The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-11-25

which the quotation 10 used be omitted.
But IL the Devil 10 allowed 70 change
the wording and give ain substance"
in bis own language, any selected par
sgrsph from the Scriptures, he can OF
course make his lie los more like the
truth We can prove that white 10
black; that there 10 no God and that
the Devil reigns over the true Heaven.
This 10 exactly what has been done By
the Rocky Mount editor in this case,
and We will now put bis own wit
nssses. the very men who signed the
affidavit, on the stand TO prove IL. Ev-
cry lawyer and every other person who
has watched court proceedings have
often seen two good men, both Of whom
saw or heard the same thing, swear to
contradictory statements about the
facts. 1.-THE jury should believe one
the verdict would be one way /;
il they should believe the other
the verdict wonl' be opposite
But when the lawyers come TO cross
examine the witnesses it is often
found that one or both modify their
statements so that they practically
agree. Therefore testimony brought
out on cross examination is, as . rule,
nearer the truth. We will now cross
examine the three men who made this
affidavit.
| Question. Did not Senator Butler in
/ his speech at Rocky Mount draw .
sharp distinction between the two
, classes OF men who are crying cut
against "negro dominatiOnr" Did he
not show that the great masses of the
people were not only for white SUI
premacy, but were also against the
gold standard and monopoly rule. That
the Peoples Party occupied the same
position and they were ready to join
hands with all Others who favored the
same reforms and elect an anti-monop-
oily Legislature and that this would
give to the State the best white mans
government the State had ever seen?
Did he not say that there were certain
gold and monopoly agents who we're
trying to keep divided the people who
thought alike on the most vital ques-
tions; that they we're trying to divide
and conquer and elect monopoly Leg
islature and that they were using the
"nigger' question and appeals to race
prejudices to carry out their scheme3
A. TO this they must answer, yes.
q. Was it 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 affidavitp
A. To this, they must answer, yes.
q. Did he use 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 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 to throw q brick
bat into political procession or to do
s something else of the kind to arouse
race preiudice; and that, under these
the oundrels 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 no
doubt hire some worthless negro to
commit such an act if necessary to
win a monopoly victory? And was this
not the only connection in which such
a 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 chargirg that the Peoples
Party was in some way responsible for
them? Did he not refer to a number
Of rapes committed in other States
where there were Democratic admins.
trations and show that none had ever
attempted to charge the Democrats IN
those States with being responsible in
any way for such shocking crimes, and
was this not all that he said either di.
rectly or indirectly about rapes =?
A. To this they must answer, yes.
q. Did he not tell the colored people
in the audience that this was an Anglo
Saxon government and that they
would always rule, and that it was best
both for the blacks as we'll 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
domination and robbery, to join forces
in great fight for these vital economic
reforms in addition to white suprema-
cy; and were not all of his structures
directed at these few agents of the
enemey who are using the "nigger"
cry to prevent such cooperation, to
sidetrack the money and monopoly
question and to force a fusion of sill
yer men and goldbugs, and who there
fore were using the white supremacy
cry for an insincere and dishonest pur-
pose?
A. TO this they must answer, yes.
To every one of the above questions
these men will answer "a we have die
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