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EXTRA! EXTRA ! V()L. XXVIII RALEIGH, N. C. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 5. I9IO. No. 43 THB CAUCASIAN, EDITORIAL BRIEFS Threatened suit for libel in a po litical campaign do not cut much Ice f.ten based on hot air. Many Democratic speakers would rrv to convince you that the world is as f.at as their own platform. Ihli has been an exceedingly warm campaign, but It will ' a cold day vhcn the Republican j left. Sykea rhymes with and that is what the esteemed vA ssor will bp doing after next Tuesda.e "There'll be a hot time In the c town next Tuesday night," but the Democrats will have a severe case of cold feet. Add nothing to nothing and the re sult is naught. This is the sum totai of the Democratic platform and iu candidates. A dyed-in-the-wool Democrat is not so very, bad, if bonest. but what is to bec ome of one who died in poke berry juice? Vote early, but not often. Fre queut voting on the one day la said to be a right of the Democrats and to be often exercised. A fair vote with an honest count, and It is dollars to doughnuts that the entire Republican ticket iu Wake County is elected. The silent vote counts to a greater extent than is commonly thought for. It will cast many Republican ballots in Wake County this year. The young man in politics Is a sreat quantity this year. He has de parted from the sins of the fathers and will cast his ballot with intelli gence. It would be a good and saving Idea for Republican neighbors to go to the polls together, so that they may have full evidence that their votes vere cast if not counted. Marion Butler speaks in Raleigh to-morrow, Friday. Daniels has re ceived an invitation from Morganton for the same day and Simmons is still two hundred miles absent. Raleigh Is. to have a "bird man" flight under the management of Joe Daniels. This is appropriate enough, since the manager is surely a bird that quacks. Vote according to your honest con victions but do not allow passion and prejudice to control your decision in a matter that affects many others than yourself. President Taft Goes from Washing ton to Cincinnati In order to vote the Republican ticket at home. It is only a step from home for you Republi can voters of North Carolina. "A conduit for emptying all the filth the Democrats can generate.' In this way is the Raleigh organ of the disavowed party described by one who knows whereof he speaks. Senator Overman says that rather than accept a fee against his Slate he would take one to shoot his own niother. Is it less honest to endeavor to collect a debt than to commit murder? The seed from a bale of cotton brings more money to the farmer &ow than did the entire bale under the Cleveland administration. Con sider this tact. Mr. Farmer, before you vote. A continuons vaudeville entitled "Broken Democratic Promises" has been on the State political stage ever since W. W. Kitchln began his cam paign for the Governorship. The critics pronounce It a dismal failure. A proper administration of the school funds Is one of the vital Issues In the local contest to Ue decided on next Tuesday. Do you wish money for your children to be spent on high salaries and vacations? If so, rote the Democratic ticket and pay the Penalty afterward. THE TRUE FACTS Ic Wf a a Republican Supreme Court That Repudiated Carpet Bag Bond. DEMOCRATIC SCHEMERS It Was Leading Democrats Who Con ceived the Fraudulent Dills, Urged Their Passage, and Handled the Money. They Used Allen North erners and Ignorant Negroes to Accomplish Their Schemes Read ho Facts of 18G8 and 1800. (Dy A. E. Holton.) The special tax bond legislation the crime of 1868 and 18C9 has been the ever-present weapons with which the Democratic party has as sailed. the Republicans of North Car olina for all of the 40 years of the life of the Republican party in this State. The Legislature cf 18G8 and 1SCJ was Republican, but with a few ex ceptions they were dumb cattle reg istering the will of Democratic lead ers in this matter, knowing nothing and getting nothing but their per diem. The men who conceived the idea, laid the plan, and constructed anl wrote the legislation, were nativj Democrats, who used the alien Northerners whom the vicissitudes of war had cast among us and who had taken the initiative in organizing a Republican party In the State, to gether with the ignorant negro, who had so recently been given the ballot. Leading Democratic members of the Legislature voted for these bonds. Leading Democrats outside the Leg islature handled nearly all of the bonds. Leading Democrats largely composed the board of