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BEHIND BARS
INSTEAD OF
II PAIi
Tlmi s
Would he Condition of But
ler Had He lomniillud
His Irimc Against U.S.
Mr. lyidcbiand, for a while editor
of the Greensboro .News, republican
organ, now editor of the Asheville
(..irlic, and a well known republican,
c.iiil in his paper October
"Politically speaking, this paper
m odd .i y its friends, or those who may
do up the honor to peruse this de-
it in nt nf the paper with any de
cree of n iiitrity or interest. We
have nil brief for the democratic
county ticket, howling that to be no
affair of this independent paper. We
have friends among the republican
county candidates, to whom it has
iiin ur pleasure to sliow ourselves
livmily in the past, and, under dif
ferent auspices, we indulge the hope
that we may be permitted to actively
manifest this sort of spirit in the fu
ture. This paper would be glad, be
ing mindful of the state's best inter-:
cFts, to see a strong republican par
ty built up in the state, an opposi
tion that would have to be reckoned
with under all circumstances, and at
all times. I'.ut we believe that the
republican president has been un
just to his party in the state to a de
gree that demands some show of re
sentment, if the party is to become
respectable iri its own eyes, in fact
as well as in name; and we are op
posed to a republican party that is
((inducted under t lie known umpirage
of Marion Hutler.
"It will be of no avail for republi
cans lo close their eyes or hold fast
heir noses. There can be no con
cealing of the fact of llutler's leader
ship. It is known of all men. In the
campaign now in progress 't is always
(ho form of liutler that stands out
Inddcst on (be firing line. Ily the op
position Morchead is naturally re
garded na negligee, and if he, by
using Duncan's (ireenshoro newspa
per, succeeds in drawing any of the
enemy's lire, it invariably takes the
form of bird shot; the thirteen-inch
shells are burled in the direction of
liutler. In the event of a republican
triumph, his will he (lie victory, and
it is he who will not hesitate who
"ill of right, lay lirst claim to the
spoils, or the crown, or to be specific,
(he senatorship. It is he who will di
rect (he movement of a highly mobi
lized lobby in the event of a republi
can legishil ure. Nor will the party
lie in position to say bim nay unless,
(hroiigh a rank exhibition of ingrati
ture for services rendered, it shows
itself unworthy even of llutler's
leadership.
"Can tlx" republican party of North
Carolina afford to put itself in t lie
!':. it ion where it will feel compelled,
Hi o fronsidei at ions of gratitude
and decency, to again send this man
t the senate'. His manifold treach
eries . ii I his numberless deceptions,
Midi jvs I hat attempted in respect to
(be local sell-government plank apart,
(here can be no question of the fact
that Itutlcr's leadership inevitably
puts the party on the defensive. The
H l of bringing s::i; against the state
"bile he held a commission as sena
("r, is enough to damn any man, or
Htiy se (of men. It was an act of high
moral treason that will weigh like a
millstone about thencrk of any party
that affects to condom , or forgot the!
rime, having no etlucal standard it
i5 appalling the degree to which But
ler's moral perceptions have been
lulled, r deadened, that these moral
"ciisjiiilitics are dead beyond recall,
is sbovvii by the disiiigeniousness, or
(be frothy violence of his reply to his
critics. The sta(e had already effect
ed a settlement of these bond cases.
And the people were not (hen in posj.
(ion to have their burdens multiplied
in the form of increased taxes. But
hitler, taking advantage of his high'
position, his only provocative the
money lust, or a desire for iersoiial
aggrandizement, conceived the idea,
"-jointly with I'ettigrew, d' South
l'kota, of bringing thesuit for the
bondholders. These bondholder were
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LEADING PARTY
on lytoo shut to pay him liberally, j every party and about every person
They knew there vtould never lw with ..whom he ever affiliated. Noth
anotiicr liutler. The man had stuhh-' jng that I may say can add to the
I in the breat t he mot her Mate that contempt with which the people of and chapter 44$, Uws of r.'n'j. togeth
baii nurtured him, that had honored' North Carolina look upon this white cr with the statute extending the
llllll with 111.- Iii'-ll.wt itflii'.'' it bill bet i;,.r.v traitor nor ran the nublic fail rules of evidence and criminal proced-
Kift. At that moment his sovereign. ' to understand the purpose of this re
i'"d he showed himself faithless by i hash.
ibis breach of a public trust. ' "The state convention of our party
"Had the crime hern committed j meets next Wednesday. You will re
nuainst the federal government, in-! call that, prior to every convention.
