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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY AUGUST 26 1884. TWELVE PAGES.
BOLD BEN- BUTLER.
v???srfHl:
???^FULLY BOLTS.
Tbs Hepubllcan Party Arraigned and tie Democrats
Cessurcd-n# Accepts the Greenback and
Anti-Monopoly Nomination and
Stands for the Prestdoaor.
Tlio following is the letter of General But
ler, which ii given to the associated press to
day. It is dated Lowoll, Massachusetts:
To nr Constituent*: in compliance with oft
repeated and anxious inquiries, I hasten to rive
??????count of my stewardship of the political Inter-
charged. They were four:
L Hostility to all monopolies in commerce, in
dustries midlands.
2. The preservation of the natioual legal tender
Currency ol the people, constitutionally Issued by
Congress.
3. The needs of all men and women who labor
fa the production of wealth, to be protected
against tho encroachments of those who absorb
and consume without prodnclng.
4. Tho necessity for reform and correction of
abuses in government, so that Jts pressure on tho
people would be made aa light aa possible; its ad
ministration effective, to guard the rights of Amer
ican citizens at home and abroad; to make public
aervant* individual or incorporate, subservient to
the use and will of the people only, so as to restore
the prosperity of the country, with equal rights,
o?all peopfe 1 *??? Cqual pQWer *???equil privileges
Thcso latter were specially confided to mo by the
democratic masses of MiL'isacliusetts, to whom
alone I owe grateful duty for high consideration
and support during years of effort in the reform of
government, but to uo democratic orga~~???
whatever. They were to lx- presented to
tlonal democratic convention for Jts acceptance
and adoption aa the axioms of democratic rulo as
practiced by our father*.
I bad intended if thcso great principles of gov
ernment, by tho people aud for the people ouly.
bad been cordially received, ahd earnestly aud
tor the suffrages of t...
administer and carry forward the necessary mess-
ures; in which ease I shot-???-* u
itaac' ???
nets.
That I should be placed in that high position I
knew was the wJlf of the 150,000 voters of that
commonwealth, who had expressed their confi
dence by their votes so unanimously that no man
from that state conk! have been a delegate to that
convention If ho had dared to breathe aloud that
he was opposed either te the principles I repre
sented of to my personal candidature.
In thus doing the will of those who sent me, I
sought none of the honors of tho convention, aud
Jntcrfe cd with none of its proceeding, save to
serve as a member of its committee on what
should have been its platform of principles, and
not of expedients.
Owing to an accident without fault of anyone,
I reached that committee ouly after it had been
some hours in session, iirnl then found by solemn
vote twice over, that it was equally divided upon
tho question whether in wising the moneys neccs-
aary for an honest aud economical carrying on of
tho government, the deinocmtlc party would
pledge itself to tax the people in such manner only
ns would best promote American enterprise ana
American industry, and foster and cherish Amer
ican labor. This division was shown byjrcpoatcd
votes of eighteen states to eighteen states
in the c hoice as chairman, one who should rep
resent the afilmative or m-gativo of that vital
proposition. The committee failing to elect a
chairman, remained under its temporary chair
man (luting tho remainder of its deliberations,
with the understanding that after a tariff plank
should bo agreed upon, cither one or the other of
tho two candidates, Messrs. Convene, of Ohio, or
-Morrison, ol Illinois, should bo clcctcdlpcrmanont
chairman and present a platform to tne conven
tion, the birift plank of which should mostucarly
???ccord with his view*.
To lind myself holding the controlling voto in a
committee on resolutions of a democratic national
convention was not a hew or untried position. I
bad held that position twenty-four years before in
the Charleston convention of 1800; and there 1 was
* y my con vie " ??? _ ???*???* ~???'
hen prepared
rich was odop
A Chicago lub-conuuittco of eight was chosen,
and directed to prepure a tariff plank, and submit
it to the committee, in that sub-committee 1 pre
sented a series ol resolutions which may bo thus
summarized.
(Here follows a summary of his tariff resolutions
demanding such revenue as Is only necessary for
the expenses of the government, and that it
should bo raised by tariff on imports, that tho
luxuries of li/o should be taxed heavily And tho
-necessities admitted free, demanding the abol
ishment of the revenue tax, and declaring that
the laws imposing duties for revenue should be so
adjusted as best to promote American enterprise
and American Industry, to cherish and foster
American labor, aud uot create monopolies.???
