The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-03
HAMRICK and
TOMS ADDRESS
REPUBLICANS
Final Rally Of Campaign
Attended by Large
Audience

The Republicans held their final
countrywide rally in the fall CAM
paign this morning at the superior
court room. The meeting was well
attended. 1t was opened by Frank
Waldrop, chairman of the county
Republican executive committee,
who presented Brownlow Jackson,
former state chairman and pres
ent district congressional chair
man. Mr.. Jackson presided over
the meeting and introduced the
speakers.
Fred Hamrick of Rutherfordton
was the principal speaker of the
program, which concluded shortly
after 1 o'clock.
He urged the election of Hal
sey B. Leavitt to congress and
declared he was an outstanding
man, and would not be rubber
stamp" for the approval of the
legislative proposals of a presl-
dent, regardless of their nature.
Mr.. Hamrick told the story of
preacher who in reading. a
scripture passage at church SER
vice started out by reading that
"at the age of 900 years Noah
took unto himself wife," and
then turning by mistake to a
wrong page continued to read a
description of the ark, which
showed the dimensions in cubits,
ending by telling how it was fin
ished inside and out. Astounded
at what he had read, the preach
err removed his glasses and adj
dressed the congregation, saying:
Gentlemen, | never read that IN
the Bible before, but since it's in
there, it must be So" /
Mr.. Hamrick pointed a moral
to his story by saying that 1.-The
Democratic administration is no
more like the Democratic party
than Noah's wife was like the
ark
He closed with the epigram
that: "In 1882 it was FDR; IN
1888 it was MIRA; in 1884 it is
CWA; in 1895 it will be lou! and
in 1886 it will be COP"
Charles French Toms in fiery
address declared that the gather
ing, like similar ones over the ma
ton, was for the purpose OF dis
cussing vital issues concerning the
liberties of the people.
Touching on the Republican
party, he declared that it had
been in power during most of the
wears since the Civil war; that it
had protected the infant indus
tries of the nation in their early
wears, and that it had passed leg
islation for the protection of Ia
| Dor and for the benefit of the
people. With this record behind
| it. he declared that if anything
can save the nation it is the Re-
publican party.
He charged that the Democratic
party has never done anything for
the people of the country, anu
that the real statesmen of the ma
ton have been members of the
Republican party.
He reviewed the history of the
country, telling how the liberties
enjoyed by citizens had been
purchased by the blood and heroic
efforts of patriots, and declared
that if the nation goes it will not
be by war, sedition, pestilence,
but by the loss of the great prin-
ciples of liberty.
He attacked the state absentee
ballot law, declaring that it was
the greatest obstacle to the liber-
ties of the people and their self
expression in the history OF the
state.
He spoke of the old age pen
sion, predicting that it would be
enacted into law, and declaring
that it was not partisan meas
ure, that credit for its inception
was not due the Democratic par
ty, and that it was receiving the
support of both parties.
w. C. Meekins, Hendersonville
attorney, and chairman of the
State Republican executive COM
mittee, was introduced after Mr..
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