The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-06-27
SAMPSON COUNTY REPUBLICAN,
Writes About the Adams Butler
Controversy.
He States Some Significant Facts and
Asks Mr.. Adams Some Pertinent
Question:

Questions

EDITOR CAUCAETAS - nave read
carefully the two attacks which
Judge Adams has made upon former
Senator Butler and the Senator's two
replies thereto, and have been think
ing about the same. | regret very
much that Mr.. Adams made these
attacks. for / cannot see any just
cause that he had for doing 80. His
attacks sound to me just like the
abuse which the Democratic politi-
clans have been heaping on Mr.. But
Ter. The Democrats have cause
for they are afraid that his efforts
will weaken the Democratic party
and build up the Republican party.
But why does Adams attack him :?
| think he will not do 1t any more,
for he has no doubt gotten more
than he expected.
Mr.. Adams says the Senator ia as
"dead as door nail" That sounds
exactly like it came from Josephus
Daniels or some frightened Demo
cratic politician. 1t il only things
of this kind and personal abuse that
any of them can say against Marion
Butler, because they dare not make
any charges against him by stating
facts, because they cannot prove
them to be true.
| One thing is certain, that if the
Democrats thought Mr.. Butler was
so dead they would not continue to
show that they are so much afraid of
him, and another thing is true, and
| that is that if Mr.. Adams thought
Mr.. Butler was so dead he would
not have been SO anxious for his
support at the last State Convention
If he had published an attack on
Mr.. Butler before that Convention,
as he has done since, think | know
what l am talking about when | say
that he never would have gotten the
vote of Sampson County, and l
think there are q good many other
strong Republican Counties that he
would not have gotten. Without
the vote of Buffers County alone
he could not have been elected State
Chairman.
l also notice that Mr.. Adams
charges that Mr.. Butler is ungrate-
full, but he does not point out in
what particular. The way it looks
in this neck of the woods is that
Mr.. Adams is the man that is I'M
grateful. Those of us in Sampson
County who know Mr.. Butler better
than anybody else, know that he
has always been true to his friends
and has never fooled us about any
thing. Besides, he has never per
mitted men to make attacks on him
that purported to contain the least
charge as to fact that he has not
promptly met the same and driven
his opponents from the stump Mr..
Adams did not do this in the last
campaign when he was being attacked
by the Democrats. One of the worst
things that every Republican in the
Stale had to meet in the last cam
paign were the attacks made on
Adams, which he did not attempt
to deny or explain away.
I also see that Mr.. Adams
charges that Mr.. Butler is an
exile from his State. If he is
an exile from his State now he was
an exile at the last State Convention
and during the last campaign, and
Mr.. Adams was certainly then very
anxious to get him back to the State
and get the benefit of his help and
influence, and it seemed to me that
there were more people in the State
calling for Mr.. Butler to make
speeches in the last campaign than
for anyone else. At any rate, there
is one thing that l can say to Mr..
Adams for the people of Sampson
County, and that is that We have
confidence in Senator Butler and are
proud of him, and that no speaker
in the State could be billed to speak
i'll this County who would draw a
larger crowd on short notice. If
Adams thinks he can get as large a
crowd in this County let him try it.
If Judge Adams wants to help
build up the Republican party, then
he will stop making attacks on those
who have come into the party and
have the capacity to do things. How
can we expect men to come into the
party if Mr.. Adams is going to ex-
pend all of his time in trying to
read them out Of the party Has not
Mr.. Butler done as much as anyone
manlin the State to help build up the
party since he Joined it? Then is
it not queer that the head of the or.
IganizstiOn and his friends would be
wanting to drive him out of the
of the party? That looks very
strange to the Republicans of Samp
son County !; and in this connection
want to call Mr.. Adams attention
to the fact that we have made Samp
son County, which was once one OF
the strongest Democratic Counties
now one of the strongest Republic
can Counties in the State. Has Mr.
Adams done as much in his OWL
County?
| Is Judge Adams mad because the
new recruits have made Sampson
County Republican Z? Would he
prefer that the Republican party in