The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-10-20
1900 saooKED sENAToRs
o.,v One Who Ever Procured
Only AGAINST Hi state-Repub
su ans Want to be Rid Of Him.
By Thomas J. Pence.

Nl " HA
on Bntler admitted during
Wasting of testimony in the suit
'ee +be South Dakota against
o. N,rtb Carolina to enforce the pay
No Of those repudiated bonds,
1 I he was employed by the hold
un Of the worthless paper while
s' was supposed to be represent
i ae his native State in the highest
nMcethe people of the Common
~nolth were able to bestow on
SiS This employment, accord
NO to Butler, took place in Jan
an a1v 1901, and he was then q Sen
otor from North Carolina.
When the aforesaid Butler,
,ub;le q United States, took the fee
" the bond spectators in New
Tork, to trump up legislation
+broueh friends in Congress that.
T,s intended to harass his native
State, he did a thing that shocked
MEMBERS of the Senate, and which
% far as l have ever heard, is with
ant PARALLEL in the whole history
If the membership of the Senate.
have often asked the question,
and so far as / can ascertain Mar
ion Butler is the only member of
the Senate in the whole history of
the nation who ever took q fee to
nnoor against the State that hon.
ored him.
But what I am getting at is a
new angle with reference to But
ler's employment to appear
against the State Of his birth that
was amply compensating him so.
far as the needs of living were
concerned. This phase of But
ler's bond venture has not been
advanced before SO far as | can
recall, and was given me by a
North Carolina Republican. Said
this Tar Heel Republican:
The fact seems to have been en-
tirely overlooked that the ink was
hardly dry on Buffers license
commissioning him to practice law
In North Carolina when he accept
employment at the hands of the
Shaefers, the New York specula-
tors holding the repudiated bonds.
Mind you, the Shaefers were not
investors; they never advanced a
cent to North Carolina, but sim
ply bought up the repudiated pa
per as a matter of speculation.
When Butler was employed by the
Shaefers, he had been In posses
sion of his license from the Su-
preme Court of North Carolina to
practice law for a period of six
teen months, though he had never
appeared In acase In court. He
was given his law license in the
fall of 1899, and went on the pay
rob Of Shaefers i'm 1901. Being
a member of the Senate, Butler
did not even pretend to practice
law. He was nothing more thar
a novice. In fact, he never in.
tended to practice law, not while
lobbying was so easy and remun
erative for an ex-senator in Wash
inton. The Shaefers did not EN-
ploy Butler as q LAWYER, but as &
lobbyist to smooth the way for {
suit. This he did in splendic
shape through his. bosom friend
Pettigrew, as he has admitted il
his sworn testimony now on FL,
In the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States.
Butler has unlimited gall, anC
there is not much surprise ovel
the fact that he should 60 up. and
down the State and endeavor tt
cover up his treachery to Nortl
Carolina while serving the Nev
York spectators whose money
ne took to harass the State tina.
honored him. He tries. to defenC
himself by saying the bonds wer,
valid, though it is common know
ledge that he disregards the fact
When he says the State got valu,
received. But grant for argu
ment's sake that the bonds shoulC
nave been paid at full value-ant
That is not admitted by anybod,
IN the State who knows the fact
1t does not make Butler lool
any better. He was not actuatet
oy a patriotic motive in anything
ne did. He espoused the Shaefer
cause for money when he was sup
posed to be serving the State. H
was not even a p~racsicing lawyer
and his retainer as well as hi
services rendered were those of
lobbyist. I do not believe ther
an honest Republican in Mort
Carolina who will come out in tn
open and attempt to condone o
SaStlfy Buffers perfdy to hi