Moji.I f the state that had honored
him so far beyond his deserts, he
flight instantly have ltcen brought
nee t( face with prison bars. Kor a
b'sser. a much less "rievous act of
treachery, lUirton was sent to the
penitentiary, and Mitchell, of Oregon,
as only saved from such fate by the
interposition of providence. Death,
claimed him, the Oregon senator ly- f
ing of a broken heart, liutler is now J
running republican politics instflttd of,
learning some of the useful crafts at
I Atlanta or .Moundsville, Iecause no
Aortii l aroiinian ever felt that it
would le necessary to safeguard the'
I commonwealth against that peculiar, j
that unthinkable, form of treachery. I
; "Now what ilpes Duller answer to'
.that act of high treason, that must'
'have fairly attained the blood? He!
answers that .losephus Daniels would
have waited a few weeks, until his
'term as senator expired, and would,
jthcii have accepted the fee from the
bondholders. ,
j "Do republicans with a sense of pa
j (holism and self-respect believe. tltat
I a party, acknowledging such leader
jship, can achieve n 'triumph that
I would, in the last analysis, appear at
i all desirable?"
BUTLER IN HIS
OWN MIRROR
Xo .Alan Tins L'ver Heen So Tearfully
Denounced by His Own Allies a
the Double-face Renegade.
The fearful denunciations that
have been heaped upon the head of
Butler, the traitor, who is trying to
re-establish himself in North, Caro
lina, have come with most telling
force from his own allies and former
partners. Decent men no longer have
anything to do with him. No dem
ocratic speaker would discuss issues
with him. Senator Simmons said that
he denounced Butler several years
ago as a traitor and scoundrel and
that ended it with him. Judge
Judge Pritchard denounced Butler as
a traitor and scoundrel in 1897.
Judge H. G. Ewart said October 3,
1910, that Butler had done him great
wrong and he despised him.
Republican members of the legisla
ture of 1895, during the discussion
o fone day, February 14, declared
Butler to be a liar, a self-constituted
czar, a bulldozer, a penny-a-liner, an
intermeddler, a brutal scribbler, a
falsifier, an unjust and ungentleman
ly fellow.
On February 1, 1897, Harry Skin
ner said that Butler tried to secure
the election of the negro Cheatham
over the white populist nominee, and
that Butler had uttered a wanton, ma
licious and cowardly slander.
A Guilford county jury found But
ler guilty of having libeled Judge
Adams, republican chairman.
Col. V. S. Lusk said of Butler on
July 26, 1910: "Once deceived,
either in business or politics, is excus
able; but twice deceived by the same
party and by about the same thing is
inexcusable, and the best way to
avoid second deception is to evade the
deceiver."
The Greensboro News, Butler's
present organ, said: "Who made Mr.
Butler a 'man of means?' Whence
conies the boodle for the expensive
campaign he has been waging bo 'as
siduously' since January last? Are
those irrepressible 'bondholders' be
hind him?"
In the republican convention of
Richmond county, June 24, 1906,
Henry C. Dockery called Butler a
Judas Iscariot, and said he betrayed
the republicans when they trusted
him .and that the republican party
could never succeed under such lead
ership. On June 19. 190fi, Chas. McKesson,
a leading republican of the state, and
nrTw postmaster at Morganton, said:
"Where Butler leads is infamy;
where Butler wins is fraud. His dis
approval is a badge of honor. De
spised .disowned, discredited and dis
crowned by the decency of the state,
an office gained by his endorsement
has about it the odor of a brothel
and the bowery, and a commission
coming through his hands is punctur
ed bv the stilietto of a highwayman.
