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

They are the, principles that the first.
low of nature is home and self
observation. I believe that all men
that believe in a pure ballot feel the
i'm has come under the new election
law. for the judges of North Carolina,
ord District-Attorneies, to begin in
this year of u Lord, 1916, not to
indict people for vote-selling in the
mast, but to direct the grand juries
IN every county from now on, to use
avery possible effort to indict every
man of high or low station in life,
guilty directly, Or indirectly of SELL
ing or buying a vote, whether in the
legalized primary, or at the polls, for
anv office, and wipe this blot from the
fair name of the state of North Car
DINA.
Before the negro vote was elimi-
mated, vote-buying was tolerated for
the white peoples preservation; but
i is hardly heard of now, in any other
district in the state or the south.
Men are being sent to Congress on
their records of ability, merit and
knowledge, and not for the amount
of money they can put up to corrupt
ignorance to buy votes.
Conditions in the Tenth have come
about that is a blot on the fair name
of the state, and it is destroying re-
spect for law. Vote traffic has be-
come so common that young men
growing UP in the district think it
fun to buy votes, and do not realize
that it is a penitentiary ofense, and
destroying the very foundation prin-
ciples of manhood, patriotism and
fidelity to home and state. And IN
less it is stopped, no democrat of un-
questioned ability and knowledge of
it's resources, and qualified to win
results will run for Congress on the
democratic ticket.
1t is only by a unanimous stand by
the press of the Tenth with the sup
ports Of the press of the state can
this humiliating condition of the
Tenth be cured, and cured forever so
the people will know it is cured. /
am not posing as a critic, or 2 censor
of public morals. Ibelieve / brought
with me to this state the reputation
of a man being KNOWN from the
Canadian line h0 the end of South
America as a man of figures and facts.
So I have simply stated the facts as
they prevail in the Tenth district, and
as they are Endorsed by good men
who have lived all their lives in the
Tenth. They are the facts and rea-
sons that industrial development ard
progress in the Tenth for a quarter of
a century has been practically dead.
As requested, ] will now enumerate
what in my humble Judgment, are a
few of the issues, when written into
law will make this old North State
resound with the voices of happy chill
dren and happy homes from the Ten
nessee line to her tidewater front on
the ocean. l will begin with the local
issues:
First issue. Years ago a republican
Congress put all foreign crude abra-
Sives on the free list, and put 8 high
tariff On all manufactured abrasive
goods. This turned idle in the Tenth
" e two and a half million dollars of
invested capital, and over 1000 work
ing men. The repeal Of Section 479
brought down under the Simmons &
Underwood tariff ON the free list
to read: Cali crude natural and arti-
fetal abrasives one-half Of one ce-t
per pound" This leaves the duty on
the manufactured product without in
creasing the price to the American
consumer, and will do the following
things: Put back into operation two
and a half millions Of idle invested
capital in the Tenth. Induce more
capital to come, and put back to work
ever 1000 men in the mines, and in
uce capital to build manufacturing
s!ants in the Tenth that will employ
smother thousand or more men. Do
the NnOpfo won't 4biSS