The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-09-22

OAna well E6MULHDeH bne scandal
Gus acknowledgement Of the States
business during the reign Of car
pet baggers from 1867 t6 1872,
and under the fusion regime from
1895 to 1899. They also knew how
well affairs have been managed.
since the democracy assumed
control Of the state government
under Charles Brantly Ayc6ck'
after a democratic legislature had
wrested the state institutions from
the hands of incompetents and
malcontents in 1899. But it is
well to remind the younger set,
and those who have come to US
from various sections Of the
try, that the same gang of fusion
leaders who were retired under
a cloud" twelve years ago are con
spring to bring about a condition.
which would enable them to ~
peat their acts Of violence and
treachery. Chairman Eiler gives
a timely note Of warning IN his.
introductory to the Democratic
Handbook. We quote:
e-wa so Eefeaa4f
How excellent have been the
results Of Democratic admins
tration of State affairs is well at
tested by the facts and figures
stated In the various articles in
this handbook; the advancement
of education, the material and o
cial progress of the people of the
state, the control of railroads and
other corporations, the work done
for the promotion of agriculture,
of the health of the people, and in
needed betterments Of rural life.
All of these are and have been the
wise and beneficial results of
Democratic administration.
"On the other hand, the sue
cess of the Republican party at
this time would be followed by
disastrous consequences; a Re-
publican legislature, under the in
fuence of Ex-senator Butler,
would threaten the state with the
collection of the odious special
taxes laid in 1868-1869; with the
impairment of our State institu-
the repeal of election laws,
and much else to bring about scan
dial, spoils, and strife. The cleo
ton of three Republican supreme
court judges, giving them the con-
troll of the supreme court for eight
years, might be followed by a ju-
dicial declaration that the Consti-
tutional Amendment forbidding
the payment of the specialtax
bonds is invalid, as being insc6n-
fict with thataarticle oftthA Fed-I
eral Constitution which forbids
any state from impairing the obi
CATION of q contract, and a further
declaration that the special-tax
bonds, amounting to MANY mil
lions of dollars, ought to be paid.
"Worse still, if it were possible.
the election of three of ex-senator
Buffers allies in fusion days, tc
the supreme court, giving then
the mastery for eight years, could
hardly fail to lead up to an .attacr
upon our Constitution, followed
by their holding that the Suffrage
Amendment to the State Consti-
tuition is invalid, as being in con-
hict with the Fifteenth Amend
ment-thus admitting again to the
ballot box the negroes who are
not qualified to vote under our
state laws. And SO, In addition to
the danger to the people arising
from a reopening of the special
tax bond matter, which the bond
holders have been vigorously
pressing, there is the other danger
of a repetition of Che incidents of
Russen's administration,
accomplished through fusion
brought about by this same ex-
Senator Butler, which is still a
nightmare In the remembrance of
the people.
sfPrivilege and sectional domi-
nation at Washington should be
arrested; pillage and one-man gov
eminent at Raleigh should be
averted; and now is the time to
do it."
Especial privilege" will be ar
rested at Washington and But
lerism'' will be averted at Raj
eigh, by an avalanche Of ballots on
the eighth day of November, the
like of which the enemies of popu-
lar rights have never before ex-