The president and Senators Penrose
and Carter will soon discover that his
pretended power is but the radiant
shine of a serpent, a skeleton without
the color or currents of life. If he
had his Washington hireling domi
nate the republican party in its lead
ership it deserves common and uni
versal defeat and the true and loyal
republicans of the state will throttle
j tne free booters, whose only motto
is 'snoils' and whose battle cry is
' "boodle." "
Anfrnst 25. 1908. Judge Adams
said of Butler:
"There is nothing new in these
slanderous charges. The public by
' this time understands that they etna
nate from that cowardly traitor who.be started this way, it cannot proceed
' . . i i, , ci-jto tint
f has not onlv betrayed his state
i Butler undertakes to slander me andjdeitl in tne &ocds of a competitor
besmirch my character,
!
The Republican workers
are
get-
'. ting the dough
around
Greensboro,
The Greensboro
Record says:
Good
afternoon, brethren!
Did you get your
share of the swag given out from Re -
publican headquarters today:"
THE NEW. REPUBLICAN BOSS
ir
ANTITRUST LEGlSLA-J
TION ENACTED BY
1AST LEGISLATURE
Industrial and commercial monopo
lies and conspiracies in restraint of
trade, commonly called trusts, which
have been unlawful, have grown to
gigantic proportions and claim the
world as their field of operation. The
jdemocratic party, true to its princi
ples and traditions, has fought and
will continue to fight with relentless
zeal this form of oppression. The
democratic legislature of 1907 enacted
a comprehensive anti-trust law and
extended the rules of evidence and of
criminal procedure in order to meet
the evil. Every provision which was
deemed vital was incorporated in these
acts of 1907 except that known as
"Subsection A." which makes crim
inal the following:
"(a) For any person, firm, corpora
tion or association to make or have
any agreement, express or iuiplied, to
lower or prevent the increase in price
of any article or thing of value which
any such person, firm, corporation or
association may desire to purchase
within the fttate of North Carolina."
When the democratic convention of
1908 assembled, it was thought that
the law might be strengthened, and
accordingly the following declaration
was written into the platform of the
party:
"Private monopolies should be de
stroyed. Conspiracies by prospective
purchasers to put down or kep down
the prices of articles produced by the
labor of others should be made crim
inal, and all persons or corporations
entering into such conspiracies should
be punished; and we condemn in ev
ery form subsidies, gratuities, bon
uses, trusts and monopolies, and they
should not be tolerated."
This declaration of tlio party led
to the enactment of "Subsection F.55
which makes criminal the folowing:
"(f) For any person, firm, corpora
tion or association to conspire with
any other person, firm, corporation or
association to put down or keep down
the price of any article produced in
this state by the labor of others,
which said article the said person
firm, corporation or asocial ion intends
to buv."
This maiks the farthest advance
ever made in '.his state in anti-trust
legislation. Nothing has since trans
pired to slimv that the amended
statute is not adequate to reach the
evil, or that the machinery provided
for its enforcement is. not su'cient.
The democratic convention of 1910,
in the platform of the party, again
reiterated its often repeated hostility
to trusts in the following language:
"Private monopolies in restraint of
trade are inconsistent with the
growth and development of internal
affairs of the state and the. liberties
of the people, and should not be al
lowed. We are opposed to illegal
combinations in restraint of trade,
trusts and monopolies, and favor the
enactment and enforcement by the
state and national government of such
laws as will make their existence im
possible." Ther are, under our constitution,
but two classes of officials who are or
can be charged with originating a
criminal prosecution such as here
considered. They are t lie solicitors
and The grand jurors: and even if a
solicitor should originate a prosecu
tion by drawing a bill of indictment,
it must fail unless the grand Jury
agres to it. There is but one other
way that such a prosecution can be
commenced, and that is by an af
fidavit of some person acting as a
private citizen: and even if one should
unless the grand iurv
approve it.
The following is a synopsis of the
anti-trust law of North arolina. as
amended by the legislatuie of lni!.
being chapters JiS and I'll. Uws 1W7
ure respecting this class of crimes:
What the Ieniocratic Anti-Trust
"Law lHes.
It makes it indictable:
1. To make a sale of goods upon the
condition that the purchaser shall not
Before the enactment of this law the
most terrible weapon in the hands of
the trust was its requirement that the
mercnjnt snouia nannie us g-ous ij
the exclusion or tne gooa? ot an com-
petitors. This is no longer pom.c
' To I'vectiy or ina.. .
or att.mt-t to destroy the buMDes of
a competitor with the purpose of
thereafter controlling prices.
