The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-10

around this district whose votes
is going to send him back to
congress and telling the voters
that they are uneducated and
abusingthem right to their faces.
| see several men smile but |
didn't say anything cause there
were several men present and /
didn't want to see Wiley get
still madden.
Then he said Grant would be
elected unless the election was
stolen. and that Grant would
get the boys all jobs in Washing
ton. Said John was one of the
boys himself, and would get the
boys jobs in Washington, all of
EN-. anything they wanted from
running a street car up to the
Presidents private secretary
ship. Then Wiley he waved
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theeHustler once more and sat
down and was real glad he got
through without being sick,
Major Rollins, postmaster of.
Asheville got up then. The Maj
or is a big man and runs to bald
ness and a white vest and looks
as if he'd been pretty well taken
care of. Didn't see nary sign of
Republican panic about. the Maj
or. He said the. DEMOCRATS acc
used the Radicals in this State
of being nothing but a pie brigade
andI looked at the Major care
fully and didn't contradict him.
He went on to say he was
here by mere accident, which
was hard on Charley. l thought.
Said he had no idea of coming
until a few minutes before he got
on the train. | reckoned that an
other slap at Charley-these pol
Eiticians are certainly queer some
bodies. as / remarked to my old
man when / hit him in the ribs
to wake him up. The Mayor said
Britt and Lush were not present,
altho' they were supposed to be
there. Yes, we noticed they were
absent all right, and some mean
people say these old time and life
long republicans amt yelling them
selves hoarse cause they got pass
ed over and the empty honor of
acknowledgement was handed
to an ex-democrat.
"TheMajor swells out andsays,
says sshe, SOne of your foremost
citizens has been honored by the
republican party of North
Carolina Then he gets right
down to business and pats Char
ley on the back and just gives
him humps of sugar tell you cam
rest. He calls him grand man of
Henderson County, That noble
son of North Carolina That.
foremost citizens of your city who
left the democratic party for his
principles (and pie, said to my
self, / said.) And the Major
finally limited broadly about still
greater rewards which Shall yet
be given Charley by his newly
adopted party Then he abused
the Hustler who, he said was
trying to bring disgrace upon
one of it's fellow citizens, and
I declare to goodness, child, l
couldn't see the point. | read the
Hustler and all it says is Charley's
done left the grand old party of
his fathers and joined the pie
brigade of this state. Is that a
disgrace? He said this paper and
others would live to regret it, as
sure as john Grants election to
Congress, they'd live to regret it.
5 "Then the Major spent some
time defending the pie brigade,
and the Major looks pretty well
taken care of himself. and said it
only took one and a half hours to
nominate Charley and the rest
at Charlotte, and here my old man
says, says he, they didn't need
one and a half minutes. 1t was
all done fixed before they ever
went to Charlotte and the Maj
or knoxuc # , Thaf'S what nv old