The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-11-03
Do THEY THINK NORTH
CARDL|N|ANS ARE FOOLS

The seeds that are about to bloom into a great democratic victory in
slowly but surely the people have been learning with amusement the stu
Of republican rule with big and bad business, The republican party organ
zahon has , been "a absolutely so nsy, in .n the hal hands ads Of Of gr0ups Of IT. men aaa1 who ,st have used used
IN their own interests. These various groups, all allied and working with
each other in the making of the laws to enrich themselves. have become
known a Special Interests, and their organization and their mode OF
system" all the men r corporations that want laws made or construed to
give them an advantage, whereby money is taken from the public generally
public has not been aware of it. Such men as Dingley and Aldrich, Payne
extremes in building up the tarin robbery. the trust roDbeFies and thousands
Of other gratis, that the people have at last become aroused. The American
teoh!e o nav" hands sdnintsta apg s ar their their Te1faree bt n = = na = ,o = ~ a
System" III by it, owned by it, and used by it for its advantage alone. So
startling had these facts become that the republican party was saved only
his administration The rebellion in the ranks of the republican party
others, had become SC powerful that Mr.. Taft had to bow 10 it and promise
5eem a an rea ct 1 ee With his his fs eGup9 to FeeD f Il n na tb the + Ffr p ! the E 3
people, the Insurgents turned upon him, in order to save their party, and
Mr. Tafts praise of the Payne-Aldrtch bin, saying that the Special Inter-
ADMINISTRATION has shown that the republican party can never throw off the
shackles of The System, even if it wanted to. hence the people are seeking
'"e' " 'S "O'la pr IN THE STATE.
Wholly unresponsive to any sentiment Of reform that has swept over
the republican party in some sections, the party in North Carolina has
every impartial review of the situation. in ali the magazine articles, every
where that men are studying the subject, the three republican congressmen
from this state are put down IS the, plant tools Of The system, and of
Cannon and an dn aldFieh lit its ser antmo Why ass.1 The lex explanation an alton is simple They
sought to crush the western insurgents in his party by withholding federal
fearful re thew that their standpatsm might be ouegtioned that beyimno
in their W homes. vicepresident sherman, a known tool of THE sys-
tenn, mustered all his strength in a hught for temporary chairman of the
New York republican convention, but o rotten is his record that he failed
He IS one OF orehead SDgg guns, brought II North Carolina o tell people
how to vote Mr. MeKinlay. another such, Just turned out of congress from
California, because, as Mr.. Lafolette, the great reform republican, says,
the people wanted a man to serve thems and not THE interests" in con-
gess, has also been in North Carolina to instruct our people The claims
of Morehead that his party is the party of progress" is laughable. Judge
Bynum, a republican who is reputed to carry more brains than most of the
outfit said that MOreheads crowd was never at peace, forever at war, and
always with their hands in the pockets of the people. -
To this record of abeHt serVility to the republican national mahchine,i
even after Mr.. Taft "a forced to say that he could find n o man in the
party in North Carolina fit to be a federal judge, they have added in the
state the rankest serviity to a mar whom the lore decent ones of them
dapse, INC who, at least n of them has said, ought to be IN the penHen-i
tary. Why this second humiliation? The same answer. Marion Butler
got the wore out that in some mysterious way he had the ar Of Taft, and
Taft is pe-dispenser. They would rather bear the odium OF Butler in the
campaign than to take any chance o n his hostile influence at Washington
and hence, Butler, the renegade, with his own nefarous schemes, has
become the chief issue in the campaign. -
So we have the spectacle Of a party, tied to the worst element of Its
/o~n party in the nation, and in the state subservient to the most richly 4
depised ma that has lived in North Carolina since carpet-bag days, with
a record hat it dares not point to with even it's own praise, asking the |
sensible people oft the state o turn the government over to it.
is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" Are the people I
OF North Carolina fools that they hould be asked to do this?
r. F. BEASLEY, ~ |
Manager Literary Bureau State Dem. Exec. Com.