Ed.) v
On submitting these resolutions to the*ub-com-
Xnlttee. tho first four articles were agreed to with-
' out a division; but the fifth, declaring the duty of
the government to so lay taxes as best to promote
American enterprise and American industry, and
cherish and foster Amorlean labor, failed ofadop-
tlou by a vote of four to four. From that hour tho
canditurc ol mine in that convention bccouio to
jne impossible,
(ncrehegocs into detail abqut a series of reso
lutions which were voted down by tho conven
tion, a)l of which have been published before.???
Ed.)
I have thus given a Wecttrt^'artt'ftnrff be, but
??? faithful account ol my connection with the
Chicago convention and its actions on tho mat
ters wnJiJi I was charged represent to it by tho
national greenback labor party, tho antl-roononly
orgalzatIon and the democracy of Massachusetts.
l'LATFOM O.NK OF XXPED1ENTS.
I will not omit tho fact that in tho platform
adopted there were ccrtaiu prases used toward tho
foreign l oro citizen. Ti.ere were certain honeyed
Words,???over and over rc|x-*ted, in order that their
repetition rpight seem iiku earnest advocacy put
In favor of labor, and upon some of the topic* of
??mr platform. lint I do claim,
- and submit to the Just Judgment of
the people, that computing the two platforms and
taking the action of the convention, every claim
of the anti-monopolist, and of the natioual green
back and labor men. wan no contemptuously re
jected or so thoroughly smothered by platitudes
which would permit any llmmclil theorist or any
monopolist to subscribe to tho majority platform,
* that It is most apparent on the face of the resolu-
: tions that they were simply resolutions of expe
dients to catch notes by indirection, deception,
and illusion, not declarations of those high prin
ciples which should form the basis of tho nulled
- action of a great party of thu people. ??
; [Ho then proceeds to explain bow the financial
- exigencies of the war made the republican party
the slave of capitalists aud monopolists who would
furnish money without pay in special privilege*
and protection. Therefore, he argues that tho
Tepubllcau party, while cMmiug to protect labor,
only protects capital, and the anti-
monopolists have nothing to hope from
it. It /oaten those interests that
thrive on Imported and pauper labor, thus intro
ducing dements into the country that taint the
life blood of the people. He argues that there
should be greater protection afforded to skilled
labor and women aud children, kept out of the
workshops, should bo given the means to enjoy
their God-givtn rights through the Inatrnraen-
talitics ofbJg her wages to the males and better
???education to the masses, (kd.)
The country has had no experience for yearly a
of them are open to criticism, yet tboee are all
aids to the capitalist and land owner. ???
, Point me to one grant or act in aid of the work- 1
logman. I do nut forget the eight-hour law for
government laborers aud mechanics, but there
never lias been honesty and power enough in re-1
publican administration to enforce that Iswj??? J
" ben in congress I introduced a bill aud
???ted i t as well as I could that congress grant aid
to families of laboring men in eitioa to settle on the
public lauds in tho west and make homes for
the mudves, and as communities be able to pro!
tect themselves against the Iudtans aud thus dis
pute with the cost of the army. It slept In the
proper committees of a democratic house and a
republican senstc the sleep of all proposals in
favor of labor that knows no waking.
This bill would have begun another much need
ed reform, the reduction to a skeleton ot tho
regular army which is expensively useless in time
ofpeace.
Let congress expend half tho vast sum, thirty
millions, now appropriated to tho army for ltd
varied expenditures, In organizing and discipline
ing the militia to be trained uuder the authority
of the states, instead of tho paltry two huuclrel
thousand dollars heretofore given and
we shall have a military force os a reliance in
every emergency, like tho trained and organized
militia of Massachusetts and tho national guard
of New Yofrk, the first armed bodies at the capital
when in danger in *01.
