The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-07-28
BUTLER AND MoREHEAD.

have believed it would come for
some time. The intimation by this
paper yesterday concerning a re-
Eported conspiracy between Con
gresham Morehead, of the Fifth
district, and former Senator Ma
rion Butler, with the intention Of
obtaining control of the repubE-
can organization in North Carroll
ma, is no longer a rumor. Stuff
cent evidence has recently ZAP
peared upon the surface to sub
stantiate the charge that Butler is
behind the candidacy Of More
head for republican state chair
man. The Morehead press bu-
reau in Washington is in charge
of the congressman's secretary
and the said Marion Butler and
they are losing no time in the dis
tribution of mail matter boosting
their man. A special to this eff
feet was sent out from Washing
ton recently:
"Basing such conclusion upon
information available here the APP
preaching Republican convention
will not fail to interest the state.
There is no longer any doubt
about the lineup, the fight for the
party control will be between the
Duncan forces on the one side, and
Marion Butler, using Congressman
MOrehead, on the other.
That Butler is the generalissimo
of the Morehead camp there is not
the slightest question, and if But
Ter can make Morehead chairman
the party will be thoroughly But
lerized.
Butler and MOrehead have
pinned their faith to the liquor
element, and the fight on the floor
of the convention will come over
the adoption of a local option
plank, which will be more or less
concealed in verbiage relating to
"local self-government." Meth
er Butler nor Morehead has come
into the open as yet, for fear of
dring away support for More
head for chairman, since liquor
talk is not popular in some of the
Republican counties of the west,
but they do not hesitate to des-
cant on the desirability of lical
self-government.
Morehead has never answered
the direct question of Col. Lusk,
who wanted to know what More
head meant by his local self-gov-
eminent talk. No admission will
be made that this talk means IL
quor until all the delegates posi-
bly, are lined up for Morehead and
then in, the convention, the mask
will be candidly thrown aside.
Butler is sending out letters APP
pealing for support for Morehead
and enclosing a sheet of paper on
which are reproduced articles
from the Caucasian, Buffers pa
per, and from the Washington
correspondence of the Charlotte
Observer, written when II. E. G.
Bryant was endeavoring to pro-
mote the political fortunes of
Morehead. The very first words
of the letter have reference to IL
quor but, in keeping with the de-
vice resorted to in the Morehead
letters, the allusion is intended as
a sort of illusion. This is the way
the letter starts: ''In 1908, we had
a splendid ~opportunity.t carry
our state. We did not organize
and conduct a vigorous state cam
paign, and the failure of the state
convention to declare squarely for
the great fundamental principle
of local self-government cost us
many thousands of votes
It is said that Butler has adj
dressed his letter to men formerly
engaged in the manufacture Of
whiskey with the view to trading
upon supposed feelings of discon.
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