The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-05

Temperance People Want Him to
Take q Pledge.
THE OLD MAN DODGES THE QUESTION
Butler Says That Asking Question of a
Fourth of July Orator is Like
Whistling at q Funeral
SOUTH FRAMlNoHAM, Mass, July 4, as7s

| SOUTH FRAMiNGHAM, MASS, July 4, 1878
It mas been the custom for many years TO hold q
| temperance mass meeting on the Fourth OF July
and gather together the ultra friends OF prohibi-
| ton for sort OF annual experience meeting.
| Walden Pond Grove, near Concord has generally
| been the chosen spot. This year, for some rea-
| sons, Harmony Grove, near this place. was
selected, and thither the faithful to-day gathered
| to the number OF six thousand or seven thousand.
| AS tine legislator from Cranberry Centre
| would say, at was Q free blow" no
restriction being put on the utterance OF
sentiments. All shades OF politicians, from the
devout prOhtbit0ry deacon down were present.
Crowds poured in from the surrounding towns all
day, the attendance being doubled because OF the
positive assurance that General b. F. Butler would
make speech in the afternoon and define his posi-
ton on various pending issues, particularly with
regard to his candidature for GOvernorship, and
give his opinion upon the enforcement of the Pro-
hibitory law.
The Rev. George Stacy, OF Milford, presided, and
made strong Butler speech. Then Mrs. vibbert,
wife OF Rev. George II. Vibbert OF Boston, made
an old-fashiOned woman's rights address. She had
come to see Butler, she said. more than anything
else, in order to satisfy her conscience about sup
porting him for Governor.
Rev. George +. Clark, OF Mendons, who has figured
in State politics more or less for years, then
took the platform and made q violent anti
Butler speech, pitching into the General with We
hemence for his share in the salary grab and his
humbugging in politics. Butler ne said, was always
wriggmg and twisting in political matters and
wouldn't suit prohbtiOnsts who want man who
is reliable. His violent denunciatons Of Butler
ated great enthusiasm in the audience.
b. G. Godfrey, of Milford, presented pledge to
the meeting and stated that General Butler ought
to be made to publicly sign before the temperance
people should consent to give him their votes. The
pledge was pronounced In favor of prohibition,
women's rights and the equalization Of labor and
capital.
The crowd enjoyed the fun and were ready to 60
for anything, and uproariously passed the vote to
make Butler sign the pledge, and Mr.. Godfrey was
given full power to adopt any means he saw 1T to
secure that result
The speeches and proceedings were enlived with
songs by the Hutchinson family; but all this was
simply prelude to the entertainment that was to
follow
General Butler left Boston at bali-past one O'Clock
and reached the depot one hour later.
large crowd was at the depot, and pressed
around the General, but they were solemn a
funeral. Any one who saw his triumphal progress
through the State two years ago could not have
failed to mark the change brass band played
Hail to the Chief" and the General was soon
seated in a barouche, and, with a state constable
in full uniform at each side loot, started for the
grove. When he reached the grove there were
none to greet him with friendly cheer, as in the
oicen time, although he could pick out hosts OF
friends In the throng Arrived at the speakers
hero OF New Orleans, and faint response was
given. Some one tnen ungraciously proposed
three cheers Tor the hero OF Fort Fisher, and But
Ter, being introduced to the audience, spoke as Io
lows:-
General BUTLER began by saying that Just as indi:
and the great event Of ihsT lives their birth;
ar r stage s" OF national lite Without event EXCEPT
A s Ss an s s
from Great an a, the only y,s one worthy Of
Rs GsSs
the Of the ssSs
@ Has s saf
the true iaea tins was true iepS6iean
aws General Baer rst took up me subject Of special
corporations in the matter OF TRANSFORMATION OF freight
q % a 81 The DS %
common highway carriage OF persons In eighborng
acquired a fortune OF seventy i've, hundred mil
Much Of the d. @ n had N fs
gre question the hour, therefore was How this
sasS aW 80 m
nalsa ING e% y
have superadded to the enrders and wrongs OF corporate
incident TO the frequent changes in party political ma
Which are It's own Common Highways The land ana the
Ren by law under the that the
nde AND sf of Inc Whole ss
se"'' Ihen let every man enjoy this common
by putting his car on these highways SUBJECT
Ali tS as he des
TO Is d ms ear upon hs air to
tory and Of sub ees to appeal to proper tn
road That reasonable toll of course, would be the cost
and eaT Of a e b ata not sa s Of the
capital invested Any company or individual could have
misH load si ears be drawn BY motive power the
road II not by his own engine.
After dwelling upon the necessity for solution
Of this problem OF cheap transportation, General
Butler concluded as foows:-
But time which at least deals with all equally
md BY %So hSs
of IN a hs as
SsS
e Of pTo@o.on of their cause ana their method
sasrs 5r has BEEN upon :aesyansIsiy
auo nw BY y0r so ss
gent IN its PROVISIONS a. can be made CIV, wbn the limits
Court in the and the United States ali parts
onaI osjeeton Which is easy Of visit
ing with the most onerous pains and penalties
aS Which used has in sn SS of Is
ofyears and only % be made stringent in each
friend Of the here has been almost
Within the large towns and Cities the iesa
and sa sale u sn fGw Ia, the
law needed on this subject indeed that any
cause OF temperance the Legislature might be- Leglsis
do u n sSas /. ha Geh ar rule a a. Ts
been made the rule Of acton in the commonwealth,
BY those who had The government Of the Commonwealth
In their hands S s b of suh TIe OF on bs