The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
THE "YALLER" STREAK.
IRaleiph News and Observer

Yesterdays paper contained three
articles-one telling of the unspeah-
able conduct of Congressman Grant IL
having a widow removed from once
upon charges rejecting upon hei
character, and never letting her Kno"
that such charges had been preterreo'
another relating to the Butler perform
ances at Elliott poStoff1ce about "hlc"
more needs to be told; and the con
troyersy between Richmond Pearson
and Grants friends as dished up ny
ex-Judge Ewart That was the con
trihn+ion in one day in proof that the
Republican party has become respects
ahIe since the Democrats compelAeu
fine Republicans to take suhFdse
How old are you?" asked a gentle,
man of a dirty individual VINO was
huddled I'D on a railroad, so dirty anu
odoriferous as to offend the olIacIolA00
of the other occupants of the car:
twenty-five years DID, was the lo
You are a liar" said the first party.
"You must be at least fifty. NO man
could get as dirty as you are IN leSs
than fifty years"
The recent disclosures and turhlls
of States evidence shows the tePun
Carolina is fifty years old. NO paLtS
could get so vile in less than that num-
Der of years. c,o,,,o
ouiet citizen in North Carolina
who never took any active part III
politics, said once, just after a Repuo-
1ican postmaster had been shot Tor IN
sulting a lady and two others had Deeh
shown guilty of base conduct, i nave
observed it for a long time and nave
against my will reached the conclu-
sion that there is a 'yaller streak on
every North Carolina Republican VINO
MIXES with the gang and is hololnS
office or trying to get office. Ihere
are clean and honest Repuoncans' Oh
course. but they have no more IN
huence than a Christian in hades. put
nearly all the bosses and workers anu
strikers have got a 'yaller spot
, However, that may be, one thing Is
certain: If half what members or the
gang say of each other and what MT
! Taft virtually endorsed in his Green's
bero speech is true, the RepuulIceI
marty in North Carolina is the same
| old disrep0tab BILE and disgraceful or
| ganization in 1909 it was in 1868:
| Its handling of patronage Is PROOF OIL
that. The elimination of the unspeak-
able conduct is the action or Con-
gresham Grant in his treatment OF
! Mrs. Read postmaster at Biltmore
Never before in American politics has
a Congressman stopped so low as TO
stab a woman in the back. If Grant
felt it to be his duty to demand the
removal of Mrs. Read on the allega-
ton that she had tried to bride him
the decent course to have pursued
would have been to notify her of his
intention so she could have been
heard. He does not do that but uses
the written stiletto on widow! she
is removed from Office to make place
for one of Grants henchmen and Is
permitted to think 1t Is merely that
Grant wanted the place for another,
while those damning afidaVits charg-
ing her with q base crime secured
her removal. That's North Carolina
Republican chiValry for You! No Re-
publican paper has denounced Grants
unspeakable wrong to good woman.
| And none OF them win, unless they
wish TO get something for themselves
for it. The decent Republicans Will
denonce it but they have no more in
fuence In Republican politics than
| last years birds nest. The big bosses
will shrug their shoulders and say,
| why was Grant big enough fool to
get found out?" Getting found out
| is the only thing they will regard as
I Uyr0nrr in hjS conduct