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

start campaign of slander. abuse.
and lies and to stick to It. They did
this on the old theory that lie will
out-travel the. truth, and also be-
cause they knew that the Democratic
machine had more newspaper organs
and more speakers through which to
flood the State every day with such
lies, and that even IL the truth could
overtake the lie, that the Republican
party was unfortunately wanting in
the number of newspapers and
speakers necessary to meet and COM
bat their miserable campaign of
abuse and slander.
If they had had any proof OF their
charges, they would have boldly and
promptly challenged me to face the
evidence on the stump and give such
answer as / could face to face with
their speakers and the voters Of the
State. If they had had such proof,
they could have run me OFF of the
.Ftump and out of the campaign in
less than a week. Knowing that they
had no proof, and knowing that their
only hope was to fool number of
honest voters by iterating and re-
iterating a lie and not permitting
that lie to be met and answered be-
fore thousands and thousands of
voters during the campaign, the ma
chine gave instructions to every
speaker and every newspaper to re-
peat the lies, to keep up this SANDER
and abuse, and to declare on every
stump that Butler was the only is
sue, instructing them at the same
time to be many miles away from
Butler when they made the charge.
"They knew that when they at
tempted TO face me on the stump
that large crowds would be drawn to
such a joint discussion; that there
would be as many or more Demo-
cratic voters at every such joint dis
cussion as Republicans, and they
knew that when the joint discus
sion was over, that the Democratic
speaker would be branded as a fall
sitter, that he would be forced to
leave the stump, and that thousands
and tensof thousand Of Democratic
voters would repudiate party that
would conduct such a miserable, ly-
ing, cowardly campaign
Capt. John G. Capers Gives the
Facts.
when the attention of Capt. John
G.. Capers, former Commissioner of
Internal Revenue of the United
States, was called to the character of
the campaign which the Democratic
party in this State was conducting, in
that they were attempting to make
me the sole issue. and that their
charges against me were, as he knew,
entirely groundless. base and ma
licious. he promptly wrote a letter to
Hon. John NJ. Morehead, Republican
State Chairman, which / will read.
The letter is as follows:
October 4. 1910.
Hon. John n. Morehead.
Greensboro, N. C.
Dear Mr.. Morehead:-You favor
! ! in which you say that q charge has
been circulated In North Carolina in
this campaign to the effect that Hon.
Marion Butler Is connected with the
Carlisle Bond Syndicate, az counsel
for the collection OF ce.sain North
Carolina bonds, known as the carpet
bag bonds and requesting that give
you any information that / may have
with reference to the matter, has
been received.
What know about the matter is
briefly, as follows:
It is q matter OF public record,
cited in cases OF the Supreme Court.
that Senator Butler appeared as one
OF counsel in certain case where
the Supreme Court decided that the
State had already gotten the value Of
, the bonds and that they should be
paid
It seems, however, that after
wards the State Of Rhode Island and
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