French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-18
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R. N. Oates Writes Letter
In Answer to Recent RuInOrS.
Editor of The Hustler

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Dear Sr:I know a little something about the game called politics
l have read some and observed some and l know it was ever the trick
to attack the man who dares to do his own thinking and is not afraid
Ito say what he thinks.
Knowing this, as / say, ] am not surprised to. find myself attacked
and be called upon to answer some malicious charges, although l had
Idared to hopeI might make my race for the Senatorial nomination
without being thus attacked.
AT the outset l wish to state most emphatically that the other gen
tlemen who seeking the Senatorial nomination, one and all, have
ton and calumny so / say some one other than they, who is DESTROYS
Of seeing me defeated had circulated two reports which demand
handling.
First. 1 have been accused of not supporting the Democratic
ticket in the last election.
My answer is: | was chairman of the County Democratic Execu-
tye Committee and was asmember Of the Tenth Congressional district
committee, and as such not only helped formulate the rules governing
nc con ongteSs!!o primary; Dt vas acIuauy ~ memDer Wno
proposed the ooEgatlon taken by each man VINO participated therein,
TO the effect that he would support and vote for Democrats only in
the November election. I participated in this second primary and
was oound by "a rule, l had myself proposed and at the November
selection, | voted for every Democratic nominee from Congressman
to Constable and if any man thinks I did not, let him be man enough
70 come and say so to my face.
Second. It has been said that | am a dangerous man to send to the
Senate that have SO many friends scattered over the State and am
smart enough to use them to the end that I would have enacted some
Legislation that would help me in the desperate fight forced upon me
to prevent my property and business being taken from me. My an
SWer is-Yes, L have friends scattered over the State and some-may-
proud OF my friends and to have them as such and | would not so
count them If | could not ask and receive their aid:
But let's see what | could do that would help me in nv fight to
save my property. What IS the status of affairs today. There have
been two suits instituted against me to condemn nv PROPERTY. One
vas fought through the courts and the final decision of the Supreme
coutf was handed down Dec. II, 1913. The second was fought
through the courts and the decision Of the Supreme court was handed
down March y 1916. Does any man who claims to have a thimbIe
full Of brains believe that any legislation enacted in 1917 would affect
ID the slightest these decisions of the Supreme court made in 1913
and 1916? -
Any man who knows anything about such matters knows thai
This should be sufficient answer to this second absurd charge.
III let say a little something about "those friends and the aid
a. no friends, and lacking them, would have little influence, or does
henderson county want a Senatorwho can call to his aid these friends
and thus do something for the good of those he represents?
am not a lawyer, mol a farmer, nor a professional man hnt insi
Il piah buslness'Man' and as such ask the support of the Democrats