railway di rectors and voted the mandates which directed the sale of the bonds. The broad Democratic assertion that the Republican party was entirely and altogether responsible for this legislation and management of the bonds constitutes the most unjust and cruel political crusade that any political party has had to bear in all the country's history. The Republi can party had the majority in the Legislature, the bonds were issued and no roads built. Without inter mission the Democratic cry went forth, "they stole the bonds, stole the bonds, stole the bonds." The people would neither hear nor read a word In defense, or explanation against this cry, and so it has stood for forty years. This legislation and bond steal oc curred about the time and before those now active in politics were born. But there has been a great change in everything. Light and knowledge has grown apace. Prejudice no longer usurps the mind of the public, political thought is comparatively free and I believe willing to hear, and I, therefore, wish to call your attention to-some of Its history and the men connected therewith. In the case of Horn vs. The State, reported in the 84 N. C. 363, in which an effort was made to sue the State for recovery on these special tax bonds and in which the Supreme Court held that the State could not be sued thereon, W. P. Bachelor, a prominent lawyer and a Damocrat, living in the city of Raleigh, was at torney for the bond-holders, and ar eued the case before the Supreme Court. The case of Baltzer vs. The State, 104 N. C. 265, was a second effort to collect these bends. Hon. Thomas C. Fuller, another Democratic lawyer, brought the suit and argued the case before the Supreme Court of North Carolina, as the reports of the Su preme Court show. Mr. Fuller, shortly after his effort to collect these bpnds, was unani mously endorsed by the Democrats of the State for appointment to a United States judgeship and was ap pointed and held the position for a number of years until his death. Judge Merrlmon, who was after wards elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat and by the Democratic party promoted to the position of chief Justice of the Su preme Court of the State, it is said, assisted by the late Senator Ranson, drew the bills which authorled the Issuance of these special tax bonds, and used his influence to secure their passage. I am reliably informed that the original bills are still on the file In the city of Raleigh and are In the handwriting of Judge Mer rlmon. Of a number of other leading Democrats t in the State who have been promoted to the highest posi tions in the gift of the Democratic party, some voted for &'nd others were instrumental In securing the (Continued on Pf ge 3.) THE SLANDERERS RUN Marion Butler Greeted by Tremendous Audience at Raleigh, Vhere He Denounced Simmons and Daniels. EXPOSED THEIR MISERABLE RECORDS Read Letter in Which Wat Shown that Senator Vance Hid No Coafid rnc in Simnons and that He Considered Him an Unscrupulous Politician Speaker Snowed How Daniels Had Hounded the Man Who Had Befriended Him and His Widowed Mother-In Fact He Exposed the Infamy of ihe Traducers Mr. Pu'Ier KeaH Letters From Senator Pd tigrew, Capt Caper, Also HN Letter From Coler & Co, Snowing He Lid Not Now Have, Njr Ever Had Had Any Connection Either Di.ccily or Induvctly With the Fraudulent Carpet Bag Bonds, Wtich Were Conce vd and Enfinrced by Democrats His Argument on Stale Issues Was Conclusive-Speaker Often Interrupted by Vocifer ous Applause. j When Marion Butler was recog- I nized as he entered the Academy of ! Music yesterday afternoon, he was cheered to the echo. When he ap j peared on the stage he was met with I even louder acclaim. When he arcs ir acknowledgement of the introduc tion to the large audience by T. Ivey, of Cary, Wake County, the cheers were deafening In volume and sin cerity of meaning. The two floors of the Academy were filled to the utmost of their capacity with voters of both parties, not alone from Raleigh and the im mediate neighborhood but from oth er sections of the State, many com ing from long distances to hear the man who had been vilely traduced by the Democratic machine. The telling points that be made met uni versal approval, as shown by the oft repeated cheers and cries from the audience and by the throngs of vot ers who went on the stage at the conclusion of the address and warm ly congratulated him. In conclusion he showed that he had at no time any connection with the carpet-bag bonds, and also prov ed that the issue of these bonds wa3 engineered by a conspiracy of lead ing Democrats, using as tools ne