The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-07-14
THE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.

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seat in the sixty-third congress,
the duty of democrats is no longer
in doubt. Let every voter, who
acknowledges allegiance to our
grand old party, which we all love
so well, begin right now to work
| for the election of our nominee
the Hon. j. M. Gudger. Bear In.
mind that this is not simply a po-
litical contest to crafty the am
bition of any one man, but to re-
| deem the district from the hands
Of a political party, which has
never failed, when in power IN
| North Carolina, to bring reproach
upon the fair name of our beloved
State. Remember that it is the
same old organization that, in
| 1868, converted our state capitol
into a saloon and increased our
state debt to nearly 100000
of dollars in two short years; that
it is the same old piratical crew
that suspended the writ of habeas
corpus in the state, and imported
from East Tennessee, the cut
throat Kirk and his band of hire
lings and rufians who trampled
our constitution under their feet,
and arrested and dragged to pr
son some of the best and wisest
men in North Carolina. Remem-
Der above all, that the republican
party in the South has no fixed
political principles, but exists only
to dispense the loaves and fishes
of Federal patronage. Should our
nominee for congress be defeated.
it will forever be a reflection upon
the democracy of the Tenth col
gressional district.
But our candidate will not be
defeated if every democrat in the
district will do his duty. Re-
member, that there is no one SC
humble as to be without influence.
Go to your neighbor and tell him
| what democracy has done for tie
state. Cite him to our present
school system, the best the state
ever had. Tell him what the
party has done in behalf of the.
unfortunate insane, of the rail
roads it has built. Call his atten-
ton to the fact that in 1870, when
the state cast off the shackles Of
republican misrule, there hal.
been millions of dollars stolen by
the carpet-bag crowd in control
at the time not a railroad had
been built; the treasury was
bankrupt, and a feeling of gloom
and dependency covered the
entire commonwealth from the
mountains to the sea SGn2e. Ask
him what party brought about or
der and good government out Of
chaos and if he is an honest man
and not a densely ignorant one, he
will be forced to admit that it was
the democratic party, under the
leadership of the immortal Vance,
that restored the credit of the
state, and preserved anglo-Saxon
civilization within her borders.
Briefly, stated, democrats, such
is the record of your party-a e
cord of which any party may well
feel proud. Do you wish to con-
tinue good government in North
Carolina, and at the same time
hurl the republicans from power
In the nation? If you do, vote
the straight democratic ticket III
both state and national elections,
and again place this government
on the basis of true democracy, as
it existed before the republican
party had made it a government
by men, and not a government by
the people.
Go to work, therefore, fully re
solved, that the Tenth district
shall be redeemed and a democrat
sent to congress in 1911.
Democrats, this is your duty.
Will you measure up to the re-
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