The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-23

Editor, The Times-News:
1t is so refreshing to see the
recently nominated Republican
candidate for congress, Mr.. Cal
vim R. Edney, assert in his accept
ance speech "that the Republican
party has been the principal fac
tor in the building of this nation
to it's present powerful position"
What is the present powerful
position" of the country1 Is 9 nat.
ton in a powerful q ~
when thirty-fve millions ~ its
people are living on government
subsidies and doles and another
thirty-five millions of people are
on the edge of the abyss that has
swallowed a fourth the popula-
ton of the nation? And when
and how did this nation get into
this powerful condition? Every
body knows it got into this "pow-
erful condition" under Republican
rule and here is how it got that
way: On September A, 1872, the
New York Sun gave the world the
first expose of the Credit Mobilier
scandals under the caption:
"The, King of Frauds. How
the Credit Mobilier Bought It's
Way Through Congress. Colossal
Bribery. Congressman Who Have
Robbed the People and Now Sup
port the National Robber. Prince
ly Gifts to the Chsirmen of Com
mittees in Congress. From Two
Thousand to Three Thousand
Shares Each to Henry Wilson.
Schuyler Colfax. Geo. S. Bout
we'll, John A. Bingham, James A.
Garfield, the Patterson's, Elliot,
Brooks, Dawes and James G.
Blaine"
Then followed tho full exposi-
ton of the "King of Frauds"
Said the Sun: "The most damag-
ing exhibition of official and pri-
vate villainy ever laid bare to the
world. The Vice-PreSident of the
United States, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, the
chosen candidates of great par
ty for the second highest office i'll
the gift of the people, the chair
man of almost every important
committee in the House of Rep
reSentatives-all of them are
proved by irrefutable evidence to
have been bribed."
Then follows all the deadly in
disputable evidence. That was
near the beginning of Republican
rule in this country and still
stands, according to history, as
the "King of Frauds" in the an
mails of this government up to
that time. 1t was the regime that
produced the "Black Friday" of
Jim Fisk and Jay Gould, who to
the sound of the Exploding pis-
tolls of suicides ruined by these
freebooters and PIRATES, fled to.
their "Castle of Erie" where an
army of thugs" so,called by the
press of the time, protected them
against the angry, surge of the
ruined.
Then we have the great Repub-
llcan "whiskey ring"-no doubt
the inspiring forerunner of the
great Republican dry leadership
in this state: Benjamin H. Br;s-
tow had succeeded Richardson IS
secretary of the treasury, and
presently discovered that in St.
Louis and other western cities
the government was not getting
the internal revenue from distill.
ed spirits which trade reports If
production indicated that it was
entitled to. His investigation dis.
closed a whiskey ring that will
figure in political literature for
a long while to come. In brief
certain crooks in the internal,
revenue service conspired with
certain crooked distillers 70 ha .4
taxes. u "iilskey
Mcdonald. supervisor of inter-
nal peverhte at ST. Louis and ..
members Of che riie. Sst; nm "a =