Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-04-25

Fer two weeks it had been
widely advertised that a great
ovation would be given Marion
Butler in Clinton on last Thursday.
On Wednesday evenings train
the Senator arrived from Elliott
City" He stepped off the cars
doubtless expecting an immense
throng to rush up and greet him.
But to his disappointment and
chagrin there was about the
smallest crowd at the depot that
has oeen there this year when
the train came in.
THURSDAY morning dawned
bright and clear. It was a beau
tiful day and the Senator was of
opinion that Clinton might not
be able to hold the people who
would be here to honor him.
Early in the morning the most
woe-begone looking negro band
that ever made a fuss on earth
arrived in wagonette drawn by
two mules. The band liquored
up Immediately and by II o'clock
was gloriously drunk.
At the appointed hour it stag
gered up College street, footing
and drumming at the head of a
procession of less than 200 peo-
pie. The Senator was escorted
down town and took his seat on
the stand on court house square,
where he sat with a lowering
look as stiff as if he had swal-
lowed a fence rail. He must
have painfully tortured himself
in trying to put on Senatorial
airs, in desperate effort to
look like a Senator-a thing he
can never do.
The crowd was all present by
this time, and it did not exceed
three hundred people, a good
many Of whom were Democrats,
who were here from curiosity tC
see how a Senator's clothes be
came picayune.
Mr.. F. NJ. White made some
remarks on the purity Of. the
Senator's character, but his
tongue had a disposition tC
cleave to the roof Of his mouth
Capt j. B. Lloyd, of Tarboro,
then arose ard introduced the
Senator to the audience. AS
Butler arose he looked in con
trast to the courtly and dignifed
Ransom, whom he succeeds, like
a singed cat to a Bengal tiger.
There was a faint hurrah by a
few zealots, which was augment
ed by the brays of Grady Smiths
jack. Butler then launched out
into his speech which was near
ly three hours in length. Every
body was surprised and disap-
pointed at it's nature. This oc-
casion was a golden opportunity
for him to have made a speech
becoming a Senator, and thai
would have been both pleasing e
to his friends aud conciliatory
to his enemies. A sensible MAI
would have recognized and taker
advantage Of this opportunity
but the small. bitter, splenetie
Butler made low, little, con
temptible speech which lowered
him in the estimation Of every
one that heard him.
It was not a speech that a mar
in any degree fit to be a Senator
would have made, but a rigama
role of vile falsehood and scurri
lous abuse. 1t was on one hant
a feeble and disgusting defence
of this Legislature, otherwise
known as the Fred DOUGLAS:
| Memorial Association, and OF
the other hand an unwarrante(
and indecent denunciation of tn,
| Democratic party and press. H
breathed the word lie with al
most every other breath, and de
nounced as false things that h
| knows to be the truth. He ev1
denced his ability as politicial
of the most vulgar order by hi
utter disregard of truth. He at
TAXED the Sampson Democro
viciously and tried to dodge it
truthful charges by making
apish efforts at ridicule. But th'
people do not permit the grim
aces of a monkey in mems clothe
to Offset facts which they know
, to be true. At intervals the in
toxicated band would roll it
drums, but the most liberal az
plause the speaker received wa
: from Grady Smiths Jack, VIII
would not permit anyone to outd
him in honoring a Senator of hi
own kind.
It is a credit to the wisdom an
: intelligence Of SIMPSONS fal
mers that so few of them waste
, a day in coming here to ovate
/ demagogue that has positivel
done the farmers of North Care
! lima more harm that the demone
tization of silver. The farmer
! were busy and most of them keI
;. at their work. They could nc
afford to stop Their plows an
! come here to whoop up a squil
who has just entered upon tn
a enjoyment of the reward of
: traitor. This sign of returnin
reason on the part of some me
!, who have been led astray polit
, cally did not add to the Sens
tors comfort. He was disaI
f pointed at the crowd and il
rather more inquisitive than a
fectionate regard for him. HI
ldnfnnco Of the i aOiSlatllrn wa