Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-11-17
THE CHIEF DEVIL OF ALL.
He Escaped too Lightly During
the Recent Campaign-SOuld
be He'd to a Rigid
Account.
Statesville Landmark.

Statesville Landmark.
"The two worst enemies that
North Carolina has in this great
crisis of the white citizens of the
State are Jeter Prjtchard. United
States Senator from North Caro-
lima. and Dan Russell, Governor
of North Carolina"
We find the above in a contem
porary. 1t was written and
printed before the elections. Yes,
Pritchard and Russell are bad
enough in all conscience, and so
are Thompson, Holton, Aver and
all the other leaders of the fusion
deviltry. But we desire to go on
record here and now as saying
that we have had little patience
with the policy of the campaign
which has sought to place all the
infamy on Pritchard and Russell
ct al. and their ignorant negro
dupes, while the very chief of
them all-the most Infamous of
them all-Marion Butler, is al
lowed to go practically without
blame. The others are bad
enough, God knows, and the
wrongs they have done the State
should and will haunt them to
their graves, but we believe in
giving even the devil his dues
and in placing the responsibility
where it belongs.
Every man of intelligence in
the State knows that Butler is
responsible for the conditions
which now exist and which have
existed 10 the State for four
years. The others have given as
sistance to the best of their
ability, it IS true; but SURPRISING
all of them in ability and capacity
to engineer and promote the ends
which gave the fusionists sue
cess, he worked out the plot to
it's successful conclusion and to
him is due the infamy of it's sue
cess.
1t was Marion Butler who, by
perslstently and assiduously
instilling prejudice and hate into
a portion of the people whose
confidence he had succeeded in
winning. divided the white peo.
pie in '92. It was he who, step
by step, led his forces into coali-
ton with the Republicans and
negroes in '94 and '96 and thus
elected Pritchard to the Senate
and Russell Governor. It was
Butler who. realizing that the
conditions which he had brought
about in North Carolina; realizs
ing that the honest white people
Of the State of all parties woulo
not long tolerate the Infamous
dynasty which he had set up, bu
would come together and over.
throw it; and knowing that if il
was oYerthrown he would be
crushed in its ruins-it was But.
Ter who sought by overtures las
spring to unite with the Demos
Gratis on condition that he be ais
lowed to dominate them as he
had dominated and traded upon
his handful OF followers.
When his proposition was
scorned Butler, filed with venom
and hate, went up and down the
State is this campaign and made
the meanest speeches by far thai
any white man has madein North
Carolina. Possessed with all the
arts of the demagogue, filed with
Unsuitable ambition, greed, NAL.
ice, hatred and revenge, he uset
every means within his power te
SO incite and inf1ame his follower:
that they would once again vot.
with the negroes and the Repub
licans to keep in power the infa
nous gang which now controls
the State, and to humble tn,
Democrats and if possible bring
them to his (Bnsler's) feet,
To him good government il
| North Carolina is nothing; to hin
the abolition of trusts. free silve
and the other things of which b.
PIRATES so gIibly are nothing. H
uses them only as part an,
parcel of his scheme. Proclaim
ing that he is for white snprem
acy, heAwould see every count,
| in the State dominated by he
groes rather than surrender on
of his own selfish schemes. AS
brszen hypocrite, as an uttere
of falsehoods and vile slander
against men the latches of who's
shoes he is not worthy to loose
he hes had no equal in all tn
history of North Carolina, and i