Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-05-29


the strong things on his side. Do you
know there is a corporation commits
sion organized in North Carolina
against trusts, corporations and COM
bines. by which a monopy can not
live long without being moderated.
without being modified, and the strong
hand of the people Of North Carolina,
through the corporation commission
will go around and say to these gem
tlemen: Now hold up, you are charg-
ing tool much. We will pass on this
Did Judge Merrimon say anything
about that? He will scare you to
deah. Is that fair? I said to let the
facts argue. Is Judge Lyon q play
thing? Is he a dummy? Is he clay in
the hands of the potter? Didn't you
hear us get up and say that we don't
want to interfere Withhold Oates pres
ent plant, and we said we would con-
sent that when His Honor comes to
write the decree he can enjoin us for
ever from interferin with Oates pres
ent plant and operation. Are you
babies? Are you dummies? Are you
clay in the hands of the potter, and
let Bob Oates be the potter?4
Brother Schenck made a most SPLEEN
did speech, and / am most grateful to
him because he talked of everything
that would have any strength on his
side, and left off all the weakness.
but in talking about you people and
the mountain people, he said he was
born in the mountains. I thought he
was born in the Piedmont section, but
l don't know. Anything he saws is so.
l reckon he was off from home when
he was born. He says he was not rails
ed in b mountains but when he got
to be a man he came to the mountains.
and therefore, he loves the mountains
and mountaineers. 1 think you ought
to decide this for him because he has
come here. This is his adopted home.
| have some interest in this country.
| believe I am the man that can brag
more about Western North Carolina
than anybody. | believe / can beat
him Dragging. I am a descendant of
great-grand-parents who were the
first people ever to give birth to a
white boy west Of the Blue Ridge.
Old Col. Smith, just after the Revolu-
tionary War went into Western North
Carolina and settled down where Van
derbilt now owns, and there was born
unto them Joseph Smith. He was nv
great uncle. My people were pioneers.
they settled there; that great grand
father of mine was tried three times
for murder,-for killing Indians,-but
was not convicted. He had to do it
to i've his family. Look how 1 love
Western North Carolina! When the
gold fever broke out in Georgia, nv
parents went there, 1 went to Georgia
to be born, but 1 couldn't help it. l
wanted to stay in Western North Car
olina, l was born in Sam Jones town
but when only eight months old, 1
broke loose and went to North Geor-
gia, making my way back to Western
North Carolina, where my great-grand-
prents and parents were pioneers.
When l got to be twenty-one years
old, l left Tennessee and started to the
Rocky Mountains to see grandeur. /
came to Western North Carolina to
visit kinfolk and when I came here I
dropped down and went to reading
law. When l got my license, I went
to Marion, Morganton and all around.
When / dropped down in Henderson
vile l saw some pretty girls and saw
what a magnificent place it was, / went
to Rutherfordton and packed my trunk
and came here and asked Judge Pace
if it was a good place to practice law.
He says eve have got more than we
can take car Of" but l stayed. Since
that day | have been struggling and
working for you and me, and for the
upbuilding of the country. When /
saw a few years ago, that there was
a probability of developing Green
River, and that the water going to
waste there could be harnessed and
put into power and applied to ma
chinery, / said "Hurrah! Hurrah! Hur-
rah for Hendersonville and Henderson
County"
l have seen the day in Henderson
Vile, and remember when / came to
this town, Judge Pace told me a rail-
road was coming and I says who is
building it," He says: "Some. men in
S~partanbIrg are building it to Hen
Jacksonville and it is coming. In less
than a year it will be here" Finally
those men came and Judge Pace says
1T won't do to let them come in and
get any line,-(Judge Pace, don't
deny this, because none of it's true,)-
it won't do to let these men come and
take this strip of land 100 feet wide
through here and through the town.
They are going to do everything for
.partanburg. 1t is not for Henderson
vile. 1t is not for North Carolina.
1t is all for those men, capitalists at
Spartanburg. 1t is all for Spartan
burg" Did you say that, Judge Pace?
If you had, it would be just about as
reasonable as to say that these gen.
tlemen are going to take everything
and leave nothing.
Mr.. Ladshaw said it reminded him
Of Switzerland. They cross examin-
ed him and made him say he had never
seen Switzerland. Some of you have
never e Big Hungry but you know
something about that land. We all
have an idea about Switzerland. We
have all heard of Niagara Falls. Let
me show you what you are going to
get. Did't you hear His Honor say
if they got this land and didn't
build this railroad it would be the