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

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examine the three men who made thiI
affidavit.
Question. Did not Senator Butler IL
bis speech 1t Rocky Noun. draw /,
sharp distinction between the .wt
classes Of men who are crying Gu
against negro dominationf- Did b.
not show that the great masses Of tn.
people were not only for white SUI.
premacy, but were also against The
gold standard and monopoly rule. Tba'
the Peoples Party occupied the same
position a1d they were ready 10 join
hands with all Others who favored the
same reforms and elect an auti-monop-
oily Legislature and that th.s would
give to the State the best white man's
government the State had ever seen:
Did he not say that there were certain
gold and monopoly agents who were
trying to keep divided the people who
thought alike on the most vital ques-
tions; that they were trying to divide
and conquer and elect monopoly Leg
islature and that they were using the
"nigger question and appeals to race
prejadices to carry out their scheme?
A. To this they must answer, yes.
Z. Was il not against these hirelings
OF Shylock and monopoly and no one
else that Senator Butler used the stric.
lures concerning which you were call
ed upon to make an affidavit?
A. To this, they must answer, yes.
q. Did lie u 'e these structures against
the gold monopoly agents in connec-
ton with rape cases?
A. To this, they must answer, no.
q. And did he not in this conneC-
ton use an illustration to the effect
that when machine politicians and
agents Of monopoly have an unusually
bad record to defend, as when they
have put up a specially bad ticket and
are planning greater robberies than
usual that there was only one way for
them to force the best element of the
white people to again submit to their
machine domination and robbery and
that was for negro tc throw a brick
bat into political procession or to do
something else of the kind to arouse
race prejudice; and that, under these
the scoundrels who had
been helping the monopolies to rob the
people, (by giving US five cent cotton
and charging US high freight and pas
senger rates at the same time and by
dozens of other means) would 10
doubt hire some worthless negro to
such an act if necessary to
win monopoly victory? And was this
not the only connection in which such
q statement was made?
A. TO this they must answer, yes.
Q. Did he not, in another part of his
speech, after deploring the number of
rapes, also deplore the efforts of GER
tain monopoly organs to try to make
political capital of such horrible
crimes, by charging that the Peoples
Party was in some way responsible for
Jhem? Did he not refer to rambler
)f rapes committed ia other States
where there were Democratic admins
rations and show that none had ever
attempted to charge the D IN a-ats "a
hose States with being spons,t n
my way for such shockii.s crimes, a.. ii
vas this not all that he said either d.
'ectly or indirectly about rapes =?
A. To this they must answ er,1es.
z. Did he not tell the coiored people
n the audience that this was an Anglo
saxon government and that they
would always rule, and that it was best
Doth for the blacks as well as the
whites that it should be so?
A. To this they must answer, yes.
Q. Was not his whole speech an ap-
peal for a cooperation of the large
majority of voters, now divided, who
oppose the gold standard and monopoly
and robbery, to join forces
n great fight for these vital economic
eforms in addition to white supreme
y; and were not all of his structures
directed at these few agents of the
nemey who are using the "nigger"
ry to prevent such cooperation, to
idetrack the money and monopoly
question and to force a fusion of sill
'er men and goldbugs, and who there
ore were using the white supremacy
ry for an insincere and dishonest pur-
,Ose?
A. TO this they must answer, yes.
TO every one of the above questions
hese men will answer as we haven indi-
ated They cannot answer otherwise
his cross examination shows how
he speech was misrepresented and
'roves that the sentence quoted is a
ase and slanderous perversion.
The fact is that the editorials we
ave been writing since Congress ad-
burned and the speeches we have been
making since the 10th day of last Au.
'ust have hit in tender spot certain
niger" organs who are working the
ace prejudice racket in the interest
the gold and monopoly syndicate.
hey have WINGED under our exposure
their scheme. We have tested their
lncerity in crying out for white SUI
remacy by proposing a cooperation
all those who oppose the
old standard and the domina-
ion of our State by monopolies
elect an anti-monopoly legislature.
We have shown that such a fight
'ould not only elect an anti
monopoly Legislature, but also give the
est white mans government the State
as ever seen. We have shown that
his was the only way to make such
lctory certain. This has exposed the
OF those who were raising
he "nigger" cry in the interest of mo-
opoly. They could not answer our ar
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