The Portland daily press., 1883-10-22
Butlerism Illustrated. H5z q
Extracts from Speeches by Hon. George
D. Robinson. the Republican Candidate
for Governor of Massachusetts. But
ler's Falsehoods Exposed.
TANNED SKIN.

length because, while the STOCK OF skins Is SMALL II
is the great political stock of the other party this
fall. (Laughter) understand that the governor
displayed here what he said piece of the skin
of one Charles j. Ekland. Now, no proof was sub
mitted with regard to that piece of skin before the
committee have here the report OF the minority
of the Tewksbury investigating committee, signed
by gentlemen who agree with the governor pSliti-
cally and antaomicaiy. Uaughter) They have
paragraph in this report about tanned skins. Do
they tell you anything about any skin that came
from Charles j. Eklsnds body? Not word of It.
DO they report on it? Not word of it. Why not?
Because these gentlemen know no such thing was
given to them upon hich they could report. They
o over the testimony in regard to different pieces
Of skim and tell us they were traced 70 @ or
are traced to tue Tewksbury institution? They do
not. There is only one place In which there is any
reference to oTewksbury and that Is ths-I will read
it just as it is:-
Witness testifying to the tanning of human skin
saio it was brought TO him by q man who said it
came from Tewksbury.
That is every solitary word that is said about
Tewksbury in that connection in that report. NOW
put it right ON the testimony-What does his ex-
celle ,cy mean? l want to repeat it What does
this Governor mean by going before the intel lgent
and honest people of Massachusetts, anywhere and
showing them something that was not proved IN
the case that the members of the committee who
believe with him did not report upon, and he knows
it, and attempting to set up a great issue In THIS
campaign upon false pretence? Well, as II the
depth Of depravity and indecency had not yet been
found, here is the indecent pcture-book presented
under the authority of the Governor OF Massacnu-
be the skin of this Elkland-not proved to nave
been connected with Tewksbury at all, and yet put
in here as part and an illustration of the argu-
ment of the Governor, when he knows, and al
know, that 1t no part Of the testimony in that
ods ord pages esS to io42 Almost 400 pages to tell
the storyl Well, seized the book with alarm. SO
much space for 50 small piece OF skin was some
page after page 400 pages and did not nnd where
his skin came from. It isn't there. What does it
mean? Is it to let people knew the tru,n, OF 70
nrac1ice deceDtiOu? will draw your own INFER
enee.
THE SAME SUBJECT AT ANOTHER TIME.
Talk about slander upon Massachusetts because
of certain practices that the whole people. or any
considerable number of them are involved in wrong
doing because man here and there has done some
thing that you and revolt at Charge great par
~ for instance, with being responsible for certain
iniquitous proceedings, performed by hair dozen
or more men out of the 1873, 200 people in this
wi ole State. And there is no evidence at all, OF
the political standing or party connection OF The
men who did the work. Has anybody told US that
everv tanner In Massachusetts is a Republican. and
always has been? You talk about charging the Re
publfcans of Massachusetts, with tanning human
skin. By what ghJ? And if there Is any man
here that is brmfun of information on that point.
let him let it out. charge it right upon the men
who make those misunderstanding DO you mean
by it? Do you know who tanned tne sKlnr ana
do you know the politics of that man? Isn't he as
likely to be Democrat as Republican And you
will find six eight them alluded 10 in this Iewks-
bury timony. Why talk about 1t as party mat
Ter? Andh If tits such loathsome and Objectionable
thing to have to deal with pieces of human skin
tanned, then say to you let every decent man Keep
his hands off. [Applause.l You are shocked are
you to find that any man has been engaged In the
business of tanning human skinsi Have you no
horror to express for the man that goes around,
having gathered up some such things as that, and
exhibits them before decent peopleY LOUD ap-
pause Win You patTonize SHOW tnat M Is 80 80 in1o nae
Governor has said he is going 70 heaven on tnat
issue if he don't go anywhere else. lLaugaterl
That is his own language not mine; thai Is ms
language the whole of IT, that he spoke at Spring
field; and, somehow or other seem TO fancy the
time when he marches up to the golden gate with
his ticket in his hand-a piece OF human skin-car-
rying around his card of admission; and wnen the
gate swung open, he presents that as his ereden
Iials. And the angel says TO him, you Just 80
back and read your own speech, where you say It Is
the business of every man to bury human remains
and not to carry tne aooHT @ Ine h sounS tSst
that card will not be for admission TO the heavenly
regions, but the answer will be, Report at LOWELL.
Loud laughter and applause.l
THAT PICTURE BOOK.
There is another picture in this wonderful book.