3. To reduce prices so low or raise
them so high that no profit will be
left, with the purpose of increasing
the profits after competition is de
stroyed. 4. To overbid a competitor for the"
purpose of injuring his business.
5. To undersell a competitor for the
purpose of destroying or injuring his
business.
6. To have any agreement with any
one to parcel out the territory of the
state for the purposes of trade.
7. To conspire with any person, firm
or corporation to put down or keep
down the prices of articles which the
trust intends to buy.
8. . It is provided that any citizen
may make an adavit, either on his
own knowledge or on information
and belief, netting forth that a cor
poration is violating any of the pro
visions of this law, and file the same
with the attorney general; and there
upon the attorney general shall ap
ply to a judge of the superior court
for an order requiring such corpora
tion to produce all its papers, books
and records, to be examined by the
attorney general. And for the secur
itty of witneses, it is provided that
no person shall be prosecuted or con
victed on account of matters disclos
ed by the testimony of said witness;
and the testimony of such witness
shall not be received nor used in any
prosecution against him.
Because ef this law, any man can
now go into the business of buying,
selling or manufacturing anything in
North arolina, and the, trust dare not
oppress or attempt to oppress him.
Of course, outside of North Carolina,
in the other forty-five states, the laws
of North Carolina can afford no pro
tection. The high-handed crimes
committed by the trust by interstate
transactions lie at the door of the
Federal government.
Govcrnor Kitchin on the. Fundamen
tal Difference Between the Dem
ocratic and Republican Par
ties. Waiving the differences between
the two parties upon matters peculi
arly Southern, which differences arc
known of all men the fundamental dif
erence between the Democratic and
Republican parties in the Republic is
concerning the taxing power. The
Democratic Party, being the party of
the people and favoring equal lights
to all and special privileges to none,
belieVes that the Government has no
right to use the people's taxes except
for pulilic benefit or to use the tax
ing power except to raise sufficient
revenue to run the Government econ
omically administered. The Republi
can Party, being the party in which
those who have to seek special priv
ileges under the law have enlisted, be
lieves the Government has the right
to give vast sums, called subsidies,
from the public treasury to enrich
a few, under the theory that their
prosperity will benefit the country at
large: and believes further, that it is
right to use the taxing power to en
able special interests to put up the
price of of what they sell to the Ameri
can people, calling this protection,
sheltering criminal monopolies under
the false theory that, if a fpw are
made enormously prosperous, in some
indefinite way this prosperity will
trickle down among the people, and
finally bless those who are robbed.
W. W. KITCHIN.
Itepublican Headquarters Dishing
Out the Stuff.
The Greensboro Record, published
at the seat of the republican state
headquarters, said October 21:
"Our republican friends from the
country coming to town these days
loo kmore cheerful after visiting
headquarters, which goes to fehow
they have 'tapped the barrel.' It is
there all right; the only thing the
bojs have to do is to come in and get
their share. It is being sent out to
remote places and the local men
should lose no time in calling, or the
suppy might give out."
Every voter ought to keep in mind
the -nice, words of Gifford-Pinchot, who
said: "The essential fact about the
tariff is, that it is unjust, a moral
wrong, written by the servants of spe
cial priviletn for the benefit of th-ir
masters, and intended not to heip the
small man make a living but to h-ip
the big man make an exorbitant
profit."
THE GREAT
PENSION SCANDAL
Xo Longer a Roll of Honor but
Largely a Scheme of Fraud Re
publican Grafters Now Seeking ?"
Go to New Length in the Gigantic
Fraud.
