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

The Next Lying Slander.
when these facts about the hon
est Ten-Share Second Mortgage
bonds were brought out in the EVIL
dence before the Supreme Court OF
the United States and otherwise, did
the editor OF the Raleigh News and
Observer publish them? No. Did
the editor Of the paper correct thu
base and malicious false publications
to the effect that those bonds were
dishonest, that they were fraudulent,
that they were issued by Republi-
can carpet-bag Legislature, and that
the carpet-baggers stcie the money
and the State did not get the pro-
eeeds? No! But, on the other hand,
the editor of that paper, true to his
low, contemplate and cowardly ma
ture, proceeded to manufacture an
other SANDER on me that was equal
ly as base, malicious and groundless.
Carlisle, and Not Butler, the Attorney
For the Carpet-Bag Bond Holders.
His next charge was that I was
the attorney for the bond syndicate
which had pooled the special tax
bonds and other repudiated and
fraudulent bonds which had been is
sued by the North Carolina carpet
bag Legislature. The editor of that
paper knew then, as he knows now,
that the man at the head of that car
pet-bag bond syndicate was the late
Hon. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
for many years Democratic member
of Congress, Democratic Speaker of
the House of Representatives, then
Democratic United States Senator,
and later Democratic Secretary of
the Treasury under the Cleveland
administration. The editor of that
paper also knew then, as he knows
now, that on that committee with
Mr.. Carlisle was Hon. Jefferson M.
Levy. former Democratic State Chair
man Of Virginia, and at present DEM
ocratic Tammany Congressman from
New York, and also at present the
owner Of Monticello, the home Of
Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic
mecca OF America.
when the editor Of that paper
suppressed these facts, and continued
from time to time to charge that I
was connected with that bond syndi-
cate, as member OF the syndicate
or as its attorney, prepared state
ment branding the charge as false,
and further stating that the Carlisle
syndicate had attempted through
Judge Hall, of New York. to employ
me as counsel or to have me become
associated with them in an effort to
collect these bonds, that I had not
only refused, but that I had declared,
at the same time, that would not
have anything to do with an effort to
collect those bonds. but. on the other
hand, would oppose the efforts OF the
Carlisle committee or the efforts
of any one else to collect them to the
extent of my ability. This statement
the editor of that paper refused to
publish. but continued to publish and
re-publish the lying charge that I
was connected. in some secret way
at least, with that syndicate.
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They Fail to Find Scintilla Of Proof
when the Democratic machine, in
their desperation to find some cam
paign slogan, with which to call at
tention from their record of broken
promises, and their want OF belief
| in any great living principle, deter
mined to raise the cry OF Butler and
Bonds for this campaign, as they
had used Niger and .Reconstruc-
tion,' and Prohibition, and I'm
perialism, and other worn-out and
discredited Democratic paramounts in
the past, they exerted every effort to
[ try to find some proof to connect me
| IN some way with an effort to collect
those carpet-bag bonds. They knew
when they started their dirty and dis
reputable campaign that they had ut
terly failed to find any kind Of proof
in New York or elsewhere, vet IN
their desperation they determined TO