The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-31
.EWART ON BUTLER.
He Calls Him an Infamous
DamnabIe ScoundreI."
What He Needs and Should Have IS Coat OF
Tar and Feathers Instead Of Reelection
10 the United States Senate
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Hendersonville, N. c., July 3O-The
following interview was given out today
by Judge Ewart:
When Thompson says that under this
arrangement we have the united force of
the Republican members of the Legisla-
ture for Senator Buffers return to the
United States Senate, he says what he
must know to be willful and deliberate
falsehood. With the possible exception
of Virgil Lusk, of Buncombe county's no.
rion Butler, not a solitary nominee of the
Republican party for the General Assem-
bly, in Western North Carolina or the
Piedmont belt will vote for Buffers re-
election. If Mr. Holton has entered into
any such disreputable and corrupt COM
pact as to deliver the votes of the Re-
publican representatives to the infamous
and damnable scoundrel who now misrep-
resents the people of North Carolina in
the United States Senate, he has under
taken to deliver goods that he will find
himself unable to deliver. Judge Blythe,
Republican nominee of this county, in
dignantly repudiates this alleged agree
could arise which would induce him to
cast vote for Butler. l am assured
that is THE FEELING ALL THROUGH
the West where Butler is everywhere
regarded as knave and traitor.
Thompson's letter is a most assinne
production and will lose the party thous-
ands of votes in the State.
.'The absurd declaration that he favors
and that Republican representatives will
favor Constitutional Amendment to for
ever disqualify the negroes from holding
any office in this State is an insult to
every Black voter in the State any any
negro who would vote for Thompson after
such declaration deserves disfranchise-
ment. 1t would be proof positive of his
inability to cast an intelligent ballot. An
other remarkable thing is the admis-
sion in his letter. ct cannot be expected
very large number of the members of
the Legislature will come from the East
at this election and that members op-
posed to the Simmons machine must come
from the Central and Western portions Of
the State" In other words in those coun-
ties where the nauseous plan of Populism
has it's rankest growth and where the
negro Republican vote is to be pro-
tected by stalwart Butler, it is now ad-
mitted that they are powerless to protect
the ballot box and that while Republican
voers in the Western and Piedmont sec
lions must elect Representatives who will
vote for the infamous Butler in return
for the grand CD privilege and high hon
or CD of having the entire Republican
ticket monopolized by Populists of the
Thompson Butler stripe. With wonder
full magnanimity they have actually given
us three places on the entire State ticket.
For this great honor let us get down on
our bellies in the dust and devoutly thank
the magnanimous and generous hearted
Butler.
Gas lawyer believe the Constitutional
Amendment to be in violation of the pro-
visions of the 18th and 18th amendments
and that it will so be declared by the
courts of last resort. l am a Republican
and shall vote for Walser, Adams and
Reynolds, the Republican representatives
on our State ticket; and I shall certainly
scratch the name of every Populist on the
ticket and advise Republicans all over the
State to do the same thing Decent and
self-respecting Republicans are getting
tribe wearicd over this constant dicker-
ing and trading with such political vermin
as Butler and his like. Every sensible
man in the State knows that there is
only a shadow of the Populist party of
1894 and that we are dealing with an or.
ganization that exist only in name. Butler
has never intended that Thompson should
make the gubernatorial fight to the finish
A ''STAND-UP AND COUNT" of the Pop
ulist votes in the State is the last thing
in this world that this political Mounte
Bank wants. What he needs and should
have in the near future is good coat of
tar and feathers instead of reelection
to the Senate and it should be given him
by the negroes of the State whose vote
put him where he is and who now with
signal ingratitude he wants to forever
disfranchise. The above interview is au-
thentic and authorized by me-"
Ill. G. EWART.