The World's Wof. of New York,
a supporter of Taft, has begun an ex
posure of the pension frauds where
by the people of this country are pay
ing, forty-five years after the war,
the huge gum of 1155,000,000 an-
"t'
V i
The World's Work Says TlupT This
Negro Drew I'ive Pensions at
Once, All of Them Fraudu
lent. nually. The following extracts are
made from the first article in the
World's Work for October:
"A c;ir after the cessation of hos
tilities t lie government w as paying
fifteen millions of dollars to disabled
soldiers, their widows and orphans
and other dependents. In 1X74 the
pension f 1 1 1 reached thirty-one mil
lions. Then it began a natural de
cline. It had fallen in 1S7S to twenty-eight
millions. In anuary, 1 8 7 i .
there was passed a law giving full ar
rears to all entitled to pensions. The
lump sums thus offered presented
tempting prices,' and thousands of old
soldie rs searched i their bodies for
some twinges that might be attribut
ed hack to war-time. In Jwo years
the bill bounded from twenty-eight
up to fifty-eight millions.
"The Grand Army of the Republic,
organized at the close of the Civil
War. now fell largely into the hands
of pension promoters Corporal Tan
ner, a professional pension agent, at
their head. The organization swiftly
grew and became a political power.
A succession of Grand Army pension
agents administered the govern
ment's pension bureau. 'God help
the surplus in the United States
treasury when 1 get at it,' said Cor
poral Tanner when President Harri
son annointed him. The bill went
steadily up until in 1889 it reached
ninety-two millions. In 1890 poverty
ceased to be a condition for a pen
sion grant. That year the bill made
the highest jump it had yet accom
plished it ran up to 110 millions.
And up it kept going until in it
reached the prodigious sum of 161
millions.
"President Cleveland turned his at
tention to pensions at the beginning
of his second administration, and an
honest administration of the bureau
brought the bill down to 144 mil
lions. It continued at about that
figure, but with a downward tenden
cy, until 1907. In 19bf congress au
thorized recognition of mere age as a
disability, and in 19 07 the old age
pension rates were increased. The
bill sprang to 1 millions.
"In 190 3 congress extended pen-
sions to w idows of ninety-day men
without regard to their pecuniary
need. The bill soon roe to 15 mil -
10 RAISED THEJEGHO ISSUE?
National Republican Hand Book Boasts of Party Friend
ship For Afro-American and Tells How Many Hold'
Office and the Huge Sum of Money Paid Them Yearly.
There is a chapter in the UepiIbHcm Campaign Text-book, published
by the. congressional campaign committee,; entitled "Our Colored CItltcns"r
which can only be described as disgusting in its appeal for the negro rote.
It Is certain Narth Carolina republicans will not asK for circulation of this
campaign book in the state, for a perusal of this 'particular chapter would
cause many well-meaning republicans to either atar away.from the polls
or vote the democratic ticket. '--...
. HereJs onegem culled from-4he chapter entitled "Our Colored Citi
zens" that,is typical of many in the book on which the republican party
Is making its fight for control of the next congress:
"The platform adopted by the republican party at Chicago In 19U8
contains a plank which stands squarely and unequivocally for all the clnl
and political rights of the Afro-American people.
"There can be no question in the mind of any honorable thinking. an
Afro-American as to which party he should support in this campaign. No
truer sentiment has ever been uttered than that of the great Douglas, when
he said:
" 'The republican party is the ship; all else the sea.'."
Here are a few excerpts from the boasting statements in the text-book,
which are intended to influence negro voters in the doubtful states:
Diplomatic and consular service . .
DepartmenX service, Washington, D. C:
State
Treasury
War
Navy
Postoffi.ee
Interior . . "
Justice
Agriculture
Commerce and labor
Government printing office
Interstate commerce commission
United States capitol . .
Washington, D. C, city postoffice '
District of Columbia, including unskilled la
borers .... . .
Department Service at large:
Customs and internal revenue
Postoffice
Interior .'
Commerce and labor .
United States army, officers
Total
Here follows army list of negroes.
THE UNITED
List of A fro-American Officers With Hank And Yearly Pay- .Number of
Enlisted Men With Aggregate Annual Pay.
Officers. Yearly Pay.
