 1873 to 1888? Or
would this.'detract from the chairman"
now q prospective ~candidate?"
There is so little evidence of the sug-
gestion that ''st no distant day, a ma
iority of the voters of North Carolina
will be with them, 1.-THE radicals) becom-
ing q reality that we shall pass 1t along
without comment, except to call our
friends attention to the returns Of last
election, after ell the ISLANDERS and slime
of his new associates. Butler, Adams &
Co., had disseminated among the pee
pie from one end of the state TO the
other.