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8 OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1910. TOM SETTLE ANSI i.iK.i, SVAA - JOVKHNiKT. (News and Observer). The spectacle of Nor ill Carolina Rc-publicans.who govern all their ac tions from Washington by orders or stj-&esti6us- from patronage disrn tmtors in Washington City,running round North Carolina talking about local self-government, excites the amusement of all well-informed peo ple. They are inconsistant and eve ry thoughtful voter understands that such pretense of State or local rule has no real sincerety.No Repub lican in the South cares anything for any government except that which is "sent down" from Washing ton. Still the daisy orator and de bonair speaker of Republican par ty under direction of Butler,is go ing about the State talking -'local self-government" as if his party in the South had not strangled it from Reconstruction down to this good hour. The Wilmington Star shows that Br. Faison is exposing the self government claim effectually. Edi torially the Star says: "Settle Putting His Foot In St. "The Hon. Thos- Settle, of Ashe Tille. . son of a distinguished father from whom he inherited Republican ism with Reconstruction embodi ment, delivered a political address in Wilmington on Saturday night. His "Wilmington speech was one of sev eral he has delivered in North-Carolina within the past few weeks, among the places where he has spo ken being Kenansville, New Bern and Burgaw in the Third Congress ional district where it was supposed he was sent to aid Maj. Geo. But ler, Republican candidate for Con gress, in his fight against Dr. John M. Faison, the Democratic nominee. "Mr. Settle gets credit for being an attractive speaker ancl has about him the attributes of an orator, which go very well with men of all kinds of politics. However, North Carolinians know that Lawyer Tom must appear more as the attorney ol Republicanism than as its advocate. Therefore, they listen to his oratory hut reject his argument. The Hon. Tom during this speaking tour has heen laying a good deal of stress upon 'local self-government' (?) . In Tiis speeches Dr. Faison declares Set tie is preaching this new found Re publican doctrine, a principle which is as old as the Democratic party and which the respectable Republi can party (as alleged) thinks can "be used for two purposes in this campaign to mislead some and du pe others. "The gifted Tom Settle is not gifted in the art of practicing the rules of consistency when he so aout preaching self-government. Evidently he was not in favor of th local self principle when he tried to creak into a Federal judgeship way down in the State of Florida last y;ar. Probably some Florida Radi cal beat the Hon. Tom to that prin i"!e, called attention to it at Wash ington and impressed the President with the fact that Florida Republi cans believe firmly in having local Republicans appointed to Florida po litical positions, they did not want any foreign interference on the part on an imported Repulican from up in North Carolina. At any rate, Settle failed in pulling any orange "blossoms, so his next conspicuous ap pearance was when he attempted to iand the Federal judgeship in the Cape Fear district away down in Eastern .North Carolina. It was a far cry from Asheville away out in "Western North Carolina, to way down in Eastern North Carolina, but it seems that he raised the cry for the east ern judgeship, entirely, oblivious of any local self-government principle caring little for the fact that Wil mington had a local aspirant in the person of the Hon. Iredell Meares who wanted the judgeship for his 'local self.' "Failing again in landing a jud geship in a district in which he did not live and in which he was in no way identified with the people, he had to haul in his horns and await his chances for some other political "browsmg. With reference to the Cape Fear district, he too, like oth ers of the faithful, was sadly among the unfitten who called at the Whit liouse but went away with the Taft mark of disapproval. Not to . he deterred, however, by failing to land locally or far-locally, he had his application on file for any good thing that was likely to turn up anywhere, not specially local. He finally landed a special United Sta tes attorneyship way up in New York, a job which belongs to that State, and yet he comes into east ern North Carolina preaching local self-government,' a text which more illustrates the inconsistency of the Hon. Tom than it impresses eastern Korth Carolinians who know how he is violating the rules right along in the language of one of our dis tinguished friends, Dr. John M. Fai son, of the Third district, 'It's e--ncugh to make a mule laugh." -Mr. Settle, we understand, vo ted for the suffrage amendment in 1900 and it was hoped that such a .manifestation of love for his great native State would reclaim him fron his past affiliations with his black allies of the Republicanism which Jiorth Carolina has endeavored to get rid ci by denegroizing it. How ever, like the little boy, has worn out his pants both, at the knees praying 'and in the seat blackslid Ing, with the result that he has wour.d up as a political wet-nurse of Mary Ann and his brother Geor ge. Alas! we fear Settle will let the name of a distinguished father pass into oblivion for the lack of a suc cessor vi ho can really keep up the father' reputation. . "Thus the Hon. Tomas. Settle, of Asheville, who now has a political joh belonging to the State of New York, is a fair sample of latter day local self-government' a North Carolina Radical who has not heard that 'Maine went hell-bent' to rid itself of Republican scent. Dr. Fai son thinks the Hon. Tom had better lnirry back to New York lest his local self-government principles may debar him from that office in New York. We can add the further rea son that he is wasting his time in lis attempt to foolNorth Carolininas with the idea that local self-government of any kind by the Republican, party would justify them in ag:?i;i risking the horrible I-iiiul of govern ment given to North Carolina by the Republican party: : every shigle J hue it got into power in This State Neither local self-government nor any other kind of government, such as might be expected from Tafrs ta booed North Carolina Republicanism is wanted in the State of North Car olina. Not while Tar Keeis are sane. (iOVEILVOK AYCOCK KKPfIES TO MEARES AXI MOKE HE A D. In His Speech at Lauri!ibur& on Fri day, Oct. 14. Ea-Gov. CSias. 