The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
% County Republicans
Hear Knox in Asheyille|
Col. Knox Makes Bid for States
Is Electoral Votes; Grant
Bauguess Is Honored
ENDS HIS SOUTHERN TOUR

Twenty-six Ashe Republicans at
tended the rally in Asheville Mon
day night when Col. Frank Knox,
Republican candidate for the Vice
Presidency of the United States,
spoke to a crowded stadium of en-
thusiastic listeners.
All of the names of those attend
ing from Ashe were not available
Those taking cars were Messrs.
Brown Tribble, B. B. GRAPHICAL,
Grant Bauguess, C. E. WEIGH, and
Hamp Blevins. Mr. Bauguess, county
chairman of the party, was honored
by being invited to ride on the spe-
cial train with Col. Knox.
Bids for N. c. Electoral Votes
The Chicago publishers appear
ance in Asheville was bid for the
Is electoral votes of a State which
has gone Republican only once since
the Civil war-when former Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover carried North
Carolina in 1923 against Alfred E.
Smith. But Knox declared earlier,
in an interview aboad his special
campaign train that there is a ''real
revolt" in the State against ''the be-
tryalof Democratic principles by the
present administration"
He predicted that the electoral
vote in November would be cast for
his running mate, Gov. Alfred M.
Landon, and declared, too, that the
fall election would seat several Re-
publican congressman from North
Carolina.
All of North Cardinals IL con-
gressmen are now Democrats.
The Republican party is progress
ing in the State, Knox asserted, be-
cause ct is the best party to pro-
mote the growth of North Caro-
ina's relatively new industrial char
acter."
Nowhere has the New Deals lack
of understanding of the issues and
of public opinion been better ap-
preciated, Knox said, ethan in North
Carolina, where industry is making
such rapid strides"
Ends Southern Swing
Knox came to Ashev1lle at the end
of a days tour of North Carolina
cities, closing two-day campaign for
the Democratic votes of the social
ed "Solid South" The Republican
first invaded the South on Monday,
when he spoke in Virginia.
Standing in the southernmost
point of his coast to coast campaign
Monday night, Knox said in his ad-
dress that. when you vote for the
present administration you are not
voting the Democratic ticket"
Not Democratic
II would not accuse the Democrat
is administration of responsibility
for the present administration" he
said ''That would be SANDER on
the party of Thomas Jefferson and
Grover Cleveland and Woorow Will
son and Carter Glass"
Then Knox outlined what he said
the Republican party offered voters
in additionally Democratic terri
tory.
''It does not promise New Deal"
he said. Zone New Deal is enough
for this country for fifty years. 1t
promises fair deal, no more, no
less.
'It is not going to squander the
taxpayers money, It believes that
relief and party politics are poor
things to tie together It is going to
head hard in the direction of a bal
ancNd budget. This means violent
reversal of gears.
Not Party Question
IF you want government of this
kind, you will have to vote the Re
publican ticket. But it is not a
party question.
when you vote for present adj
ministration, you are voting for
more boondoggling; for government
by guess. The administration
does not represent the principles of
the Democratic party. It has outrag-
ed every principle for which the
Democratic party has always stood. :"
North Carolina has the materials,
he said, to build "a great industrial
empire" but, he continued, "You
cannot build it under a government
that restricts production, that throt-
ties free enterprise"
''It is widely believe" Knox went
on chat the reelection of the pres
ent administration would mean
another MIRA, more dictatorial, more
oppressive than before I do not
know. That is the point of the
matter.