Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-11-03
BUTLER'S BREAK.
TIE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE EVER.
The Most Bitter Campaign Ever Know,
Drawing to Close in Old
Virginia - Trouble
Feared.

BosroS, November 2-The Herald has Q
two-column interview with Governor But.
ler from the pen OF Colonel +. A. Burr, to-
day, in which the Governor says: ut 10
harder for citizen to approach the ballot.
box in Massachusetts, than in any other
State in the Union" The reasons for this.
Governor Butler SAYS, are found In the un.
Just laws that have been enacted to
CircamseFibe the Cftineaa' Rights.
The difficulties surrounding naturalixa.
ton are many.
Are these the abuses you referred to
when you said that your platform Was, and
slways had been equality OF rights. equal.
ity Of power, equality OF burdens and
equality Of privileges to al men and under
the law
They are. Those expressions were the
outgroWth Of an argument 10 show that the
Republican party o. Massachusetts, has
year by year been enactinS laws for the
purpose OF
Prcventiug Men From Voting,
instead Of making il easy for them. ! sup.
pose that IL is difficult for stranger to
grasp even a portion OF the different ele-
ments that enter iuto this controversy.
They are in measure local, and have come
up through long years OF unrestricted
power"
Governor would one be right in as
suming, then, tbst this ii ,ht is bet ~cen the
rich minority and the popular majority.
which one might Gail question of ofcS.e''
"Cer:ain!y, the Republican leaders
Made that Isspc.
They belabor the people for having such
q leader, and 8huse the leader for having
such followers. TIE political dudes INTO
whCse control the Republican party has
drified in this Slate not on!y thus srrer at
the following Of this revolution, but have
introduced into the CAMPAIGN aIl its per.
topaIili.S. But. thank God II they're
beaten this Irme they i Say beat Tnere
j. nU repTC!rni I'VE power ia NG.h teal.
er-hip rs BOW jomirairs our opP2nents
"pid
The fniIarc of PrrNtdcnt HRyes
n resrpolh, Mr. Simmons Collector hav.
any ,hipg To- do with It's start
NO SIR: but 1t Sss an incident; OF its
orowih "
"Th,n there Is po nlher explanation for
iOuun Republicans have broken their party
allegiance and gone into this movement.
bent Oh political icouoclasm
at is The only explanation.
Il take IL, then. that you mold the Rspub'
lican party 10 DC drifting into the attitude
Of the old WhirS
A Wealthy. Aristocratic. but UnPsarti-
cable Organizations"
"Exacily 20. In 1850, thirtythree years
ago. the wings were driven from power in
ih,S State hy q consolidation between ths
Democrats and Frre.SOllsrs, which elected
Boutwell, as Governor and Oh Irles sam
mers as l. s. Senator. The struggle then
was in many respects The counterpart of
this. la fact, The parallel between thirty
three years ago HmG day is com plcte.
The conditions then match thO.e OF now.
Many OF tho feature ~ that canvas wcrs
also Tie sam. same u IJ5SISS J&eFS ,.o ~sy v. s.O-
cess, but they w'r" poweflcss 90 stay the
,i,ic then as they will bs no. SO ytu -,
how truthful j. the Old adage, History fc'
pcats iiief
What ot the future
THE future viii tat" care Of i'seli. Con.
,rui OF the IagiSisturc vii, IN its own good
lime follow tie victory Oi this year An
oIher tuccCss settle, nj. question oi party
SUPREMACY In Massachusetts,, at least until
all ur iust Il elimination
urtwc.n lIi,~. aud Citizen
is destroyed md the new force, grown hr.
ropant with long lcnse of power, arrays
i,stl II against the principles OF free govern
ment