French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-16

Republican party.
He betrayed his associates in the
Republican party.
He betrayed his race into negro
domination.
And while yet a Representative OF
the interests and the honor of the
State in the United States Senate he
betrayed the State itself to the hold
erS of the millions of dollars of repu-
dated and fraudulent carpet bag
bonds.
While yet a member of the United
States Senate and drawing his pay as
a Representative of North Carolina, he.
~concocted the fraudulent scheme by
which the holders OF one set of these
bonds could get Jurisdiction in the
courts to enforce against the State the
payment of these bonds.
While yet a member of the United
States Senate, and drawing pay as a
Representative of North Carolina, he
accepted employment to represent the
holders of these bonds to enforce their
collection from North Carolina, as
shown by the quotations from official
record of his testimony in the suit to
enforce their payment, cs follows:
Q. Please state VINO the client is
that you speak of?
A. The client was Schaffer Bros.
O.. Did you appear of record in the
case?
A I did not.
Q. When were you employed by
Schaffer Bros.
A. In January, 1901
(He represented North Carolina in
the Senate until March 1907
While yet a member of the United
States Senate, and drawing his pay as
a Representative of North Carolina
he procured the enactment of a statute
by the State of South Dakota, author
izing that State to accept donations OF
these bonds as shown by the official
record of his testimony in that suit
as follows: :
@. State what conversation you had
with Senator Pettigrew in reference to
North Carolina bonds, which is the
subject of this suit?
A. Some time in January or Febru-
airy, 1901, 1 had a conversation with
him which probably led up to the pas
sage of the act of the Legislature in
South Dakota, authorizing that State
&c accept donations.
AS a result of the enactment of that
: statute the interests represented by Mr.
Butler made a contribution of bonds tt
South Dakota, and in the name of thai
! State sued the State of North Caroline
and obtained judgment in the Supreme
Court of the United States, which
forced the State to pay in full with
interest the bonds donated to South
| To 6nfo .onl 70 nnna nrOUnic0 tho Whnl.
issue, the settlement for which amount
ed to about a quarter of a million dol
lars.
Mr.. Butler and his associates theI
advertised in the New York press tina
they had found a way by which the!
could force payment of all repudiateC
State bonds, but have since not beer
able to get any State to accept any o
them as a gift. after being advised o
their fraudulent character. There ar,
about seventeen million dollars wortl
of these still outstanding. issued b!
Lcarpet baggers for which the Stat
never. received a particle of benefit
They were issued ostensibly to built
railroads in the State, but not a mil
! OF road was ever built with tn epro
ceeds of these seventeen million dol
lars OF D0ndS.
These are, in bare outlines, some o
the betrayals which the Republican
party, by permitting the return of MI
Butler to a position of leadership il
that party, have submitted as a chal
lenge to the character of the State
We have set them down here not be
cause this is the proper time to Civ
them adequate consideration, but II
put them, as well as the people of TIL
State, on ample notice of the ignifi
cane that attaches to the Butler dom
ination of thir party under its new or
~ganization.
Having defeated the element in tn
Republican party that has stood GU
against his return to leadership in tina
party; having placed himself on tn
platform committee that shaped it
declaration of principles; having dom
mated the action of the convention a
every contested stage in it's storm.
proceedings, he now shrewdly pro
claims that his duty will be to carr.
a musket in it's ranks, but every OBJ
serving man in North Carolina know
that an increased Republican vote il
the State would be universally accept
ed as a Butler victory, and that Repub
lican success would be Butler sue
cess.-Charlotte Observer.
N.