The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-12-01
MARION BUFFERS
RALEIGH SPEECH
Greeted by 4 I, emendous An
dieace v here He Exposes
and Denounces Simmons,
Daniels and Others.
LYING AND COHARDLY
SLANDERERS RAN

lie Produces Proof Coeiusive TO Show
That He il not Now and Never Has
Had Amy Connection. Either Di-
reefiy or Indirectly. With Fraudu-
lent Carpetbag Bonds-He shows
That These Bonds Were Conceived
and Engineered by Conspiracy of
Leading Democrats. and That
They Looted the State. and Not tho
Repubiicans--He Exposed the Mis-
cradle Record OF Hypocrisy Of
Simmons, Daniels. Overman and
Others-He Proved That Senator
Vance Had Denounced Simmons m
Being an Inscriptions Politician
and . Man Unworthy Of the Conf
dence Of the People Of the State
He Showed How Daniels, With
Baseless Ingratitude. Had Hound
ed to His Death q Man Who Had
Befriended Him and His Widowed
"oIhSTs anu AIsO noN ne nau bc-
trayed and Hounded for q Price
Senator Vance to His Grave-The
Speaker Was Given q Warm Wei
come When He Entered the Hall,
Was Frequently Interrupted by
Vociferous Applause, and Was
Given An Ovation at the End of
His Speech.
at the request Of a very large num-
Der OF our readers We are attempt
ing to reproduce Senator Buffers
great speech in Raleigh on November
4th as fully as possible from the
notes taken at that time.
The Introductory statement pub
lished in The Caucasian in its extra
edition Of Saturday, November 8th,
is as follows:
when Marion Butler was recog-
Music yesterday afternoon, he was
cheered to the echo. When he ap-
peared on the stage he was met with
even louder acclaim. When he arose
in acknowledgement Of the introduc-
ton to the large audience by T. Ivey,
of Cary, Wake County, the cheers
were deafening in volume and sim
cerity Of meaning.
"The two floors Of the Academy
were filed to the utmost of their
with voters Of both parties,
not alone from Raleigh and the i'm
mediate neighborhood, but from 9TH
er sections of the State, many COM
ing from long distances to hear the
man who had been vilely traduced
by the Democratic machine. The
telling points that he made met uni
versal approval, az shown by the Oft
repeated cheers and cries from the
audience and by the throngs Of vot-
ers who went on the stage at the
of the address and warm
ly congratulated him.
The audience was what might be
called mixed" made up OF both Re-
publicans and Democrats, with neith-
er side apparently in the majority,
yet every man there seemingly will
ing to hear the facts and stand for
fair play. Neither Josephus Daniels
nor Mr.. Simmons, his fellow-assail-
ant of good character, was present
to meet the man who had challenged
them, to meet him in public and con-
front him with the charges they had
made behind his back. In fact, they
were conspicuous by their absence.
and 1t did not seem that they had
any friends in the audience, judging
from the cheers that greeted the
speaker each time he referred in
scathing terms to their cowardice
and lack of honest manhood in re-
fusing to meet him before the peo-
pie.
1.-THE speaker read the three chal-
Ienges which he had issued to Mr..
Daniels and to Mr.. Simmons or which
he termed the three calls for the
meeting and commented upon them
as he read them, In q way that
brought constant applause from the
great audience
He then said that before pro-
ceeding to the real business for which
the meeting was called, that he
would briefly discuss certain State
issues set forth In the Republican
platform, as he had been requested
by large number OF voters to do So
He then proceeded to pay his
in most severe and
scathing terms, to not only Mr.. Sim
mons and Mr.. Daniels. but also to
Senator Overman and Mr.. Lock Craig
and others.
In conclusion he showed by the
most convincing proof that he had
at no time any connection with the
carpetbag bonds, and also proved
that the issue of these bonds was en-