The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-04-11

He Does Not Substantiate . Single
Claim-Like a Whipped Man He
Resorts to Abuse-stili Mad he
cause He Had Trouble In Landing
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Last week sent Editor StanciI. OF
the smithfield Journal. an article for
publication replying 10 reference he
published In regard TO me as chair
man OF the party in Wake He did
not publish ii but wrote me he did
not receive it until day before he
went to press. though he published
other news matters taken from daily
papers after my article had reached
him. He then wanted 10 know IL
weuld have a reply from him pub
lished in The Caucasian IL he pub
lished my article. | answered that
The Caucasian would publish an ar
ticIe from provided il dealt with
facts. His reply does not deal with
facts. and there Is no reason why
should ask for IL to be published,
except TO show that he is vicious, ven
imous and unfit for a chairman. All
the typewriter part OF his letter Is
printed below. He attached printed
slip which he said was letter ne
wrote Mr.. Morehead in 1910, object
ing to Mr. Buffers speaking IN the
county. Stancil has already circulat-
ed that all over Johnston and Wake
County and there is no need OF ask
ing for it to be printed again. he
also stated that Mr.. ]. D. Parker, OF
Smithfield, endorsed his letter to Mr..
Morehead. This Mr.. Parker has de-
MED through Mr.. Stanciis paper,
still Stancil reiterates the statement
which Mr.. Parker says is not true.
But of course some few people don't
have proper regard for facts.
Mr.. Stancil's letter follows:
Smithfield, n. c., April 9, 1912.
| Mr.. Lester F. Butler, Chairman Re-
publican Executive Committee of
Wake County, Raleigh, n. c.
Dear Sir:-Replylng to your sign
ed article which I am publishing in
| The Smithfield Journal this week, l
note that you object to figures given
| in The Journal showing that under
your management in the year 1910
! there was a loss in your county OF
| 719 Republican votes, notwithstand-
| ing the fact that Mr.. Morehead is re-
ported to have dumped big lot of
! campaign money into your county
/ during the last campaign, while In
this county we did not get cent and
Notwithstanding the fact that in 1908
| this was one of the closest counties
in the State. l can not blame you for
not wanting to see these figures In
print while you are a candidate for
reelection as county chairman, but L
notice that you do not deny the ter
rible truths that they convey, and l
have yet to see the first good reason
that you offer why they should not
be published.
| notice that you also object to any
part of the 275 Republican votes lost
in this county being charged up to
the visit of Mr.. Marion Butler to this
county during the campaign of 1910.
Now, will you undertake to deny that
when Mr.. Butler came into this coun-
ty and made a political speech over
the protest of the Republican county
candidates and every member of the
Republican county campaign commit
tee, that he thereby became an i'm
postor and an unwelcome visitor?
In the year 1910 we felt that we
had a chance to place this county in
the Republican column, AID We did
not want to take chances On anything
that we had reason to believe would
weaken our ticket We knew that it
was risky to bring into Johnston
County any man who could not COM
mand the confidence of the people.
We learned by talking with the PEG
pie that Mr.. Butler was not the man
that we needed, therefore, when he
offered his services we felt that the
only sensible thing to do was to po-
litely decline them, which We did.
Then he advertised an appointment
for himself at Benson, in the south
ern part of this county, and made a
speech there anyway.
In order to more fully explain the
action of the Republicans of the
county in regard to this matter, l will
insert a portion of letter which
, wrote to State Chairman J. NJ. More
head on the 14th day of October
, 1910, and reading as follows
| Here is where Stancil wanted the
} long printed letter TO Mr.. Morehead
; printed which has been explained
J above.-L. F. b.
The above letter postscript and all
was mailed to Mr.. Morehead on the
14th of October, 1910. A few days
later I received abatch of posters an.
i. nouncing this speaking over Mr.
: Morehead's name, and then sent a
, carbon copy of the Morehead letter
I to Mr.. Butler himself, and accom-.
panied it with another letter plead.
!. ing with him to heed our request and
!. he did not even reply to it. You say
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