Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-06-26
good advertisements.

l would like to see a garbage
can at every dwelling and bust.
ness house and an ordinance pass.
ed to require all garbage placed in
these and carried to the creme.
tory.
| hope, gentlemen, you will not
make the salary too small, for If
the business manager does his full
duty, he will be forced to enter
tain a great deal and he will be
called upon for benevolent pur-
poses often and all these things
require money.
The business manager must
write a great deal about what has
been done and is doing and furn-
ish same to the papers. I am
sure that they will print these
pieces, as they are always ready
to help advertise the city, and the
copying Of these articles in other
papers will be a great source of
advertising. He should write to
many prominent people in this
State and in other States, solicit
ing their views on business man.
agement, either by letter or mag
azine, or both. I have been
forced to be away from my family
for the past ten years in order to
make a living for them and to ed
ucate my children and I think l
can make more now on the road
than this Office will pay; but I
have two boys at that age that
they need the guidance of a faith
err. or they will be ruined and all
10y wife's letters during my last
D warned me that I must come
home to stay Or our boys would
he ruined. Then, too, my wife's
health is not good AID / need to
be here for that reason.
And now, gentlemen, I hope you
will elect me. Not t
that I have done, not for anything
that / have failed to do, not for
any sympathy you might have for
me or my family, but for what I
CAN DO.
AS I see it, it is not only a priv
but "a duty to vote for the
one you think can do the most
good for the city of Henderson
vile and l Am ready to go even
further, if I knew there was an
for the position who
and would make a better
manager than I will make
and though I want the Office worse
than anything else and I am sure
that l need it worse than any
candidate, yet I would
at once withdraw my application
and would not allow further con-
of it.
!. Should I get the position, I viii
all, and make friends of the
majority of the people in Hender-
sonville and in Henderson county.
l have always got the best of
hearings wherever | have been,
when l was only a salesman with
something to sell and received
lots of free advertising, but being
armed with the Office of business
with nothing to sell and
with the beauties of Western
Carolina, her climatic con-
ditions and healthfulness and the
business management of the city
of Hendersonville to talk about, l
do not believe any one can sur
pass me.
Should I be elected, I will be
courteous, polite, affable, agreea-
BILE and aggressive, trying at all
times to gain friends for myself
and for those who elected me.
I would liRe to deposit each day
in tax collecting and at all other
times when the amount reaches
$4,000 in name of Treasurer and
not have any account in my own
name as this may be done under
the charter.
/ have learned that road life is
not conducive to goodness and l
have reached that age when home
is very attractive to me and all OF
us have some good impulses at
times and / do believe that | can
do a great deal of good for Hen
jacksonville and especially the
poor among us. During Christ
mas 1910 while at the railroad sta
ton, 1 saw something that was
very touching to me. Two small
white children, apparently four
and five years old, lodging about
among the cars and going up and
down either side of the main
track picking up the waste coal
that had fallen off the tender or
coal cars passing through. l ask