Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-23
Why Keep Experimenting
lWayneeVille Enterprise \

Au10 Is as old as tho
eternal hills. and by preservation :.
rnent no only the care of once IT,
but also the preserving of ones ~.
terial things. Yet we as a BODY no,,
tic go against this old time rulo y.
are inconsistent in our going r.
OF the main points of attack NV -.
would be congressman and his oro
porters against the man ALREADY il
is that he spends the peoples timo
n money campaigning. Yet tho
rules of the game are such that ~
less a man in office come home on5
personally fight for his reappointmon,
he would never have a chance of 70.
election, unless in such an instance
as the recent Underwood-Hobsop
campaign, where the latter did M.
have a chance anyway, and where
there was little to be gained by Mr.
underwood wearing himself out run
ming over the country.
We send a congressman to WASH
~ w ooA
hgton for two years only. Six months
to get acquainted, six months und;-
yjded service to the people, and then
he has to start fighting his home folks
to be reelected. If he stays on he
job he fails of reelection; if he comes
back home and affords the people tina.
pleasure of a holly debated campaign
his enemies Immediately set I'D d
heller that he is off the works and
squandering their money. The man
they are supporting says he will de-
vote all his time to the people, yet the,
Southern r. r. will carry him back
TO the tenth a few months from now
to do just what every other congress
man does, back among his W to fight
for his job.
Except in very rare cases this is
thessorriest groundSen which to fight
a man for ~re-eIection. We have made.
certain laws about these things, regu-
lations that do not give a candidate
much Of a show unless he is on the
ground, and then we make political
shot and shell out of his coming with
which to shoot him into the ranks Of
the "has-beens."
The people of Haywood and the
rest of the. 10th district will want
something more defnate on which to
- #%e
turn down the man they have allowed
tc stay so long in Washington that he
is getting at last into a position where
he a be of some use. Mr.. Gudger
has made mistakes, but every man
does that. Mr.. Gudger has come
TO campaign for reelection, but every
congressman does the same thing
when necessary.
Our grounds for the support of Mr..
Gudger for another term in congress
are based on these points; the fac:
that he has been in congress long
enough to get the run Of the game,
has reached a position because of his
service where he stands for ome
thing, where he Il on, and will be ap-
pointed to other committee as time
goes by, has served the greater part
OF his apprenticeship in the business
of government and can now be expect
ed to make us some returns on the
money invested in him. He was I'M
known to his associates when We hrst
snt him to Washington, and now tna'
he has reached a position of eQuain1
in the house we must not set him ASIDE
and send another in his place WHO
will have to travel all the long roau
yer again to reach the rung OF Tho
10th districts ladder now held by MI
Gudger.
II it can be Justly said that ne Is
absolutely unfit for re-appointmen"
for the job, so much his superior thai
we cannot afford to waste the years
we have spent on Mr.. Gudger' tDen
let a change be made. But II THIS
no the case If we find that the pres
ent congressman measures up to 'u'
that we have a man eminnetly beue
average of those who have been
the house for a like length of time
will be unwise to make this chanS'
have a man In Washington that rea.
~ counts for anything, a credit TO ~
home people, we must have a m~"
there long enough to get a poSlUO"
on some Of the important commltVeeo
NJ Gudger has made his start ano'n
chance heretofore denied him Is
We will get a return for the nous"
invested in our representative
akl
Gndger Well Pleased.
Marfon Progress.)
Congressman ]. NJ. Gudger' a00O|