The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-05

/ ed under Democratic administratlon.
/ the people who actually pIowed. hoed
| and picked the cotton crop at cents
a pound did IL Of necessity practi-
cafiy barefooted and In their shirt
tails
These broadcioth liars. who are
willing TO hold ofice under such con-
ditions. know that IL IL no use TO talk
10 the farmer any longer against
protection with the price OF eggs.
chickens and farm products soaring.
party In Congress. saying IL Is be-
cause OF a protective tarin. So your
/ Big Four Ia sound and fury, signI-
! flying nothing.
/ Fab Busbee. OF splendid memory.
one OF the popular leading lawyers OF
! the State employed Mr.. Butler to aid
/ him I'm collecting q just debt from
/ the State. Hon. Kemp r. Battle. OF
/ Chapel HIM. says the debt was an
honest debt. lie was Treasurer when
/ the bonds were issued under q Demo-
cratic administration.
| 1t is only necessary to speak Mr..
| Battles name In North Carolina, for
/ he needs no euiogy at any mans
| hands.
! There Is no treachery In any at
| torney collecting an honest debt from
! his State, for 1t preserves the States
| credit. If the credit OF the State Is
not upheld. 1t is not the fault OF the
| State itself, but of the individuals,
| who officially act for 1t at the time
/ These individuals should be dishon-
/ participated In making them sustain
their States credit. Nobody but a
liar would call II traitors act.
| am not a lawyer. but the car
pet-bag bonds are the special tax
| bonds and this special tax feature
was a legislative provision agains:
the Constitution, In that 1t provided
money to pay interest on these bonds
| beyond the tax-collecting Constitu-
| tional limit.
Outside the provision of the Con-
stitution that any legislative act TO
collect must be submitted to the peo-
pie for ratification, there is no court
that could collect them, and there IL
no Wall Street man fool enough to
pay out money to influence an at
tempt to collect, in view Of this spe-
cial tax fraud feature. So there is
no truth in the Republicans getting
Doodle from Wall Street for this
purpose.
AS for the Booze element in your
Big Four combination, you are al
leging as to an untruth in regard to
Butler. I did all I could two years
ago to have him aid in putting a To-
cal option plank in the Republican
platform, but failed. I wrote a
statement as to my view of the liquor
question. to commit the party to it.
and submitted it to the convention
at Greensboro recently, and Mr.. But
Ter was there to object. If you will
publish this liquor statement, please
advise me and I will send it to you
Immediately. 1t might do you some
good in Strengthening your Big
Four whale-way as to booze, but like
all the balance of the Big Four it
will prove liar as to Butler.
"Your people, in speeches. are In
timating that negro suffrage might
be restored II the Democracy should
go down in the State. IT the Demo-
cratic party should go down the Re-
publican party would not need the
interested in possible accessions from
the negro vote in this State are the
governing Democrats themselves.
When educated the negro becomes
a preacher or a teacher and then a
prohibitionist. He pays no attention
to economies. and he can only vote
when he is educated. The Republi-
can party is not a prohibition party
The much used epithet. the word
traitor which you apply to Mr.. But
Ter is unworthy of you, and when
you see it so frequently in smaller
sheets which take their cue from
you, and hear it as coming from the
lips of the speakers who pass from
the portals of your Office doped with
irfamy TO speak lies. it surely must
excite repugnant feelings in you whc
, know so we'll the scope and meanins
of the ugly sentence. when you car
only apply it to him on the ground o
his having left the Democratic party
Grant left it; Logan left 1t; som.
! Of the brightest lights in the histor,
: of the Republican party left the Dem
: ocratic party.
. / trotted around the country wit,
you after Bryan In the silver fight
and we both voted for the Populis
: electors. Were We traitors then?
/ saw a good deal OF you then
and studied you. | am sure you ar,
not as bad as you paint yourself. blu
: you have q total misconception o
|, politics, ethically as well as other
B wise, You can do well at something
. else.
: 'If you will continue on the lin
{ you are going, being q little man Ii