The daily gazette., 1879-07-28
Wilmington People Denounced In
Maine.
GEORGE NJ. DUTHER HEARD FROM.
From the Belfast, Maine, Age, July c4th.
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GkORGE NJ. DUTHER HEARD FROM.
From the Belfast, Maine, Age, July gath.
AHEAD FLAW.
The temperance cause is a good one,
and honest, rational workers in that field
should be welcome everywhere, but
those who set themse YES up as teachers
Of temperance ought TO be above suspi-
cion OF drinking, or doing any other
naughty thing. Mr.. Geo. M. butcher
and lady giving her name as Mrs. Col.
Watson arrived in this town lately, and
on their own representations they were
at once taken up by the temperance ad-
vocates here, but were rather set down
again, for it was sOsn suspected from
certain newspaper reports that the wis
dom Of Little Buttercup applied to their
case: n o 40
"Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream,
High-iows pass as patent feathers,
Jackdaws strut in peacocks' fe athers.
Very true, so they do"
The lady lectured at the Baptist Yes
try Sunday afternoon. The man lectur-
ed OH Monday evening at Hayford Hall,
the subject announced being Temper
ance, hut the lee ure was in reality de-
voted to selfpufiery, denunciation Of the
Philadelphia Times, and misrepresenta-
tions regarding the people Of Whining
ton, Del.
1t was evident from the start that
something was wrong. The bills had
announced that the Mayor would pre-
side, but that official failed to appear; a
nQllinat n otnnd 1,a pt nd II,
help of choir was evidently expected,
but neither organist nor singers present
ed themselves. A long line Of chairs
stood on the platform, intended for the
magnates Of the city, and the temperance
advocates, but the chairs were patheti-
cally empty all the evening. A kind
hearted gentleman, who evidently ssdid
not sense the precise thing" at last in
reduced the orator, and butcher launch
cd out into fulsome eulogy of Geo. M.
butcher. Like Walt Whitman, in his
"Leaves of Grass" he ought to have
said,
"I celebrate myself"
He told his name and genealogy, and
claimed to be on the most intimate terms
with the ablest sta es IL n his ountry.
lie was well acquainted with ministers
of the Gospel fiom Halifax to San Fran
cisco, and from the st. Lawrence river
TO the Rio Grande. The late vice presi-
dent Henry Wilson was one of bis b, st
friends, be said he knew President Hayes
pretty well, and he continued, "Mr.
Hayes thinks more of me, than he does
Of a good many other people," The
worthy butcher then launched into a
TRADE against the Philadelphia Times,
which he said had slandered him. He
denounced the Times as 'svile copper
head Sheet" when everybody knows
that it is one of the most independent
papers in the Union. He warned the
Times to look out for him, caesar had
his Brutus" he said "it would be well
for the Philadelphia Times to remem
ber it," lie ut cred the fearful threa'
that he would be the Times BrutLs ! OF
course that paper will shu. up shop as
soon as it hears of this. The orator at
tempted to wake prejudice against Will
mington people; he said there were 49,
600 men in that place who hate Maine
people because the latter stood up for
their rights and fought rum. "If you
were to walk their reefs they would
say, sthere goes a damned Yankee
they hate you because you stood for your
country and for temperance" But all
this swash did not wash with the audi
ence. No applause was evoked peo-
pie sat in amused silence, and the spea-
ker lashed himself into a foam, all in
vain. Finally lie stopped and collec-
ton was taken up, but he was not much
the richer for it. Why the whole even
ing should have been thus taken up with
this TRADE appears from all article in
the Philadelphia Record copy of which
had been circulated about town.
The Article from the Record alluded
to was merely in reference to butchers
conduct with Mrs. Judge Wal son as
our p ople have seen enough of that we
omit it here. The Age's article con-
tains as follows
THE OTHER SIDE.
Since the above was put in type we
have received call from Mr.. George
NJ. butcher, aud he claims to be vic
tim of a cabal in both Philadelphia and
Wilmington. As there are two sides to
every story, and no one should be con-
demned unheard, we accede to Mr.
butchers request to print the following
| letter from his wife, which cover the
| charges made against him:
LETTER FROM MRS. butcher.
BUTCHER HoME, WILMINGTON,
May, 26, 1879.
Kind Editor Daily Republican IL
wish to say, through the columns of your
valuable paper, that am now in receipt
IF overwhelming proof to show that il
was deep, dark plot laid by those VII
iians In Philadelphia who claimed such
friendship for me to ruin NY husband
and drag Mrs. Watson from the plat
form, destroy her usefulness, and gel
her again back to Philadelphia for vile
and nneodly purpose. 1 feel that my
husband has proven himself hero, and
God will bless him for protecting poor
redeemed woman against one of the
most powerful prosecutions ever known
in this country. l am determined to
encourage Mrs. Watson to tell of Gou',
| goodness to her soul, that others may bt
redeemed through her instrumentality.
[Signed,l MARY K. BUTCHER.