Laurel Park is again the city’s playground.
Many are the city jobs, but few there be that want them.
Hendersonville’s popularity as a convention city is rapidly
growing.
If you want a job under the present city administration, now
is the time to apply for it.
Some day the dear ladies will come into their own and occupy
a position of power on the city school board. Sentiment is ripening.
We presume those negro voters over in Asheville are still
smelling awful to political nostrils.
Southern railroad has resumed its summer schedule through
Hendersonville, giving railway service every few minutes. It is about as
convenient as taking a street car in large cities.
While South Carolinians are planning to open a sanitarium
for feeble infants and their mothers in the mountains of North Carolina,
Hendersonville might advantageously get busy and convince them of its
suitableness for such an institution.
We imagine that Dr. Lesesne Smith would have a more difficult
task in convincing the Hon. W.A. Smith that Saluda has 20 per cent more ozone
and is 2 per cent cooler than any other mountain town, as stated in a recent
Spartanburg speech, than Columbus had in convincing the Spanish court of the
merits of his globular theory of the earth.
“Asheville is just beginning to feel badly about losing that
congressional convention. For the first time since we can remember that city
was asleep when there was something stirring.”—Waynesville Courier. And following on the heels of this is the
disappointment occasioned by the loss of the next annual Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows and the North Carolina Insurance Agents association, both of which
Hendersonville landed despite Asheville’s endeavor.
Those in charge of entertainment for the celebration of the
Hendersonville-Spartanburg highway should take the following from the Spartanburg Herald into consideration:
“July 4th, which is senatorial campaign day in
Spartanburg, has been set for the opening of the Tryon-Saledia-Hendersonville
highway. If the pilgrimage is to be the success all want it to be, the date
should be changed, since there are many who would not like to miss the
political festivities.”
A CITY PARK
The Democrat believes that while the Greater Hendersonville
club is looking around for suitable grounds for a permanent park within the
city limits it would be a good idea to look into the proposition of
establishing a small park on the court house lawn. As the lawn stands, there is
nothing to satisfy one but the sight of a little dead grass.
The Democrat is included to think that the board of county
commissioners and the whole of Henderson County would take kindly to a
development of this nature, since it would afford great comfort for court
attendants who have no place to rest except in the court room or on the court
house steps.
At a trifling cost the lawn could be transformed into one of
the most desirable spots in the city with shade trees, lawn-swings, drinking
fountains, and a pavilion for shade purposes while the young trees are growing.
This would afford a resting place almost n the heart of the business district
and it would no doubt be greatly appreciated by many of the thousands of
visitors to Hendersonville.
EDITORIAL
OBSERVATIONS (CONTRIBUTED)
FUSION MOVEMENT PROPOSED
The Republicans and Progressives of the State have started a
movement with the view to getting together. Messrs. John Motley Morehead and E.
Carl Duncan are the mediators. These gentlemen are to formulate plans and
submit them to the future meeting of the “faithful.”
Even Tom Settle has consented to co-operate with the blind
followers of Col. Roosevelt and favor reconciliation. A meeting of those
interested was held in Greensboro on Wednesday of last week and each
participant expressed the wish that all former Republicans might again unite
under a solid front against the wicked Democrats. It is said that not the
slightest unpleasantness or disruptive signs appeared during the conference,
the only idea being to get the old party men back in the harness together like
they were when J. Ellwood Cox ran for Governor and William Howard Taft for
President in 1908. Mr. Duncan generously offered to surrender his position as
National Committee of the Republican party, if Progressive Committeeman
Williamson would do likewise, and drop former differences entirely. Evidently
Mr. Duncan is for peace at any price now, but he sang quite a different tune in
Chicago two years ago. On the contrary, he sat there in the Republican
convention and saw the very life “ground out” of Col. Roosevelt, without even
uttering a word of protest. And this is not all. He boasted about the action of
that convention, and the role he played in it, for months afterwards. But,
maybe, the Progressives have forgotten about it all by this time.
There is this about the proposition of cooperation between
the Republicans and Progressives: The suggestion appears to have come from the
former, as the Roosevelt enthusiasts do not seem to be taking the idea
seriously at all. The Colonel himself recently held a number of political
conferences in Washington and remarked afterwards that “not a single Republican
showed his head.” He conferred at length with the Progressives in Congress,
over the political situation, and advised continued effort along the lines
outlined prior to his departure for South America last year. While he declared
that politics was not the object of his visit to Washington, he was noticeably
careful to take time to ascertain, in so far as possible, the sentiment with
reference to the policies of the Wilson administration. And singularly enough
he did not seek information from any Republican.
There are well defined rumors to the effect that col.
Roosevelt and his little coterie of Progressives in Congress agreed upon plans
of attack upon the administration during his visit to the capital, but not a
single Republican was taken into their confidence.
If the attitude of Col. Roosevelt, who is the daddy of the
Progressive movement, shall be judged by his movements in Washington last week,
the efforts of Messrs. Morehead, Duncan, Settle and other Tar Heel Republicans,
to bring about a union of forces, will be “wasted on the desert air.”
Republicans had no part in the day’s program and the Colonel saw none of them,
although “it was learned” that before he left Oyster Bay a Republican member of
Congress telegraphed him, asking for an appointment. He declined to discuss the
suggestion, but purposely remarked that there were no Republicans in sight
during the day. The view of the day’s events in Washington, it might be the
part of wisdom for our North Carolina brand of stand-patters to get the ear of
the Chief Moose before going too far with their reorganization program. Colonel
Roosevelt is still the chief guy in the ranks of the Progressives and appears
not to have surrendered any of his independent tendencies. He may be counted
upon to continue in the limelight. See him before committing yourselves, boys.
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