The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-12-08

famers OF my character. to meet me
on the date above-named.
MARION BUTLER.
After the loud cheering which had
followed the reading of this second
call or challenge to Simmons and
Daniels had subsidized, the speaker
paused for monment, and. looking
over the great audience and around
over the rostrum, and then to the
galleries, said: II am here for the
hanging. Where are the brave hang
nen?"
After a moments silence, the great
audience again broke into tremen-
dous applause.
81 am here at the home of these
two cowardly slanderers," the speak
er, continuing, said, with tremendous
effect, "but neither nor both of them
dare to show their heads. They have
very good reasons for not being here
to-day. They know that their charges
are false, and they further know that
I can prove that they are false. In
their investigations in New York and
in their other desperate efforts to try
to find some kind of proof to back
| up their base and slanderous charges,
| they are convinced themselves be-
yond all question that every charge,
including their last and cowardly
charge of the bond advertisement, to
be unqualifiedly false, and they know
exactly the kind of answer and proof
! the towards held back their last lie
until it was too late for me to answer
| it on the stump or through the press,
! for they will not publish my answer
in their Democratic columns"
/ ''It is their base and cowardly con-
duct in attempting to spring a So
! called new charge on me in the last
days of the campaign that has forced
me to call this meeting and be here
to-day and to challenge them to meet
me. I am here and they have both
run. I will give any man in this
audience a hundred dollars-yes, /
will give more than a hundred dol
lars, If any man or number of men
will go out and bring Simmons and
Daniels or either of them here to
meet me face to facet"
At this point, a voice from audi
ence said: 'Ten thousand dollars
apiece would bring them." To which
the speaker responded: Then let
the towards run and dodge, for the
hides of both of them, with the tai
much" (Great applause.)
'T have never yet said anything be-
hind a mans back that I was not
willing to say to his face, and indeed
I always say more about a man when
I am face to face with him than do
to his back. And this any man Of
honesty and courage will do. II
these two ringsters of the Democrat
ie machine were telling the truth.
! they would not only be willing to
meet me here. but no power could
keep them from coming here and
proving their charges to my face in
your presence. Their entire attack
upon me has been based upon lying,
cowardice and knavery, and they
know it, just as / know 1t. and just
as to-day you know it from their
cowardly conduct. They boasted when
they held back their bond advertise
ment to the end OF the campaign that
they had done 1t to give me rope to
hang myself Why don't they come
here to-day and throw the moose
around my neck? The towards are
afraid to come, even near enough to
pull the other end OF the rope"
/ At this point, the audience broke
into loud and prolonged applause
North Carolinians are fair peo-
! ple,r he added. while the audience
listened with rapt attention, "and
they do not want to see injustice
done to any man. Simmons and Dam
iels have tried to load me down with
abuse, oprobium and hate, and all
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