The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-09-21
THE GENERAL At new BEDFORD.
Racy Review Of the Massa-
chUsetts Press.
Settling Old Scores with His
Opponents.
THE CAUCUS SYSTEM EXPOSED.

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caucus to be held here on Friday evening next, and
evtably take place at the State Convention Will be
much more destructive IN It's nature than has been
anticipated.
The people turned out en- mdsse to hear General
Butler this evening. At eight O'Clock, In company
OF Mr.. Barney and Mr.. Rufus A. SOule, the General
mounted the platform the City Hail. his tall beaver
In his right hand ana his scrapboOk in his left. The
General spoke substantially as follows:-
THE SPEECH.
FELLOW CITIZENS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
ments yells OF 'iIats or ~ ana ''Take lem OF p',
speaking before 10 day; and / viii endeavor then,
II each man here Will preserve his silence as well as
try to uy ad porougny
have assembled, fellow citizens, on very important
t business sSs There Is nohng ire
we shall discuss to, to night: They 20 into
fairly and JUSTLY seeking TO convince your reason
ana your Judgment and not to arouse your passions.
and converse with you upon this business, as /
would were you and TO meet elsewhere
Then the General, as usual. took the Journal to
task and told about "a Lie Well suck TOO" while
the urchlns present went into ecstacies over the
psss cH the p %s J nor R scrspooS a
, .. must have III, change now" he said:
current OF abuse and calumny which have met Tor
the purpose or reforming the State government.
WE MUST HAVE CHANGE
The present is q crisis III the a1alrS OF the Com.
monwealti Business IS Frustrated; How Is me
you know what Is the trouble. why Is the enter
prise OF this city checked viii tell 10 is be-
cause the taxes are large" and the General then
smashed Into his statistics again. the Auditors
port the Fish Commission, the caucus system, the
paign documents ana the anonymous scrbbicr
in the JoWrnat, who w-r-r-r,ites the slanderons
ooq n ana VINO VOW go 10 M 1s a
the General II want to say word or two. want
wherever have got friend In the caucus That he
will insist on vote by ballot. Why / would stay
In Inc caucus in my own town II they should refuse
to vote by ballot until should weigh but ninety nine
pounds or until 1t should be done. Fer my friends
ana am going to speak right out In meeting, Ihavo
never been beaten in town where there was far
three times in the Boston Journal, and that up
in the town Of Northampton, where believe, the
pital in that tOwnand they had eighty.twO employees
In It, and. you know, ! have been blowing up the
these towns. There's Worcester. l attacked that
insane hospital ana was beaten Then :, there's
n it and chose the s super Of
the was neda ey hare
was Taunton, / remember where there Is another
insane hospital. and was beaten there; and there
Is CharlestOwn, where there Is q State Prison, ana
they broke up my meeting there. tI.aughter.) NOW,
thank Heaven that there is neither Insane hospital
applause. very fant Now, NV friends nave
shown you how little the people have to 40 with the
government; and isn't IL time there should be re-
form somewhere? Isn't 1t time rnat the people
were consulted as to state ofcerse Ought not they
to be consulted Wen, my friends what answer Is
made to all ths--what answer do these gentle
men make? Why, they simply make answer
OF hard thinss Well now do they think that they
| Will deter Inc rom dong my dutyY Does IL make
general proceeded to repeat has sereotyped remarks
upon Rice, Jewell anu Washburne, and said, why
oS Of % and CIV ens e. he S %n waS 70
split the party. Laugh,er:l IL puts me IN mind Of
tn ana t Was LOOKING around When The
ofcer espied him and said, MY man. what do YOU
yant Ws sn, s saa me man tnis Il my
asked the officer how come 1t to be your snpf"
swell" was the response, 'ns IS "a Unlted states
that's the way i becomes mine, ana
his jacEknife, and cutting of little silver from The
woodwork he handed 1t to the intruder and said,
s'There you Just take your piece and go ~ (Langh-
ter.) Wel one OF them has 'taken MS piece and
gone" Appause.l ,.o
The next topic OF consideration was the metro
THE LYING OF THESE JOURNALS
about delegate to the State Convention Is perfectly
fearful. will give you all example by taking up
the Boston Herald which devotes o column q dav
to the advocacy OF Mr. Rice-gcneraly some column
of tie end Of which they advertise cure for pimpes.
Laughter) Well you have heard about the election
OF delegates and you are told that so many are
elected and so many are not elected, that there are
so many Butler delegates elected and SO many that
are anti Butler; ana SO they have got the Common-
against me. Now, i wni show you how
is p a0ns win nn. Tsia a mSm here ,ss BS ss
General read the table Of deegas as far as chosen,
as published in the IlERALD-l26 Butler and lo4
anll-Builer. You WI looS at that ani thiowlns
! down your paper you viii say, ''Wel. guess EeD>
eral Butter nasnt much OF chance, atss Pa. 1
guess there are haif dozen Of sep gentlemen
ieSkanS e., I'll, hig sssss asd w %a ,s.i
many dcegaiss there ale against i s,atler they than
put III snolnefst q Wssera, MaIfssehasctts Here
IS; s, s'S sy.s. s l sa; s. SlYfS R"s1
tlppiause.i Let me 60 over: for want
separately The s Western M s "a;
mistake about this; WI tell you Just , now
to to - find dA' out about it; There have been,
SO far, up TO the tine l am now speaking OF.
B"tier; that Is, they believe in having something
done-that IS what that means; Laugnter;l Then
had 5; there are 81 VINO are put down
as anti Butler-that Is, they don't know whom they
haven't made any sign whatever These things
! give you Tor your qualification because
YOU viii be glad to see that something
g likely to be done. There are $50 men out OF All
up to night that mean business Applause am
brought to this, my lrlends, said the General, In
EXPLANATION because 1t IS the only way can begin to
get the truth anywhere before the people OF
the commonwealth Now you see how you
are misled by the newspapers. The General next
reverted TO the questions OF labor reform, Wendell
Phillips and the ProhibitOry law, and once more
animadverted on the practice OF the republican
leaders OF "soughing on good members Of the
party and concluded with his Olt-repeated attacks
upon his opponents IN general.
Butler stock Rising-I1ow the Delegates to
the State Convention staDd-PrOspcc,s OF
the Generals Nomination Improving.
BosToN, Sept. 20, 1871
Butler stock, so far as ascendancy III state poll
tics Is concerned Is decidedly at the top of the mar
ket tonight. Up to four O'Clock tins afternoon the
results OF The elections In the different counties OF