French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-11-23
HonderSonvjIle, Thursday, Nou. 90, 1916
A NEW ALIGNMENT.

The Democratic party may no long
! er be considered as a sectional party
/ The West has joined hands with Dixie
! in throwing off the yoke of Eastern IN
! terests and a day'of nation wide free,
dom has dawned. upon this great ''lana
of the free and home of the brave. >
The dollar no longer figures above the
man, in political elections. in Ihe
sunny south, or the golden west. The
interests may drive bargains for the
electoral votes of Illinois, Indiana,
New Jersey and New York. as they did
during the recent campaign, and still
be a long way from "TipperaEy" The
stalwart sons of the South and West
can neither be bought, o bluffed.
When the discovery that the North
and the East had surrendered to NJ.
Special Privilege was made The in
terests naturally concluded hal <hey
had accomplished the defeat of Presi-
dent Wilson and this condition &C
counted for the betting odds in favor of
Justice Hughes. No one except Mr..
Bryan, disputed the claim that with
out New York or Indiana. MI. Wilson
could possibly win and it is not sur
prising that when the result in those
States placed them in the Hughes col
umn, the news was heralded far and
near that President Wilson had been
crushed by a landslide. But a rude
awakening followed "the day AFTER
from the effect of which the 100 per
cent. candidate" and his managers
have not yet fully recovered.
Anyway, the masses of this, country
are rejoicing in the newborn freedom
and sectional hatred in the South is
only a hideous dream. Mr.. Thomas
F. Ryan. of Oakridge, Virginia, in a
communication to the New York
Times, states the case admirably. His
interesting letter follows:
ITO the Editor of the N. Y. Times:
This is a great day for the solid
South. The Republican party, inspir-
ed by the vindictive spirit of Thad
Stevens and Fac. Chanler, crucffed
and humiliated us with carpet bag rule
and attempted to destroy us political
ly with the Force bill. In This cleo
ton they invaded the sancitv Of the
Supreme court for a candidate. and
fifty years after Appomattox sought 10
revive sectional hatred.
The solid South with a son of Old
! Virginia has changed, all this and now
in a sympathetic and natural alliance
with the great West notifies New York
and the East that the solid South can
no longer be used by Democratic poll
ticians of that section to nominate
Presidential candidates Of their own
choice without regard to the interests
of the rest of the country. This cleo
ton sends to the rear pro~Germans
and prO-Jews, prO-Allies and pro-Irish
and proclaims the doctrine of pro-
America for Americans. The chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee, I see still calls US ''the enemy
Yes, the South is the enemy of all
sections and all persons, however
small, who attempt to divide our com
mon country by preaching the doctrine
of sectionalism and the superiority Of
wealth and financial power over an,
true American, however. hG~bfa he
may be. THOMAS F. RYAN,,
Correct you are. Mr.. Ryan. 1t i:
good, hard sense, you are talking
ga united South and West" mean;
peace and prosperity in this countr,
for years to come. The South will re
main "solid" for Democracy and tn,
right and all Of her people rejoice il
the prospects of a "ruIe of tn
masses"