The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1910-10-29
MARY Ann" Butler Falls
Down
At Least That is the Verdict
of the Unbiased WhoHeard
His Speech Last Night
Seemed CoWed---Audience
Badly Disappointed.


The much-talked off Marion But
ler has come and gone and that he
didn't make good in his speech
last night at the Pickett ware
house is the concenSuS Of
opinion, The mighty MARY Ann
was heralded far and wide and two.
thirds of the audience went out
through curiosity and upon the rep
utatlon he was supposed to have as
speaker, The audience was made
up of at least tWo-thirdS democrats.
This could be seen by looking over
the crowd, and the applause at no
one time came from more than one
fourth of the house.
Mr.. Quincy Frazier, republican
candidate for the senate, opened the
speech-making. While he was talk
ing Mary Ann" sat serenely in
one end of the building, surrounded
by Mr.. J. Elwood Cox, former as
plrant for gubernatorial honorS; W.
P. Ragan, postmaster of High Point;
A. A. Holton, assistant postmaster;
and other republ a IS. Mr.. Frazier's
speech over, Mr. Butler was escort
ed to the platform and introduced
by Mr.. Cox as "Ex-Senstor Marion
Butler" The above named gentle
men, sat on the platform with the
speaker with the exception of ASSiS-
tant Postmaster A. A. Holton.
Butler began his talk by saying
this was a peculiar campaign; claim
that the democrats were trying to
appeal to the passion instead of to
reasoning. He attempted to define
the good and the bad and harped
considerably on truth" He seem
ed to8think that headquarters at
Raleigh" had raised the cry, MARY
Ann, Bonds, BoodIerS and Negro, "
from The mountains to the Seashore
Speaking of the democratic platform
he said it contained nothing Gust
exactly what the people thought of
his speech), no one understood it
and he praised the republican plat
form as the greatest thing ever writ
ten; that his party was a party of
construction, party of hope; while
the democratic party was patty of
destruction and despair. He told of
pulling the teeth out of kitchin'S
antitrust law and succeeded in elic-
iting a faint applause BY the joke.
Said he had great respect for the
office of governor and at one time
had for Kitchin but he found that
the governor did nor have any
courage, that he was in the memoir
able midnight caucus hoIlering with
all his might against Butler and
negro, etc., etc. There was sim
ply nothing to his speech and the
people wondered what had come
over him or whether he had been
overrated by some people. Anyhow
Buffers speech fell flat here, de-
CidedIy so, even several republicans
admitting it to the writer.
In the audience were a number of
colored people and few rooters"'
who tried to make some noise. But
Withal it was very tame affair and
it is believed lost the party votes.
Butler SeemSto know how the peo-
pie feel about him, lat least how thou
sands of good North Carolinians re-
gard him. He has a whipped ex-
preston and as one looks and re-
fleets that son of the Tar Heel
state would turn traitor to the state
that gave him birth, he feels still
colder towards him, even though he
may be 5rainy, Shrewd man, Of
the political wire-pulling, scheming
variety. No doubt as a lobbyist he
is success; 10 doubt it pays him
to be such politician. Anyway
Butler failed to make good - you
only have to ask the audience last
night to find out-eight out Of every
ten will agree in this assertion.