Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-10-20
Cswles. Graut and Morehead.


The Republicans are bending
every energy to secure the re.elec
tiou Of Cowles and Grant. The
loss of the two members OF t b g
House in Maine makes them all
the more desirous of electing two
Republican Congressman fro IN
North Carolina. What Maine has
rejected North Carolinisns are
asked to accept. This, too, in
view OF the TACT that North Caro-.
lima had the; light when Maine
was 2roping in the darkness.
Now that Maine has seen t h e
light, can North Carolina house
its light and voluntarily prefer
darkness to light?
The mountain people h q We
long been known for their d.
rectness and frankness and fight.
ing in the open. They have even
had contempt for q mun W b o
would fight a woman-even tho
he should fight her without con-
cpaling himself. There has not
been so much Indignation among
the men in North Carolina in
this generation as was directed
against Congressman Grant when
he procured the removal of Mrs.
Reid az pOstmistress at ,Biltmore
by fling with the Postofiice De.
partm.nt a secret affidavit char
ging Mrs. Reid with a crime. 1t
IL the first time on record in
North Carolina that q Congress-
man has been required to mike
a sworn statement to the Depart
ment at Washington. Usually
the statement OF q Congressman
is taken without requiring him
to make oath. The fact that Con
gressman Grant could not secure
the removal oil Mrs. Reid with
out swearing to charges reflect
ing upon her, to-wit, that she had
tried to bril,e him, shows that he
did not stand very high in Wash.
lington. But the tart that he
| made this secret affidavit with
out letting the widow know that
she had been charged with a
criu,e, WAS the worst act charg.
ed against auy Congressman in
the whole history ofNorth Caro-.
lima. 1t Is had enough tu make
war on a woman under any cir
cumstances, but to charge h e T
with a crime, give her no oppor'
tunlty to answer the charge, and
to then decapitate her without a
hearing is so henions an offense
as to make it sure that no North
Carolina district will 50 disgrace
itself as 10 keep such a Congress
man IN Office. There are plenty Of
other reasons why the voters oi
the Tenth will defeat Grant, and
in 80 doing defeat CaDnonism,
but bis conduct toward Mrs.
Reid transcends politics a n d
makes it incumbent upon q self
respecting constituency to re-
buke that repreheuslble warfare
npon agnod woman.
In the Eighth district .Repres-
entative Cowles made no secret
affidavit charging a woman with
having committed a crime. 9th.
erwise his record and Grants are
alike with respect to voting to
pprpetuate the rule of Cannon,
the passage of the Payne .Aldrich
tariff act, and other measures de
sired by the trusts. But Cowles
committed a crime against his
people when he introduced the
Force bill. During the hell Of
Reconstruction. Congress pas
se'l a National election bill, com.
monty called the Force Bill, the
purpose of which was to Repub.
licanize the South and to put its
elections under the control oI
Federal judges, with the power
to haye troops at the polls. II
was an act born in sin and enfor.
&C d to prevent fair elections,
When Mr.. Cleveland was elected
president, the Force bill was re-
nealpd Mr. Cowlas aon0 ht fr