The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-11-03
BEHIND BARS
INSTEAD Of
LEADING PARTY
That's What Republican Says
Would be Condition Of But
Ter Had He Committed
His Urine Against US.

Mr. HiIdcbrand, for while editor
0f the Greensboro News, republican
organ, now editor of the -ishcviIIe-
Gazette, and well known republican,
said in his paper October %:
"PoItcalIy speaking, this paper
stood by IS friends, or those who may
do us the honor to peruse this de-
partmcnt Of the paper with any de-
gree of regularity or interest. We
nave no brief for the democratic
county ticket holding that to be no
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
fcrcnt 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
csts, to see strong republican par
ty built up in the state, an OppOsi-
ton that would have to be reckOned
with under all circumstances, and at
all times. But we believe that the
republican president has been un-
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 its own eyes, in fact
in
posed to a republican party that is
conducted under the known umpirage
OF Marion Butler.
at will be Of no avail for republic
cans 10 close their eyes Or hold fast
their noses. There can be no con-
CCaIing of the fact of Buffers leader
ship. II is known of all men. In the
campaign now in progress it is always
the form of Butler that stands out
h"ldcst on the firing line. BY the OPP
position Morchead is naturally re-
garded as ncgligec, and if he, by
using DunCan's Greensboro newspa-
per, succeeds in drawing any of the
cncmys fire, it invariably takes the
form of bird shot; the thirteen-inCh
shells are hurled in the direction of
Butler. In the event of republican
il is he who will not hcsitatc-who
will of right, lay first claim to the
Sp0iiS, or the crown, or to be specific,
the scnatOrship. 1t is he who will di-
hn nT III,
lied lobby in the event of republic
can legislature. Nor will the party
lie in position to say him nay unless,
through rank exhibition of ingrati-
ture for services rendered, it shows
itself unworthy even of Buffers
leadership.
Can the republican party of North
Carolina afford to put itself in the
position where it will feel compelled,
out Considerations of gratitude
aud dcCcnCy. to again send this man
to the senate? His manifold trcach-
cries and his numbCrIcSS receptions,
such ~ that attempted i'm respect to
the local scif-govcrnmCnt plank apart,
there can he no question of the fact
that Buffers leadership inevitably
puts the party ON the defensive. The
act of bringing S;ii; against the state
while he held IL commission as scna-
tor, is enough to damn any man, or
any SO tOf men. II WAS an act of high
moral treason that will weigh like Il
millStoRc about the meek of any party
that affects to CondonC, or forgot the
crime, having no ethical standard il
- appalling the degree to which But
iCr's moral perceptions have been
dullCd, or dCadcncd, that these moral
s"nSihilitics are dead beyond recall
Il shown by the disingeniousncss. OF
the fr0thy violence of his reply to his
critics. The state had already effect.
cd n settlement of these bond cases
And the people were not then i'm posi-
ton to have their burdens multiplied
IN the form of increased taxes. But
Butler, taking advantage of his hisi
position, his only provocative the
money lust. or il desire for personal
a%graudiZement, conceived the idea
C"-iOintly with Pettigrew, of South
Dakota, of bringing the, suit for the
hnndhoIders. These bondhOfderS were
on lytoO glad to pay him literally
They knew there would never he
another Butler. The man had stabh
eel in the breast the mother state that
had nurturcd him, that had honorct
him with the highest Office within heI
gift. At that moment his sovereign
aud he showed himself faithless b!
This breach of public trust.
Had the crime been committed
against the federal government. in
stead of the state that had hOnOreC
him So far beyond his deserts. III
might instantly have been brOugh
iaCe to face with prison bars. For
lesser. a much less 2rieyous act o
treachery, Burton was sent to tn,
penitentiary, and Mitchell, of Oregon
was only saved from such fate by tn,