The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-11-03
Senator Talks to En-.
thusiastic Audience, And In.
Series Of Clear, Logical Argu-
ments Tells Young Men why
shouldVo te democratic Ticket.

His recital of Buffers efforts
to force the collection oil Tie
bonds was interestingly told and
held the closest attention of the
crowd. After they had been Of
fered to Minnesota, Michigan,
South Dakota and Rhode Island,
where they were almost accepted
as a gift with which to build parks
In that state, Rhode Island, vainly
endeavoring to discover the men
back of the Infamous scheme,
finally passed q resolution of con-
tempt for those mysterious ones
who were engineering it. He said
that Butler was the republican
leader In North Carolina, a lead
er whom you could not kill politi-
cally, but from whose leadership
the respectable republicans all
over the state were in revolt, and
that thousands Of them would, this
year, take to the woods in prefer
ence to following such a one as the
"NamelesS Man"
He said If the state of North
Carolina should be required to
pay these carpet bag bonds it
would be a burden upon genera
lions yet unborn, and that it
would bankrupt the state. He re-
viewed the days of Butler and
Daniel Russell when the people of
theeastern part of the state were
humbled in the dust and ashes of
sorrow, when the streets of Viii
mington ran with blood and when
no woman walked a country road
without an armed escort. Aycock
restored order, and peace, and
prosperity in the state, and the
God-given right of the Saxon race
to rule.
IF you love North Carolina,
you do not want the republican
party in control again" The
Democratic party is responsible
for the increased educational adj
yantages given the children of the
state, and where once the densest
Ignorance reigned now there is
one new school house being built
every day in the year. Back
yonder in the old days he remem-
bered when sixteen buck niggers
and two "Nameless leaders stood
In the breach and in the name Of
the republican party opposed
every piece of legislation proposed
for the advancement of the state.
But the democratic party had kept
every pledge and had fulfilled
every promise made. There has
been an increase in the state rev.
enue from five hundred thousand
dollars to two millions and that
without increasing the burden
upon the people. This increased
revenue came in the shape of
$650,000 taxes from the railroads,
$250,000 from the insurance COM
panies, and so on. He said the
democratic party had caused a
great uprising in the state, moral
ly, socially and commercially.
"The glorious record of the party
you know. 1t stands for order,
for peace, and for prosperity"
Turning his attention to the ma
tional issues of the day, Senator
Overman said:
The republican party is respon-
sible for the constantly increas-
ing tax upon every article you
consume and wear. It is insidu-
ously, gradually, but none the less
surely, taking from the common
people their rights, and is centra-
izing the power of government in
Washington, through the ventrali-
zation of the wealth of the coun-
try In the hands of a comparative
ly few men. The last republican
national convention, in Denver,
heard the mutterings of the peo-
pie, but they broke every pledge
there made and passed the most
UBIQUITOUS tariff law in the his
tory Of the world. He spoke with
the voice of fullest authority as
to the cause Of the Cleveland
panic" stating that Cleveland
when he retired from the presi-
dent s chair left not les sthan two
hundred and thirty millions of
dollars, in gold, in the United
States treasury, and that the
plates for the bonds which CIeve-
land later issued were actually
engraved in the government print
ing Office under and by authority
of President Harrison's admins
tration,
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