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

sd the people to accomplish any one
specific valuable thing that. meant de-
velopment that would attract capital
and employ labor permanently on the
development of the resources of the
district. 7 have been unable even to
find one speech in the Congressional
Record on an issue that would perma-
nently employ 100 men in the Tenth.
Considerable has been said that in
New England they swap back and
forth, now a democrat, then a republi-
can. / happen to be familiar with
that section; went to study it to find
why our material was manufactured
there by foreign labor instead of here
by our home people. The base was
free raw material from here, and high
tariff on the manufactured products
there; and the exchange has been
made there, as students know, by
first electing a man on the republican
ticket, and then turning round and
electing the same man on the demo-
crat ticket, and then again, the same
identical man on the republican ticket.
Thai is done as a bait to the New
England democracy, which differs only
Ia name as a rule, to republican poll
cies. Hence, the real democracy of
this southland is not going to allow a
republican Congressman to be main
tanned, no matter if he supports demo-
cratic measures in Congress. It is
the pollution of the purity Of the demo-
cracy of the state of North Carolina
to send one man, with opposite politi-
cal views, to make a record against
eleven other true and tried democrats.
Some misguided good democrats are
suggesting that all men in the Tenth
that want to be candidates for Con-
gress, meet and decide which is the
SL4O AESCSI1 ain 1CI J4oI L4cA gu OC4O4C
the primary. This c~ontroverts the
very purpose Of the primary that was
inaugurated to bring about harmony.
It's going to be hard for machine
partyism in N. C.. to die. Machine
rule does not believe the people are
competent to vote in a primary for a
man the whole people would vote for
at the final democratie election. The
very soul of the primary was to help
the people without interference to
name the man the people wanted.
1t is the star chamber meeting of
self-ofice seeking candidates that have
destroyed the expression of the true
will of the people. 1 agree with Mr..
Marcus Erwin: Let the people name
the man at the primary, and if 100 is
named, the one holding a majority
vote will come very near being the
right man, and merit the party vote.
And he will not be spending money, or
allowing his friends to spend money
to in any manne conflict with the will
OF the people, except such money as
is Iegitimately requisite to fight the
opposing political party. The disgust
Of money spent within the party ranks
to defeat men of the same party, has
given the district a republican to rep
resent it.
If any selection Of a man outside of
his name being sent over the signature
Of his friends to the Press prior to the
primary, let each county itself select
delegates from each township to meet
at the county seat of each county, one
or two months prior to the primary,
and name the man they believe that
county prefers to cast it's vote for,
no matter what part Of the district
the man may reside in; and DO it with
out reflection Or effort to suppress the
name of any man that any number of
citizens of any county might offer
ever their signature -.(not over the
many friends that do not .sign.)
Anybody in recent years, visiting
Washington during Sessions of Con-
gress, a easily learn the Tenth dis
trict has become a by-word and joke
in Congress. 1t is becoming thought
throughout the Nation, that if a man
/ wants to get to Congress regardless
of a.record for upbuild, and without