The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-02-23

1.-The editor of that paper declared
4 the issue in which this so-called
lew proof was published, that | had
doubt hoped that this proof or
violence would never be discovered;
hat 1 had been keeping it in the
background and had never referred
0 it in any of my speeches, and a
ot more rot and billingsgate of the
anne kind. What are the facts about
his advertisement which he charges
have been trying to keep pro
ound secret?
This advertisement was publish
d in the New York Sun, and think
all of the other leading New York
lailies, for at least several days, in
prominent position-in newspapers
he combined circulation of which
% +dFt~ millions 3fgf4 ,gi.s7-.lafera
hat circulated not only in New York
nut that are sold in the news-stands
nd on the trains all over North Car
lima, and in every State and Terri
DRY in the Union. 1t is an advertise
nent that had remarkably wide pub
lefty; yet the editor of the News and
Observer now changes that it was a
sreat secret which had hoped would
never come to light.
''The fact is, that tht advertise
nent was not only published in New
York papers having a circulation run
hing into the millions, but it was also
published at the same time in the col
INNS of the Raleigh News and OBJ
server. That was five years ago. 1t
strange proposition that the ed
tor of the Raleigh News and Obser-
yer will to-day charge that he has
dug up a secret-one that I had
hoped to keep from the public, and
which to-day is published for the first
time, when it not only had been pub
lished in all of the New York pa
pers, but had been widely and promI-
nently published in the columns of
that very paper itself in 1905! This
s great way to keep a thing a
profound secret.
81 had not previously referred to
this advertisement because the Ra-
,eigh News and Observer knew of its
existence, knew of 1t five years ago
and all the readers of that paper
have known of it for five years. |
did not take up that question and
discuss it and reply to that adver-
tisement, as the editor of the Raleigh
News and Observer now says that
should have done, for the simple rea-
son that I knew that they had drop.
ped that advertisement and the dis
cussion OF it years ago because. upon
Investigation, they had found tina,
what they had already published and
said about it was a base and infam-
Gus lie. The fact that they have held
back the republication Of this ad-
vertisement until the closing hours
of this campaign shows that they
knew that what they had said in the
past was a lie, and that they know
that what they are saying now is q
lie, and they did not dare to raise the
question in the beginning OF the cam
paign and give me. chance to brand
them and denounce them and their
charge on every stump from the
mountains to the sea.
The Facts About That Advertise
menf.
1.-THE facts about the publication OF
that advertisement, which these ly.
ing slanderers know themselves and
have known for years, are briefly and
simply as follows:
Judge Hole, of New York, with
whom I have been connected In 9
number of business transactions, was
one OF the owners OF the Stanly Coun
ty North Carolina) bonds and othe1
repudiated bonds which were tho
subject OF a suit In the Supreme
Court Of the United States. He and
his associates were large holders o1
State, county and municipal bonds
not only OF North Carolina but o.