1$. Ay cock, in Concluding; His Remarks, Said : Fellow Citizens: There is one point which I must not overlook. Some ten or twelve davs ago. I made a speech in the city of Ral eigh, in which the newspaper man reported me as saying: "He sounded a note of warning taat Republicans are listening with favor to holders of fraudulent bonds of North Carolina who would sad dle on the State liability for fifty of sixty milllion dollars of fraudu lent, bonds scattered broadcast in reconstruction days, ancl declared that while Republicans deny that they are having any relations with them or would take any steps to commit, the State government to burdening people with the bonds, it is a fact that cannot be denied that big contributinos from these bondholders and their agents are coming into the campaign fund of the Republican party in the State. Immediately after this report was published in the Charlotte Observer, Mr. Iredell Meares, of Wilmington, who is trying to persuade himself .ht he is seriously a, candidate for Congress in that District wrote me a ler.er, quoting the above, but never asking me whether I said ihe things therein or not, and then proceeds to take me to task about the statement, and to call my atten tion to the fact that the Constitu ixn prevents the payment of these tends without first submitting the question of their payment to the people. He then proceeded to assert that he is the Republican candidate for Congress in his district and that he knows that no contribution has been made in his district, and says that he assumes that I have proof of my charge or I would not have made it, and calls on me for the proofs. Later, I understand that Chair man Morehead, of the Republican party, addressed me a similar letter though I have not received any let ter from him, but am informed that he published one in the Greensboro News. I do not take this paper, nor have I read Mr. Morehead's article. Mr. Meares printed his article in the Wilmington Star before I had recei ved his letter. You will observe that he does not ask whether I did use this language or no. He evidently, did not care whether I did or not. His purpose was to provoke a controversy with me.This he can not do. The friends of Iredell Meares who knenv him well, know that there is "no end of talk" even when you agree with him, and certainly no man who ex pects any peace of mind for the next 50 years would enter into any controversy with him about any matter. One may take him to be perfectly serious in his statement that he knows of no contribution i made by the bondholders to the Re- j publican campaign fund. He is too recent a Republican to be trusted with party secrets, and is so much given to talk that even after he has long been with them they will doubt less keep to themselves thingswhich i they do not want generally known. But if the Republicans are serious- ! ly seeking proof that the bondhold- I ers are contributing, or will contri bute to their campaign fund, some weighty reasons can be given for be- j lieving that this is true. In the first place, the bonds were issued by ! the Republicans when they were in power in North Carolina. As soon as the Democratic party came into full power it repudiated the bonds and submitted an amendment to the Constitution to the people forbid ding the payment of the same un less the people voted on the ques tion. It is clear, therefore, that the bondholders do not expect the Democratic party to pay these bonds unless the people order them paid, ana this is the position which the Democratic party took in 1879 and has maintained ever since. The only hope, therefore, on the bondholders o secure favorable action in regard to their bonds is in the Republican party. In the next place, Senator Butler was of counsel for Schafer Broth ers in the collection of the bonds held by them against the State of North Carolina, and he engineered the transfer of $10,000 of these bonds to the State of South Dako ta in order that suit might be brou ght in the name of that State again st North Carolina. He succeeded in that suit.lt is but fair that I should state that the Schafer and South Dakota bonds were not among the fraudulent special tax bonds, but the point is, that Senator Butler while still holding the Senatorship for North Carolina was employed by Schafer Bros, to overturn a settle ment and compromise which had been offered by the State of North Carolina and accepted by all .the other bondholders except Schafer Bros. In this sworn testimony in the trial of the case, he declares that he was employed by Schafer Bros, in January, 1901. At that time he was a Senator from North Carolina and was employed to over turn the settled and long-continued policy of this State, which was to carry out the compromise of 1879 by which these bonds were to be paid at the rate of .25 cents on the dollar. As soon as this suit was de cided in favor of the State of South Dakota, the holders of special tax bonds became extremely active. They have gathered