The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-18
LET THE TRUTH CONE
Hon. Spencer Blackburn Replies to the Circular
Issued by Mr. Linney.

you were fighting at the polls on election
day to keep Republicans from voting for
/ me (as DR.. Carson writes and scores of
good citizens know and defeating your
| own ticket and reducing the majority for
which Republicans in your county had
/ hoped and worked long before you had
ever touched Il Republican ballot except
to destroy and polute ii. three thousand
and five hundred white men-former Dem
| ocrats-were marching to the polls and
casting their ballots for me and the Re
publican party. Mr. Linney. the Repub-
! heans of this district don't like your man
ncr of warfare. People of this communi-
ty know full well that have met every
man since my 21st year the enemy have
sent against me and never once shown
the white feather. You forget yourself
when YOU make bold to speak of joint
canvass and the Lord delivers YOU into
my hands. In your unbounded enthusi-
asm for Mr.. Hanna, upon whose life you
could not wait to lecture till he was bu-
RED did YOU mention the fact that he
refused Il Joint canvass with his Demo
cratic opponent in the late election in
Ohio and was elected by the largest vote
ever gwen any man In this country?
Even your own conduct bellies your state
ments. Tile people have not forgotten
few brief years since the campaign be-
tween you and the late lamented Hon
W. II. H Cowles. You had gone into the
convention with him as an erstwhie
comrade in arms in an honorable contest
for the nomination of the party to which
you both belonged, and when you failed,
turned upon him and your party to rend
them in pieces. You ran independent, we
endorsed you Who let your banner trail
in the dust? To whom did you doff your
hat and turn over the colors of your par
ty? You ran away from the canvass the
second day in ignominy and disgrace. and
instead of carrying your colors with you,
left them upon the field to be taken up by
another, the late Judge Greene. Go to
your rock house on Tater Hill. away
from the scenes Of chivalry and deeds of
heroism, and hide your face in shame
in the deepest gloom of its subterranean
chambers and let the spirit cf Col. Cowles
answer in pity Do you remember
Downes school house in Caldwell county
made ANONYMOUSLY historic by your deser-
ton of your cause? You need not an
swer we bow our heads in shame.
Do YOU remember the canvass against
Hon. R. A. Doughton when you played
off sick and sent crippled Ruff Henderson
to fill your appointments through Cald-
well when you thought the crowds would
he against you. and only appeared at such
times through Watauga as was your day
10 speak last? Do you remember when
you made a public speech in the court
house I'm Boone in 1898 denouncng the
Farmers Alliance and declaring the first
alliance was born in hell. and that every
solicitor in The State was a coward for
not prosecuting them for belonging to a
secret political party?
Do you remember the very next year,
1894. when You came here and got on
your knees to the Populist Convention and
agreed to so for Free Silver or any plank
they would suggest if they would indorse
YOU for Congress?
The people might have forgotten these
things if you had remained in the soil
'ude of some OF your grottoes and let
you alone in pity, but now the walls OF
tour rock houses however high or thick
IN Taylorsylle or immortal Tater Hill.
cannot protect you from yourself Mine
enemy hath written book" and from
the chapters thereof we read. You are not |
he man to speak OF soldiers warfare
nd leading men to battle. While the |
nominee OF the party which gave you |
TX years in Congress was charging the |
'atteries of the enemy with the RepublI- |
AN flag above him and the Republican |
qrces about him il the last campaign. |
fou We're in the bushes carrying news |
o the enemy and shooting our soldiers I
rom ambush. VINO should be shot as a |
ieserter? The people have found you |
nut. You have betrayed every party TO
which you ever belonged Talk about
'ollowlng lion. You'll While in the |
asst campaign / was doing what l could /
blaze the way to Republican success /
Tou were denouncing me. and predicting
defeat and now that success seems posi-
Die, You Ike a measly iackal follow the