The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-09-07
tycOCK n GLENN

elIest of honor and speaker Cf.
lI Iov', at a big educational rally ia
the tIonburg county on last Thurs
Mech vac United States Senator F. M
da!, ,ons Concerning his presence.
STU the address he delivered the
anu n'otte papers join in the unani
Cn" oninion that he made quite q
envorabie impression upon all who
Iaord him; that his speech showed q
nEe"rongh familiarity with the subjects
tnooted and a complete knowledge OF
ra Great economical question new
th Ioiming the attention Of the public.
cl1 mbo Senator's speech vas nonpoh-1
,..a1 as it should have been upon the
un"oOion of an educational rally.
VToIIlowing are some extracts from
address, by the Charlotte News,
Lbich will be interesting to many:
nITar also decimated u population
left us waste and desolate. This
- followed by the no less dark days
g construction. For 80 years we
eeo,ndered in the slough of hopeless
noSs until we could stand 1t no longer
Tbon natriCtism asserted itself and
hurst these shackles"
The sneaker referred to the step
+otnn by the state in 1898 toward max
mo the ignorant vote of the state less
nowerful than it had been before and
characterized it as the greatest step
eorward North Carolina had ever TAX
on He said nothing had ever been
Jonn nv the citizens of the state that
went so far toward removing q 'DugntI
that had been put upon the state dur
ing reconstruction days when 100000
IGNORANT negro slaves had been turn
al loose upon the state with all the
rights and the power accorded the
~Anglo-Saxon freeman who had come
and conquered the untamed wilderness
and set I'D a government of their own
This he said. was the first electro
ctnn taken toward throwing o. tt
conditions that had hindered the
states progress since the a This
determined effort for radiance of a
deem blot upon the states escutcheon,
coupled with the sound virtues for
which the people r noted and their
deep reverence for sacred things, was
responsible for the great progress
which the state made in the last
two decades.
1--WE must admit" the speaker went
on. that We were sadly handicapped
nv the liquor traffic for yaers. Finally
a declaration of war. no less deter
mined than that which charged the
conditions in 1898, was made against
the nefarious and immoral traffic I'M
til every inch of North Carolina soil
had been wrested from the arch en-
envy of society, and CIVILIZATION and IN
dustrial progress. This removed the
last great handicap and paved the way
for the progress that North Carolina
has made in recent years, especially
as regards her splendid educational
career.
Charles B.Aycock was the splen-
did patriot who deserves most credit
for the progress that edusation has
made in North Carolina since 1898 He
was tho eloquent champion who led
the determined hosts in their effort
to get rid of the curse. CT ignorance.
Another name that viii never be for
gotten in North Csr Ira history is
that Of R. B. Glenn, The cause of
temperance had already advanced far
when he took the helm of the state
and everywhere thirst and progress
were being shown. But the restless
spirit of eileen could not rest until the
demon of liquor was driven from its
last stronghold in the state. The
Watts bill, which was the most effect
i've piece of legislation Of it's kind the
state ever passed. could never have
become a law without the magnificent
leadership Of R. B. Glenn. The money
you paid them while they were doing
this great work for the state has been
repaid you a Thousand times over in
a great moral, social and progressive
era.