The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-30

"One will want a free rural deiiv-
cry route established. Another will
want site In his town selected for
a public building. Another will want
bank in his town made a Govern
ment depository. Indeed, requests
of every conceivable kind come to me
day after day and week after week.
| have responded to all of these re-
quests where the cause seemed to me
Just and proper. have been tender
ed fee in hundreds OF such cases,
aut never yet have l accepted dol
lar for such services.
More than once | have been ap-
. preached by two sets of attorneys
from one town where there was a
rivalry over the site for a public
building, each side offering to en-
pioy me as attorney to assist them.
| In every such case have looked into
| the facts. First, which site is most
| convenient for the Government SER
vice, and most convenient for the
citizens of the town. When that
question was once settled to my sat
isfaction, then | would offer to help
that side and oppose the other.
would not be employed in such a case
on a side thought was not right, and
on the side which thought was right
whatever my influence and efforts are
worth have always been gladly given,
and free of charge. l challenge any
man in North Carolina, from noun
+, tains to the sea, to point HIS finger to
| a single case where ever 1obbied for
| him or against and charged a fee.
And yet this man Craig, this self
, confessed lobbyist, who is now suing
for fee that they say he did not
deserve, dares to refer to me as a
common hired lobbyist, loud ap-
plause.) I brand the charge as false
and denounee the author of it as will
F, fully making false and base charge.
As to the Charge That Am Not a
Citizen of the State.
| ''The false, cowardly and insidi-
i GUS charge that I am not citizen of
/ the State, that am an outsider. and
that I am daring to come into the
State to dictate to the people how
| they shall vote, is being circulated.
| am informed, quietly by many of the
| county and township Democratic poll
ticians from one end of the State to
the other. Only recently my atten-
| ton has been called to the fact that
| the authors of this dirty campaign
| have stopped low enough to give or
ders to their local henchmen to in
dustriously and insidiousIy circulate
this story among the voters in their
respective precincts.
"Fellow-citizens, what are the
| facts? I pay more taxes In North
| Carolina to-day than a single one OF
| the cowardly hounds who are bark
| ing behind my back and dare not
| face me on the stump. / am not q
leeeh on society like many of them
are. / am. on the other hand. a
wealth-preducer. am helping each
year and-each month 20 create part
OF the wealth that has made this a
great and rich State, and which has
made this the greatest and richest
| country in the world I am trying,
| and / am succeeding. in making two
blades of grass grow where only one
| grew before raise more cotton,
more corn, more peas, more hay.
more fruit, more cattle and hogs, and
sheep, than any one OF the lying das-
! tardly towards who are slandering
me behind my back" (Great APP
plause.)
Why Thes Want 10 Crush Butler.
"FelIow-citizens, this vicious and
| unscrupuIors personal attack upon
me is nothing new. The Democratic
ring is not abusing and lying on me
simply because to-day am associat-
ed with the Republican party They
began this attack as soon as | first
appeared in public life in North Caro-
lima. and while was Democrat. In
which party was born and my an
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