Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-05
OTHERS VIEWS
MIR. WRIGHT WRITES AGAIN.

W.
To the Editor:
The Democratic party rules North
Carolina because the money power in
the State knows it is the safest and
cheapest agency whereby it can keep
its grip on the people. A party name
means nothing to the plutocrats. They
use the Republican party in Pennsyl-
vania for the same reason they do the
Democratic party in North Carolina.
So long as they can keep in either old
party, the great producing class, they
are content. Just as long as they can
keep the farmers and workers believ-
ing either of the old parties are scar
ed, they are delighted, for they know
full we'll they will continue to live on
the labor of the toiling millions while
such ignorance prevails.
What has been achieved in North
Carolina and Pennsylvania was not
because of the Democratic and Re-
publican parties, but in spite of them
What we the great producing class in
this State and Nation must do, ere we
get our place in the sun, is throw off
the party yoke we have so long worn,
at the behest of plutocracy, our COM
mon enemy, and stand together for
principles of righteousness and JUS
tice, and elect men to office who be-
lieve the producing class is as much
entitled to the proceeds of their labor
as are the non-workers who hitherto
have received all of it, but a few
crumbs.
For more than seventy-five years
the Democratic and Republican par
ties have had absolute control of our
State and Nation. Today there is more
pain and suffering here than ever be-
fore, on account of poverty. Let us
hope, that not much longer, will the
great producing class keep it's head
in the sand, like the ostrich, while
every law of Gods concerning justice
and mercy is being transgressed by
the selfish few, in order that they may
live in comfort, on others labor.
At the Primary on July 4th, 214,OOO
men and women voted to free North
Carolina from the awful plague of or
ganized, predatory wealth On account
of the powerful influence Of money
and the ignorance Of at least hun
dred thousand who voted against their
interest we are faced with four more
years of money rule in our State.
We have only two candidates for
the office of Governor both of whom
are married to the idea that money
should rule the State and Nation.
They both are obsessed with the no
ton that ruled the South in slavery
time. To 10th of them, men and wo-
men who work in the fields, shops and
- 1,
and should be content with a few
crumbs-a slave wage, and out of that
pay sales tax in order that the taxes
of the rich may be less. In palmer
words: Mr.. Grissom and Mr.. Hoey
both stand for the principle that far
mers and working folks are beast of
burden, and all they need is corn
bread and fatback to eat and a howell
in which to recuperate for the next
days fight with the wolf of want.
Barring any act of Providence in
our favor, one of these gentlemen will
be our next Governor. What they both
stand for has only one body; they
are it's two heads. So North Carolina.
is going to have a monster for Gov
ernor for the next four years, wheth-
err or not All that is left for we the
people to decide, is which head of the
monster we prefer. Of course, the
Democratic State Machine wants the
Hoey head. They even boast he is as
good as elected, but he is not. The
money power naturally desire the
Hoey head because they have already
gone to the expense to have it named
in the Primary it knows it will be
cheaper to elect it in the November
election than Mr.. Grissom. If this was
Pennsylvania where they have a Re-
publican State Machine, the pluto
Gratis would want MIR. Grissom be-
cause he is a Republican. You see