The republican party ho* in Its ranks many
f woed, true and coutcicutious men. who followed
Its fortune* and carried its elections because it j
I call the attention of such men to tho fact that
iwwj acemuryui repuoimn run?. murej
It is well kuown In Massachusetts aud Rhode
Island, and how far in other parts oi the north I
leave the good and Just-mtnded of those localities
to speak, capital has coerced tbo votes of ^ ???
ing men to its own purposes by threats.
whether the former, the mechanic or the laborer,
whether he has any hope aa against the inroads of
capital upon the rights of labor or tho grasp of
monopolies which absorb all the proUts of produc
tion, until we have in this country, even in its
yonth, almost infancy mregards the length of life
poorer than starva-
BZFUBUCAff LEGISLATION ON FINANCE RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE PRESENT DISTRESSED STATE OF BUSINESS.
In the matter of finance there is nothing to hopo
from the republican, any more than from the
democratic party. Tho banker* and capitalists of
both iwrtics uniting together have controlled for
twenty years tho financial legislation of tho na-
???on.
GREENBACK REMEDY FOR FINANCIAL ILLS.
Wo, the despised greeubackers, offered a remedy
for all this which no reflecting, kcon-slghted busi
ness man will now say would uot have boon effec
tual. Myself in congress more than fifteen years
ago proposed that Instead of issuing n United
States bond which would bo held by capitalists
only, and for the purpose of securing a bank cur
rency only, congress should nrako an inter-con-
vertfble bond ul a low rate of interest, to bo issued
by the government, so that any man might invest
in it instead of placing his money in raviujn banks
or trust companies to be loaned out
on margins on kiting stocks, and then lost when
he called for it. The bond bearing three and
sixty-five onc-liundrcdths percent interest, to be
presented by fhc holder at any time to th* treas
ury and legal tender* to Ihj issued for It, ana
thu* tho interest to that nmount of the natioual
debt accrues to the government instead of bolus
paid by it from thu taxes of the people. And
???then when another bond was desired by tho in
vestor, one should he issued by the government)
and interest thereon begin.: ....
Every financier knows that it is tho odd fifty
mil lions withdrawn or put out that make* a re
dundancy or scarlty of circulating medium; and
is there a man who dares say now that such a bond
would not have prevented the panic and desola
tion to business through which we are now pass-
jjigT
Tho time bos come when tho greenback fa sus
tained by the supreme court ns a constitutional
currency against the opinions of tho paid attor
ney* of every financier of tho country. The time
will coine if the peoplo ol this country con get the
clutch of monopoly ofits currency off its throat,
when such n system ol Jinauco as I have sketched
will glvefsccdom to the Industrial and business
Interest* of the country from tho terrible fluotua-
. . r -??? w guffer.
IIS ACROSS THE ISTHMUS.
Panama ship
to our commerce. San Francisto has become
b the products of Ara
c part for distrlbut!
North America which
... control. Moko this canal, aud
England dominates that commerce, as she now
dot* that of the western coast of Central and
South America.
In time of war with tho Panama canal open,
England seizes It by tier linmensa nary, and from
thtuco can ravage and blockade our whole Pacific
coast. This rhe cannot do now, bccauso she owns
no coaling station nearer than thr Sandwich is-
lands, from which it will be quite mposslblo to
' f a blockading fleet.
three systems of railroads acroas tho conti
nent, when run iu competition And not iu collus
ion, can carry our productions to the. western
L??a*t cheap enough, aud in that case, at least, the
:cJght will be paid to our own citizen*.
Ho in peace or war we must control that canal.
The republican party has deue nothing to pro
tect tho interests end dignity of tho country In
this behalf, aud the democracy refuse to promise
even to do anything!
THE PEOPLE GET NOTHING FROM THE OLD PARTIES.
Experience, the bAt teacher, therefore estab
lishes the fact that commerce, the Industries, the
laboring men, the anti-monopolist, the groen-
fcneker, the farmer cr other small producers,all of
whose interests are identical, can get or hope
nothing from cither or both the preseut organized
parties.
