Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-09-10

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DEMOCRACY IN THE TENTH
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
| Editor Democrat:
Unlike the miscellaneous assembly
collected in your good of city of Hen
Jacksonville ,baced up by no political
principles save only the lust of office,
the voice of the people, with whom is
all power, has been heard in the dem
ocratic primaries, and all that is yet
left undone, is chance for the demo-
cratic hosts to endorse their candidate
and the cleanest and purest of admin
istrations, now at Washington. The
public record of our candidate is abso-
lutely unassailable, as the readers of
the Democrat have seen in the state
ments of Speaker Champ Clark and
leader Oscar Underwood; and dur
il his eight years of service he has
been enabled to make higher progress,
il the way of going to the head of
committee chairmanships, than has
ever any other representative from
our mountain district. The interests
from the Tenth district in Washington
have been faithfully looked after, and
OF this there can be no doubt, notwith-
standing some of US who wanted post
Offices and other positions could not
get them-the offices would only go so
far, and we all could not get one.
Let democrats listen now and see if
this miscellaneous gathering OF
MCoseTs, stand-patters and reaction
aries of one kind and another, do not
fabricate all sorts of issues and false
hoods to deceive the people and es-'
pecially those whom they think they
can find in a disappointed mood, on
account of their favorite not getting
the nomination. Listen and see if you
&c not also hear untruths and coward
ly ISLANDERS put forth in an effort to
catch the unwary democrat, in his ma
tional vote, this blessed year of 1914.
You will find these disappointed poll
ticians who have already grown huT Al
~ for office, which they have so re-
Gently had to give up, cudgelin@ their
imaginations for absurd charges
against the purest, and SO far, most
successful administration, since the
civil war.
They care nothing for the great
crisis<that our country is undergoing,
on account Of the most stupendous
war, since the foundation of the
-o7!d. You Will never hear them
give President Wilson and his con-
gress one word of commentator for
the great good they have done in re
vising the burdensome tariff, enacting
the icome tax on wealth, passing the
best banking system ever known to
our country, repeating the canal tole
exemption law and doing away with
ship subsidy, improving the Sherman
antitrust laws and making it impossl-
sible for ''big- business" to violate the
trust laws and Cypress the common
people.
These people, to the great misfor-
tune of the citizenship of the State,
have on one or more occasions hereto
fore been turned into power and will
any unbiased man point now, to SIN
Gle thing they ever did, that merits
cubic support in North Carolinaf
About the only thing this mongrel
crowd will be able to do, in this Con-
eressional district, or will desire to do,
will be to defame honest character ana
6iscredit useful achievement. The
present representative from this dis
trict. this writer is very firmly led to
believe. has shown his loyalty to the
trusted democratic administration, at
all times, and is now in position to do
greater service than can any new
member, and they can depend on MS
earnestness and honesty to uphold the
honor of the State and its people. The
voters are ready to choose between
truth and falsehood, between states
manship and demagoguery, between
actual service and trickery. The dis
credited and disappointed leader, 20
whom the mixed-up aggregation must
look in this district, is suspicioned by
all the true republicans in the nation,
for thew know his rule or ruin" pol
lCY ana WISELY SNOOAAA
over him in Chicago two years ago.
The people know the motives of this
leader and all his followers, and viii ,
never stand for the calumnies which
they all aim to try and heap upon the
lust, wise and honest administration
# President Wilson. The honest peo-
ME know that no man they could ever
elect to congress now, will be able TO
to do them any good, and they kno"
the candidate nominated in the demo-
cratic primary, was not put forth by
any Clique or coterie of politicians
but was put forth by the yeomanry of
the country, and they will see that he
is elected.
Of course one candidate is not al
ways the first choice of all the party
voters in a party, but when MAORI
ty speaks, then the minority are ready
IN make the choice of the majority
II, ~ oboioo ond unless if he a very