The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-11-16


these soEas. hss tAs state. 70 gsaran-
tee taslr pasnsat - fall. aaoFxxax~a
salmaaie property II a1alsaoa 10
rssdxing TIE faith AID credit 90 he
State
- was provwa before tbs supTene
cogrs that tie aeearaty aoTtxAxea
and pledged to guarantee tie pay
meat o. these boads. whicA wss doaa
10 indaee the public To pap . handr~a
oenss On the dollar for them. sAa 20
valuable sAa; the State could pay sv-
cry dollar OF the bonds. principal and
interest. and xtITI have over t~o mil
lion dollars left any man. who 10
not In favor Of his State paying al
honest debt like that. 10 himself dis
honest.
The further charge made by the
editor Of the Raleigh News and OBJ
server that the Republican party was
responsible for the effort 10 loot the
State through the issue of millions O.
fraudulent carpet-bag bonds Ia an
equally false perversion OF the facts.
That paper repeatedly made this
same charge during the last campaign
and this was one of the things that
caused Marion Butler to challenge
the editor Of that paper to meet him
in joint discussion In Raleigh, so that
the public could hear both sides and
learn the truth. The editor OF that
paper no doubt knew that what he
had published was false. for he acted
the coward and ran away from his
home town on the day that Mr.. But
Ter spoke here.
Mr.. Butler. in his speech, held up
a copy of the Bragg and Shipp Fraud
Commission Reports and also other
public records, and by them proved
conclusively that the issue of the car
pet-bag bonds was instigated by a
combination of leading Democrats,
under a plausible appeal to the Leg
islature to issue bonds to build GER
tain railroads and to carry on much
needed internal improvement; that
the bonds were issued and turned
over to the leading men in this Dem
ocratic combination for stock or
bonds in the proposed railroads, and
that these Democras handled the
bonds, sold them, and pocketed the
money.
Mr.. Butler further showed that it
was this same Democratic combina-
ton who, with the help of a number
Of the leading Democratic lawyers OF
the State, tried to force the State to
pay these bonds, and that it was a
Republican Supreme Court that de-
clared they were fraudulent and un-
constitutional. These are not only
facts, but they are recorded facts OF
history.
To try destroy the record OF
most Of these facts is why there has
been such an effort to get hold of and
destroy every copy of the Bragg
Fraud Commission Report, Mr.. But
Ter said in his Raleigh speech that he
then had in his hand the only copy
still in existence Of that report, sc
far as he knew. The full truth abou
the carpet-bag bonds and who was re
sponsible for them, and attempted tt
loot the State, was brought to the at
tention Of the people for the first time
by Mr.. Butler in that speech.
The editor of the Raleigh News anl
| Observer may have been ignorant o
these facts before November 4, 1910
| He knows better now, and yet he de
liberately and wilfully uses the col
| umns OF his paper to basely perver
| these facts. In order to fool the goo,
and honest people who are forced t,
| take his paper.
| The above Is a fair sample of tn,
contemplate and cowardly dishon
] esty OF the editor OF that paper.