Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-09-04
FICTION In PLACE OF FACT.

The Saturday Evening Post that wide
ly circulated illustrated Weekly found
cd by BENJAMIN Franklin in 1870, and
WHICH endeayors to be. right. tho the
Heavens fall, allowed itself to be the
vehicle of a gross injustice done the
city and people of Hendersonville-and
their chautauqua association in it's fs-
sue of Aug. S0.The injustice referred to
is contained in the initial article
high Cost Of Living in Washington
by one Henry Beach 'Needham.
The false and unfounded statements to
lnade in bold type on page A IN writing
CT Secretary Bryan's ~chautauqua lee
lures here recently, to wit:
"On July thirteenth, the day being
Sunday, Mr.. Bryan was billedto speak
at HendersonVille, a small town near
Asheville, North Carolina. The people
drove from miles round to hear their
secretary of state. Most of these coua-
try visitors were amazed, then made
angry, when they found thatlan admis-
sion fee was charged-and to the
slender purses a large fee. Those who
came late also found that spectators
had bought many of the tickets and
were selling them at double the fix
ed price. The unexpected drawbacks
to a memorable occasion brought
forth a protest which was so penetrat-
ing in fits intensity that it reached the
Ears of the Secretary of State and he
felt obi ged to explain"
Such a conglomeration of ~faIseness
has never, we dare say, appeared in a
single issue OF the Saturday Evening
Post before and surely never in a
single paragraph. First, it is false
that the people were amazed or angry
when they discovered that an admis-
sion fee to the chautauqua auditorium
vas charged. Every man, woman and
child who heard Mr.. Bryan on that
day, knew before hand that
his lectures were chautauqua attrac-
tioHs, paid for by the Chautauqua As
sQciation and would be charged for
az were all other attractions at the
auditorium during the chautauqua sea-
son. The fact that there would be. a
fee charged on the day referred
was emphas zed by notices printed
~ tho nnVvcn0nnwC ~ @h~ ASR- @F H.
Jacksonville and otherwise made public
ana the information that Secretary
Bryan was to lecture, was coupled
with the information regarding the fee
to be charged. Z
Again the statement is false to the
effect that late corners found that the
t ckets had been bought up by spec
and were selling at double the
pr ce. Not a single ticket was
bought or sold by a Spectator" for
animal is st II an unknown guam
in this law abiding community, and
the writeftof these I mes is coroborated
this assertion by the officers of the
Association and the gen.
who sold the tickets, being no
other than the cashier of the First
Bank and Trust CO., men whose ver- |
aCity is above question.
Aga n the author of the article de-
.iated widely from the truth when
wrote that protest was brought
etc. n~ecesitating an explanation
Oh the part Of Secretary Bryan. BE
It understood that Mr.. Bryan made no
regarding the manage
ment of the Chautauqua Association
\: hich was responsible for the man
agement of the lectures, but d ID ex-
lain his own personal position in ap-
rearing upon any chautauqua plat
form while serving the country in the
capacity of secretary of state. There
vas not the whisper of a protest heard
n or around Hendersonville anent the |
charging of a fee for adm ssion to the
lectures, and if such protests were |
they must have been made to the
III Informed writer of the article or
have been the idle vaporings from the
imagination of the would be. critic who
tict mixed the Saturday Evening Post
ITO having it print such unfounded
untruthful rot.