The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-03
TURNING STATES EVIDENCE.

tt I\1NG SlAIE EtlDEN1E r.
If YOU wish to know the true in
warduess Of the Republican party i'll
North Carolina. you need only To talk
to The Republican leaders Of the va
,rious factions TO be convinced that
Mr.. Linney was right in saying that
the Atlanta penitentiary was the most
suitable place in hich IL mold the
next Republican State convention.
qhe Subsidized News has been telling
Us of Blackburn postmasters WHO
ought TO be in the penitentiary and
Blackburn p4rtiZans have given cyl
dence of the vileness Of many Of the
supporters of Butler ami his Me
Too" who is posing as the Republic
can Chairman.
The Tar Heel is the Blackburn or
gan. It's leading article this week
was as follows:
vote
Against
Bossism,
ButleriSm,
BOOdleriSm,
DOOdleriSln
IFaEOritiSlm,
Third-termiSn.
Graft and Ring,
Pie and Pie Jobbers.
Tyrants and pirates,
BOodlers and Doodlers,
Hot Air and Swell Heads.
Round faces and red noses,
The Trust Of Office Brokers.
The Monopoly of Salary Grabbers.
Tricksters, Ieingsters and Wire
Ipullers,
Life ines on public offices.
Butler-PettigreW Bond Collection
Scheme,
Organization for pie and graft in
stead Of party"
From the other editorials in the
Tar Heel we make the following clip
pings, which are mild compared with
expressions in former issues of the
Tar Heel:
"The boss-ridden machine is in the
fight Of its life. The aid of Mr.. Butler
did not make the way SO easy after
all.
Down with the bosses who mean
to dictate and rule at all hazards and
at all costs. 1t is high time for the
people to take charge and teach the
ruling oligarchy that the Republicans
of North Carolina are no longer
slaves.
"If Mr.. Butler could hear some of
the denunciations which have been
heaped upon him and his record by
some of his own crowd for the sake
of harmony in the desperate battle
now raging for control of the chair
manship in North Carolina he would
begin even to doubt himself. If there
was ever q campaign of braZen dupii-
city this is one. In their desperation
Butler is q hero on demon as the oc-
casiOn and circumstances Demand
The Caucasian is Buffers paper
printed for weekly circulation in the
East. Here is the way he advocates
harmony in the party by abiding to
North Cardinals Republican Congress-
man:
Eve should not forget that the evil
dence against Blackburn in his recent
trial wa stronger than the evidence
against Senator Burton. mate Bur
ton was convicted and his conviction
has just been sustained by the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
They were both charged with commit
ting the same %offense, and if Black
burn is not guilty, then Burton is not
guilty. This will all be brought out
by the Democrats in the campaign,
and not one word of it can be denied,
for the evidence is q matter of record.
But everyone knows that ever if
Mr.. Blackburn We're not guilty of
this charge, that he is by nature
wanting in both the necessary char-
aCter and brains. Then why nOmi-
rate a YEA candidate, simply be-
canse he has escaped the p%eninten-
tt;ary?"
There are three or four column of
of Blackburn's cohorts. denun-
citation of Republicans who practice
unfair methods, and such a castiga-
ton of the wicked B~lackburnites as
to max certain that the Caucasian
thinks the whole gang of Republicans
are a sorry lot, except the few who
.sneeZe when Butler takes snuff. And
Blackburn's crowd can prove that
there are as many rascals in the But
Ter camp as in the Blackburn camp.
And so both crowds go on turning
States evidence and giving the de-
cent people evidence that pestilence
and famine would be more tolerable
in North Carolina than a Republican
Victory.
AS TO Law YERS.