groes and some alien carpet-baggers as pawns to carry their schemes to loot the State. This much he proved by holding up a copy of the Fraud Commission Report. When he said that the Democratic ringsters would give any amount of money to secure that report, a report that had been suppressed, stolen and burned, and that these same ringsters would give any amount of money to get the copy which he now had in order to burn It, a voice from the audience called out, "Yes, they would give $20,000 for it." And Butler called out, "They can't get it for all the money which they made out of this thieving rascality. Mr. Iveys Introduction. The audience was what might be called "mixed," made up of both Re publicans and Democrats, with neith er side apparently in the majority, yet every man there seemingly will ing to stand for fair play. Neither Josephus Daniels nor his fellow-assailant of good character was pres ent to meet the man who had chal lenged them, or either of them, to meet him in public and confront him with the charges they had made be hind his back. In fact, they were conspicuous by their absence, and it did not seem that they had an7 friends in the audience, judging from the cheers that greeted the speaker each time he referred in scathing terms to their cowardice j and lack of honest manhood in re j fusing to meet him before the peo j plo- Mr. Ivey was introduced by Mr. Lester F. Butler, chairman of the Wake County Republican Executive Committee, who spoke In brief words. As Mr. Ivey arose before the audience he was greeted by loud cheers, emphasized at the conclusion of his address, in which he said, in part: "I take a rery great Interest in the speaker, in the man. who Is about to address you. He is your friend and the friend of all men who try to do right You are men of convic tions, and represent the majority of the great yeomanry of North Caro lina, The men who oppose Marion Bntler are afraid to meet him. They are asked here to hear him as the tribune of the people and they dare not come in answer to his challenge, given them In ample time, with hour and place given In very plain type. His opponents have lost or sacrificed their own Issue and now turn to this man and make of him the one Issue on which they rely to fool the voters. They fear and hate him because he Is telling the truth about their rec ord of broken promises and because he- has done for North Carolina and the Soil I more than every Senator and CongreaSPo since the war. They will not succe-"7and so. fel low citizens, I have tneASrof In troducing to yon one of your owe State and a staunch defender of Its ' rights, the Honorable Marion Butler frcm Sampon County." Marion Ilutlcr3 Address in Detail. Marion Butler began his aduresi by thanking Mr. Ivey for the many nice things he had slid, adding that while he did not deserve ail of them he would try to so live that ho might deserve at least some of them. Then he said, in effect, that this U a meeting for which a call, several calls, in fact, had been made, and strong emphasis, a remark that was that he would proceed to read these loudly cheered, "and I wish to add In their regular order. Then he right here that my letter In question read from the several letters and waa signed 'Mary Ann Butler and public announcements containing that I will etand by the name de the challenges to Mr. Simmons and spite all the Furnlfold Simmons and Mr. Daniejs (which have been here- the Josephus Daniels In all creation." tofore published In The Caucas- "This is one time that Hamlet can ian) to face him with their false and not be left out of the play. I accept cowardly charges. He called out to the Issue they have made for them both of them to know If they were selves and dare them to put me to present. There came no response, the issue on any grounds of personal and then from the audience camo honesty or grounds that refer to my the cry, "They are not here." The alleged connection with any carpet speaker then said, "I am here at bag bonds." the home of these cowardly slander-j The speaker at this point referred ers and neither of them dare to with telling effect to the magnanl show their heads. mous generosity of Major Stanton. "They have very good cause for of Wilson County. In giving the office not meeting me here. They knowof postmaster at Wilion to the wid thelr charges are false and they owed mother of Mr. Daniels, which know that I can prove these charges supported the family and gave him are"7a!se. I will give any man In his living and education, and detall this audience a hundred dollars, yes, ed how this man had later turned on more than this, if he