The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-30
Locke Craig Also Gets Jealous.

Locke Craig Also Gets Jealous.
Another Democratic politician.
who has been a standing candidate
for every Office in sight and out of
sight, and who is reported now to
be especially hungering TO again try
his chances for Governor of the State
Mr.. Locke Craig, of Asheville,-
has also become jealous of the lead
ership of Mr.. Daniels and Mr.. Sim
mons. AS the campaign has pro-
gressed, it is noticeable that he has
tried each day to deal in more dirt
and personal abuse, in order to at
tract attention to himself and to get,
if possible, in the class Of those two
low grade hybrids, Simmons and
Daniels. For some days he content
ed himself by repeating, parrot-like,
the base and slanderous charges and
the low abuse which those two men
had originated, but within the last
few days, Judging from the reports
of the newspapers. he has tried, like
Mr.. Overman, to out-herod Herod.
HE is reported in the Democratic
press not only to have repeated all
of the false and lying charges about
Butler and Bonds but to have gone
even a step further and denounced
me as being not citizen Of the
State, but as an outsider, who dared
to come in and dictate to the people,
and also as having referred to me as
not a North Carolina citizen but as
q cheap common Washington lobby
list.
Mr.. Craig as a Hired Lobbyist.
ITO this young, small-sized, itch
ing politician I want to say, that it
comes with extremely poor grace
from him to refer to me, or to any
body else, as cheap hired lobbyist
in the last few weeks, the newspa-
pers have published the account of a
suit which this man Craig has insti-
tuted against certain people, at
tempting to recover a fee which he
claims they offered to pay him for
lobbying in Washington last winter
and spring. The defense, under
stand, will be that they did offer
to pay Mr.. Craig lobbying fee, but
that he turned out to be so worth
less, even as a lobbyist, that he did
not earn the fee promised. The
suit is for a fee for lobbying dur
ing the fight over the tariff bill in
Congress.
while Mr.. Locke Craig was in
Washington as self-confessed hired
lobbyist (and who is now suing for
the fee which it is said he did not
earn). I was also there. and IL did
any lobbying it was for the benefit OF
the people of my State. and I did it
without charge of any kind to any
one. More than one person from
North Carolina. who were interested
in schedules in that bill that affected
the welfare of the people OF North
Carolina, came to my Office for con-
sultation and advice and help. Every
one who came from the State inter-
ested in any schedule that protected
the capital or labor OF North Caro-
lima, got the benefit OF my advice and
assistance free of charge. loud
applause.)
Butler Has Always Given His Assist
ance to His FeIlow-Citizens Free
of Charge.
sFellow-citizens, since this Ques-
tion has been raised, I want to take
this opportunity to say that no North
CaroIinian, either while was in the
Senate or since, has ever appealed to
me to help him in the State or in any
matter in Washington or elsewhere,
that I have not freely given him my
time, advice and assistance, and done
so without the charge of q single
cent. When I am in my Office in
Washington. hardly a week passes
often day does not pass-that some
one from the State does not write me
or come in person and appeal to me
to help about some matter in the in
terest Of the State or the people.