The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
]. C. GRANTS CHIVALUY(?)
His Treatment Of Widow
RoundIy Denounced by the
General Public.

His Action Was a Blow In the Dark
Which Could Not BE Defended and
Smacks OF the Assassin's Knife
News and Observer Has Ever Said
About the Tricks of the Radical
Party Has About Been Fulfilled in
This One Incident-Mr. Clapp Has
an Interesting Letter = Financial
Contributions Seems a Requisite for
Radical Office Holding.
/ Especial to News and Ogserver.)
Asheville, N. c., Oct 21.-It has
been many long months since a man
in a political position has been SO
widely "cussed" and abused in this
section as Congressman Grant is be-
ing; not even his most intimate friends
are attempting to defend his course
in connection with the Biltmore post
office; there is no defense, they say,
to the action Of man who in order
to carry his political ambitions to a
fruition has done as he has. That
Mrs. Reed, a guest at the Grant home
at the time, and a welcome guest, a
widow, anl a woman unversed in ways
political should have been so attacked
by Representative in Congress, is to
Grants friends utterly undefendable.
Mrs. Reed, goes to the Grant home in
Hendersonville, a guest. and when it
comes to a conversation regarding re-
appointment OF her to the Biltmore
postomce, that she should, in talking
to- q man who passes as a gentleman,
have TO OFFER zexplarat1on Of why she
had not put the widows mite In the
contribution box OF the G. o. P Is to
them unexcusable. Then they refer to
the fact that after having been his
guest, he at the moment when he
could not affect her removal-which
removal was absolutely necessary from
the Grant standpoint-should have
secretly stabbed her in the back, with
out the least chance Of defense; and
the still more appalling part to even
Grants innermOst circle, is the fact
that not satisfied with making an affi-
davit himself, he even went so far as
to have his own wife and daughter
take a hand in this political trick, by
filing similar aff1davits.
Gentlemen, to-day, Republicans and
we'll informed, returned from Hender-
sonville with the news that not even
in Henderson County, the Grant
stronghold, is his unscrupulous meth
ods being in the least defended. 1t
is useless to say that Republicans un-
friendly to Grant, as well as the Dem
OcratS, see in the matter the down
fall of Grant and the redemption of
the district by Democrats next year.
THEY SAY THAT GRANTS POLITF-
GAL CAREER is AT AN END. THE
PEOPLE ARE REALIZING THAT
ALL THE NEWS AND OBSERVER
HAS EVER SAID ABOUT THE
TRICKS OF THE RADICAL PARTY
HAS ABOUT BEEN FULFILLED IN
THIS ONE INCIDENT: GRANT HAS
THROWN THE FAT IN THE FIRE
AND ALONG WITH TT THE EXPO
SITION OF METHODS AND PO-
LTTICAL TACTICS THE LIKE OF
WHICH is PERHAPS WITHOUT
PARALLEL IN THE STATE.
A large number of people are in
clined to the belief that a man who
would take such underhand methods
to accomplish his purposes, is hardly
to be believed when he enters a de-
nial to Mrs. Reeds statements.
Grant today, in a statement In
which he again stated that Mrs. Reed
tried to bribe him, saying "she would
pay me more money than either of
the other applicants, and that might
see them and see what they would
pay first" that he replied he would
not be bribed. He further intimated
that he never has. or never will give
his endorsement to any man or wo-
man who tries to buy his endorsement.
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