The republican party is bound hand and (rot to
capitalized monopoly. #
Tho democratic party Is governed in its conven
tions by a combination of a solid south, from
wheuce no laboring man. white or black, Is a dele
te, and where the aristocracy of capital alone it
then* of Intended actiou, before we cafl put the
government in thtir bunds. Bat the farmer and
the Uluring man do know that a democratic
time of peace. .We a-Wknow that the democratic
xnajorit) would have made a free trade tariff, con
taining ell the odiou* features ol tha present war
t tariff, so far aa regards It-* monstrous inequriitio,
by a horizontal reduction of Urn tariff to break
down very many rising and struggling Indus tries,
* -and destruction of the homes of our workingmen
and the home markets of ttor American producers.
WLo docs not know -that the very fear .of the ac
tion of the democracy iu congress has so paralys
ed American entsrp:!*- and business, that mills
ere everywhere closing, miue* shut up, fnrnocc*
blown our, and every kind of employment so car-
tailed that tha mechanic and workingmen are uot
earning enough to sopport life la eornfortrso that
tha farmer evski, deprived oi a home marker, and
crashed dowa by discriminating gates of transpor
tation, finds bis corn, wheat and wool lower than
It has been within thu present generation. Gan
the people therefore tru-t the machine democracy
with rower, won afchlfUug, erosive, and decep
tive platform r
WE KNOW THE RETt ULK AN*. HOW THE MIGHTY
, HAVE FALLEN.
The country .boa bad experience in republican
party rule twenty-five year*, and know its results.
We therefore have no need to look at it* platform
Sor ???by their frails ye ???hail know them."
The republican party bos granted subsidies to
TBilrcadsand stsamsblr. erectad many ,**4 ax-
many millions in
??? >pi aad favoring
ip???ring rtren
and harbors. These grants amount to a sum
~ tm the national debt. Without eriti-
tfce propriety of these grants, although some
1SJ
B te, ai
ara, ???.
rnptlons ot subnanstlully a single
state of the north, which confcderi-
r dominates it* platform and nominates Its can-
[dates and bolds them firmly in fts-griptf elected.
JrilE PEOPLE t!|F- GOVERNING CLASS.
What then is the duty of the classes of men just
enumerated, in the coming national clectlonf
They, by numbers as well as Intelligence-tor
everybody knows more than anybody???ought to bo
the governing classes, under the theory of our
constitution. They stand In the same social, busi-
nefta and other relations to the oku* of men iu tho
* 1 parties who believe they are ot right tho gov-
ifug doss, and who, In fact, by the control of
party and other machinery ara the governing
dan, as did our fathers in tho time of the ravoin-
Jou to the clergy, the oflk-luls and oflshoots of
: IritUh aristocracy who claimed to b*, and be
lieved they were the governing classes.
DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE!
Yon have tbe power to make this government
your government as did your fathers. This can
only be done by acting together! Be not deceived,
stand by each other! Let the people unite for the
good of tbe people! To prevent such union has
been tbe policy of tho leaders, monopolist* of alt
shades and opinions, enemies of the people, who
while they Join together in fact In control of the
government, claim to belong to different parties.
Yen know It make* no difference to you whether
one set of them or the other is In power, no burden
on the people is lightened, no monopoly is crush
ed. .
WHClYER WINS, THE WOEKINOMAN GETS ONLY A
CUESE.
Whichever party carries tbe government, labor-
vg men and women are permitted to enjoy only
the benefits of the primeval curse: ???In the sweat
of thy face shell thou eat bread." You enjoy
non* of God???s blessings! Why not? You earn ??nd
pAdure them all???all He vouchsafes to man, save
the air w* breathe. They are yours in the sight
of high Heaven! Bund together and a just share
of them is your*. . . .
In other lands tbe just right* of the people are
onljr to be got out of tbe hands of their enemies
ana rulers by tbe bayonet and the bullet. But in
America as yet, thank God and your brave father*,
tbe ballot, the freeman's shield and sword, Is left
to you and you can If you stand together protect
yourselves against all oppressive, unjust and pur
chased legislation, which burdens the people and
nndetmine* the fre* inttftoUoos of your country.
TH Era ALLOT IN DANGER FROM THE PETTISH PARTY.
How long will the precious ballot ho left to
???very freeman? *
Tbe people must ast worn and assert their power,
or they may lore It forever.
