The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-08-27
Grants silly TWaddIe.

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opinion that abolition OF
joint discussions in the approach
ing campaign was a wise move,
it naturally supposed that the ex-
pressed desire of the Republicans
for a clean campaign was sincere,
and that they would conduct
their fight on a high plain. But
evidence at hand indicates
that Brother Grant, who aspires
to congressional honors in the
Tenth district, has gone out in
the bushes and INDUCED in a
campaign of wilful misrepresen-
tation. This man, who up to the
present time has been credited
with the amount of common
sense possessed by the average
individual, is actually circulating
a pamphlet to the effect that
white voters run the risk of be-
ing DISTINGUISHED by the coming
election UNLESS THEY ARE
ABLE TO READ AND TRANS
LATE LATIN! The amount of
intelligence which Brother Grant
displays in making such a silly
statement would Indicate that, if
it was true, he would be disquali-
fed right at the start, for no man
with the amount Of brains which
Brother Grant gives token of
could ever master the subtle in
tricacies of the Latin tongue.
But the Republican congress
sionaI candidate has actually
committed himself to such a
statement, for it is as we have
intimated, being circulated in
pamphlet form. Describing the
existing requirements for quail
.fication as a voter the pamphlet
says:
las it now stands. the test is,
that you must be a Latin scholar.
This is a serious charge to make
against our so-called law givers,
for it simply means disfranchise-
ment. But how many of us -
honest, intelligent and patriotic
though we may be-can stand
this test? Yet stand it we must
or be disfranchised at the polls.
This is the secret aim of this
deadly blow at the rights of every
honest voter. 1 am making no
triding statement in this matter.
l plainly assert and can prove
that it will be in the power of
every registrar after the coming
election to disfranchise you by re
fusing to put your name on the
polling list if you cannot read
latin into the English language.
Tor proof of this statement read
section a of the Amendment to
the Constitution which says:
Every person presentinghimself
fOh registration must be able to
real and write any section of the
Contribution in the English lang
uage' Now is the constitution
of Out state written in the Eng
fish language? Turn to Art. l,
Sec. q and read for yourself.
The privilege of the writ of
HabeasC Corpus shall not be sus-
pended.
1t maybe that Brother Grant
did not wtite the foregoing, for
it takes a Eertain amount of edu-
cation to compile even a mass
of Misrepresentation, but it no
doubt had lis official sanction,
and we doubt not that he has al
ready used t IN the speeches
which he is making out in the,
woods to the birds and trees.
Brother Grant, the creature of
manifest destiny" must be an
unusually ignorant man if he does
not know the few Latin terms
found in the Constitution have
long since been Aglicized, and
can be found like aey other Eng
fish word, in Websta's dictionary
But as we have long suspected,
Brother Grant lis not familiar
with any dictionary ami therefore
he is more to be ptied than
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