Sylvan Valley News
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper,
J. J. MINER,
BEEVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1903.
VOL. XI-NO. 40
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Congressional Campaign
Mountain Scenery—Swollen Streams—Nar
row Escapes—Debates in which Craw
ford Bests His Opponent Britt
Special correspondence.
Messrs l^ritt and Crnwford after
speaking at FraDJvIin took two car
riages and went through the nioinit-
;iins on their (*ani])aign to the lofty
Higlilands, the highest town this side
of the llockies, not even excepting
lioone. l^^nroute to Highlands v\’e
saw magnificent falls, cascades amid
the lofty mountains and racing, deep,
wide and swift rivers.
Fo*(ling in tlie rain the swollen
Uuck creek, we had a nnrrow escape.
As Mr. Crawford had to speak in two
hours at Highlands, we had to ford
to re.MCh the appointment and rush
into the swollen sreams w hose w’aters
reached a‘)Ove the seats of the car
riage and we three were wet men.
1 told Mr. Crawlbrd he had two seats
—a wet seat and a .seat in congress in
the future.
At Highlands, a beautiful summer
resort, perched 8,828 feet on the
Miscellcneous.
THOMiS A. MIEN, ir„
DENTIST.
Opposite Opera Ilou&e
HENDERSONVILLE, - - N. C.
Gold Crown, Bridge Work and
Porcelain Work specialties.
All work guaranteed and prices r(»a-
sonatde. Painless Extraction.
The JEtkelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel—Mod(;rn Ai)-
pointments—()]>en all the year
The patronajre of the ti-:ivelintr pu])lie
as well as summer tourists is st>licited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard. X.C.
cratic w'ork is unnecessary. He is 44
years of age, has a wifv* and seven chil
dren. He looks like a preacher in his
clerical black suit,standing collar and
gold spectacles.
Mr. Britt was born in Tennessee
and moved to North (^arolina 22
years ago, where he has taught
school about a dozen years, and has
been in the internal revenue depart
ment hunting l>lockaders for 5 years
and then disbursing officer for 3 more
years at Asheville.
Neither uses tobacco in any form
or intoxicants and are honored mem
bers of the Baptist church. Each
“wears without reproach the grand
old name of gentleman.”
The carni»aign has been able and
aggressive yet innocent of mud-sling
ing and personal abuse. They tight
nobly under their respective banners,
yet nfrer debate they remain good
friends, while striving for supremacy.
mountain top and with a summer | Kach is a superb ret>resentative of
population of 1.100 and ,‘550 in the i his jtarty and bravely holds aloft
cold winter, the building w-as crowd
ed with voters, tourists, male and
female in charming contrast. Would
like to descrilxi some of the grand
water falls in the narrow defiles, the
scenery, lofty columnar rocks where
eay;lescry in this peerless, wondrous
mountain land which frames its
beauty in rocks, casca<les, fir and
balsam but my mission, which is po
litical, forbids.
The mountain roads were some
times good along the swit'tly racing
rivers and streams up to the gap
where lovely clouds, like islands,
gather amid the crags. Other roads
were rough and perilous climl)lng,
three miles an hour. The people of
the mountains, noted for their proud
independence of character ;ind indi-
their party’s a(;heivements tor the
voters approval.
The Webster court house was
crowded to hear the speeches of the
opposing candidates who ably discuss
the issues of the day in a debate fr(.*e
from strife. The debat<‘ began at
Robbinsville two weeks ago and ter
minated for tlie pn'sent at \Vehstei
in .lackson county and no (luarrd
marred the amity of two friends,
while the crowds were respectt'ul and
generallv orderly. In tiiis county
there is a local issue injected by the
republicans to catch democratic votes.
The (juestioti is not now the removal
ot the court house from Webster to
more i)rogressive Sylva on the rail
road—that is now' inijiossible, but to
discuss and allow the right of the
viduality were kind and hospitable; ' people of Jackson to vote on the re-
some of their Injnies isolated in the
mountain fastnesses were stylish,
co. tly and large, interspersed \\ itb
mountain cabins beside the sj)rin>;
cool as i( e. surrounded by ferns and
mountain tlowers.
