The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-19
UESDAY-~-
NO CONFIDENCE IN ADAMS.

The Caucasian Of this week-the pa
per run by ex-senator Marion Butler
has an editorial entitled Fedora Of
hce-HoIders and Patriotic Duty" in
which appeal is made to the pie-eaters
in North Carolina to stand aside and
let the Republican voters elect a man
like ex-Chief Justice F'urchess chair
man of the State Executive
in order to give the Republican party
a chance to grow and to do which it
does not do under Adams, to-wit:
command respect. In the course Of
the editorial, the Caucasian says:
1T will be generally conceded that
the people have no confidence in
State Chairman Adams. 1t will also
be generally conceded that IL ne were
not supported by the Federal office
holders he would not nave a corpOraPs
guards support in the next
ton
Proceeding upon this premise, the
Caucasian appeals to the Federal Of
flee holders ito stand back and let
the people elect a State chairman"
and asks els it not their patriotic duty
to their party?"
If the Caucasian had any pearls it
would be throwing them before swine.
TO ask Federal office holders to stand
back" or to perform a patriotic duty
is exactly as if one should address a
crowd of hungry hogs and ask them to
keep their noses out of the trough of
swill. would they do it? If so, an
appeal to Federal office holders to
stand back will be needed.
I-o-I~l -. 49, -
can party in North Carolina is no.
thing but a voracious appetite and
that the Federal office holders own it
body and soul and it never fails to do
their bidding. Here and there you find
q Republican who has independence
and who will fight the pie distributors
and pie-eaters, but after one fight you
will see the good ones 50 Disguised
they retire from politics and the others
asking to be permitted to get the leav-
ings from the hands of the pie distrib-
utor. In 1906, when Adams and But
Ter and the revenue doodlers and post
masters were running things with a
high hand. the new editor of the Sub
sidized News. then at Asheville, was
abusing Adams and Butler and the pie
brigade, and whooping it up for Black
burn. Today he, is the editor of
Adams organ, cheek and jowl with
the gang he denounced in 1906, run
ming the organ for the purpose of
keeping Adams and the Hit-Me-in-the-
in
control of the Republican machinery
In North Carolina. He is no better ana
no worse than Butler in this particular
they have simply Changed places.
Hildebrand was then writing about
Adams and Butler gang in the
same way-and truthfully-what but
Ter is writing about the Adams gang
and truthfully-now. Then the Pie
Eaters controlled and Hildebrand now
runs their 'orgin." Next year the Pie
Eaters will control with Hildebrand in
the band-wagon and Butler will fan
IN 1908 on the outside where Hide
brand fell in 1906. In the year 1910
If the Republican National ticket
should win in 1908, Butler will
probably again be in the same
bed with Adams and thew will no
Smelling some recalcitrant fellow who
succeeds Blackburn n is fighting TO
'-o ~
down the old GROVE 50 he can distrib-
ute the pie.
Buffers appealing to. Adams ME
eaters to be patriotic" is the Joke of
the year. Everybody knows the ONLY
quarrel they can have is over when
gets or controls the biggest piece of
pie, and that no difference except as TO
dishing out pie can exist betwee,
Adams. who, in 1898. delivered the
most lncendiary charge to a grand Jury
IN county ever heard in
North Carolina, and Butler who. while
holding North Cardinals commission
was guilty of the treason of pIannin
and taking pay to practise a fraud
upon the courts jurisdiction in order
to force it to pay more money than it
honestly owed.
The only word beginning with p in
the vocabulary of Adams and Butler
is Pie-not Patriotism.