The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-08-08


Thou dost not bite so nigh
AS benefits forgot,
Though thou the waters warp
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remembered not"
JUDGE SPENCER B. ADAMS.
Greensboro, n. G.
Dear Judge Il had written you
ere now, but that l am at loss TO |
know just what TO say predica-
ment that / have more than once |
been ia before-perhaps the best
thing to do is to tell the truth.
When you were the Clerk OF lit
tie County Court in far away Cas-
we'll County, just on the "out-
sqirts" of the State and adjoining
the "rhubarbs'' of Virginia, sena~
tor Butler marshailed his forces
with such consuInmate skill and
gave battle to the Democratic party,
which had been 30 thoroughly en-
throned, that you were enabled
through his efforts to quit the CLERK
ship and 60 upon the Superior Court
Bench of our State. Before he came
to our rescue we did not have a suf-
ficient number of members In our
legislature to call for the yeas and
NAYS under section 26 of the Consti-
/ tuition.
In the legislature succeeding this,
we sent Senator Pritchard, as Sena =
tor, to succeed Senator Vance; to
the next Congress, we sent Marion
Butler, himself. We elected Gov
leruor and all our State officers; a
Supreme Court and put six Superior
Court Judges on the Bench.
In your recent contest for the
Craftsmanship of our Executive
Committee, you had failed to get
into your County Convention from
the ward in which you live, and
your County voted itsentire strength
against you. [ was opposed to you
for Chairman, and yet l took the
ltWenty.four delegates from this
t County and went to the Convention
f and fought for you at the request
, of this same Butler, to whom l an
not indebted except that / happen t.
be one of those whom he lifted from
obscurity and seated with careless
Y ease upon the Bench, though hat
!. been more than a clerk before h
found me, and had made some littl
noise in the State. Now you charg
g this man with duplicity, and 80 ia
d az you can, try to read him out o
b the party and brand him as traito
4 who flights in his wake.
I'll I really would rather undertak
to solve the problem, SHOW oldii
q Ann" or "Who struck Billy Pattel
l. son." than try to assign reason fO
Ie why you did this. It looks to M
" that 1 have better judgment than ha
Butler, for told him that you woul
10 go back on us, and that the repu
y tation you bore was that of a
le MIGRATE. If it were not that ii
er hurt to the party in the State an
n does much to bring us into contemI
=. and disrepute beyond the borders
40 the State, I would be inclined to n
7e joice in being able to inform Butl'
In that 81 told him So"
r. Butler is the man that made m
no withdraw from the contest for r
election on the National Committ'
70 in favor of Duncan, and I expect
or be able to prove to him that
Ill made a mistake in that instanc
l. too. I have always found Butler 6
No Iearnest, ardent advocate of the eau
he espouses. I have disagreed wit
him, as in the instance of your ele
10 ton and that of Duncan, but ha'
always accorded him the need
, sincerity.
/ The Democrats hate him as the
K. do the devil, but they have caus
en- Surely, we should not join them
re Idenouncing him for having aid
n US in ''sweeping the State" in tv
several elections.
'ie Suppose you train your guns
he the enemy; it will give more sat
in faction to the party in this "neck
ire the woods" and you know it "
the boys in this section that saw
your bacon.
e Sincerely yours,
WY @ Old DODINS0N