The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
HARD ON BUTLER.

q Inc recent war OF WOrQs OeGWeen
Marion Butler and State Chairman
adams has caused no little interest in.
this section among republican office
}holders and the "outs'' as well. But
Sler's rejoinder to the chairman's roast
brings out the following in answer to
THE question: if he had seen the inter
s9iew. Mr.. Adams said:
S-@"Yes, I have seen it and will treat his
statements with that indifference which
they and their author deserve. In an
underhanded and humanity way be open
Led the attack on me, and Indirectly on
1.-The Republican party of the State. He
has been forced into the open and it
seems to have pierced his Judas Iscariot
hide. I congratulate the Republican ans
of the State upon the fact that we are at
last rid of this pestiferous body of death,
and we may now go forward and build
up the party on right lines. We will
not be further troubled with him in
{ North Carolina Or elsewhere. The body
Is now ready for interment and nothing
more is to be done except a plain slab
should be erected at the grave, bearing
his name, nothing more, 80 as to remind
passers-by'that the path of treachery'
,-duplicity and ingrstitude leads to the
Dead Sea where there is no life and no
outlet"
Butler is also attacked most furiouSly
by his former associate, Hon. Thomas
E. Watson, of Georgia, who was once
the noted Populist leader of the South.
In a recent issue of his paper Watson
denounced Butler in terms nor severe
than ever used by any Democrat and
showed how he had betrayed every par
ty to which he had ever belonged. BE
said among other things that Butler had
''played the game of trading with both
parties so well that he rose from the
honorable poverty of a country editor
Into ihe tainted wealth of a national
political, prostitute-his riches being
augmented occasionally by impartially
~swindling the government and the
Indians in lobbying mysterious clauses
into appropriation bills"
All this ~denunciation Of Butler would
seem to indicate that he is beginning to
see his finish in North Carolina, so far
as politics is concerned. Yet, like Banco's
ghost, there is no telling when he may
bob up ~serenely again. Adams and
Watson have been dealing him some
nnmercifnl blows and there is little rea-
son for doubling that the Sampson coun.
ty statesman is ydiscredited more than
eVer in the eyes of all fair-minded re-
publicans throughout the State. The
balance of the folks dropped him long
ago. Butler is a persistent worker and
never Tres in an effort to accomplish
his purpose in anything he undertakes
in political jobbery, but we do not be
1ieve he will succeed in building up a
strong faction in his. party, on opposi.
tion alone. His acrobstic performances
in the past appear to have at last brought
him to grief and there are few who sym
pathize with him.
In this connection we are reminded of
the story related by Governor Aycock,
in.his campaign speeches last fall, of the
fellow who broke up all the churches
with which he was connected and finally
one good old deacon in Offering praye
for the disturber used this language.
"And If consistent with Thy will,
o Lord, send brother John Smith to
hell" The pastor and all present were
greatly alarmed at the deacon's remark
able prayer and asked why in the world
he had dared to employ such language,
to which he replied that brother Smith
had succeeded in breaking up all the
churches and he thought if the Lord
sent him to hell he would break that up.
The application made by the Governor
10 inc story was That Marion Butler had
broken up the democratic party in the
State, at one time, and afterwards the
populist party and now that he joined
the radicals he hoped he would break
that up. too. And recent developments
indicate that the prophecy is about to
come to pass. Butler will either rule or
ruin. That much is certain and u re-
publican friends may as well realize it
right now and govern themselves accord
ingly.
Looks like the folks are determined
upon forcing Governor Glenn and Aud