The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-09-22
BUTLER ON THE SITUATION.

JAILED the ''Beast" for short, is now in
pennsylvania speaking for Hancock.
Ee and John w. Forney, another
Hancock Republican, spoke at Pitts
hurgh few nights ago to large audi
ance. The meeting was derisively
t,alled the Chopper Gathering" by Re-
publicans. because the speakers had
ailanged from sectionalism to the broad
platform on which, Hancock stands.
Rhile at Pittsburgh, General Butler
vas called upon by number Of colored
Hen, for whom Paul j. Carson acted as
spokesman. The colored men stated
that they desired to pay their respects
10 Butler, whom they recognized as a.
henefactor OF, their. race. Butler, in
reply, said he had done nothing during
the war but his duty. The war was
not begun for the emancipation OF the
slaves, as was shown by President Lin
coins proclamation calling for troops.
For sixteen years he had acted with
the Republican party, III the hope that
it would extend the protection to the
coiored men in the South that he
deemed ought to be done. He tried to
get it done by Republican Congress,
but failed. He fought the campaign
for Hayes in 1876, to have it done as
promised. in the Republican platform
and by the party leaders, yet the very
first act of Hayes administration was
to turn over the States OF Louisiana and
South Carolina, where it was claimed
there were Republican governments
elected by negro votes, to the Demo
Gratis. Hayes did not attempt to do
anything for. the relief of the colored
man or anybody else. That being so.
in the best interests Of the South and
the colored men, he proposed to have
change. If the Republican party can
not provide this protection in sixteen
years of peace, he does not propose to
try them for twenty years. Hancock
says he will enforce the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
to the Constitution in their letter aud
spirit, and nobody who knows him
doubts that he will stand by his prom
Use. He proposes to try Hancock for
four years, and if the Democrats do no
better than the Republicans have done,
then help kick them out:
General Butler, who was recognized
leader Of the Republican party for
years, is thoroughly familiar with its
delnquencies. He knows that the
party has been promising protection to
the colored men at every Presidential
election; and yet, if the speakers and
papers of that party tell the truth, the
negro is in a worse condition to-day in
the South than when the war ended, or
even before they were emancipated.
In, the days of slavery. their lives were
protected, but now, they tell US, they
are shot down like wild beasts, al
though the platform of every National
Republican Conventions for years has
promised them protection, but the party
forgot its promises the moment the
polls closed.
1t is well-known fact that there
arc less Outrages in the South at the
present time, under Democratic rule,
than few years ago under Republican
rule, and that the negroes are much
more contented than when carpet bag
gers ruled those States. What good
reason is there, then, for keeping a
party in power which has always been
promising protection to colored citizens
and never fulfilling it's promises? Must
1T forever he kept at the public crib
because it makes promises before cleo.
ton which it never thinks Of carving
ont after election? Let the people,
Ike Butler, give Hancock trial for
four years, and sec if he cannot do bet
ter, for under no circumstances can he
do any worse, than the Republicans, if
their own reports of the condition of
the South are true.
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