New-York tribune., 1900-08-02
THE CRED SHIRT" TERROR
WANT TO DRIVE SENATOR BUTLER OUT
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
TBT rrLzeBApH TO THE rRIBUxE-I


Raleigh. N C. Aug. yesterday at a Red
Shirt" meeting in Wilmington Congressman
J. y. BeIlamy declared that it was the bounden
dUtg Of the white rren TO forcibIy expeI United
States Senator Marion Butler from the State
This opinion w2S tndorsed by A. ". Waddeu,
Mayor Of WIlmiEstor who followed BeIlauy in
Red Shirt" speech. To-day Senator Butler.
whc is here running the Populist campaign,
sent Mr.. BeusIng the following letter:
Raleigh y. C, August L
To the Hon J. L. Bellarly, Wilmington. y c
Sir. You are quoted IN the Raleigh morning
newspapers as saying u a speech at Wilmington
yesterday tEar the Democrats should forcth4y
you feel il your duty TO forcjbly expel me from
the State, or do you mean that some one else
should do it, Do you mean that one man
should undertake il, or that q cowardly. leWleSs
mob should do it2 Nov. II you think should
be expelled from the State. I suggest rLat you
undertake the job yourself Eou are one man
and I one man If you mean what you say
and have any courage Except wlen you have a
mob OF Red Shirts behind you. I suggest that
you proceed to Raleigh and begin the expellins
business al once. II you have not the courage
to undertake this job, then I suggest that you
spectfuIly. MARION BUTLER,
Chairman
It is the terror inspired by such declarations
as those OF Waddeu and BeTamy that has kept
Senators Butler and Prftchard out Of forty coun-
ties in Eastern Carolina. Neither one OF these
Senators has dared to 90 east OF Raleigh dur
ing this campaign; n Eact. Senator PritchaEd
has not been 10 Raleigh since May L Governor
Russell had intended TO go 10 Brunswick Coun-
ty to vote but he has been advised that the
condition Of the state is such that he ought
TO remain here and he has decided 10 do so.
In order TO be in readiness for any emergency.
the Governor has now under arms one company
Of the State Guard here ready TO move on no
tice TO wherever there may be trouble. Sen
ator Butler, for fear Of personal violence, has
decided not to go home TO vote. IN Charlotte
yesterday there was a tremendous turnout OF
Red Shirts and there being no Populists and
Republicans TO maItreat they filed up with
whiszey and fought among themselves Only
one paper has denounced this Red Shirt cam
paigu. and that is THE Biblical Recorder" the
organ Of the Baptist denomination In its issue
Of yesterday II said:
1t brings the blush to ones cheeks 10 see how
unblushingly and ever approvlngly the nigh
handed abrOgatiOn IN North Carolina OF the
common rights OF American people IS reported
in certain papers that ought 10 represent the
higher instincts of the Anslo-SaXon race, tor
whose supremacy they are doing battle. Il
matters not that men have spoken UnLruthfully
and bitterly. They have the right to speak
Freedom of speech, Freedom TO make political
speeches is a cardinal doctrine OF cur State
and Nation. II is shame upon Us that any
shame TOO that bodies Of citizens have taken
the law into their own hands. To do this IS 20
SOW the wind-and the harvest is certain. Let
US stop II. II we do not we are lost We need
not listen to those speakers
The Red Shirts are out in force through
out the State They escort Charles B Aycock,
Democratic candidate for Governor. from place
TO place. and make great demonstrations for
him. The gang from one county does duty
in its own county and to the next appoint
rlent. and until the gang Of the next relieves
IT, With their blood red shirts. cowboy hats.
halt and in
chester rifles in their arms, gaIloping horseback
over the country, firing of their weapons and
shooting skyrockets. they make an appearance
not TO be forgotten
They give orders about negroes registering,
about attending political speakings. and TO stay
away from the polls on Election Day. Their
duties in this campaign are systematic and
thorough They say the State must be carried
on Thursday next for the Democrats by any
means that may be required and al any cost
To-day at smithfeld. Johnston County. Pop
ultst speaker by the name Of league was taken
from the stand and driven out OF the town by
one thousand Red Shirts He committed
offence except that he attempted TO speak at an
appointment made for him Several other Popu-
lists were shot and cut. and. this being among
all white people. the Populists fought, and
number OF Democrats were also hurt
] D. Parker chairman OF the Republican
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Courier" was driven into his Office by the mob
but his friends prevented the destruction OF his
Office and his death until Governor Russell could
be asked for troops. After the troops were or
dered out the Sheriff restored order In Dupltn
County on Saturday last, United States District
Attorney Bernard prosecuted a Democratic
Register and when Bernard got on the train
on his return 10 Raleigh the Red Shirts
thrust him on the cars and hooted at him and
teered him. and used all kinds OF threatening
language and told him if he came back during
the campaign they would hang him. Persons
along with Bernard say he would have been
killed II the conductor had not interfered and
protected him
Il r Seweu, Populist candidate for Lieuten-
aut-Governor, had an appointment at Laurin-
burg in Robson County. and was met al the
train by five hundred Red Shirts" and was
ordered TO remain on the train under pain OF
death il he got OF and attempted TO speak He
did not get of. and as the train moved out he