up these bonds from the four corners of the earth,have ! appointed a committee and put their ; in charge of the collection o the bonds, and are now actively engaged , in a propaganda tor the payment ' of the bends, seiidiug out circulars 1 and publishing newspaper articles, ! urging State to settle these bonds. ; Just, at the time cf their unusual 1 activity assertaining their right to ' collect these bonds, Senator Butler ; becomes again prominent in North I Carolina politics. He not only be- conies prominent but is head of the ! Republican party. According to his own statement, he was for a long i time the manager of Morehead's can didacy for the chairmanship. While ( he was still managing Morehead's candidacy, the Greensboro News us f ed this language about him: "Who i made Mr. Butler a man of means? ; Whence comes the bcodle for the j expensive campaign he has been j wagging so assiduously since Jan. lust? Are these irrepressible bond J holders behind him? Are they ex pecting legislation favorable to their ; contention in the event Mr. Butler's j astute campaign results in a Repub lican Legislature?" These are the questions of the Republican organ. They are not my questions they are not my assertions. That paper j has now the same management ana ine same editorial eonaoi wiiic-n it had when these questions were ask ed. You are iamilar with that form j of -rhetorical question which is the j highest form of assertion. "Is the Lord's hand waxed short?'' is the most emphatic way of asserting that His hand is not shortened, and while the Greensboro News wa; perhaps not familiar with this scripture when it asked its question about Butler, its question is the most emphatic assertion that the bondholders were behind Butler. If we can not believe Republicans whei j they tell on one another when can we believe them, and if we make j assertions against their party, based j on lueir lesiiiAiuiij a uu u l una aiiu- ther, who is to blame, we or they? Again, the Greensboro News assert ed: "Many people want to knew if the holders of the fraudulent State bonds are behind Marion Butler in his effort to get control of North Carolina." If they were behind Ma rion Butler in his fight for More head's chairmanship, is there any reason to believe that they have ceased to be behind him since he got the chairmanship for Morehead and since he is making the effort of his life to carry this State Republi can? Of course, we all expect Re publicans to deny that bondholders are furnishing any money for their campaign fund. The particular men who make the denial may be per fectly sincere in their denial. Con tributions can be made to campaign funds under cover. Jim Jones or John Smith or Bill Brown may send a check in his own name to the chairman of the committee.and it may be credited in the books, if any are kept, to this individual, whereas, as a matter of fact, the contribution may have been made by the bondholders committee. Even the chairman may not be aware of what is going on; but since 1904 I have not taken denials of Republi cans about contributions to their campaign fund with any degree of seriousness. In that campaign, Hon. Alton B. Parker, the Democratic candidate for President, made a speech in which he declared that the Republican campaign fund was being furnished by the great corpo rations and trusts, that it was the effort on the part of these institu tions to buy the American people by the corrupt use of money derived from the sources stated. A short time after the delivery if this speech, Colonel Roosevelt, then Pres ident, made a speech in which he practically denounced the statement o Mr. Parker as a lie, and its au thor as a liar. Like the North Car olina Republicans now, he then called upon Mr. Parker for proofs, and in the absence of proofs held him up to the American people as a liar, and thousands of people in the United States voted for Mr.Roos evelt on the assumption that Mr. Parker had made a false statement. Time ran on, and legal investiga tions were had, and ' it turned out to be the truth, under sworn testi mony, that the great trusts and cor porations and insurance Companies were contributing vast sums of mon ey to the Republican campaign fund at the very moment when Mr. Par ker charged them, and that he was right and Mr. Roosevelt was wrong nay, more, it turned out at a still later period that the moment when Mr. Roosevelt was denouncing Mr. Parker as a liar,that he himself had sent Mr. Harrison, the head of the great system of railroads, and had requested him to raise a cam paign fund for use in New York State, and in response to this re quest Mr. Harriman had actually raised one-quarter of a million dol lars, which fact was known to the President at the very time that he was denouncing Mr. Parker as a liar. Since then, denials on the part of Republican campaign can didates and managers have had lit tle weight with me. Again, it is perfectly apparent from the activity of the Republicans from their speaking and brass bands and literature, that much money is being put into this campain on their part. Who is furnishing the money? It is a well-known fact that heretofore the Republicans have re lied upon the National committee for aid. But this year, the National Committee has its hands full in the North and West. The Democrats have carried a rock-ribbed Massach usetts District, a heretofore unshak en New York district,and the State of Maine has tumbled tumultuously into the Democratic ranks. All the funds that the National Committee can raise are needed at home, and, besides, Congress has passed a. law forbidding corporations engaged interstate commerce from contribu ting to campaign funds. Many of the States have done likewise in re ference to domestic corporations. Whence