French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-08-24
WARREN ADOPTS A
HUkRY-UP SLOGAN
Domoeratic State Chairman Urges
Necessity of Getting Campaign
Started without Delay.
Especial to The Hustler.)

NOW and eleCIlOn udy, Chd1Emdn
ron of the Democratic State Commit.
zoe has adopted q hurry-up slogan,
and is endeavoring to impress upon
the local party managers and leaders
in all the counties the necessity of get
tine the campaign formally started
everywhere without further delay.
Every intelligent person knows how
dangerous delays are, yet in some
COMMITTEES there has been a disposition
tn nut things off that should be care
fuIIy looked after at once. The local
sneakers who have been disposed to
halk at hot weather" will now find
the first fall month peeping at them
inst around the next corner-and they
ore expected to get a move on them
without further parley and proceed to
swat the enemy ct every little meeting
Mace available-wEerever a few may
assemble themselves together. 1t is
Of these little meetings, where ones
neighbor tells him the truths and de-
veIopments which ordinarily would not
como to his knowledge, that the bed
rick. the ground work, of the years
campaign is laid. That is Chairman
Warren's opinion. and it certainly
sounds like the real thing. Closely
connected with these little meetings is
the opportunity thus presented for the
~nrecinct committeeman to get in some
good work and pass it on up to the
county chairman-One of the most de-
sirable and effective, not to say indis-
pensable. results being the proper
polling of the voters of every precinct,
as the State Chairman has been urg-
ing already. That is the way to start
ND the political machinery and get it
in good working order.
A little later On, some of the big
guns of the campaign (who can't be
everywhere at the one time time) will
visit every county and help the cause
along-and there's some mighty fine
material booked for the bigger meet
ings. Then aside from the nominees
for governor, and presidential electors
at large. than whom it would be hard
to find three more eloquent and con-
Yincing speakers in this Or any state.
We want to make every effort to
keep our hold on a majority in the
new Congress. both House and Senate,
for it looks every day now more and
more like four more years for Wood
row. Bear in mind this Injunction
while you keep your eyes open in the
several congressional districts where
it is known the Republicans are max
ing real efforts and using money to
capture a new congressman.
Beckett Appointments.
Attorney General Beckett. Demo-
cratic candidate for governor will
speak at Asheboro Saturday August
26, and State Chairman Warren an
nounces the following appointments
for Mr.. Beckett: At Nashville Monday.
August %; at Shelby, September 4; at
Ellington September 5; Stanley Coun-
ty, September 9.
Elector Cam. M~orrison's appoint
ments for the immediate future are:
At Raeford August rs; at Sanford
August &c; at Lumberton August %;
at Fayetteville August 80; at Saint
Pauls August 81. y
Appointments for Elector Sinclair
will be announced soon. Like his
yoke-mate in this campaign, Mr.. Sim
clair is one of the finest campaigners
in the State, and people will be de-
lighter to hear these "big guns" dis.
cuss the issues of the day.
Boot OF the ether Leg.
Despite the ancient assertion that
cNA " L 44OS NLC4C d1O oOAAO NA~N
at least avoid the truth in a glaring
manner. Mr.. Candidate Hughes cam
palgn manager has just announced his
first forecast of the season. OF
course an attempt to figure out in
August how the election will go in
November is rather previous, and to
that extent worthless. But this initial
forecast" of the Republicans, based
on Whof fhOv forro GCp0oCnnoh1u pOr-
tain" votes, is as ridiculous as worth
less, and will hardly serve the evident
purpose of fOoling somebody who
knows no better.
Selecting exactly half the number
OF States this prognosticator ladies
out an even 800 votes for Hughes. or
"a more than necessary to elect. These
States he terms reasonably certain
and then proceeds to add 100 more
electoral votes which probable" Re
publican States will yield his cand!-
date.
Just how worthless such calcula-
tons are Except for possible effect on
voters meanwhile) can be shown IN a
Jlfy. For instance. in order to figure
out a majority of the electoral college
IN the first list of reasonably certain"
States, this calculator includes West
Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Ohio
and Delaware. Those five States cast
"a votes, and they alone, with the
solid South" added, would give Will
son enough to elect. counting Mary
land. Then there are Missouri and
Kentucky left, with several doubtful
western States to swell the Wilson
vote to much larger proportions than
Hughes men are now claiming.
Current News.
The total Of flood subscriptions IN
North Carolina now exceed $4,000.
but the reports from the damaged
counties indicate that it will fall far
short Of meeting the, situation. and if
the amount were 100000 every dollar
of it could be used in relieving actual
distress. So, do not weary in we'll
doing.