will go out and the benefactor of himself and his bring either Simmons or Daniels here widowed mother and hounded him to meet me face to face, as any man to his grave. In scathing terms he of courage should be willing to do p'ctured the low and base treachery If he believes for one moment that of this contemptible ingrate In turn he has been telling the truth, as ing on his benefactor In order to In these ringsters of the Democratic gratiate himself with the Democratic party know that they are not telling. State machine. Their entire attack upon me has Continuing, he said: "I see here been based on lying cowardice and a Confederate veteran. Doctor Per knavery, and they know it, just as Iscn, of of Wilson, who will, without know it, but they dare not come here doubt, confirm the statements I have and give me enough rope, as they made," which Doctor Person did. In term it, to hang myself. Why don't way that brought loud cheers from they come here and try to draw the tho audience. I noose around . my neck They are "The Democratic party was great 'afraid to come close enough to pull in the days of Senator Vance," de- the noose. . clared Marlon Butler, "but it is now At this point the Senator was led by two men who are In no way handed a telegram which he read as follows: "Greensboro, Nor. 4. 1910. "Marlon Butler, Care Academy of They are two hybrids of a very low Music, Raleigh, N. C. i order from somewhere and yet they "The following telegram Just re- have the Democratic party to-day br ceived: 'Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the throat They have prostituted Nov. 4, 1910. Republican State that which is left or this party and Committee, Greensboro: Judge Hole, now it is going at a rapid rate to of New York showed me and con- political perdition, suited me about Marion Butler's let- "There is no comparison between ter, cf January, 1906. In said letter right and wrong." he continued, "and Butler refuses to have anything to none between those who have un do with the collection of any South- justly assailed me In this the one ern State Bonds that were not hon- 'issue' they have dared to prerent be est and for which the State had not fore the people of North Carolina." received par value. R. F. Petti- A great burst of cheering broke grew.' j cut at this point of the speaker's ad- "JNO. M. MOHEHEAD." When Senator Butler read the sec ond call for this meeting he said It was addressed to "The People of North Carolina mons, he is too According to Sim- respectable" to meet Butler. At this point the audience single promise made and kept, cheered. In apparent derision of He then took up the Republican Simmons and Dinlels, as was after- State platform, pointing out that it wards proved, and, in fact, through- made many great promises In plain 1 out the entire address, whenever the and simple -words, name of either Simmons or Dinlels The way he handled local r elf was mentioned. "I am here ready for government was not only unique but the hanging," he declared. "If is hard delighted every Republican and elle to use words cf . moderation In a Ited the warm approval of nearly case like this, but all I ask Is a every Democrat present, so far as chance to meet the false and libel could be learned, ions charges which they have level His discussion of the publie school ed at their own Issue, and this Issue question contrasting the record of is Mary Ann Butler. i the two parties was most Impressive I "We are a fair people," he added, and was a genuine eye-opener to whilst the audience listened in rapt hundreds present, attention, "and none of us want any His picture of the d !sf ranch lie Injustlce done to any man. 'They of young white men and old Con have tried to load me down with on- federate soldiers which be showed problum and hate, yet they have only had occurred this year in every succeeded In covering themselves county from the mountains to the with the odium they endeavored to sea set the great audience wild with attach to myself and the Republl- exe'tement and he clinched this can party. point by reading the plank In the At this point loud cheers broke Republican platform favoring free out from the crowd, as often during text-books for public rehcois. the Senator's address. i Then next he discussed the plank In reading a letter addressed to favoring gcod roads with telling ef Senator Simmons, and speaking dl- feet. rectly upon the assertion that Sim- Next he took up the plank favor mons had denounced Marlon Butler lng the drainage of Southern several years ago, the speaker asked swamp lands. He shoved how (CcnOB .a and declare, cr admit, that be had ever