The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-03


Has Been Made the Conduit for
Emptying All of the Filth the
Democrats Can Generate--Strong
Praise for One Issue" the Demo-
Gratis Have Dared to Raise.
DR.. ]. J. Mott has addressed and
mailed to JOsephus Daniels the fol-
Lowing open letter with reference TO
a recent editorial in the News and
Observer, OF which Mr.. Daniels is
editor:
"Statesville, n. c., October 20, 1910.
"Mr. Josephus Daniels, Editor News
and Observer, Raleigh, n. G.
Dear Sir:-I am pleased to find
in late issue of your paper an edi-
tOrial paragraph reciting and ac-
cepting the terms of a letter | had
written you denying the charge that
| had any talk or understanding
whatever with my friend, Hon. Mar
ion Butler, in getting money from
the liquor interest for the North
Carolina Republican campaign
You go on, however, in, differ
ent editorial paragraph in the same
issue of the paper which reads as
follows:
DR.. Mott proves an alibi. The
Greensboro News predicted that But
Ter and Booze and Bonds and Doodle
would be the big four in the Re-
publican campaign. 1t is right, but
the Iron Duke is not helping the Big
-Four
THE inference in this paragraph
goes to the public that | am care
less as to your adopted slogan: The
Big Four" That lam in any wise shy
of it, or that | would avoid connec-
ton with Mr.. Butler in anything af-
fecting it, would be very far from the
truth. There is no man in North
Carolina who feels greater interest
in this State campaign than l do. l
recognize the fact that the strongest
collective force in accomplishing any
Republican success is Mr.. Butler and
the following he had when they
oyerthrew the Democratic party III
tho heydey Of its power. This
body Of men constitutes the old
guard in any opposition to the Demo-
cratic party in the State, and can be
counted to fight it to the death.
"The hatred on the part of the
government wing of the Democratic
party towards this old guard is in
opd onHlocc
whether by accident, as the own
er of leading Democratic paper, or
| by choice, l know not, but you, Mr..
Daniels, are the concomitant of this
hatred, and you have constituted the
News and Observer Office the estuary.
and your newspaper the conduit, for
emptying all the filthiness that the
Democratic party can generate upon
the leader of these people.
"While your barbed reproaches
doubtless make no impression on
him, I shall, under your opportunity
afforded, try to Offset as far as l can
its effect upon the public.
What has Butler done?' This
| was the answer made to a business
friend of mine, a Democrat in this
town, by one of Iredell county's most
sterling citizens and enterprising,
| wealthy men-an insurgent Demo-
crat. This business friend told me
of the circumstances himself.
"He had inquired of the insur-
gent, in talking about the move
ment,' what he thought of this inev-
liable association with it. The an
swer was enough.
"In the absence Of explicit expla-
nation of the abuse of the man, this
question has been asked thousands
of times since the campaign opened.
"'What has Butler done He
whipped the Democrats some years
ago.
''That Is the sum total of his Of
fense. You are afraid he might do
it again, since the Republican party
has been taken out of Democratic
hands. You lack an issue. The tariff
no longer serves for a Democratic
issue. A tariff for revenue only. as
the Washington Post says, is an i'm
possible thing-the Post is near
Democratic paper.
''While this old free trade doc
| trine-tariff for revenue only-is
stuffed into the Democratic platform
for ballast and bulk, it amounts to
nothing with the farmers, who have
become satisfied that a protective
tariff does not hurt them. The farm
| Carolina one way or the other as it
chooses.
Cheap cotton and cheap products