The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-09-01
ARE AGAINST THE PEOPLE.
The Three. Republican Congress
men From This State Always
Stood With the Cannon-Aldrich
Crowd Which We're the Tools
of the Trusts and Who Compel
ed Laws That Rob the People.
By Thomas i Pence.

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Republicans indicates very clearly
that the breadth of vision of the
members of that organization is
limited to the question Of the par
ceiling of the postofices and other
federal offices. As was said yes
terday the questions that are di-
viding Republicans in the other
states of the Union have found no
Judgement among Tar Heel Rad
icals, who are solely concerned a.
to whether the old or new crowd
will pass out the federal patron
age.
During the past week Republi-
cans everywhere, save in North:
Carolina, have been discussing the
charge brought against Senator
Aldrich, the most powerful in pub
lie life, by Senator Bristow, a
leading insurgent and Republican
from Kansas. This was charge
that Senator Aldrich had written
the schedule on rubber In the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, when he
was the owner of large shares of
stock in big. rubber concerns. The
Bristow accusation has been the
subject OF very general discussion
In all the states where Republican
primaries and conventions have
been held, and has not been with
out effect In the contest between
the insurgents and regulars. Nat
urally the insurgents have made
the most of it.
Senator Bristow made the
charge and assertion that every
feature of it is mate rof record
and is easily to be verified. Here
is what he said:
"When the new tariff bill pass
ed the lower house of congress, the
duty on manufactured rubber was
left the same as it had been in the
Dingley bill, 80 per cent; in the
Senate, the rate was raised to 35
per cent. the change was made by
Senator Aldrich in the room of
the Finance committee. This
tariff became a law on August 5.
Within a month, in September of
last year, the news came out that
a rubber company was being or
ganized. Within three months
capital stock is $40, 100000, it's
managing head is the so nof Sena-
ator Aldrich; Aldrich himself is a
director and holds $4,000 shares
among the other large stockhold-
ers are Simon Guggenheim, Sena-
tor from Colorado, with 10000
shares, and four of Senator Gug-
genheim s brothers, with an aggre-
gate of $4,000 shares. Within
three months after its organiza-
ton, the new rubber company had
paid dividends aggregating 1872
per cent"
=" Pack of lies' is the sole re-
Spouse made to this charge by
Senator Aldrich, and yet every de-
tail of the charge has been care
fully set forth, and papers like the
New York World have challenged
the Rhode Island Senator to show
that Senator Bristow was wrong
in any particular. Certainly
nothing has shocked the country
more than the charge that the tar
tiff bill was shaped by its trainers
so as to feather their own nest.
No wonder the voters are asking,
where do we get off. +"
The administration forces are
standing squarely to Aldrich and
Cannon in the fight that is being
made by the insurgents for con-
troll of the party. 1t will be re-
called that the president sent his
attorney general, Mr.. Wickersham
to Chicago for the purpose of read
ing the insurgents out of the par
ty. Since then the situation. has
changed, and instead of being
kicked out of the party, the insur-
gents in many of the western
States are being placed in control
lof it. But the attitude of the or
ganization has not changed, and
/ it is still with the standpat crowd.
Here is what Mr.. Wichersham said
in his Chicago speech when speak
ng for the administration:
He that hath no stomach for
the fight, let him depart. The
time of running with the hares
and hounds is over. Treason has
ever consisted in giving aid and
comfort to the enemy. IF any one
wishes to join the Democratic
party, let him do So
The Wickersham utterance,
looming as it did from member,
of the Presidents cabinet, made
the insurgents powerful mad. They