The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-08-18


then sheriff and liver man IA
Hendersonville one to ten poor,
laboring men would come every
day to my place trying to get
wages to support their wives and
starving children
After four years of this the
greatest panic ever known in his
tory, the Republicans elected
Mckinley and with him and the
Dingley bill came the full dinner
pail and abounding prosperity
everywhere.
Here was another chance for h.
audience to applaud vociferously
but the abounding prosperity ap-
parently had not struck the noun.
tain sides of Satoolah and Fodder
stack.
The congressman assured his
his hearers that the Democratic
war cry of antisimperialism was
all bugaboo I; that Republican ex.
pansion, like all Republican poll.
cies, was always judicious
constitutional; that Thomas ia
ferson was a pSotectionist and the
greatest expansionist that ever
occupied the White House. He
did not explain that Jefferson
expansion was solely across the
Mississippi, while McKinley's was
across the Pacific.
After discussing national issues
for about an hour and declaring
that he had made160 speeches In
his former campaign and intended
to make 200 speeches in this,
John, plain John, = launched into
an account Of his services in Wach
ington and an apotheosis of him
self. g
There was occasionally touch
of denagogy In his story of his
own life.
If as he claims, the Democrats
of North Carolina, look with such
contempt upon self made men
who have risen solely by their own
character and exertions, they must
be as par-blind a set of political
fools as ever lived.
"Two years ago, !" said he, the
Democratic press asailed me for
going to the common people, and
because / was born in Lighthouse
with cracks that calf could jump
through. 1t was false that a calf
could get through those cracks,
but a cat certainly could. | plead
guilty to that charge, but / have
not forgotten that our Savior was
born In manger !"
The writer has heard many a
campaign speech in other States,
but for blasphemous pathos that
surpasses them all.
Those Democrats charged that
my education was limited, plead
guilty. 1t is true that / ploughed
an OK for seven years after my
marriage, and that I read by torch
light from a load of pine knots
that / carried home every night.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,
the blue-back speller and the news
papers were my educators.
"When / went to the Legisla-
ture In 1888 I did not own a mill
or horse. Later, ! redeemed the
district In spite of the golf-ctock-
inged dudes with yellow tan shoes
an dtheir hair parted in the middle
the Democratic editors and the
Democratic machine. +"
This appeared to be the only di-
rect personal allusion in the speech
for Immediately in front of John,
in the little Shool-house were two
robust Georgia college students,
IN golf stockings and tan shoes.
The last of the fool Democratic
sharges which Congressman Grant
repeated, and to which he also
pleaded guilty, was that he had
shipped bushels of corn, raised and
ground by himself, to Washington
with which he had actually made
corn berad He considered this
charge seriously and declared, in a
bishops voice which could be
heard across the square, that he
abominated hot rolls and loaf
bread and that undismayed by
Democratic Nominations, he could
continue to eat "corn bread twice
day, ''for he was ga horny-hand
son Of toil'' like most of his hear
.ers and he was proud of it.
He concluded by inviting all his