The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-14
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reasons for his receiving the nomi
nation is that scores of people op
posed to him and his methods re-
fused to vote in the primary so al
not to be held by it's rules in the
forthcoming election, knowing full
we'll that Greensboro and some
other parts of the county would pun
Brockett over them any way, also
out of a population of some 10000
people Mr.. Brockett only re-
ceived a little over 200 votes.
The vote in the election showed
how they stood on the ques.
ton.
If Mr.. Brockett can bring "con-
fusion into the ranks of the voters
of High Point" to any alarming ex-
tent, then the German navy can sail
up Deep river and annihilate this
progressive city. One is as impossi-
BILE as the other. The statement by
Mr.. Brockett that the "Aycock coun-
ty proposition is dead as door nail"
is of course father to the wish on
his part, but nevertheless a mirky
dream caused by a too highly de-
veloped imaginative power ON his
part. 1t remains to be seen later
if we get a new county.
Judging from the remark made
to the reporter i'm the article it is
quite probable that the whole ar
ticle or the substance thereof was
inspired" by Mr.. Brockett, for how
could any other citizen so ruthlessly
set aside the facts in the case?
AS to the commission form of
government High Point wants it
and will get it, but the voters of
High Point in a representative mass
meeting told Mr.. Brockett eInphat-
ically that they would have say
so In matters affecting their inter-
ests and not stand for him naming
the five commissioners to control
this fair city without first settling
the matter at the ballot-box. Far
from being "agin" a commission form
of government are the anti-Brockett
crowd and no one knows this better
than Mr.. Brockett himself, but
the voters of High Point want TO ex-t
ercise their suffrage instead of grant
ing the Legislature this important
duty, and here's where the rub
comes. .>..
The two factions are about even
ly divided" says the article. Ye gods
and little fishes, about evenly divid-
ed! Did the mass meeting show it;
will anything else show it? No! A
mass meeting, the largest attended
in the history of the city, was held
at the auditorium the night of Dec.
28th and if ever a man was set
down upon by his own people good
and hard Mr.. Brockett was, the vote
ranging at the ratio of IL to for
the anti -Brockettites 1--WE suppose
we should thus style them since the
article above) upon every question
that the Brockett committee pre-
sented.
At this mass meeting the voters,
and they were there in abundance.
set down flat on the following
Brockett committee resolutions
To have the Legislature name
five men to control the city of High
Point, one of whom would act as
To put the city into politics.
To abolish the school board, and
so forth. -
Does this look like about evenly
divided 2"
In reference to Mayor Tate and
Mr. Cox, we presume these gentlemen
are not worrying over MIR. Brockett
but they are interested to the extent
that they and other good citizens
do not intend to fold their hands
and let the city which they contrib
uted so largely in bettering be now
handicapped or ruined by political
on the part of any one.
They would not be patriotic or loyal
to do so.
Mr.. Brockett is not in Office by
virtue of High Points vote. and as a
democrat we do not believe that he
could be elected to Office by the
voters of High Point. Certainly the
recent election and the mass meet
ing point strongly that way.
- Very few people have gone to the
legislature when their home town
voted against them.
The editor has no quarrel with
any one but feel like such a mis-
eading article should not 60 un-
answered.