are the Republicans in North Carolina getting their funds? If they want their denials believed, let them open their hookh.Let them show not only in whose name the I it was derived. Will they do it? I j challenge them to the proofs. I In i vprnnf srkpf'h Tii5,ic tw Pvot ident Taft at Cincinnati, on Sept ember 21st, last, he declared: "The country is aroused against the cor porate and corrupt control of legis lative agencies." In his speech at Ossawatomie, Colonel Roosevelt about the same time declared: "If is necessary that laws shall be pass ed to prohibit the use of corporate funds, directly cr indirectly, for political purposes. Corporate ex penditures for political purposes.and especially such, expenditures by pub lic service corporations, have suppli ed one of the principle sourecs ox corruption in our political affairs.' That is to say both the President and ex-President concur in the law that the special interests are cor rupting the body politic and secur ing favorable legislation. Is there any more dangerous special inter est than the committee holding these special tax bonds? With ac crued interest, they amount now to something like$50,000,000. If they could secure the payment of half of this sum through the agency of the Republican party, does any one sup npose for one moment that they would hesitate to fill the coffers of that party with money, and does any one who knows the Republican party of North Carolina hesitate for one moment to believe that it would accept the contribution? But there is one other point made by Mr. Meares in his open let ter. Ke insists that these bonds can not be paid unless their pay ment is authorized by a vote of j the people. May I remind him that this provision was put into the Con stitution by Democrats; that the people of North Carolina owe this safeguarding of their interests to the party which he is now fight ing? He is compelled in his own de fense, to appeal to Democratic leg islation. And may I remind him also that the submission of this question to the people with the Dem ocrats in charge of the election ma chinery is a very different matter from submitting it to the people with the Republicans in charge of the election machinery? for he knows, and I know and everybody knows, that with the Democrats in charge of the machinery, the illiter ate ci.d incompetent and unfit negro vote of the State will not be cast, whereas, with the Republicans in charge of the machinery, our regis tration books will be filled with the names of thousands of negroes not entitled to vote. ft may be instructive to Mr. Mear es to know that the negroes in the Senate of 1879 voted against sub mitting to the people the amend ment preventing these special tax bonds from being paid without the assent, of the people, and this would be their attitude now if per mitted to vote. If Mr. Meares and Mr. Morehead want to put me in a corner, let them Show the books. HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE YOU GOT AND WHERE DID YOU GET IT?Taking all these things into consideration and putting them together reminds me of the position which Abraham Lincoln once took. He said: "When we see a lot of framed timbers, dif ferent portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen, and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house of a mill, all the tenons and mortises exactly fitting and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, in such a case we feel it impossible not believe that the workmen all under stood one another from the begin- 1 9 ; sing. ADAMS ON BUTLER. (News and Observer) A voter writes and requests The News and Observer to print what Spencer B. Adams, a Superior Court Judge and until recently chairman of the Republican State Convention, said of Marion Butler, now the toss of the Republican party. It Avas on the 23rd of August, 1908, that Judge Adams, replying to char ges against his honesty by Butler said: "There is nothing new in these nlanderous charges. The public by this time understands that they em snate from that cowardly traitor who has not only betrayed his State but every party and about every person with whom he ever affiliated Nothing that I may say can add to the contempt with which the people or North Carolina look upon this white-livered traitor, nor can the public fail to understand the pur poses of this rehash." If Republicans thus continue to talk rnd tell the truth about each ether, The News and Observer will be forced to buy a car-load of as bestos paper upon which to print their lurid remarks. If what Adanis said of Butler in 1908 was true, what has happened since to change Butler? a In a speech at Gastonia last night Senator Simmons handed out some exceedingly warm stuff to Butler. He made a proposition to a republican paper in that section that if it would write to Pritchard, Ewart Adams and some other repulicans and that of they would say, over their own signature, that Butler war not a traitor, he, Simmons would withdraw from the campaign. Proba bly these gentlemen, if appealed to, would make no reply whatever, but as a matter of fact the sworn testi mony of judge Adams in his suits against Butler, is available and if anything warmer can be said about Butler would be edifying to read it. The senator, by the way, is making fine speeches on his tour; what is more he is having tremendous crowds. Greensboro Record. Butler, it would be edifying to read, his so called challenge had he thought any self respecting demo crat would have accepted it. FILTHY STOMACH. Food Fei-sneittittg in Stomach Caus es a llaxk Condition. When you have indigestion your food sours; many times it actually rots and forms gases that poison the blood. 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