French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-19
RALEIGH NEWS LETTER.
fsneciaI to the Hustler. }

Raleigh, Oct. 1S.-InlS 10 noA0Aene
busiest week-the week of the Great
state Fair. Thousands of people from
eli over North Carolina are assembling
here as usual, only a little more 50
this wear, and the indications are 1or
tbe biggest crowd and the greatest
State Fair in a generation. ms
week marks the annual reun1on Oh
North Carolina felix's. So many Tar
heels never get together on n other
occasion. They come from Currltuck
TO Cherokee" aNl thousands meet
each other at the State fair eacn year
who seldom, if ever, see each otner dt
anv other time. Hundreds Inc pro-
badly thousands come here n tnifu
week of every October largely Tor mat
purpose, for the meeting OF ola &C
ouaintances and %congenial friends is
one of the real enjoyments OF lie ana
a geod thing to indulge IN.
Observation-Disclosures Now.
Of course there is a large proportion
of politicians and near-politicians
"among those present. and many more
who. While not politicians in the COM
mon aceeptation of that term, take a
lively interest in politics in an effort
to perpetuate the principles OF the
party with which they are aligned, IN
the interest of good government, n
the election of capable and proper men
to ,public office. l have talked with
many of them, n it IS putting 1t
mildly to say that Hughes men are
not numerous, and when o do ma
one he explains that the Candidate Is
being supported because he is the NOM
J inee of his party.
f. There's absolutely no enthusiasm
that can be discovered in the Hughes
contingent. and it does look today,
three weeks before election day, that
the National Republican ticket will run
behind the Republican State ticket
which is a-reversal of the order mere
tofore. This doesn't mean that Mr..
lLinney is expected to poll an UNUSUALLY
large vote for governor, because the
prospects are that he will not. and
that Governor Bickett's majority will
be a large one-certainly it will be a
big one if all the Democrats vote, and
thereby hangs this short tale:
The time is short in which you can
register. SEE that your nam is on
the books. Don't take it for. gtnhted.
Make it your special business to at
tend to this matter at once. The bal
lot of an unregistered voter will not
beworth a cent 10 himself. his party
or anybody else on election day.
Woodrow Wilson Day.
Chairman Warren, of the Democrat
ic State headquarters here, is urging
loyal party men to make October TWEEN
ty-eight (Wo0drow Wilson Day) d
great day in every county in North
Carolina, as it will be in every other
State Of the American Union. The
49, ,,t:o1 %Io n,oc;1on+ - - do
liver tia day at Shadow Lawn will
local speaker, and the day is to be
otherwise fittingly celebrated.
Governor K1tchin, Governor Craig
Robert N. Page, and other big guns.
> will be busy from now on, for Chair
man Warren is pressing them into SER
vice fox the balance of the campaign
> Governor Beckett is already booked
for every weekday till the day of cleo
ton, and the Misrepresentation of Re
publican speakers will be exposed all
lover the State. Then will come-he
IEeluge of Democratic votes.
Republicans Who Can't Support Mr.
Hughes.
There has been a great deal of fay
orabIe comment on the Charley Nc
lKesson Letter." in which that fuen1
;. and eloquent Republican for thirty
years (as he assures us) announces
that he is for President Wilson's re-
election, Rzkly gives some mighty good
reasons why he prefers him to Hughes
Mr.. McKesson is not alone in the at
Ititude he takes with respect to the rela-
tive fitness of the two candidates fol
the greatest office within the gift OF
> the American people. 1t is a long list
that the names of prominent Republic
cans who will support Mr.. Wilson this
;. year makes-not because they nave
embraced the Democratic faith Sc
much as because they are convinced
that the reelection, of the President
will be best for the country-for its
: best interests and for the whole Amer
l;aon nnoT1n