Already the British party In this country, those
who ape tbe British aristocracy, waar clothes
which are Imported, largely without paying da
ties, because they fed that an American mechanic
cannot make cloth good enough for them; can
only be waited upon by British serraaU, aad cot
their whither* even. British Cubism, so as in ap
pear ss un-American as prestMa; are say
ing to each other: wiry should-the lower
magsoines published in Boston express it: ???A low
old families have **???" *??????**'-???* -*-??-* *- -???-???
tlic politics of Mi
??? drive him from the
other
means
not by
the many; by an aristocracy
of birth end wealth, and not by the people. In tho
late general election for members of congress In
that state, 5.021 vote* only were.thrown by ail par
ties In the clcctiou of a member of congress,while
at tne west, where a free ballot is still in tho
hands of every man. at tbe same oleetton 03,230
votes were required in tbe election of a congress-
Aud this is called equal representation of the
people in the government!
Let every true American ponder upon thcso fig
ures, ond inquire, whither Is the country drifting?
If such inequalities arc possible in the bcjlnning,
what will be tbe end? Let tho people ariso in
their might and bring hack thegovernmeut where
our revolutionary fathers placedU, ou tho founda
tion of freedom, with equal rights, equal burdens,
equal privileges, and equal power* to all men.
HOW THE FKorLS LOST THEIR CONTROL OF THE GOV
ERNMENT.
Why have the people lost or forborne to exerclso
tills great power? At Brat there wore two parties
contending for great principles, the federal against
the democratic. The one represented tbe capital
ist, the monopolist, and those believing that king
ly government was best, if Jt was a home govern-
other.
The divisions were so great that in that day there
was no third party. When the federal party was in
E er wc had the alien and sedition laws, and
;es appointed at midnight, and aristocratic
is of cilice.
Under Jefferson and Madison the peoplo held
away, and called themselves the domocracy, as in
fset they were; and then, republican simplicity
of manner*, economy in government, and rospoct
for the rights of the people were tho order of tbo
Vhls state of things continued unOl the time of
Jackson: In his administration a great bauklog
monopoly was broken down. Then aroso only
minor questions between the parties, industrial,
aud economic, about which there was really not
much difference. And until the question of the
abolition of slavery arose, It was exceedingly
difficult to distinguish tho parties by
their platforms, except that In tho demo
cratic platforms there was alwaj - ~
* n the resolutions of ???98.
ivery question prod tic
aided the monopolist!.......,??? ??? ??? ??????
parties, I have already shown. Since then, actual
difference* betwe n the parties inmattar of princi
ple have in fact died out. or only enough kept up
to have a <11. t in?? t ion. Witness tho attempt of the
convention at Chicago to make its platform ap
pear to be nearly a* possible like tho rebubllcau
platform on the turifl question, and yet not be tho
the same.
HIM MONOPOLIST ALWAYS WINS IN ELECTIONS. .... . . ???
TJie cunning of ibo monopolists and capitalists ^.back-labor and anti-monopoly parties, iu whloli
has taught them that if they can ouly keep tho
people of the country voting according to party
line* they then can govern the country whichever
pnrty prevails. Did I need evidence of this It
would be In the declaration ascribed to the largest
and ablest railroad kiug in the country, Mr. Gould,
who is said to have testified before a committee,
In substance, that when be had a democratic leg
islature to manipulate he was* democrat, aud
whenever a republican legislature ho wo* a^repub-
Mean. That Is to say, to carry hi* measure* bo
helped) elect, by his money, democrats and ro-
puhlfcnns indiscriminately: but both sets of bis
members were always Gould men.
No monopolist cares which party wins. IIo is
only anxious that tbo muulnntlnff convention of
each iwrty should nominate a candidate whom
he can control.
liras arc the people played with and kept apart
by the fetish called ???party allegiance," ever bound
to the chariot wheels of tneir oppressors.
LABOR NEVER WINS, AND WHY?
Might wo not learn somethlug from the fate of
the African negroes? In their own country each
tribe had Ills fetish and they fought each other for
its supremacy, aud both aide* sold tha prisoner*
captured in thoM battle* to the white man
as slaves. Bo the laboring man votes
for his fetish, tho democratic party;
and the funner votes for his fetish, the republican
party, aud the result is that both are handed over
a* captives to tho corruptionist* and monopolists
whichever sides wins.
