The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-12-02


eide for himself.
MARION BUTLER.
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4 BASE AND MALICIOUS LIE NAILED.
Last week we published 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 af,ldavits from gentlemen who heard
the speech testifyiDg to the falseness
Of the Argonaut's report, ard testify
ing to the correctness Of our statement.
These nail the lie and prove the truth.
WHAT SENATOR BUTLER SAID AT
ROCKY MOUNT.
Last week, when Senator Butler was
in Raleigh, a reporter Of the News
and Observer showed him what GER
tain Rocky Mount paper reported him
a. saying in his speech there on OctO-
Der 18th and asked whether or not it
was correct. Senator Butler prompt
ly branded the report rs 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 republish here the garbed and
doctored quotation which is as follows ::
ar oOlored men commit Outrages
the Democrats pretend to be terribly
shocked in public, but when they get
behind wall they laugh until they
grow fat, and IL 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 misrepresented
by quoting, even correctly, one sent
enop. when the connection in which
IL was used is not given; but when
the sentence is iDgeniously 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 Islander. He seeks to
make 1t appear 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 undersi gned do hereby make
afidavit that we heard the speech OF
Senator Butler, and that the above ex-
tract in quotation marks is in substance
what he SAID.
crew b. s. MCKENZIE,
Ed. THORP. M. ID.
J.J. DAUGHfRY.
Nov. Ia, 1897.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 18th day Of November, 1897.
JOHN l.. ARLINGTON,
Notary Public.
1t will be noticed that the men max
ing this affidavit are careful not to S ay
that Senator Butler used the word.
which the Rocky Mount paper puts in
to his mouth, for they could not do Sc
without perjuring themselves. They ar,
also careful not to endorse the claim o.
that paper that the language was uset
IN connection with rape cases, which
claim is base and malicious false hood
In the above quotation put the word,
agents Of shylock and the monopo
lies" Ia the place of the word "Demo
Gratis" and remove the charge that thi
language was used in connection
with rape cases and give the con
necti0n in which it was uset
and then we might let the remainde
Of the language stand Though they ar
not the words he used) and no on,
could object to the language but tn
hired agents of the gold sy Indicate ant
the corporations.
It 10 an old saying that the Devil Cal
quote scripture to prove his conten
ton. That is he can quote separat
paragraphs, and quote them correctly
and prove his case il the connection il
which the quotation is used be omitted
But IL the Devil is allowed to chang
the wording and give ain substance
In his own language, any selected par
agraph from the Scriptures, he can O
course make his lie 10, k more like tn
truth. He can prove that white i
black; that there is no God and tina
the Devil reigns over the true HEAVIER
This is exactly what has been doue b
the Rocky Mount editor in this cas-,
and We will now put his own vii
nesses. the very men who signed til
affidavit, on the stand to prove it. f,
cry lawyer and every other person VIII
has watched court proceedings hay
often seen two good men, both of whol
saw or heard the same thing, swear I
contradictory statements about tt
facts. II the jury should believe or
the verdict would be one wa,
IL they should believe the 9th,
the verdict would be opposit
But when the lawyers come to crol
examine the witnesses it is ofte
found that one or both modify the
ststsments 50 that they PRACTICAL