The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-11-03
BUTLER IN HIS
own MIRROR
No Man Has Ever Been SO Fearfully
Denounced by His Own Allies us
the Double-face Renegade.

NO Man HaS Ever Been SO Fearfully
Denounced by His Own Allies us
the Double-face Renegade.
The fearful denunciations that
have been heaped upon the head of
| Butler, the traitor, who is trying to
re-establish himself in North Caro-
lima, have come with most telling
force from his own allies and former
partners. Decent men no longer have
anything to do with him. No dem
Ocratic speaker would discuss issues
with him. Senator Simmons said that
he denounced Butler several years
ago as a traitor and scoundrel and
that ended it with him. Judge
Judge Pritchard denounced Butler as
a traitor and scoundrel in 1897
Judge H. G. Ewart said October g.,
1910, that Butler had done him great
| wrong and he despised him.
, Republican members of the legisla-
ture of 1895, during the discussion
o fone day, February IA, declared
Butler to be liar, a self-constituted
car, bulldozer, a penny-a-liner, an
intermeddler, a brutal scribbler, a
| falsifer, an unjust and ungentleman-
| ly fellow.
On February /. 1897, Harry Skin
ner said that Butler tried to secure
the election of the negro Cheatham
| over the white pOpulist nominee, and
! that Butler had uttered a wanton, ma
licious and cowardly SANDER.
A Guilford county jury found But
| Ter guilty of having libeled Judge
| Adams, republican chairman.
| Col. V. S. Lusk said of Butler on
July 26, 1910: "Once deceived,
either in business or politics, is excus-
able; but twice deceived by the same
party and by about the same thing is
! ineXcusable, and the best way to
avoid second deception is to evade the
| deceiVer."
The Greensboro News, Buffers
| present organ, said: Who made Mr..
| Butler man of means?' Whence
comes the Doodle for the expensive
campaign he has been waging so as
siduously' since January last? Are
those irrepressible 'bondhoIders' be-
| hind him."
| In the republican convention of
Richmond county, June "a, 1906,
| Henry c. Dockery called Butler a
Judas Iscariot, and said he betrayed
the republicans when they trusted
| him and that the republican party
could never succeed under such lead
ership.
On June 10, 1906, Chas. McKesson,
! a leading republican of the state, and
now postmaster at Morganton, said:
Where Butler leads is iDfamy;
where Butler wins is fraud. His dis
approval is a badge of honor. De-
spised ,disOwned, discredited and dis
crowned by the decency of the state
! an office gained by his endorsement
has about it the odOr of a brothel
and the bOwery, and a commission
coming through his hands is punctur-
ed by the stiliettO of a highWayman
The president and Senators PenrOse
and Carter will soon discover that his
pretended power is but the radiant
shine of serpent, a skeleton without
the color or currents of life. If he
had his Washington hireling domi
nate the republican party in its lead
erShip it deserves common and uni
versal defeat and the true and lOyaI
republicans of the state will throttle
the free hooters, whose only motto
is 'spoils' and whose battle cry is
Doodle.
f., August 25, 1908, Judge Adam:
said of Butler:
There is nothing new in these
lslanderous charges. The public by
this time understands that they ema
nate from that cowardly traitor who
has not only betrayed his state. bu
every party and about every person
with whom he ever affiliated. Moth
ing that | may say can add to tht
contempt with which the people o
North Carolina look upon this white
: livered traitor, nor can the public fai
to understand the purpose of this re
hash.
The state convention of our part,
meets next Wednesday. You will re
call that, prior to every convention
Butler undertakes to SANDER me AM
, beSmirch my character"