Lieitenant-colonel Allen Allensworth (retired) I 3,375
Major John R. Linch' . ' " ' .- 3.600
Major William T. Anderson (retired) 2,700
Captain Charles Young 3,360
Captain George W. Prioleau 3,120
Captain Theophilus G. Steward (retired) .. . . .. 2,340
First Lieutenant Benjamin O. Davis .2,400
First L'ieutenaijl Jhn 'E. 'Greeh ".' .'".V 2.400
First Lieutenant W. W. E. Gladden 2.000
First Lieutenant Oscar J. Scott . . . . 2,000
First Lieutenant Louis A. Carter 2,000
Total yearly pay of officers 129,295
Enlisted men in the 9th and 10th Cavalry, and 24th and 25th
Infantry, 2,918, and their yearly pay in the aggregate
amounts to ' 219,121
Total for officers and men . ..$930,378
"On August 1, 1910, there were more Afro-Americans In the service
of the United States government than ever before In the history of the
country. The following list shows some of the official positions and occu
pations of the Afro-Americans in the federal service:
"Auditor of the navy department, assistant district attorneys, assistant
librarian, architests, assistant postmasters, assistant weighers, attorneys,
bookbinders, bookkeepers, boatmen, collectors of customs,' collectors of
internal revenue, consuls, chiefs of divisions, compositors, chaplains cus
todians. "In high places a few Afro-Americans who have been honored by ths
republican party; appointed or recommended by the president as govern
ment officials.
"There are 512 Afro-American employes In the Chicago postoffice,
drawing annual salaries aggregating in round numbers $400,000.
"Mr. James A. Cobb appointed assistant district attorney for the Dis
trict of Columbia, prepares cases for prosecution under the pure food law
and has charge of forfeited bond cases.
"Hon. Wifflin W. Gibbs was elected city judge of Little Rock, Ark., by
the republicans of that city in 1876, and was the first man of the race to
be so honored."
lions. No encouraging legislation
having been enacted In 1909, natural
causes will bring the pension expen
diture this year down to 157 millions
($157,000,000 with at least $2,000,
000 additional for the runningex
penses "of the bureau); but in the
last congress more daring legislation
was proposed, and all the machinery
of the pension organization and all
the Grand Army influence have been
set at work to secure from the next
session laws that will push the pen
sion bill up to height never before
dreamed of.
"Americans who contemplate the
miraculous growth of the cost of pen
sions know how Jack felt when he
watched the beanstalk."
Tariff Making on the Bargain Coun
ter Basis.
Jonathan P. Dolliver, the great in
surgent republican senator of Iowa,
who died .October 14, 1910, said In
his great speech, "The demand for a
change in the method of tariff mak
ing:" Most of the reductions were so triv
ial as. to be ridiculous, and were
either upon articles which we do not
import to any extent, but on the con
trary export in enormous quantities,
or were for the purpose of further
protecting the manufacturers eape-
daily, by reducing the duties on raw
j materials, while most of the rates on
1 finished products were either kept at
No. Salaries.
11 f 37.000
26 19,360
703 479,840
160 1 20,910
76 46.660
182 108.460
421 249,975
34 9,720
129 69.924
217 97,924
571 398.18(1
37 19,200
187 127,640
201 161,240
2,824 1,263,985
592 '495.276
2,997 2,338,242
23 27,640
78 56,420
11 29,295
2.948 919,121
1,967 1,179,750
14,397 $8,225,761
STATES ARMY.
the Dingley tariff standard or were
increased. In fact, a careful scrut
iny of the particular items that were
changed, an the exact trifling change
of rate in each case, shows how cun
ningly the revision was arranged In
order to deceive the public and iook
real revision downward.
What a farce to send men around
talking about the rule of majorities,
when before the eyes of all men, and
with no dispute of the truth of it pos
sible, the most Important business
of the American, people has come
down to the bargain counter; and
men authorized to say, "This is tbe
citadel of protection; If any of you
have constituents that want anything,
come here; we are tbe dispen!ng
power; support what we want, and
take anything you think you need";
and the man who does not like it, and
has no stomach for the fight, is re
quested to depart. ' If that is to be
the continued practice of the govern
ment of the United States, 1 tnluk
nearly everybody will depart.
I do, not propose that It Bhall re
main tbe practice of the republican
party If I can help it. I do not pro
pose that the work which It brought
forth here last summer shall be
forced Into the platform of the re
publican party, and made a test of
party fealty and party duty and par
ty obligation. I propose that the job
shall stand on its merits, and that
tbe American people shall Inquire to
the full limit of their cariosity Into
every detail of tbe performance.'