The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-11-03
IN HIS
own MIRROR
No Man Has Ever Been So FearfuIly
Denounced by His Own Allies us
the DOuble-face RENEGADE.

Denounced by His Own Allies as
the DOuble-face Renegade.
The fearful 'denunciations that
have been heaped upon the head of
Butler, the traitor, who is trying to
r~e-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 1891.
Judge H. G. Ewart said October 3,
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 a liar, a self-constituted
car, a b%ulldozer, a penny-a-liner, an
intermeddler, a brutal s%cribbIer, a
falsifier, ar unjust and ungentleman-
ly fellow.
On February 1, 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 a man of means?' Whence
comes the Doodle for the expensive
campaign he has been waging so 'as-
siduously' since January last? Are
those irrepressible 'bondholders' be-
hind him?"
In the republican convention OF
Richmond county, June "a. 1906,
Henry C. Dockegy called Butler a
Judas Iscariot, and said he betrayed
the republicans when they trusted
him land 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 infamy;
where Butler wins is fraud. His dis
approval is a badge of honor. De-
spised ,disowned, d~iscredited 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 stilletto of a highwayman.
The president and Senators Penrose
and Carter will soon discover that his
pretended power is but the radiant
shine of a 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 rue and loyal
republicans of the state will throttle
the free hooters, whose only motto
is 'spoils' and whose battle cry is
DOODLE"
August 25, 1908, Judge Adams
said of Butler:
There is nothing new in these
s~landerous charges. The public by
this time understands hat they ema-
nate from that cowardly traitor who
has not only betrayed his state, but
every party and about every person
with whom he ever affiliated. Moth
ing that l may say car add to the
contempt with which the people OF
North Carolina look upon this white
livered traitor, nor can the public fail
to understand the purpose of this re-
hash.
"The state convention of our party
meets next Wednesday. You will re-
call that, prior to every convention,
Butler undertakes to SANDER me- and
besmirch my character"
The Republican workers are get
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