The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-11-03

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every word of the distinguished
speaker, United States Senator
Lee S. Overman, this morning de-
iYered a masterly logical, con-
Yincing series of arguments We
the young man, and In fact every
man, should vote the democrati
ticket, not only in North Carolina,
hut in every state In the Union.
The speaker was introduced to
his audience by Mr.. Michael
Schenck, who very happily said
that Senator Overman's name
stood for success and for victory,
and for the highest ideals In
American citizenship. Senator
Overman, a stranger to almost
every man In the audience, is of
striking personal appearance,
smooth shaver, a mass of silver
hair and eyes which flashed. He
wore a black suit, with standing
collar and a small black tie, and
in every way filed the ideal which
most people have in their minds
of what a United States Senator
should resemble. He is a most
eloquent talker. He does not al
low the interest of his audience
to drag for a moment, is thorough
ly conversant with and a master
of his subject, upon which he talks
with all the authority of one
In the councils of his state and ma
ton.
Senator Overman spoke for
something over an hour, and said
in part:
The democratic party stands
for the same principles today
that it did in the days Of its great
founders. It believes In govern
ment of the people by the people
as against Alexander Hamilton
theory of a "strong" centralized
government. The republican
party, the party of Hamilton, to
day believes in a centralized gov
eminent, too-centralized at
Washington by means of great
wealth in the hands of a very few
men.
He reviewed the history of the
democratic party in North Carroll
IA, from the end of the war to the
present time, and asked if any one
n his audience had ever hea d a
North Carolina republican say he
vas proud of HIS party record
n this state. He pictured Z e
genes of awful desolation md
'uin which confronted those gal
ant men who had sacrificed all
Tor a cause they loved so well
when they returned to their
ZONES from the war, and then of
The burden placed upon those
same men IN trs days OF file ear
pet Dagger by the triumphant re-
publican party-a bEf,len, said
The eloquent speak u, hcrE in ma
lice and hatred to the fair land of
the South. A party which had
turned loose three million blacks
and gave to them a right denied
to men whose ancestors had
ought and died for the great
privilege of suffrage. He told Of
The high carnival Of crime and
robbery In the legislature at Raj
igh, during those awful days Of
republican control, and sail the
future of that party must be
Judged by its record in the pas.
lie asked the young men present
20 study what the republican
party had done for the grand old
tate Of North Carolina and item
20 seriously consider whether OF
lot that party was worthy of the
suffrage of the people. He re-
viewed briefly the history of the
infamous bonds for which Marion
Butler has been acting as the paid
attorney for a company seeking
to force their collection. Bonds he
said, issued to build a railroad and
with which not one inch of steel
was ever bought. The democrat
ic party had paid every legal OBJ
legation of the state but it never
intended to pay these carpet-bag
bonds. Referring to Butler
throughout his speech as the
Nameless One,' he scored him
numerically for accepting a fee
to force the collection Of these
alleged bonds an dsaid rather
than to accept a fee for such 8
purpose he would accept q fee tc
sheot his own mother.