The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-12-09

Publish in another column more ahl
davits branding tie gold bug lie
Their case has already been proven
this Is simply surplus testimony.
All honest men in all parties will nov
watch to see whether or not the mi <.
ger" and monopoly" organs will ad
vertise their own malicious unfairness
and infamous depreciation by refusing
to publish the truth with the same
prominence that they published The
goldbug lie.
a BASE AND MALICIOUS LIE NAILED
Last week we published a signed state.
ment headed, "What Senator Butler
said at Rocky Mount" giving the lie to
the malicious Misrepresentation of our
speech, and stating what we did say.
We reproduce below the same state
ment this week and publish a number
of ailidavits from gentlemen who heard
the speech testifyiDg to the falseness
of the Argonaut's report, and testify
ing to the correctness of our statement.
These nail the lie and prove the truth.
WHAT SENATOR BUrLER SAID AT
| ROCKY MOUNT.
| Last week, when Senator Butler was
IN Raleigh, a reporter of the News
and Observer showed him what a GER
tain Rocky Mount paper reported him
As saying in his speech there on Octo-
Der 18th and asked whether or not it
was correct. Senator Butler prompt
ly branded the report as false, not
only in the words quoted, but also in
the impression which that paper tried
to convey as to the tenor of the speech.
The News and Observer reporter
then asked him for a statement of
what he did say. He promptly die
tated report of that part of his speech
on the color question, which was the
same that he had made in every
speech. In another column of this pa
per we publish the interview from the
News and Observer.
We republ.sh here the garbled and
dOctOred quotation which is as follows:
"1f cOlOred men commit outraees
the Democrats pretend to be terribly
shocked in public, but when they get
behind wall they laugh until they
grow fat, and if the Outrages are not
frequent enough they hire worthless
negroes to commit them"
Now turn and read the interview on
the first page and see what he did say.
Thus any one can see how the speak
er's meaning might be misreprese nted
by quoting, even correctly, one sent
ence, when the connection in which
it was used is not given; but when
the sentence is ingeniously doctored
and put into language different from
that used by the speaker, and besides
comments made on it to try to create
an Impression that it was used in an
entirely different connection Concern
ing rape cases. then the editor is gull
ty OF the basest SANDER. He seeks to
make it appesr that the speaker said
just the opposite of what he did say.
Now the editor of the Rocky Mt. paper
attempts to justify his doctored and
grossly misleading quotation with the
following affidavit:
We, the undersigned do hereby make
affidavit that we heard the speech of
Senator Butler, and that the above ex-
tract In quotation marks is in subata nca
what he said.
(REv.) B. S. MCKENZIE,
r. >. THORP, M. d.
j. j. DAUGHTRY,
Nov. II, 1897.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 18th day of November, 1897.
JOHN l.. ARLINGTON,
Notary Public.
IL Will be noticed that the men maxi
ing this affidavit are careful not to saw
that Senator Butler used the word,
which the Rocky Mount paper puts in
TO his mouth, for they could not do so
without perjuring themselves. They are
also careful not to endorse the claim of |
that paper that the language was used
In connection with rape cases, which
claim is base and malicious falsehood
In the above quotation put the words
agents of shylOck and the monopo-
lies" i'll the place of the word "Demo-
Gratis" and remove the charge that this
language was used in connection
with rape cases and give the con-
nection in which it was used
and then We might let the remainder
Of the language stand Though they are
not the words he used) and no one
could object to the language but the
hired agents of the gold syndicate and
the corporations.
1t is an old saying that the Devil can
quote scripture to prove his conten-
ton. That is he can quote separate
paragraphs, and quote them correctly.
and prove his case if the connection in
which the quotation is used be omitted.
But if the Devil is allowed to change
The wording and give ain substance"
n MS own language, any selected par
'graph from the Scriptures, he can of
course make his lie lot k more like the
ruth. He can prove that white is
black; that there is 10 God and that
he Devil reigns over the true Heaven.
This is exactly what has been done by
he Rocky Mount editor in this case.
md We will now put his own wit
lesses. the very men who signed the
'ffidavit, on the stand to prove it. Ey-
ny lawyer and every other person who
las watched court proceedings have
'ften seen two good men, both of whom
aw or heard the same thing, swear to
statements about the
acts. If the Jury should believe one 1
he verdict would be one wav. 6
they should believe the other I
ne verdict would be opposite. c
'ut when the lawyers come to cross b
yQmjnn tho MI