The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-11
IN THE ORIGINAL.

IN THE ORIGINAL.
What do you think will be the out
come of the senatorial contest?
Il hope Pritchard will be elected"
What will be the chances for Guth-
RE and Dockery?
Neither of them will nave any
showing because neither of them can
ever get anything but democratic
votes. The democratic members might
swallow Dockery, but he would be an
awful dose even for them. Democrats,
like other people, despise deserters and
traitors"
But Dockery says he was conscien-
tiOusly for silver n would have re-
fused the republican nomination after
the ST. Louis convention declared
against silver.
Yes. And the old humbug was fool
enough to think that somebody wou
believe him.! Before the republican
convention he was pretending to be
for Allison, an anti-free silver man,
for president. But after he got licked
in his rascally plans to capture the re-
publican convention by mean whiskey
and ribald fraud-then he was so
strong for silver that he could not
support Mckinley! Nobody ever heard
Of his being for silver till Butler pick
ed him up out of the manur pile and
chunked him at the republican party.
Butler thought that was great poll
tics. By it he was going to disinte-
CRATE the republican party, give Rus
sell a shaking ague' and 'skeer' him
so bad hat he would come down in
favor of the populist candidate for
governor. So out went old DOckery a
snortin' through the woods, dishing
out exploded lies about Russell's buy
ing the republican convention and
about his knitting the republican ticket
IN 1909 on6 onnoo1ipo fn ran1Ih1inap c
to vote for Bryan and Guthrie and
free silver Il hear that he voted for
Watson, and l believe IT'D Every time
Dockery opened his head he rallied the
republicans to Russell. He was the
cheapest help I ever had. He could not
la done better for me if I had had
him on a salary and he had honestly
tried to earn it. Buffers smart man.
agement resulted in forcing upon his
party an old hulk that they were and
are ashamed of n in sOlidifying the
republican party so that in all the
state there was scarcely n vote, not
even Dockery'S own vote, which left
us to augment the pOpulist strength.
Butler thought he was loaded! And he
fired. He busted his gun, but didn't
ven 'skeer' the dog. But Buffers case
is not hopeless. He has much to earn.
He is young yet. Besides, his follieS
have not sprung from treachery but
from a laudable purpose to advance
his own party. I believe that those
republicans are in error whO think that
Butler wants to betray his army by
leading them back to the democratic
camp for capture, condemnation and
execution. / believe that he is sincere
in saying, as he does say, hat North
Carolina must not be turned back
var to drop under the control of the
democratic machine"
Why was it that you did not reply
to DOckery'S attacks on you during
the campaign?
Have I not already told you that I
wanted to keep him going? Besides, it
consumed too much time in a speech
to take up in detail the stupid lies of
this mouthy, maudlin old imbecile. For
example, he said hat my brother,
ThOma B.. Russell, went to his house
in 1888 to get him to support me for
governor. In this there was not one
word of truth. Thos. B. Russell never
went to his house in 1888. It vas we'll
known that I would not accept the
nomination for governor or anything
else in 1855, because / wanted 10 head
off the democrats by refusing to run a
state ticket in that year. The result
showed that I was right. He aid that
I bolted the ticket and caused his
defeat for governor. The truth is
mat L supported MIN ana the WnOl6
ticket. / quit my private business
and lost several weeks in that cam
paign, paying my own expenses as ]
always Ia Time was worth some
thing to ne. My personal earnings
have not been confined TO beating
confiding friends by borrowing their
money ard paying them in bankrupt
notices or desperate compromises. /
have not followed the profession of
office seeking for a living. Indeed, I
have never held an office tina did not
involve a pecuniary loss. Yes. in 1858
1 bowed to the decision of the party
because of my devotion to its princi-
Piles. l supported Dockery, the bath
erskite, Wainst. Fowle, h scholar.
jurist anG-orator. / did more than this
for Dockery. While ~canvassing with
him and for him in 1888 I subjected my
nervous system to the strain of con-
cealing my contempt while I listened
TO his stupid rant and nasty jokes.
After that let no man ever question
my loyalty TO the party"