The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-12-23

the Supreme court; he may strive to
stop the steal of about ten millions
above fair price which is to .dav
paid to the railroads of the country
for rent of postal cars which
are not themselves worth half that
amount OF money; he may introdu CO
and push bills for postal savings
banks, postal telegraphs, and postal
telephones; he may pass q bill to pre-
vent armor plate frauds and steals,
and thereby save millions of dollars
to the government; he may defeat
the passage of such goldbug and
monopoly measures as the infamous
Loud postal bill; he may detect
the monopolists in an effort to
pass bill depriving citizens of the
right of trial by jury in contempt
cases, and force the passage of
an amendment guaranteeing the
right of trial by jury, he may labor
ever SO hard to. try to accomplish
these and dozens of other important
and vital reforms, but no word of
praise for Butler. There is one pa
per that has to do him justice which
is read but little by the North Caro-
lima masses, and l believe that pa
per, the Congressional Record, will
sustain me in saying that he has
done more for reform and his peo-
pie in the two or three years he has
been in the Senate than his prede-
cessor, Matt Ransom did in thirty
years. But such garbled and per-
verted stuff as recently emanated
from that goldbug paper at Rocky
Mount is joyfully copied by the News
and Observer and other papers
spread all over the State, and when
disproven by two witnesses to one,
they refuse to undo the wrong they
have done by not publishing the over
whelming evidence of disproof. Com
ing back to the Democratic party
eh Does anybody expect Populists
to fall over each others heads ir
their mad scramble to get back into
the Democratic party after sucf
treatment as this9 The State o.
Georgia is Democratic from Govern
or down to Constable, and there arr
probably as many rapes there a
there are in any Southern State, bu
have never yet seen a Populist sor
: ry enough to say that the Democrat
ic party was responsible for them. l
, is simply the brutal instinct of al
: inhuman wretch, and while l ca
r only speak for myself, l will ad
: that the man, black or white, VIII
r rapes an innocent, virtuous girl, tn
Q man who stoops to this level of
/ brute, who thus puts himself outsid
0 the pale of civilization and human
$ ty, forfeits the right to civil tris
. and deserves lynching, and like Bl
7 Arp, am glad when ever l hear {
r his being lynched if it is thousan
I miles from me. Wide publicity We
" recently given the charge of attemp
n ed rape by one J. B. Barnes. II
J. sionist or Populist, but you have NJ
It seen it stated anywhere that thre
IS fourths of the jury that convicte
3. him were Popullsts.
,t You have not seen it stated an.
= where that last year in the State an
n county elections, here in this tow
:. only twelve miles from Rocl
N Mount, there was stolen or slippt
ir INTO the ballot-box about one hu
n dred and twenty-seven Q2O Dem
a. cratic votes over and above the re
n istration, for Fred Woodland and Il
10 Democratic legislative and coun
ic ticket. l was present and saw t
m pollholders when they discover
" them, and saw them take them o
1t in wads Of Is and %, the crease
Of folding in the paper not even bel
rt broken, and as long as atfidavits
rs in order suppose the Democratic
oe pers have that election board swo1
IN I will give the names Of the Pc
n holders so they can be readily foun
,s M. j. Battle and P. s. Hicks, Pol
an lists; DR.. w. H. Cobb and A. G. L;
he lor, Democrats; VIM. and Jul
k. Watson, Republicans; and then
nv them tell US if that is the kind
,st white supremacy we are to have
Iid that is the honest ballot and f
nv count the next legislature is to q
a US. We do not belieye the hon
at masses in any party endorse ST
M. work as this, and that at Roc
re- Mount, but they should speak
10 more in condemnation Of it. N
is whose interests are alike, who thi
81. and feel alike should get togett
ms but it will be a remote day W!
IN that corsummation is attained WI
'od out a material change from rec
I Iho tactics. J. M. CUTCHI,