The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-30
LAT LEAST BE EAlR."

The IN s-Mercury Gives some Fac . in
Reply to a False Charge Made by the
Chariot q Observer.
Hickory Times Mercury
During the closing days of Con-
gress We marked an editorial in the
Charlotte Observer which most un-
fairly criticises Senator Butler, and
laid it aside to comment on it. We
have unfortunately misplaced the
paper, but the substance, if not the
exact language of the part Of the
editorial referred to is as follows:
"Mr. Butler, of North Carolina,
consumes a great deal of the time of
the Senate, but nothing he says
amounts to row of pins. BE has
never gotten measure through the
Senate and he only talks to occupy
time and obstruct the public business
at the cost of the peoples money,
ETC."
1t is true that the Charlotte Obser-
yer and certain other North Carroll
ma papers have tried to make the
State think that the above was q true
statement about Senator Butler, not
only by making such editorial utter
ances, but by refusing to publish the
facts and giving him tho credit for
what he has done. We can always
find out more about what Senator
Butler and the other Populists are
doing in papers published outside of
the State than we can from the D M
ocratic State papers. But it hap
pens that in tho very ISSUE of the
Charlotte Observer in which the
above editorial appeared, there WAS
Published in it an ass ciated J. SO
announcing the fact INA;
Senator Butler had succeeded in de-
fsating the scheme for a subsidy to
a Pacific cable company and had
succeeded in getting the appropria-
ton committee to accept and adopt
his amendment providing for gov
eminent cable to be built by the Ma
w Department and then to be. turn
ed over to tho Post Office Depart
ment to be operated as a part Of the
Postal system. It was noticeable.
however, that the Charlotte Observer
put this dispatch on it's fourth page
in an insignificant corner next to ad-
vertising and put no headlines over
it, while such papers as the New
York World and the New York Jour-
nal of the same day published the
same news item on their front pages
with prominent headlines.
This is simply one illustration Of
the splendid work that Senator But
Ter and the other Populist Congress-
men and Senators are constantly do
ing In Washington. and is an illus.
tration of the unfa,rness of, msnv
Democratic newspapers in North
Carolina in suppressiug the news
and, in editorially disappearing
them.
Who was it that exposed the Ar
NOR: Plate frauds and stopped the
steal and offered An amendment pro-
vlding for the establishment of a
government armor plate factory and
passed it thr~:ugh the Senate at thi.
last sesslo-l of Congressi 1t was this
same Mr.. Butler of North Carroll
n~ who, the Charlotte Obser.
YER says, amounts to nothing and
who talks against time and has nev.
or gotten a measure through the
Senate.
Who was it that got an increased
appropriation in every item of thu
River and Harbor appropriation bill
for North Carolina above the amour,
passed by the House in this last Con
gress and in the Congress before
and besides, got new items added i,
the Senate that were not in tn,
House billi It was this same "Mr
Butler, Of North Carolina"
Who was it that got forty thou
sand dollar increase for Geologica
Survey work, the most Of which vii
be used in North Carolina under tn,
direction of Professor holmes, as a
amendment to the Sundry Civil bill
1t was this same "Mr. Butler o
North Carolina
Who was it thai formulated an,
pushed through the Committee o,
Post Offices and p, ,st Roads the bill
for a system of Pos tai Savings banks
and prepared IN support Of the bill
an able report that is attracting at
tention of ths new sl,spers IN nearl,
every state In the Union, but Nortl
Carolina3
Who wss it that succeeded j,
doing this FIR the first time i,
twenty years, though postal saving
bank bills have been offered eyer,
year during that timef It was thi
same "Mrs Butler Of North Carroll
na."
Who was it that introdu ced bill