Mark this: tho laborers and tho people .nover
wJn!
Let no man say that I desire tomrray ono class
In till* country nxuinit another class. Not so,' I
with to set all classes against the corruptionists,
the plunderers aud the absorbers of other people's
earnings wrongfully by bought legislation, aud
speaking for the whole people I desire to array
them npainst such men only. Aud if to any ft
seems uifloreutly, let jiim reflect that among the
common people of the country there is no politi
cal bribery, corruption, or-deslre to do anything
except to nave good government, under which
men may c??.ni for themselves and their families a
wbolcromc su1<??istt???iicc and a fair competence.
Kvery convention of either party la prevented.
Jf possible, from nominating any pronounced
friend of the biborlug man or anti-monopolist to
high office. 'Witness tho fate of Mr. Thurman,
the most accomplished democratic statesman ot
all, in the convention calling itself democratic at
Chicago.
VOTE TOGETHER IS TIIE ONLY REMEDY.
What then is tbo rouiedy for theso so monstrom
.rfls? How cau the peoplo, the tniodem
repossess themselves of their government, t
luw* to protect tbclr own interests and to redress
these great wrongs and cause tbs plufiderera to
disgorge their robberies from the treasury?
VOTE FOR A THIRD PARTY; YOU WILL MOT LOSE YOUR
VOTE.
The cry has already gone forth: ???If the people
put a- third candidate In the field thoso who
vote for Mm will throw away their votes." Bo it
The voter will do worse tlum throw away his
vote if ho vote* for cither candidate of tbo monop-
e rulo of
vote; ho
puts or keeps either in power.
The same argument was used In 11148 to tho al>o-
lit ion bts. that they should not vote for Van Burcu
to establish free soil. And agilu the seine cry
went out in 1M2 when the whig and democratic
parties made tbe same platform ou tbe slavery
-ucstlon to crash out the abolition party forever.
ut the true hearted frve soller* stood firm; and
appeared, if you please, to thyow away their votes;
but though the democracy clectad their
candidate with ouly four states
in opposition, yet iu 1006 the free-
toilers, the despised third party, elected Kromont.
who was counted out by too returning boards of
that day, but the whig party was destroyed. And
In I860 by the third party of 1 ???02. Lincoln wa* elect
ed and the democratic part) was worse than des
troyed. As Its majority gravitated to treason and
armed rebellion I left It theu to senr* the country
as now I do.
Fear nob The people will not have to wait
eight years for their triumph. Kvcrything, in-
???* travels faster now, as there aro
and telegraphs to distribute Intel
ligence.
In polities, as in everything else, there is a seed
time and harvest. lit who expects to reap must
not sow now, yon will not reap then; nor Is It at
all certain that the seed has not been already
sown, aud will fructify by your votes into a sub
stantial if not complete victory at this election.
THE CEQCLK???s PARTY WILL TRIUMPH.
The producers, the workingmen, the greenback
men aud anti-monopolists are already organised,
and if men will but vote their convictions, irre
spective of deluding party criea, thq people can
achieve* victory now; and there is no power en
earth that can prevent It. Let us then organise a
???People's Party," representing every shade
of political belief that a true democrat
oratruc republican, loving his couutry, loyal to
herfree institutions, wishtng for her prosperity
and glory, which alone can be had wheu the peo
ple are prosperous, when tbe laborer is fully psid,
and when there Is a fair division of the production
of enterprise and labor, can or ought to hold.
It seems to me certain that at worst, oven lu tho
infancy of our organization, we can hold tho bal
ance of power between the two old parties; so that
ii we cannot wholly prevent bod and uujust legis
lation, we can force them to band together to
enact it, and thus show thetnaeves in form, as they
ore in fact, confederated against the people.
ELECT CONGRESSMEN.
In many states if we exert our strength, we al
ready hold the balance of power. In quite ono
hundred congressional districts, less ilmu ono
thousand votes will determine whether a friend
of'labor and the people, or the tool of monopoly
shall have a seat In congress. Let ns organise,
therefore, in every district, to see to it that uo
man goes to congress from any district who is not
with us and of us, strong enough in moral recti
tude to stand for the right* of tho peoplo ???un
awed by power and uubought by gain???
