Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-14
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.
Advocated For President by An
independent Democratic Pa
per.
81. L0uIs Erenipr Chronicle.

The Democratic party will win the
next Presidential election.
That is to say,the Democratic party
with the aid of the men who created
the political whirlwind in the Autumn
OF lS82-the men who we're among
the founders OF the Republican party,
but whe had become disgusted with
the thieves who had got the reins.
Robesonism, Blaineism-well, why
not sum it all up 10 the one word
Theft? This made the revolt. The
thieves will try to rule in the next
Republican National Nominating
Convention, and they'll rule it, and
to the astonishment of our neighbor
OF the Globe Democrat they'll defeat
Edmunds and set before the nation a
man who will represent them and not
the honesty Of the Republican party.
There will be no repetition of the
Cincinnati convention, with John A.
COckerill and Whitelaw Reid stock
ing the cards to nominate Horace
Greeley.
The old railroad wreckers will not
rule the Democratic National Nomi-
mating Convention from Grsmercy
Park. Macdonald and Pendleton
and Palmer and Bayard and the rest
of them will kill each other, and
Hancock, it will be remembered, has
been described as weighing 240 pounds.
1t will dawn upon the convention that
the nominee must be a man who rep.
resents a principle.
Then will the Liberal Democrats in
the convention point out to the Bour.
bons that at the great uDheaval that
threw the Democratic party out Of
power almost a quarter of a century
ago Liberal Democrats and Liberal
Wings united and effected a revolu-
ton; and the convention will be told
that the men whe made that revolu-
ton represented the conscience Of
the nation, which demanded the abo
lition Of slavery.
The Democratic convention will be
told, further, that the political revolu-
tion Of 1860 must have failed disas
trously it not ANONYMOUSLY if the war
for the Union must have been lost il
the colored men OF the South lad not
been employed as soldiers.
1t will be shown as a historical fact
that Benjamin L. Butler, acting upon
John A. Andrews suggestion that the
colored man was properly contraband
OF war, was the first of all the Major
Generals who dared employ the col.
ored man as an auxiliary In crushing
the rebellion, and that but for Butler
Appomatox would have been impossi.
BILE.
The Democratic nominating con.
vention will then be told that the
masses Of colOred men are voting solid
with the Republicans, blindly sup.
| posing that they are voting with
the once great Republican party
that was their savior. But it will be
made clear to the convention
that whoever nominatss Butler
will be able at least to divide tie col
ored mems vote, since the colored
men know that Butler, the first Major
General who dared proclaim the negro
oontrabaDd Of war, was the tman who
made emancipation possible.
The Democratic convention will be
asked to make the word Democracy
as applied to political party, to mean
what it meant 10 the Jeffersonian days
aud it will be done. The nominee will
be the man whom the old time Re.
publicans sent up to the Statehouse
with the Gilded Dome, Benjamin \,
Butler.
And at 3 o'clock on the morning
alter the election John G, Reid will
not rush from the New York Times
Office to the Fifth Avenue Hotel tc
post Bill Chandler off to buy Florida
The reinforced Democratic party's
majority will obyiate the necessity for
any fraud after election. And in But.
Ter they'll elect man who will have
the nerve to take his chair.