Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-04-25
H6 Slid DAMN IT y
SENATOR MARY-AN BUTLER ACTUAL
IY USED CUSS-WORDS IN TIE
PRESENCE OF ASEWS
AND OBSERVER
REPORTER.
"OH, DAMME, IT'S TOO BAD.

The Man Who Telephaped from Clinton
that he had an Audience of Only Three
Hundred, and That the Meeting Wa
Tame Was DIN Liar and a D---1
ScoundreI, Etc.
Raleigh News & Observer.
The penitentiary outfit tina
put in appearance here witt
Rain-in the face lit upon this no
little town like a drop of water
on "a stove-lid, slzzled, anc
steamed for a moment and evap
GRATED, They came and Wen
like Virginia Sora, and one would
last night have to hunt fol
them with a light wood torcf
and a paddle to bag even one OF
them. For'tbey are night birds
these Fusionists, loving darkness
rather than light because then
deeds are evil.
King Fish Kitchen, the fiyup
the-creek of the crowd, is, nc
doubt by this time somewhere il
the iungles OF Halifax dipping
for silver perch and yellow bel
lies in the shape of bondsmen tc
the extent of $4,000
And Marion Butler is no doubt
astride of some log on Shad- Fin
"Crick," Clinton County, trying
to break his record published a
few days ago having caught a
fish D feet long.
[ dropped into conversation
with him at supper at the Var
boro, and he challenged any one,
who doubted his story, to come
to Clinton and test that . feet
fish-yarn. 1t fact, Mr. Butler
invited the reporter OF the Ae10S
and Observer down, but he was re
minded that in d telegram print
ed from Clinton last week, it was
represented that he had 300
friends in Clinton, and 800 But
lerites against one Ne1Cs aud 90
serUer reporter, couldn't leave
the reporter much time or in
cIination for fishing. Mr.. But
ler said there was no danger aud
suddenly changing his tone and
bearing. he flushed up, and his
mood became that of a desper-
ately angry man. Mr.. Butler
was somewhat of d study at that
moment, for it is hardly possible
that any man in North Carolina
can rise in his seat and say that
he ever saw Mr.. Butler lose his
self control or denounce any
body, or seemed spelling for 9
scrap. But he was now.
The man who wrote or sent
that message. burst out the
Senator almost furiously enough
to attract attention, was d-r
liar and d-n scoundrel, anc
you can print what l say, anc
just tell him that if he don't like
what I say, he can find me a
Elliott, n. G. Aud he needn'
come back at me through the
papers, but let him come straigh
at me at Elliot, n c., and be
will find me responsible for every
word [ say"
The centrifugality of the Sen
ator's cuss- words flew around the
following incident; last week ;
newspaper telegraphic CORES
pondent from Clinton sent out ;
press message from that point
stating that Senator Butler ha(
been there to speak that day
that he had been met by only 3O
people, and that it was tam
affair.
Now" continued the Senator
each word seeming like success
sive balls from Roman candle
1.-The truth Of the business is
had a thousal.~ .eople to NEE
me that day at Clinton, and ha
not the streams been swollen
there would have been presen
between 3, 900 and 1000; nor wa
it any tame affair either; we ha
an Interesting and pleasant time
and what [ said was gracicusl
received" Then the Senator
voice was barely touched with
tremozoso quiver-a culver of al
ger or of maybe some other fee
ing the explanation Of whic
would no doubt make Ion
story-which must be guesse
at only.
''They have cuffed and maligne
ME-" he continued, "all aroun
the State; they haue haunte
even ny home with everythin
horrible that could be said in
nolitical way, and [ have NJ
opered my lips. I made up N
mind that [ would be silent, b.
tbis-it looks small-yet
strikes my own standing in n
owl home, and the shaft, ther
fore came at me differently fro
any other that I have felt. Al
T want to repeat that the ma
VINO sent it is a d-n liar and
9-n scoundrel, [ don't care wi
he is. Nor do I know who he j
it matters not to me if he is
big as a side of a house, [ will
responsible for what I say, al
you can say to him that can
found at Elliott, n. c."
The Senator was not a fe
moments cooling down, and wh'
he had, he began telling
about the orders of Treasur
Worth stopping the payment
money to Superintendent Leaz
an account of which was pu
7ished in the NeaOs Dc Observer.
Then he went at his cho
Sagain.