The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-16
ADAMS WOULD
DISCARD BUTLER.

DISCARD BUTLER.
Spencer B. Adams, chairman Of the
Republican State executive committee
has been handing out some 'hot-stuf'
in Washington recently, regarding the
affairs Of his party in North Carolina
A report lately circulated is TO the
effect that Adams and certain other or
ganization leaders of the republican
household were out of harmony with the
Roosevelt idea of doing things and that
they were lining up with an anti ad-
ministration candidate for president to
succeed"'Teddy the Terrible" Follow
ing the report came the rumor that the
former populist-senator had been desig-
mated as the southern manager for the
president in the delegate-getting bus
mess and:all of the Roosevelt inclined
republicans visiting the National Capt.
tai, from this neck % the.woods, must
confer with Mary Ann. This did not
please Chairman Adams, Charley
Harris and a lot of other radicals. who
decline to admit that Butler is ''the
whole cheese" Mr.. Harris expressed
his ~displeasure of the idea in emphatic
terms while in Washington q few weeks
ago and now the head of the republican
organization in the state betakes him
self to the White House, has q long con-
fab with the president and gives out an
interview to the newspapers. The News
and Observers Washington co~rrespon-
dent, ever on the alert for news, while
IL In news. sends the following to that
paper under date of May 10:
When asked about published state
ments from ex-senator Marion Butler
in which the charge is made that there
is an effort on the part Of some North
Carolina Republicans to defeat the
President and his policies, Judge Adams
said: =.
'If he has made that charge all l have
to say is that if the ex-senator was as
well known here as he is in North Caro-
lima, no credence whatever would be
given to his assertions. Everybody in
North Carolina knows these statements
of his are made solely for the purpose Of
furthering some political or personal
project Of his own, and are utterly IN
true. The Republicans of North Caro-
lima r loyal to the President and his
administration and will remain so. Mr..
Butler Is raising this false cry merely to
attract attention to himself and if pos
sible to persuade people here that he
has some political standing in North
Carolina, It had just as well be under
stood that he is as dead as a door nail
in the Old North State, and he cannot
by this means galvanize his political
corpse into life again. The people OF
all parties in North Carolina know him,
and any man, measure, or party viii!
suffer by any alliance or connection
with him, however slight or remote il
might be. Neither he nor his wild and
~unveracious statements r of sufficient
importance to deserve attention"
Speaking of a somewhat similar
charge published in North Carolina
papers from r. 81. Mcneil, an attorney
Of this city, whoi is associated with ex
Senator Butler, Judge Adams had this
this to say: 81 never shoot at a gnat.'
Continuing the State Chairman said:
"The Republicans of North Carolina
will work out their own salvation with
out the suggestion or adYise of men who
have been repudiated in their own
State and have come to the national
capital an a city of refuge. We take nc
stock in bosses, tricksters, or those who
would aspire to conduct ar Office broker
age"
This is about the nearest to the boil.
ing point Of anything we have seen in
print since the Adams Blackburn cam
paiRn for the Of1ce of pie-dispenser last
year. What? Dead as a door nail''
and has "come to the National Capita]
as a city of Refuge" Think of it fellow
c~itizens!> And further: "The people
of all parties in North Carolina know
him and any man, measure, Or party
will suffer by any alliance Oh connection
with him, however slight or remote it
may be- Isn't this near on to "a part
ing of the ways? If Spencer Black.
burn is not Laughing in his Sleeve
all sense Of humor has departed from
his anatomy. For did he not handle
something like the same chat sbout..But-
Ter last year? But at that time Adams
wanted TO be chairman and Butler held
the key to the situation, 30 the would
be pie-dispenser folded him to his
bosom" and warmed him into life again.
Having landed the cherished prize, his
0rstwhile benefactor is denounced as q
scape-goat and falsifier. 1t is a nest Of
bad eggs-all of them.
The tax assessors will soon begin the