The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-22

"Two things are settled -
North Carolina politics. saId
former Governor Jarvis to num-
her Of HE friends here to-day.
Yhen asked for an expression or
the political situation These
are that Hon. Locke Craig. Of
Asheville. - going 10 be the nest
Governor and Hon. Charles 81
Aycock is going 10 Dc the next
Senator"
lie spoke with such directuess
and With 20 much force that one
would hardly De surprised to see
Governor Kitchln. Senator Sim
mons and Chief Justice Clark.
other candidates for the Seaa.s.
scampering for the tall timber at
once Governor Jarvis is not
politician OF the new school He
believes in old-fashIoned MethO-
dist religion and old-time DEM
ocracy Regarding Woodrow
Wilson, he says: Il like Wood
row Wilson all right as man,
but | don't like his teachings.
Il am neither a progressive
nor a stand-patteT." he said. 4
don't know anything about eth
er, but truth is truth, and DEM
ocracy Is Democracy. I'm for
the old-time Democracy. | don't
believe in the socialistic doe
trines Of initiative. referendum
and recall All other consider
atoms to the contrary, the fact
that Marion Butler, in POpulistic
days. talked OF such things is
enough TO condemn them forever
in the eyes OF North CAROLYN
ians."
Just why the fossilized fraud, 9th
erwise known as the visiting states
man." should so emphatically cham
pion the cause Of Mr.. Craig for Gov
ernor and Mr.. Aycock for Senator,
we will not now stop TO discuss. The
disapprOval, however, which he ex-
presses against the teachings of Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson, leading Dem
Ocratic candidate for President, will
no doubt do more to help that gen
tleman's candidacy than to hurt it.
1t will be noted, however, that this
visiting statesman" goes out Of his
way to strongly disapprove Of the in
itiative and referendum, and gives as
his only reason for opposing these re-
forms for bringing the Government
nearer to the people, or rather put
ting the people in closer control of
their Government, is the fact that
Marion Butler has advocated them.
In this connection, it will not be
out Of place to remember that many
Of tho leading reforms which Marion
Butler has advocated have all become
a law, and that all of the others are
growing steadily in popular favor Ma
rion Butler advocate a railroad COM
mission, the per cent interest law,
the establishment of the Normal and
Industrial School for Girls, and the
increasing Of the appropriation for the
State University, and all OF these
things have been accomplished. He
also advocated free rural delivery and
have been accomplished. In addition,
he advocated the parcels post, one
cent letter postage, the election of
Senators by the people, an income
tax, the breaking up of trusts by the
public ownership Of all natural mon
; OpOlies, etc, all of which reforms are
! growing more popular each day and
nearing success.
For the reasons given by ex-Gover-
, nor Jarvis above, 1t is to be sup
posed that he opposed all of these re-
forms, second, because he did not
know anything about them. and first
because Marion Butler advocated
them.
When Marion Butler was in the
. State Senate of 1891. he opposed the
re-chartering of that branch of the
Atlantic Coast Line from Weldon tt
Petersburg until that road had pait
into the treasury OF the State over {
million dollars of back taxes due
and he triumphed in that Legislature
1t is to be supposed that Governor
Jarvis opposed this just measure, i
, for no other reason, simply because
Marion Butler favored it. At an,
rate, when the Democratic Legisla
ture of 1898 met. we find Governor
Jarvis turning up in Raleigh and hav
ing himself interviewed and pictured