The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-11-03
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WIZ AA ~ IN ONAANOA
Of the Greensboro News, republican
organ, now editor of the AsheVilIe-
Gazette, and a well known republican,
said in his paper October %:
POLITICALLY speaking, this paper
stood by its friends, or those who may
do us the honor to peruse this de-
partment of the paper with any de-
gree of regularity or interest. We
have no brief for the democratic
county ticket, holding that to be nc
affair of this Independent paper. We
have friends among the republican
county candidates, to whom it has
been our pleasure to show ourselves
friendly in the past, and, under diff
ferent auspices, we indulge the hope
that we may be permitted to actively
manifest this sort of spirit in the flu
ture. This paper would be glad, be-
ing mindful of the states best inter-
ests, to see a strong republican par
ty built up in the state, an oppOsi-
tiOn that would have to be reckoned
with under all circumstances, and at
all times. But we believe that the
republican president has been UNI
just to his party in the state to a de-
gree that demands some show of re-
sentiment, if the party is to become
respectable in it's own eyes, in fact
as we'll as in name; and we are OPP
posed to a republican party that is
conducted under the known umpirage
of Marion Butler.
at will be of no avail for republic
cans to close their eyes Or hold fast
their IS There can be no o
cealing of the fact of Buffers leader
ship. 1t is known of all men. In the
campaign now in progress it is always
the form of Butler that stands out
bOIdest On the firing line. Blythe OPP
position MOrehead is naturally re-
garded as negligee, and if he, by
using Duncan's Greensboro newspa-
per, succeeds in drawing any of the
enemy's fire, it invariably takes the
form of bird shot; the thirteen-inch
shells r hurled in the direction of
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triumph, his will be the victory, and
it is he who will not hesitate-whO
will of right, lay first claim to the
spOils, or the crown, or to be specific,
the senatOrShip. 1t is he who will di-
rect the movement of a highly mObi-
lized lobby in the event of republic
can legislature. Nor will the party
be in position to say him nay unless,
through a rank exhibition of ingrati-
ture for services rendered, it shows
itself aunwOrthy even of Buffers
leadership.
Can the republican party of North
Carolina afford to put itself in the
position where it will feel compelled,
out o considerations of gratitude
and decency, to again send this man
to the senate? His manifold treach-
cries and his numberless receptions,
such as that attempted in respect to
the local self-gOVernment plank apart,
there can be no question of the fact
that Buffers leadership inevitably
puts the party on the defensive. The
act of bringing suit against the state
while he held Il commission rs sena-
tor, is enough to damn any man, Or
any Sc tOf men. 1t was an act of high
moral treason that will weigh like a
milestone about the neck of any party
That affects to COndOne, or forgot the
crime, having no ethical standard it
is appalling the degree to which But
ler's moral perceptions have been
hullcd, ell deadened, that these moral
senSibilities are dead beyond recall,
is shown by the disingeniOusness, sOr
The frothy violence of his reply to his
critics. The state had already effect
ed a settlement of these bond cases.
And the people were not then in posi-
u"n to have their burdens multiplied
IN the form of increased taxes. But
Butler, taking advantage of his high
position, his only provocative the
money lust, Or a desire for personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, conceived the idea,
co-Jointly with Pettigrew, of South
Dakota, of bringing the suit for the
~DohdhOlders. These bOndhOlders were
On lytOO glad TO pay him literally.
They knew there would never be
another Butler. The man had stabb-
Ell III the breast the mother state that
h"d nurtured him, that had honored
NM with the highest Office within her
s"t. At that moment his sovereign,
anu he showed himself faithless by
'nlS breach of a public trust.
had the crime been committed
against the federal government, in
S.e"d OF the state that had honored
nih so far beyond his deserts, he
Instantly have been brought
,"ce TO face with prison bars. For a
'SSer' a much less grieVous act of
"cnery' Burton was SEM to the
r'"''ehtIary, and Mitchell, of Oregon,
only saved from such fate. by the