The New York herald., 1871-09-16

eating. Drawing his "wipe, tho General again re-
to he eanencv ad M sa,d AZ an early day win reaoa
| .ne people thought the appointment of Sherins,
Secrs,ary OF state, Attorney General state Auditor
| anu state treasurer 20 be by the Governor aud
council tnat the constitution altered and the
%espe oeers Meee gvfn v s,n Iae power OF eecng all
all this great array or Boards of Commission who
ao the duty which your state officers ought to do,
t1ey nave grown up irresponsible TO you and irrc-
| sponsible to all men. Now you can understand
about all this outlay OF men, who more or less
Que OF the chief Of tnem--one who has
run up his salary from $4,000 to $4,000 a year-is
warrington, and OF him shall now cease substan-
TALLY TO speak, because all questions between him
and me have been settled by his townspeople. lie
senator Of last year from mat district ana BY
representative TO the General Court from
1t at hall. past seven O'Clock moved that the polls
close In ten minutes, when there were but thirty.
| the meeting and three Of whom were on the ticket
| Tor delegates but sundry gentlemen came In in the
n a The p be @
one hour, and the people Of Maiden came in and
Ssr dses sses or upon TICKET noSs oSa
hundred and twenty.tnree against twenry-nine
for Warrington Laughter and applause and one I Or
Toby said to the fly that buzzed about his nose.
lie caught him and went to the window and opened
It to put him out. and said, Go. poor devil; there's
room enough in the world for you ana me BOTH"
Haughter) The General next read the somer::
have been abused,n he said, 'bg all the newspapers
in The metropolis. All the country press support
me to-day; but have been abused in one OF which
DO not complain, because it Is oyordone and 1t Is
the Springfield RepubHcam for the use OF as much Of
as much OF 1t as have mad; but am much
Obliged to nsnto u as n though SOud could
those papers that abused me is one of
the advocates of Mr.. Rice for Governor. Well, Mr..
Rice Is very respectable gentleman ana IN 0rdi-
nary times would make q very good Governor.
When he the candidate FOR The p r. Is.
hn Vno ypnr fhln
aate but ,s paper @ % Vese Mr. Rce
ana it is the Boston 7ran$cript--whcn l went
Sns S Ssr Ss s' but wser aagheP 9Js' we ne
have fancy that have mad 'ai'fs a little M more
of the men that have been nominated. tApplause.j
my colleague Mr.. Washburn, whom I regard with
good Governor, but then he is TOO clever ana KIND.
heartek for the present emergency. Everybody
some obligations to these men somehow, but, thank
God, am not. lapplausel and therefore, think,
whstllng'1 The General next touched upon
LABOR REFORM, PROHIBITION AND woMANs
| SUFFRAGE
In reference to the last question he said, 81 have
doubt OF the right or women to vote. but If there
IS any don6t upon that question | think there ought
it is a question Which ought to be gravely
Legislature OF Massachusetts. IL ought not to he
sneered and thrown out We ought never to sneer
at any new question of reform We can remember
how many men sneered at the iGea or the abolition
OF slavery when 1t was much more unpopular than
aud yet we have all lived to see how wrong they
were therefore let US sneer at no great question Of
reform"
The General then told little story with reference
to prohibition. "A temperance man." he said,
came into my office n n X Boston and said, Wen,
guess S you have not % read In The papers: anGhter
| yt npfO lay utarto oiuv1
O the same DAY ! went to dinner, ana,
proprietor came along to me, ana said he, Well
General, you are going 70 be Governor. Well,'
he hope you VIII Well said that's strange v
Yes said he, hope 30, because you VIII shut up
other house in Boston that sells liquor on the lst
day OF next February. when the legislature is all
dfop ~ Then III they viii repea the iaw' SaT FRA. se.
mendOus applause and cheer5
Alter referring 70 the fact that the people of his
said-"But you say, General Butler. why do you
come before the peoples Because could get a
was forced to come, as mater OF selfprotecton.
come before the people to break down the tyranny
of newspaperdom-a tyranny OF that irresponsible
! power before whom no mans character Is safe
which enters every mans house anu bellies his
; wife ana children, and he has no defence from that
irresponsible newspaper power that attacks all men
OF character, and to which most people must Yield
to that irresponsible power, which comes to THIS
they write without Its being known to their fellow
citizens who they are, for they all look alike
atNck and write an article abusing the besi
man man IN Iou the oH1 Sate' rna anu yet n you knew
would not trust HIM for weeks board board,
Yet he appears In private Just as We'll the best
man the State; and then his piece is copied into
the next paper, and then another man like nm
writes another article, anu that is copied into the
is public opinion y while it is only the opinion % Of
two newspaper scrlDbers, who could have been
nred to write the other way for as many dollars as
lrp ga NM tn ril
Of that power. I acknowledge the press; | ac-
knowledge Its influence, ana largely acknowledge
press dong that which they think is fight, because
generally they belong TO no clique They have
others that have desire TO keep the same DONNA.
tion they have ever had for my friends who have
the newspaper press but II there is one thing
thank Goa ,,o dor more ovo than ;Inn another 1t
them. (Appause.) have only to thank you
from my heart OF hearts for the Kind courtesy and
what have SAID. You have seen thus meeting. Is
not this orderly meetlngy IL is Just as orderly,
and no more SO, Than the various meetings | have
addressed III the commonwealth, and yet you have
seen that my audiences have been reported as
disorderly rude and unquiet That Is the false pre-
IN order not only to malign and slander me,
but the good people p isS Of the n
drive away that slander, as my friends In their
places, the best citizens OF which have written OF
the prOpretOrs OF the press denOuncing false the
report or the rotous conduct OF their fellow citzen
In the way have here given. you would also be re-
presented In the same way. and am trying now TO
defend you against that necessity"
The General concluded at halfpast nine O'Clock,
when he was congratulated on the platform aud
the meeting quietly dispersed.
The caucuses here will be held tomorrow, and it |
Is thought that, although the place Is IN WASH
burn locality, two out OF six delegates will be |
elected for tile General. Al Shelburne Falls to-day,
when the train arrived with General Butler, OH MS
way from North Adams to this place, o crowd Of |
two or three hundred had coDgregated and cheered
him Justify, when he stepped upon the platform and
addressed
started he was again heartily applauded.