Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-29
BUTLER ON EVANS.
The Ex-senator Defends Himself Against
the Governors Charges.

The Ex-senator Defends Himself Against
the Governors Charges.
The Columbia State, of Monday, con-
tains racy correspondence between
Senator Butler and Governor Evans.
Senator Butler, on May Is, wrote
Governor Evans the following:
"Sir: I notice in The State of today
what purports to be an address to fellow
citizens from you, and find the following
as part oft: The ex-senator, who had
been holding caucuses in Columbia at
private houses, having the ear of the court
and holding the foot Of the chancellor, re-
turned to his home, feeling that his move
ments had not been detected; but the
responsibility shall rest where it belongs.
Let the people not blame the poor, lean,
hungry counsel who are barking merely
for a bone, but visit the sin upon the
heads of the arch conspirators.
II beg to inquire whether am the eX-
senator to whom you refer. Very truly,
NJ. c. BUTLER"
Governor Evans on the 23rd replied
as follows
"Sir: In reply to yours Of the 18th,
beg to state that you were the eX-enator
to whom I referred in that portion OF my
address quoted in your letter. Absence
from my office prevented an earlier reply.
Yours truly, JOHN GARY EVANS.
Senator Butler, after getting letters
from Messrs. Pope and Caldwell, the
the counsel in the cases referred to, to
the effect that he had nothing to do
with the matter, appends the follow
ing: II do not like to be misrepre-
sented even by a blackgaard. Since
my service in the senate ended on the
4th of March last, l have been u pri-
vate citizen, attending to my own busi-
ness, and this man had no right to
draw me into his scurrilous, sopho-.
moric self-advertisement, which he
STYLES an address to fellow citizens
He appears to have had me under the
surveillance of one of his detectives,
who have become so fashionable under
late orders of the State administration,
and betrays himself into the utterance
of foolish falsehood. The truth is,
he is badly afflicted with what the
doctors call hydrocephalus, common
" known as swell head. He assails
Judges on the bench with awkward
vulgarity and brutal coarseness, know
ing them to be peace officers and as
such non combatants. This he can
do with impunity, but the time may
come when forbearance with his in
science may cease to be a virtue.
His powers Of discriminate" between
right and wrong, truth and falsehood,
fair criticism and SANDER, are so vague
and flmy that he ought perhaps to be
regarded as an object of pity and con-
tempt, rather than indignation and
resentment.
"When I set myself before the public
as target can stand criticism as we'll
as most men, but have no idea of per-
mitting slanderers to follow me into
private life to indulge their vicious
propensities.
"Another reason have for troubling
the public with this matter is that
other members of the ring have been
circulating slanders and misrepresenta-
tions about me on the line of intend
ing to create false impression in the
public mind, and I avail myself of this
opportunity to denounce them.
"They are trying, by hue and cry
about white supremacy, to frighten the
timid into their clutches. There is not
the least danger of the Negroes getting
control ofthe government of this State,
or of white supremacy being endan-
gered, and they know it. Whatever
of peril there is to white supremacy has
been created by the ring now trying to
dragoon white men into condoning their
corrupt practices. They are respon-
sible for the menace of Negro suprem-
acy,' if there is one, and no amount OF
blusterand false pretence can conceal it.
"They have rejected every fair and
honorable overture for reuniting the
white people, and for one shall have
nothing to do with any ring primary.
If primary could be held on the plan
of the Forty" there would be no OBJ
lection to it, but these fellows will not
agree to that, because it would result
in peace and good feeling-the last