French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-12

proportionate share of the Govern
ment expense, then they will vote 1or
Wilson: if against it, vote for the
"pussy-footed feather duster" Hughes
This hope o~f-repealing the income tax
Hughes regards as a straight husn
in his political game. If elected ne
! would win all the stakes on the table,
! for the rich would no longer pay, and
they and Hughes
would sit down to- dine
Ouaf to each other in sparkling
wine,
From goblets of crystal and green,
Then happy and gay they would
loudly sSy=
| What fools the people have
If Wilson had been largely instru-
mental in no other achievement than
in the enactment OF the Federal re-
serve banking act, which has nberat-
ed the country from it's Vassalage to
the great New York banks, he would
be- entitled to- reelection. The money
barons of Manhattan are So dly
against him, but that alone she I'D
make the rest Of the country stronsa r,
more earnest and unanimous for his
return to power.
Up to the present the 'pussy-footed
feather d~uster" has not approved or
condemned the act. Reader! do you
know why? The answer is simple;
he knows the people are for it, he
knows his monied masters are against
it. and he fears to excite their wrath.
No man can read his speeches and
tell what he stands for, except that
he stands for the money kings of
America. and against the interest of
the "toiling masses" He has, when
Governor of New York, allied with
the big monied interests and corpora
tiolls and against the welfare of the
people, and if elected President, he
will be the subservant> tool of the
same crowd.
The people of the South are as
loyal to the flag and to the Union
as are the people of all other sections
of our common country. Notwith-
standing the fact that the plow-shares
of war scanned our hillsides and val
leys with terrible scars; that every
Southern home was a sacrificed altar,
and the lintels of the doorsteps Of
nearly every Southern hamlet were,
spr:nKled with the blood of our first
born, we thank God that those scars
have long since been healed on all
our hills and valleys, and in all our
hearts and homes, and that the men
of the North and the South and their
children are living together in the
bonds of peace and brotherly love.
The men of the South, as deeply and
tenderly as the men of the North, ap.
preciate the patriotic sentiment of the
lines of the poet who said of those
who wore the Blue and the Gray:
Each did the duty that he saw
Each wrought at GGd's supreme de-
signs
And under loves eteE2al law
Each life with equal beauty Shines"
And yet in the face of these blessed
truths Hughes is attempting to stir
among the dead embers and arouse
a spirit of sectiOnalism by crying to
his audiences, "The South is in the
saddle" This vicious spirit alone
should turn thousands of Republicans
North, and South, against him. Any
man who attempts to stir up bitter
ness between the different sections
Of his country is unworthy of public
confidence.
When we think of the great Repub-
lican party-the party that enriched
and glorified the annals of our his
tory the party-greatest in initiative
and achievement-the party of Lin
coin, Grant, Harrison, Mckinley,
Roosevelt, Taft, Blaine. Conkling, and
a great host of immortals-and then
think of the shifty dodger Hughes as
its candidate, We really felt that, for
a season at least. "the Scepter has
departed from Judah"
When the people know the facts
as they will know them, being more
enlightened and independent of party
dictation than ever before, thew will
flock to Tie standard of the man who
by his great diplomacy and wisdom
has kept our nation out of war. has
been largely instrumental in the pas
sage of laws which have brought ma
tional prosperity, widespread ap-
prevail and the assurance of even a
more glorious future. He is no yelled
prophet; Hughes is nothing else. He
never acts the part. Hughes had done
little else. since the Presidential-bee
months ago stung him as he sat in
the chair of an Associate Justice in
the Supreme Court. Wilson is frank,
open, candid, Hughes is neither, but
with the studied arts of the Dema-
gogue ne wraps authority and power
in mystery in order to magnify them.
Pretending that he did not want the
nomination, recent events prove that
he was a most "willin' Barkis," and
this too in the face of the fact that
months ago he went before a notary
public and registered an oath that
under no conditions would he accept
the nomination. What has become of
his oath?