heird or read of such a denunciation. No one acceptei the challenge. "If any one saw such i statement from Simmons let hiru hold up his hand and I will dare him to produce the proof, now or hereafte." "No one saw such a denunciation cf myself," he added, "and no one can produce it." kin to those who fought In the Revo lutionary war or the war between 'the States that tried mens souls dres. The Senator diverted for a few moments, to hold up to ridicule the Democratic State platform, which he showed did not declare for a slngl principle, neither did It point to a t 00CT0R J. J. MOU TO MR. J. DAI11EIS Addrettea Opi n and Force ful Ltttcr to Editor Ncwa aid Observer. WHAT HAS BUTLER DOSE?" Shows That Vcrmtr Sraater U !Ute4 by Ik-mocrwts Ureas lie ftei TYrttn f)t of Politic! r,utlw Tells Itenitls That Lnttr' t&tct Has Been MI the CWImM for :Mpt)lti All of the lltih the Democrats Can Cencm t e Si roa PnUr. for One luc" the Immo rtal Hate HarnJ to Itie. Dr. J. J. Molt hat aiMfe! a&4 mailed to Jotejhu DjttirU U fol lowing ojmtii letter ltli re truce la a retfiit editorial in tie Ne ant OWrer, uf hich Mr. UaucU la editor: SutfUle. N. C . October SO. 1)10. "Mr. Joeihus Daniels. IMsior News and Oberer. HalriRh. N. C "Dear Sir: I am Oeal iu And In a late Usue of your pr an edi torial paragraph reciting cn.l ac cepting the terms of a letter I had written you denying the charge that I had any talk or understanding whatever with my friend, Hon. Mar !on Butler. In getting money frota the 'liquor Interest for th North Carolina Republican campaign. "You go on. boevfr, in a differ ent editorial paragraph In the same lrsue of the paper which rudi as follows: "'Dr. Mott proves an alibi. The Greensboro News predicted that But ler and Booze and Bonds and Uoodle would be the 'big four' In the Re publican campaign. It Is right, but the Iron Duke Is not helping the Big Four , "The Inference In this paragraph goes to the public that I am care less as to your adopted slogan: The Big Four." That Ism In any wlte shy of It, or that I would avoid connec tion with Mr. Butler in anything af fecting It, would be very far from the truth. There Is no man In North Carolina who feels greater Interest in this State campaign than I do. X recognize the fact that the strongest collective force In accomplishing any Republican success Is Mr. Butler and the following be had when they overthrew the Democratic party la the heydey of Its power. This body of men constitutes the old guard In any opposition to the Demo cratic party In ihe State, snd can be counted to fight It to the death. "The hatred on the part of the government wing of the Democratic party towards this old guard is, In tense snd seemingly endless. "Whether by sccldent. as the own er of a leading Democratic pter, or by choice. I know not. but you. Mr. Daniels, are the concomitsnt of this hatred, snd you hsve constituted .the News and Observer office the estuary, and your newspaper the conduit, for emptying all the fllthlnets that the. Democratic party can generate upon the leader of these people. "While your barbed reproaches doubtless make no Impretrlon on him. I shall, under your rportunlty afforded, try to offfet as far as I can Its efTect upon the public. "'What has Butler done?' This was the answer made to a business friend of mine, a Imo-rat In this tow n. by one of Iredell eountv'i most sterling citizens and enterprising, wealthy men an Insurgent Demo crat. TM business frfenl teli me of the circumstances himself. "He had Inquired of the Insur gent, In talking about the 'move ment. what he thought of this Inev itable afsoclatlon with It- The an swer wss enough. -In the absence of explicit expla nation of the abase of the man. this question has been asked thonaaads of times since the campaiga opened. "'What has Butler dose ' He whipped the Democrats some years ago. "That Is the ssm total of his of fense. Yoa are afraid he might 49 It again, since ths Republican part has been taken est of Democrat!, hands. Yon lack an Issue.' The tariff no longer serves for s Democratic ' Issue. A tariff for revenue esly. as the Washington Post says. Is an Im possible thing tho Post Is a near '. Democratic paper. "While this old free trade doc trine tariff for revenue only fj stuffed into the Democratic platform for ballast snd bulk. It amounts to nothing with the farmers, who have become satisfied that a- protect I v tariff does not hurt them. The farm er vote Is the vote thst takes North Carolina one way or the other as it chooses. "Cheap cotton and eheap products . (Continued en Page 4.) 7 AM 7'
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