The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-10-25
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Daily Industrial News
The attention OF former Senator
Marion Butler was today called 10
The interview Of Senator Simmons,
la which the latter declared that Ii
the Republicans carry the legislature
10 North Carolina they will attempt
10 validate and pay Q large number
Of fraudulent carpetbag bonds The
denounced the charge OF
Boss" Simmons IS Q base aud ma
licious lie, adding ssSimmons
knows IL Is q base and malicious lie"
Mr.. Butler left here today for In
diana, where he delivers q number
CT speeches by invitation of Chair
man James y. Sherman, Of the Re
publican Congressional Committee.
He was not inclined to discuss North
Carolina politics, but aequiescent in
the suggestion Of the correspondent
of the Daily Industrial News that
he should pay his respects to "Boss"
Simmons.
sOf course, / will talk about Sen
ator Simmons charge, il you wish
it," said Mr.. Butler.
sin the first place, l am utterly
opposed to the State ever paying the
fraudulent caIpetbag bonds, and l
do not believe there Is o single man
in North Carolina who favors their
payment.
"Several months ago Mr.. Sim
mons democratic organ charged that
the bonds which the State had re-
Gently settled. after q judgment by
the Supreme Court, were fraudulent.
They had charged that these bonds
were issued by a Republican carpet
bag legislature, that they were sold
for a song and that the State did not
get the money, but that the carpet
baggers had stolen it.
"The facts are that these bonds
which has just been settled were is
sued by Democratic legislature
while Jonathan Worth was governor
and DR.. Kemp P. Battle was State
Treasurer, whose name was signed
to every one of the bonds. The fact
is the State got one hundred cents
on tho doIIar for fhoSo hopaS VI, h ia h
fact was stated in the Supreme Court
decision, and the money went to
build the Western North Carolina
road {; the security behind these
bonds lin addition to the pledged
faith and credit Of the State) which
made them bring the State one hum
dred cents on the dollar, is today
paying the commonwealth the hand
some dividend of seven per cent.
and it would be paying more than
twice that amount had not Demo
cratic administration leased the prop
erty for less than half what it Is
worth. If there ever was an honest
debt this is one, and every honest
man in the State wants the State to
pay her honest debts"
Continuing, he said: "rhe man
who wants his State to repudiate
her honest debts is himself dishonest,
and besides is an enemy of his
State" He said that when the peo-
pie learned these facts that Mr.. Sim
mons and his machine Democratic
organ had to drop that malicious
charge, and that now, in their des-
peration. they had manufactured
this last charge which was equally
false and malicious.
He said that it was published
nearly month ago that he was
billed to make some speeches in the
West, beginning this week, and that
it seemed that the Democrats had
purposely waited until he had to
start West to spring this new lie,
which, he said, he wished to brand
as malicious in the strongest terms
and in the most positive manner.
Senator Chairman Simmons may
be interested in the following obser-
vations of ex-senator Butler:
"Mr. Simmons does not know
how to run campaign on issues or
On a high plane. He has always
used the race issue and appeals to
prejudice supplemented by ballot
box stufing to manufacture a ma
jority.
"To get the Constitutional amend
ment adopted he solemnly promised
the people Of the State that there
after he and his party would never
try to raise the niger cry. But he
at once broke that promise aud got
the vulgar cartoons of Booker Wash
ington and the President, labelling
them "Booker and Teddy" and
placarded the State with them as the
only Democratic machine issue.
"He began this campaign this year
again with the old Niger cry, and
finding that it did not take, he soon J
began to look for some other bug.a-
boo. He soon raised the cry of
'pernicious activity Of federal office
holders" He could produce only a |
few charges against free rural de-
livery carriers. His charges were SO
and foolish that the civil |
service commission after an investi.
cation dismissed the whole business.
"He has now started this charge |