The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-10-06


publicans of North Carolina by the ap-
pointment of Democrat to the exclu-
sion of faithful, deserving Republi-
cans? am pleased to know that Mr..
Taft has complimented Mr.. Skinner on
his nomination to the Supreme Court
bench of the State. 1t is time he was
bringing forth fruits meet for repen-
tance and that he might do well to
remember that the axe is laid at the
root of the tree, and that good fruit
is the only security against being
hewn down by his own party connec-
ton.
MY object in asking your cOnstruc-
ton er meaning of the LEGAL self
government plank I'm the Republican
platform adopted at Greensboro is be-
cause of the statement Of those high
in authority in the convention who
are now saying that local SeH-gOYern-
ment as embodied i'm the platform
as indicated in the platform
means local option. Local self-gov-
erment as always heretofore con-
strued means the right of the people
to elect all their officers provided
the Constitution and laws of the
State and has never at any time been
construed to mean the election of a
barroom keeper or a distiller, they
not being officers vested with either
Legislative, judicial, administrative
or executive powers in the Govern
ment. The way the Local Option.
advocates are constituting the ques-
ton it amounts to nothing but q
downright fraud upon the convention.
When the cOmplexiOn of the commit
tee ON platform and resolutions was
discovered and It was found that they
were all on one side of the liquor ques
tiOnand suspicion was aroused that
an attempt would be made to railroad
q local option plank through the con.
VentiOn, certain prOhibitiOnists inter.
viewed members of the committee and
were Informed thaA al traces of 10
cal option had been eliminated from
the platform and that local Self-gOV-
ernment had been substituted there
for. From may earliest POLITICAL as
sociations with the Republican party
in North Carolina it has been one of
the tenets of the party to inform the
public in plain and unmistakable Ian
guage the meaning of it's platform
principles. When we took a position
we did so in the open and not under
ambiguous meaning TO deceive our
enemies, much less our friends, act
ed as though we believed in the JUS
tice and probity of our cause, and de-
clared it in language intended to be
understood, even when we declared
for local option in 1906, we wrote in
language that was impossible to
misconstrue into meaning any
thing else, but local option; and
notwithstanding we were slaugh-
tered hip and thigh, ~ reason of our
local option procliVkies, still there
was no attempt to conceal, and when
in 1908 we dropped local option from
our platform and wrote plain local
self-government ia it, we gained &c.,
600 votes in the State. If local self
government Is to be cOntOrted into
meaning local option, local barrOOms
to be established In every tOWnan the
State where the merahy Stunted can
be relied upon to vote the wet tick
| et, and neighberhoOd StillhOuses be.
come the attraction Of the rising gen
Grafton instead Of the common school
houses and poverty and misery, wretch
| edReSS and crime stalk ferth I'm this
fair land of ours, the civilized world
will hold us responsible for distOrt-
| ing the time hOnored principle OF To-
cal self.gOVernment into meaning 10.
cal option, the cause Of all the woe
| and misery. If leeal SOlf-gOVernmeHt
| Is to be construed to mean the right
| to establish bar-roams and StilIhOuseS
I'm the State, NO matter II it is by Will
Of the majority, then It fellows by the
same authority can establish and
| maintain houses of iH-fame and abOd-
es of vice and imMnOrality, gORbhng
deRs, farObanks and other vices ad
Hbftum.
/ Local seIf-governnaent cannot be
distorted into meaniME any such lfb-
| critics. Under this idea of local self
government any township in Forsyth
i county. if it minded naight vote on the
question Of polygamy, and by mai
oritv vote express their will in favor
/ thereof. and undertake to carry local
| seIf-government into operation, but
the people of Forsyth would not
j submit to such a state OF affairs
FLOR "a hours, they would get
| together and drive every. Mormon out
of the county. or send them TO the
/ penitentiary, Notwithstanding the MOI
j mon plea of local self-government as
i in Utah take any other vice known
TO civilization and add them all re-
! gether and they win not equal in
| enOrmfty the wreck, ruin, deYasta-
tion, deprayity, misery, WretchedneSs
and unhappiness brought upon the hu-
i man family by the manufacture, sale
/ and use. OF intoxicating Hquers. Its
/ Heo not only destoyes the moral, but
j the mental, physical aMA spiritual ma
ture of the drunkagd. Soul ana Doeg
is involved in the wreck and rum
wrought by the use Of intoxicating
liquors.
Ny dear friend. tAsfS are 50 many
things to be said against loeaI optlon
as il refers to the Ranufacture anG :
ss1a of Intoxicating liquors. that,
fsnd n inapossible to stop this COM
r,nnieatior short or an effort to con-
,Inra Won of your nfHtAke in its ad-