French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-02

is a penitentiary ofense, just n same
) as if they had stolen from somebody's
cash drawer the amount of money they
|, pay or receive for a vote.
The man running for any office that
knowingly accepts the results of a
!, bought vote should be held an &C
cessory to the crime, and convicted
and sent to the penetentiary the same
as the man that sold or bought the
vote; for few men are not cognizant
of the fact as to whether votes have
been bought for them or not.
When the good men (regardless of
political af1liation) of Western Caro-
lima put their shoulders to the wheel,
and lifted the dark cloud of negro
domination from the Eastern half of
the state, and wiped republican ma
jority out of the state, vote-buying
and selling was no longer needful for
white supremacy; and then and there
it. should have been stopped and stop
ped forever, and every man that UNI
dertook to practice it after that should
have been arresed, convicted and sent
to the penitentiary.
AS soon as the Eastern half of the
state was relieved from the negro
vote, they sent men of integrity and
good average ability to congress, and
have kept the majority of them there,
and the result is today, that the state
of North Carolina holds the highest
chairmanships of the greatest COM
mittees in congress, and the most
powerful one by right of seniority Of
service, both in the Senate and House,
through which they should, as demo-
Gratis and citizens, be able to secure
recognition for this state and this
southland, through a clean unpur-
chaseable democracy. What kind Of
a figure has the Tenth cut nall these
years? No doubt they have often
blushed for the state, when the con
dition of the Tenth district is ex-
plotted on the floor of the House.
For these reasons, and lack Of
knowledge of the resources on the
part of the men from the Tenth, val
liable work for the upbuild and devel-
opment Of the Tenth, originating in
the district, gets but Indifferent, if
any consideration at all when the
seat is filed with a republican in a
democratic Congress, and when it is
filled with a democrat that does not
present the districts interest, and be-
cause the seat of the Tenth is rec
ognized as saleable to the highest
bidder.
A s12-year old boy is put in Jail in
this district for taking, without per-
MISSION, a game chicken to see if it
could whip his chicken. The child is
arrested before he could return it and
put in jail-in a jail where the boy
can look out of the back window and
see men committing p~enetentiary Of
lenses in the back yard of the court
house, buying and selling votes for
money and for whiskey; and see them
escape. being put in Jail. That child
grows up with a contempt of the law.
T Is it a wonder blockading runs riot,
! carrying concealed weapons promis-
cuous and murder common when men
3; guilty of carrying concealed pistols
+! and of taking the lives of their fell
low men run for Office and receive
the votes of Christian men.
Is it a wonder that boys are grow
ing up with little respect for law and
order, with little comprehension of
the sacredness of the ballot, when men
are setting the example of violating
the most sacred of all laws but the
law of God, selling the most sacred
thing they have except their wives
and children?
For a man to Understandings sell
his vote for money, directly or indi-
rectly, or for his registration fee, or
for his railroad fare, or for his hotel
. bill, he is as guilty as if he had stolen
a chicken.
There are only a few legitimate ways
that money can be lawfully utilized