ELECT STATE LEGISLATURES.
Again, in balanced states.make an alliance with
whichever of the othor parties will choose so to
do. Minorities naturally gravltato toward each
other. Uivothem some state offloers and take
others to yourselves upon an agreement that
both rertic* shall vote the same ticket. Be par
ticular to see to it that your own friends are sent
to .the state legislature*. There .are mauy states
where laws are needed for the protection of tho
workingmen, the farmer aud tbe merchant
agninst oppressors and monopolies, and if theoo
will stand together, they can
get that protection lu pplte , of the
monopolist, ror example, in the state
of Now kork, as clsewhore, the producers and
traders aud consumers need cheap transportation
and competition between water-borne freight and
the railroads. The laboriug men and toiling wo
men want a five-ccnt-fare law for the elevated
railroad. The mechanlos need a good lien law.
All need a law to limit the hours oflahor. wheth
er a woman tolling In a mill or standing behind
a counter, or a conductor or driver standing on a
car.
If anybody tells yon this is class legislation, re
ply to him, ???Yes. w,e know it; wo ora legislating
for our da** a little while for it fs the first tfrao
wc have had an opportunity. The other class has
bad legislation enough to last them for a hundred
years."
[He concludes the letter with an address to tho
democracy of Massachusetts aud to the green-
he returns thftuks for their toudor ol tho nomina
tion for tho presidency, and accepts it. To tho let-.
ter combination of parties ho concludes as bulow.
-Ed.)
You will have one advantage in your candidate;
you will have to spend uo tirno In defending him.
Ills doings have been known to tho country for
more than a quarter of a century Every act of
his life has been under a microscope lighted by tho
lurid fires of hate and *landrr. Ho is yet un
harmed, and has no opinion to take back, uo pol
icy to recaut, aud no Just charge to exputlu for
what he has done either in peace or war.
Of personal advantage to myself nothing can ac
crue. 1 am too old to mako selfish plan* for the
future: yet I hope as my last political act, If it so
be, to uo some service to the people and mankind
iu colling back tho aorernraent Co the purposo for
which it wa* framed by our fathers, a government
of the people, a government by tbo many, aud uot
by the few, nor lor tho Interests of tho few.
BKNJ, F. BUTLKK.
I<owcll, Moss., August 12, lMH.
FUSE!
In framing your electoral ticket, make* fusion
in ail the states with tbe supposad minority, and
make it upon this theory; not that you are going
to rots for the electors of any candidate opposing
to your interests, not that tha friends of the other
candidate ara going to vote tor yours, but agree
that van will run tha same electoral ticket, pro
Tided the electors who compose it aro as they
ought to be, reputable man who will be bound by
their houo able undertakings, which is all there
is that binds the electoral college to rote In any
direction; and then have U agreed that the docto
ral vote of the state shall bo divided in thu clec-
1 college according to tbe number
.. votes thrown for your candidate, aud
the number of votes thrown for the other candi
date on the same ticket. The number of votos
which each candidate geta will be known with
subatautiai nn-uracy long before the official coant
is made. Therefore you will have every incentive
to vote for yrmr candidate because the larger num
ber??! votes you cast the more electoral votes will
K ur candidate get, and the less will the other
ve. And tboee who ore voting for the same
Ibe other. Thus you will,
and hold the balance of power.
ORGANIZE.
OrgsnJee iu every state, and present at the polls
or electoral ticket, and support It with jroor
votes.
When the word "organise" Is used, at onee
springs up to the mind tbe political machines
which have been created, canetne*, conventions
and delegates wbo can be bought aud sold fn the
market like sheep: the contrivances by which the
^coplre enemies hove conspired to take away
By that Rtord I mean nothing of that sort. Or
ganise In your workshop; agree to vote together
Tor one ticket. The*-- ie*d to be no great end
exiensivgJBectlr . You eon vote together with-
oot a brers her- .ft as well as you can witn one.
Torchlight t*r- ^??*ioRs are inventions of your en
emies to deceive you Into following their banner
and marching to tbelr mosh*. and into not voting
for your own interests, and the interest* of your
wtvr* and your children.