Then we climbed following the
streams, superb surveys for roads
and railroads, up the mountains of
moval, provided th(* mnjority of
voters s(» p<4ition the legislature.
This is a local issue and cuts no ice in
the congressional race. ( raw tord will
carry Jackson by the usual majority
—about 100.
Mr C'raw’ford opened the ball at
Webest<*r in his usual able, aggress
ive and incisive mannei- and held his
Cullowliee, viewed the grand Tuck- crowd which frequently cheered him.
aseigee river, then down the mouiit- ! Witii sledge hammer blows he dealt
ain to Glennville. At CuHowheeare | i» arguments and answers to his op-
five .'ij?l 1.500 buildings built by the : ponents fallacies and his speech was
state and a tiormal and industrial ■ intelarded w’ith anecdotes that pleas-
school of about 100 pupils, under the ■ ed and amused republi(*ans and dem-
presidetU’V of J. A. iNIonroe, a great ; ocrats. }le began with the three olt
grand nephew’ of President Moni oe. I repeated charges against Britt and
At Cullowhce the house w’as crowtleil j his rei)ublican party in North Caro-
bv voters and students cheers and ' lina. He told about iJritPs resigna-
the incense of tlowers from fair hands nation of his office at Asheville,
animated 3Iessrs Britt and Crawford.
Crawford is an agj^ressive and able
campaigner and is an adept in the
use of ridicule and .sarcasm, two for
midable weapons in debate. He is
one of the people, a tall, broad-
sliouldered, athletic mountanieer and
stands six feet high, weighing IDU
whi<‘h office he may again hold after
'his defeat in Nov. He read from
the ponderous .Secretary Taft’s speech
at the republican convention at
(Jreensboro, where he said in thund
erous tones, “H is best for the repub
lican })arty in North {^irolina that all
federal offices shotdd be held by the
jiouiuis. His age is ,“)0 years? has a democrats of tlie state. ’ Then he
wife and four children. He is a bet- ' read Judge Bynum’s republican and
ter and more incisive talker than his ; caustic criticism ot his own party
more scholastic opponent, Britt, who I when he said, “George ashington
is ve?’y respectful t*» Crawford, and I was first in w’ar, first in peace~and firHt
seeks by his soft w’ords to catch dem- I i*' hearts ot bis countrymen, the
ocratic votes in this race, for he j ^^‘P^hlican party are always in
knows there is no chance for him
without democratic aid. Mr. Britt
is a pleasant speaker, lacking in
m ignetism and ot'ten fails to enthuse
his crowd like Crawford, but demo
crats must remember that he is no
man of straw and think that demo-
pockets of their countrymen.’’
“Remember republicans this i?
what your own men have said of
your own party, not my w'ords. "I'he
republican convention at Greensboro,
where rows and police were present,
j wasaKso exposed, for it was a .struggle
between Judge Adams and Congress
man Jilackburn for control of party
machinery and to determine which
faction should control the distribu
tion of “pie” to hungry office seek
ers.
Mr. P.ritt says he favors the
Adams taction; he has been an in
ternal revenue officer for five years;
then he was a faithful disbursing
officer for three years. Although a
young lawyer of less than one year’s
practice, he admits he vvasai*i)ointed
assistant district jittorney to help
prosecute Congressman Blackburn,
the only republican congressman in
North Carolina, and the last one for
the next ten years, yet Black
burn was acquitted, notwithstanding
Britt’s efforts and speech. Britt
tried to send the only republican
congressman to jail for high crimes
and misdemeanors.
Thus I have show’n without malice
the misdeeds of this party that Britt
defends, and ask you to vote for
honest, good government. The re
publican party is in favor of protec
tion that protects the rich manufac
turer, upholds trusts and monopolies
and robs the masses to enrich the
classes; the democratic party is the
friend of the masses, helps the a;i-
ricultural south and fights against
unjust taxation, monopolies and the
hydra-lieaded trusts.”’
