Eastern Carolina
News, Kenansville, N.C., August 17, 1910,
D.S. Hines, editor and manager
Tom Settle has been looking for pie for 14 years. He is on
the band wagon now with Butler and Morehead. Tom came to Duplin in behalf of
Morehead for State Chairman and was also elected chairman at Raleigh last
Wednesday. Let’s see how many Duplin Republicans who delivered the goods got
there at any time except as stamp lickers.
The Negro and
Politics
The Republican Party is trying to deny that the negro is out
of politics now and that they have a lily white party in the Nation. Now every
sensible and reading man knows better than that. In some of the Republican
states the negroes still hold the balance of power and Mr. Taft owes his
election to negro voters of those states because without them they would have
been Democratic at the last election and Mr. Bryan would have been elected
president. We copy this from a press dispatch of Tuesday:
Washington, D.C., Aug. 15—For the purpose of co-operating
with the Republican National Congressional and State committees in the work of
organizing the negro voters in close States and Congressional Districts, the
administration’s Republican Club has called a National Convention of negroes to
meet here on September 19 and 20. Eight states and the District of Columbia
joined in the call.
Is the negro out of politics?
Marion and George
Marion Butler is the leader of the Republican Party in North
Carolina. Although John M. Morehead was made chairman last week at their State
Convention yet he was put there by the leadership of Butler who was against
Carl Duncan. Morehead was elected chairman two votes to Duncan’s one. The truth
of the matter is Butler has been at work for a year to do the very thing he
accomplished at the State Convention. Everybody knows Butler to be the greatest
political trickster that has figured in politics in North Carolina, either with
the Populists or Republicans. In his early manhood he showed signs of trickery
that marked him then as the great scape goat and pie eater in the State. The
Populists are bound to admit that and yet today they deny putting him at the
head together with 100,000 negroes and Mary Ann rode into the U.S. Senate. The
negroes held the balance of power then in North Carolina and with a fusion
legislature (which Butler denounced as a disgrace to the State and which
contained many worthless and incompetent negroes, some of whom had served terms
in the penitentiary) this traitor to the white race soon sold the whole crowd
out to the Republican Party and then had the gall to say “damn North Carolina.
I haven’t any use for it now.” Are former Republicans going to be driven under
Marion Butler forever? Can they stomach such a rotten acrobat as he is any
longer? Are they going to stand by a man who escorts negroes in office again to
further disgrace this State and to humiliate our women and children?
Not many years ago, and while Mary Ann was a great
Allianceman and Populist later, his Buddie George Butler was a Democrat and
canvassed his Senatorial district against his brother largely, and told from
the stump about the rascality of Butler. This went on quite a while until he
saw the location forming that would land Marion, Russel & Co. in power in
the state. George at once flopped over to that side and has been a rotten
Radical ever since. His record is on the books at Sampson Court House along
with the County Commissioners, Sheriff Aman and Treasurer. George Butler was at
that time County Attorney. If poor Alfred Aman had to go to the penitentiary
for stealing that money, where were the Commissioners and County Attorney Geo.
Butler when he stole it? What excuse is there for it? If Aman had to go to the
penitentiary while Butler was the attorney and whose duty demanded of him to
have the Sheriff and Treasurer make his regular report as well as the
Commissioners, then why should not they suffer alike?
Now George is nominated on the Republican ticket for
Congress and Marion (Buddie) promises to stand behind him. Let George then go
to the penitentiary and let Mary Ann follow him there and North Carolina will
get along all right.
There are thousands of former Populists and good Republicans
who are not going to follow such men any longer. They are coming back to the
white man’s party of old and stand with the old ship of Democracy as our
forefathers did.
Let George and Marion join that gang of corruption, thieves
and unscrupulous scoundrels the rest of their days, but the rank and file of
this great State will remain steadfastly to the most. We have no fear that
either of them will ever land in office, but they need censuring for what they
have done.
The only way to keep the Southland straight is to hold up
such traitors as the Butlers and ostracize them socially. This will stop all of
this trading in Republican pie for personal gain and society and the whole
State will be better off. There are more than 2,500 Democrats in Duplin who
prefer to farm and make an honest living and educate their children than to
follow Mary Ann or George Butler to a watering place any day. Men of Eastern
Carolina haven’t forgotten the past and they are going to remember the Main in
the future and stand for the party that means something and is something in our
country, State and Nation.
Nuts to Crack
--The amount of graft that is being practiced by the
Republican Party nationally until the limit is bound to come and Uncle Sam will
have to issue bonds for us. Tell this to the average Republican and it will
startle him, but if the average Republican will read and are open for
conviction they are compelled to believe it.
--The flowers and blossoms and the fruits of fusion should
teach all white men this county to vote the Democratic ticket.
--What would you think of a candidate for Congress who
appointed years ago negro school committeemen in this section? Well this was
done and these negroes visited white school teachers, some of whom were the
best of ladies, and also signed their vouchers in order that they would be
paid. Of course he is a Republican.
“Hon.” Abe Middleton...The Former Boss of
the Republican Party
Abe Middleton, a peaceable and accommodating negro who lives
on his farm near Kenansville, was once the Republican Party in Duplin, and he
played his cards well. Abe and his followers were the “balance of power” in
Du0plin County and by their coalition with the Populists our county went fusion
for two terms. Abe made no noise against the Democrats, but he was smart enough
to get more out of the trade than any other Republican or Populist. Yes, no one
can deny that Abe was the “Dictator” of the Republican Party and he was always
able to deliver the goods. Who can deliver them now to that party which is dead
as a door nail and shrouds are ordered for the funeral?
Good Roads
Personally we believe that the best way to raise funds to
carry on good road construction the quiest and to the best advantage is for the
county and townships to issue bonds for this purpose. The issuing of bonds by
the county will mean but a very small increase in taxes, which, as the years go
by, will be more and more counterbalanced by the increase in the value of land
and other taxable property adjacent to the improved road. It is a fair and
equitable arrangement that future generations should pay for a portion of the
improvements of our public roads, as they will derive just as great benefit
from them as the present generation. There should be no fear of bonds: all
business is based on credit, and even those who preach the policy, to the
detriment of the state and county, of “Pay as you go,” are carrying on their
own business on borrowed capital. What we now need is a stable, settled
financial policy that will meet our present needs at a small initial cost. We
hear a great deal about posterity, and not leaving bond issues for posterity to
take care of, and forget that we are ourselves posterity. Our state has a
credit that she should be proud of and our counties are in good financial
condition, and they should not refuse to utilize this credit in building up a
system of good roads that will do more than any other one thing to increase the
material wealth of the state and counties.
Many have argued that if their county issued bonds to raise
revenue for good road construction it would mean a very large increase in their
taxes without deriving any material benefit from the expenditure, not realizing
that if they are to have the good roads they must either raise the revenue by
direct high tax or by issuing bonds, and that they derive a direct benefit from
the improved roads in the increase in value of property, the decrease in the
cost of maintenance of the road, and in the decrease of the cost of wear and
tear on horses, wagons, and harness.
Then again, if the county issues bonds for good road
construction, it makes available sufficient funds to render possible the
accomplishment of the construction of a definite number of miles of road,
within a definite time. To obtain this same number of miles within the same
time by a direct tax is practically prohibitory.
The issuing of bonds gives us almost immediately the
benefits of good roads, while the payment of them is deferred for many years,
so that the county is enabled to meet the bonds without unnecessary
inconvenience. They give us good roads, now, and make the best sort of argument
for the extension of this progressive movement.
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