The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
"CoId Facts About Butler and the Bonds.
Dr. Kemp Battle the Democratic State Treasurer When the Bonds wer
issued Gives the Official Facts
He Asserts That Ihsy Honest
Further Asserts nat They Were Issued Democratic Legislature
Man IS State Treasurer Mhs Jonathan


the Supreme Court. with these facts
before IL. held that these we're hon
est bonds. and that the State was cot
only in honor bound TO pay them. but
that the State could no longer hold
back the valuable security and the In
come from il. which honestly belong
ed TO those who had bought her
bonds?
The Second Lying Islander.
When these facts were placed be-
fore the public by the Supreme Court
then .;he editor OF the News and OBJ
server Matched and published anoth-
er lie. charging that Marion Butler
was also the attorney for the special
tax bonds and other fraudulent
bonds issued by the carpet bag leg
!slature. He had no foundation for
such a charge, so he was wilfully
and maliciously guilty OF falsifying
Mr.. Butler prepared a statement Civ
ing the facts as to the difference be-
tween the second mortgage bonds
and the carpet-bag bonds, and stat
ing that he had refused 10 act as at
torney for any OF the carpet-bag
bonds. This statement the News and
the other hand, continued to make
the baseless charge.
Butler Refused to Represent the
Carpet-Bag Bonds, and Opposes
Their Collection.
The editor OF that paper knew
then, as he knows now, that Hon.
John G.. Carlisle, the late Democratic
Secretary of Treasury, was the at
torney for the carpet-bag syndicate
and that Mr.. Butler refused to be
associated with him as attorney or
to be connected with the carpet-bag
syndicate in any way. Indeed, Mr..
Butler declared that he would have
nothing to do with those bonds and
was opposed to their collection.
The Third Lying SANDER.
The editor of that. paper, now, con-
tinuing this TRADE of misrepresenta-
ton and abuse, charges In the edi-
torial clipped above that Mr.. Butler,
when he advised his clients TO make
a donation of some Of their bonds to
some State, was guilty OF working
"a fraud upon the jurisdiction OF the
Supreme Court TO enable bond spec
ulators to sue his State" This
charge is not only false but asinine
to the last degree. 1t is a deliber-
ate attempt to deceive the people.
The attorneys whom the State of
North Carolina employed to appear
before the Supreme Court to urge
that the State be allowed to repudi-
ate its honest debt and to keep its
security which had been pledged to
the purchase OF the bonds, urged
in the Supreme Court that to take
Jurisdiction in this case would be to
work a fraud upon the Jurisdiction
of the Supreme Court. Those attor-
neys, who should have advised the
State to pay this honest debt and
preserve the good name and credit
of the State, did not even dare con-
tend before the Supreme Court that
the bonds were fraudulent. and that
the State did not get value received.
but attempted to have the State con-
tinue to refuse TO pay Its honest
debt by means of technicalities, and
that such a suit would be a fraud
upon the Jurisdiction of the court
was the chief technicality urged In
that suit
Where the Decision of the Supreme
Court Puts the Brand Of Malice
and Moral Turpitude.
The Supreme Court considered
this question carefully. and held
that the bringing OF such a suit
was entirely proper. and IL was
the duty of the Supreme Court 10
hear 1t and render its judgement ac-
cording TO the law and the facts
Therefore, we say that the decis-
ion of the highest court In the land
places the correct brand OF malice
and moral turpitude upon the Ra-
leigh News and Observer in this con-
nection.
The charge that the holders OF
these bonds were spectators is also
false Schaffer Brothers bought
those bonds for investment, and
they held them all OF those years
hoping that the conscience of the
State would be aroused TO the great
injustice done them. and that this
honest debt would sooner or later
be paid. But even IL they were bond
spectators, they are entitled to jus
tice, and IL bond Spectator holds
an honest bond no State can afford
to refuse TO pay IL because the hold
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