Therefore let tbe people stand together and vote
together and sow the seeds of a great and victorious
jerty, If not at this election at the nert. If you do
Cholera or amp
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A S MANY INFERIOR IMITATIONS HAVE AP-
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4th A VO*, Lnni* vllle, Ky.
"My experience with the Missouri fltoam
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farin advance ol the old way as stcim cirs
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ciortion at ltmly or mind, ICructallon
terltebllu. of (cni|ier, Loir
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Heart,Dot, oclorr tile eve., klghlrcol*
urea l!rloo, COXanp/nw, and do-
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ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
n?? FEE 1.8 LIKE A KEW MAW.
* J htiro had Sranepala, with Con.llp*.
Uon.twoyeari.aml hum tried ten different
kind, of mils, and TCTT*S in tho flrat
that novo dono mo any good. They have
cleaned mo out nlocfy. ity appctlto it
???plondld, fond digest, readily, and I now
have natural pammrea. 1 {m l llko a now
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THYSELF
ft BORGIA, RABUN COUNTY???W, W. McDOW-
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James M. Hmltb, deceased, of Buncombo county,
North Carolina, ho* In duo form applied to tlio
undersigned for leavo to soil tho lands belonging
to tbo cstntu of said deceased, that Is in till*
county, and Fnid application will bo heard ou tho
find Monday in October noxt.
August4th. wt Lafayette wall, >.
wky Ordinary.
date. This Is. there
fore. to cite all perrons conot*rnc<l to show cause,
lfany tkeycan, why sold administrator should
not b?? discharged from Ills administration and re
ceive letters of gdinJuistratioJ) on tho first Monday
lu November next.
August 5th, 1884. Lafayette wall,
wky Ordinary.
riEOROlA, Fayette county.-maroarkt
. Uazlewood. foreign administrator of Jamos
Leatcr, drcea*(Kl, has applied for Isavo to sell tho
land of naid deewued, and said CppUeatiou will Ihj
heard ou tho first Monday In Hordern her next,
August 1,1884. L. B. URIQ08,
sugb???w4w???s Ordinary,
p K O R 0 I a, FAYETTE COUNTY.-LARKIN
..Id application will tm heard on tho first Monday
in Heptember next. Tbix August 1, 1884.
aug. o???w4w*s - I-. B. OB1Q08, Ordinary.
/lEoluJiA, faVKYYk Co(IntywJitii'K W,
Robinson ha* applied for letters of a??tmin-
btratlon crtin trsUmcntoannrxo on the estate of
Charlea J. Robinson, late of said county .deceased,
and I will psm upon said application on the first
Monday in Beptcmber next. This August 4, 18W,
L. B. ORiaOB. Ordinary.
pEORQIA, FAYKTTK COUNTY.-A. J. BIIROP-
_ __ folly admlnistereil M. L. Hhrop-
rtilro's estate. This la to cite all persons concerned,
In show cause why said executor should not bo
dhebarged from his administration on the
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Cholera Cure
E
dnr.__ r .??? ???
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ture of Bed Pepper to ono bottlo of BKKUSftS*
80UTI1KRN REMEDY with nlmoet unfailing suo-
ccwinndTho Conatllntlon adviaos its roadszs to
over keep on hand n bottle which by Us tlaioly
uso will snvo so much pain and auxloty.
A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN OK ATLANTA
prescribe* Dr. Diggers Southern Remedy In all
bowel and *toin*eli nfltfrtfoiiN, and states that for
restoring tha llUlo child Hint I* wasting away by
tho daily drainage upon it* system it is uncoualca
ns it ts also for DJarrhu-a, Dysentery, <'rmnpirolle, _
(ftiolcrn Morbus, AND ANY CHILD 18 PLEASED
TO TAKE IT.
PROFEflSOR A. BAItlLI,
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be without a bottle of Dr. Bigger* Southern Rem
edy, the timely use of somo having relieved ul-
most every incinlM-r of his family of somo bowel
orstomnch trouble.
TIIK OLD GRAND MOTHER
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ror to imri-nt*. CROUP, tho old grandmother used
to send for mullein and make* tea and at onco
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