Then the tedious, abstruce and
generally uninteresting Dingley tariff
on 4,2( 0 articles of trade, was discus
sed at length—too long for this pa
per to give all his arguments against
protection that i>rotects the manu
facturer and rol)s the southern farmer
whose products are not helped by
protection, but the farmer has to pay
a high tax on what he buys.
“This Dingley tariff is a tax, a
heavy l)urden. and no tax can make
a nation rich and prosperous, yet
this is what I’ritt claims. The idea
of a tax making a nation prosperous
is ridiculous. Here is the Ding—
dang Dingley law that I hold in my
hand, and this little pamphlet of
aliout six pages made you rich and
brought you all your prosi)erity, so
Britt claims. M'hy Britt, are you
not ashamed to attempt to fool in
telligent vjters this way?
‘“Prosperity is w’orld-wido, and
nations in Kuro[>e aud Asia are pros
perous, tariff or no tariff. A bun
dred tiiinsis, as varied as the intona
tions of our southern mocking bird,
natural causes, the blessings of Provi-
deni;e, the wealth of our mines aiul
forests, our agricultural resources,
increase of gold output and increase
of money in circulation, our exports
of $1,400,000,000 to for('ign markets,
the toil :ind sweat of millions of
laborers—all these have combined to
make th;s grand country rich and
prosperous in spite of tariff.
The cotton crop exports from the
South, besi<les wiiat was used by our
own mills in this country amounted
to >;400,000.000 total, or more than a
million dollars for every day in this
year.
“Tlie toil of the laboring man,
upon wdiose grave no costly marble
shaft is ever raised, helped to make
us rich—\'et Britt puts a stain on the
brow of toil when he says protection
did it all.”
Mr. Britt was introduced by Zeb
Vance Watson and replied in an able
and forceful manner that evoked
applause from his side. He had no
ai)ologies to offer for his eight years
service in the internal revenue de
partment, that he did his duty “fear
lessly and faithfully and di.sbur.sed
$18,000,000 at Asheville and the bal
ance was correctly kept, and of the
record I am proud. I also admit
that I, as a law'yer, Kith scarcely one
year’s practice, helped to prosecute
my friend. Congressman Blackburn,
who was acquittei. lie and 1 are
still good friends.”
Then he claimed that Mr. C’s
charges and indictment agaii st the
republican pnrty in this state were
generally not specific—dealt in glit
tering generalities without specifica
tions. “A lawyer, as you all know—
and I see some law’yers here today—
must present in court charges and
specifications in his indictment.
“Tom Taggart, once a democratic
chairman, was iiuhcted and evicted
for keeping a gambling saloon at his
hotel at Frencdi Lick Springs,”
Then from a dilferent viewpoint
he discussed protection that unrJer
republican rule had added wealth
and brought prosj)erity to this coun
try. Then he dwelt at length on the
panic under democratic policy of
“tree trade” that has brought ruin
to this land. Protection and rei)ub-
lican rule are synonymous; panic
and democracy are in unison and go
together.
The T>rices of farm products f'rom
the government report of Secreti^ry
Cortelyou was read differently from
Mr. Crawford’s statistics, as ^fr. C.
had read these prices to show' that
under some periods of demo(;ratic
rule corn, wiieat, oats and cotton
were higher tlian under n'ptiblican
rule. “Cnder the high pric(‘s of
these farm pro<lucts I ask you to
vote for the republican party and
prosperity.” W. II. Miij.i::!.
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P’rank J. ('heney makes oath that
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aforesaid, aud that said tirfu will
i)ay the sum of Onk Hi*xi)r.;:i) D()l-
LAMs for each and every case of ('a-
tarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of Ilall’^ t^atarrli ('ure.
Fhank j. Ciiknt.v.
Sworn to before m<* and subscribed
in my presence, this Cth day of De-
cember, A. D. 1880.
Seal
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