You know it was charged at the outset that some
body connected with the institution was in the
habit of going by night and stealing from tho
graves the bodies of people who had been buried.
but there is no proof of that in the testimony 1t
rests upon nothing, and you are surprised then 10
find illustration upon one of these pages dole
full looking picture. Two men are apparently en-
gagged in drawing a coffin from the ground. You
see another mau with a lantern, and the lantern Is
UgQteu. his proves IL was uOu6 III tuo Ikubs
don't it? 1t will prove it to an ordinary Democrat
you say. but not to an extraordinary one. He will
look at it awhile and ay: "The lantern don't really
prove it; what is the testimony sbout that%' Well
we read right under the picture
John Henry Chase testified; 81 saw dead bodies
taken from the graveyard in the daytime after they
had been buried'
Qaughter.) What did the Governor have the Lam
tern hung out for? Qaughter.) That is all the tes
tmony that supports that picture.
DIsHoNoKABLE SUGGESTION.
Now, you notice that the Governor says further
IN the speech, to which have referred, that Mas
saehusetts borrows her sinking funds. There is
some mistake or deceit about that thing. Massa-
chusetts does not make her sinking funds by bor-
rowing money, but by accumulations from the
taxes that laid much larger in order to create
the sinking funds the theory being that it easier
to discharge the debt little at time than it is to
take it altogether in great burden and lay tax
sufficient in one year to meet the obligation. You
it at that it is absurd to say that Massa-
chusetts borrows and makes up the sinking funds
in that way. What does the Governor mean? You
recolect that in his famous veto message OF the tax
bill cutting it down from 81, 900, 600 to 81 5oO,
600, he suggested that Massachusetts, instead of
taxing the people to pay current expenses, should
take its trust funds and them for that purpose.
M tssachusetts that has pledged her credit to her
creditors that she win year by year collect in
tain amount and put it in fund and have 1t prop
erly invested so that when the debt natures
question: Massachusetts, invited by the Gov
ernor of the state to take these trust
funds and spend them for current expensesl
Massachusetts now has credit superior to that OF
any organized community in the world (applause)
and there be no hesitation in saying that if she
had had the reign of her for the last
ten years, she would have had the worst financial
record. IApplause) Take trust funds and apply
them to your private and immediate usesl If you
do you are not only an unfaithful but a dishonest
man. [Applause.) There are few offences that ara
more dangerous than that, because they touch a
man when he is alone with himself and the man
that can stand up squarely and say; "No matter
how much am in debt. no matter how importunate
my private creditors may be, though find them 40
every turn, and though come to want, will never
dshonor my trust. will keep sacred that obliga-
ton whatever may betide,'' does WELL (Appause.)
men and individually? Yes. Collectively {? Ger
tainly; and it is only by collections of individuals
that we make the State. And when the great ad-
debauch their public morality and prostitute their
high obligations to the creditors of the Common
wealth. the people may well hang their heads in
money from her sinking funds and put them to
her immediate uses She nsver has done It 10 any
extent and she never viii do it. (Applause.)
THE TRUTH is NOT IN HIM.
Last night he took occasion to use some pretty
plain and strong language, which will bear consid-
alton at the present time. quote from his speech
"Mr. Robinson says that threatened to clear out
the State House with my veterans of the Soldiers
Home Not true again, Mr.. Robinson. You le-un-
der mistake" (Laughter) You cannot see the
dash in the report after the word "lie" but you
hear 1t almost, and it to have been heard in
that audience. Let us see about this. hold in my
hand House document 800. Legislature of 1883.
the official report of the committee on charitable
institutions giving the arguments upon the Tewks-
bury matter. The governor, you remember, ap-
peared before that committee as the prosecuting at
torney against the commonwealth. Here Is the
official report made by the official reporters at tho
tIme and printed at the time part OF the public
documents in the State House. l read from it as
follows;
And whenever anybody wants to investigate these
Institutions while they were under my charge, /
won't call an officer, but will raise my hand aud
Will say: "My old comrades soldiers, come here and
defend your old commander, and they will clear
out the State House so quick as to make your head
swim'
That was Gov. Buffers language. He lies under
a mistake. daughter and applause) But he pro-
ceeds in the sentence 10 give what he pretends
was the language he used. Now, we know better
We have the revised edition of his argument illus.
trated, purified. in vamped up form for the pur-
poses OF tho Democratic committee and the emer-
geneies of the campaign and, turning this nasty
picture book that he has sent throughout the COM
monwealth, we shall find that he changed the Ian
guage at that point, and somewhere about two or
three months after he made his argument he made
another report OF it, and this is the report that ne Is
now reading from. But what the people want 70
know is what he really said at the time, ana thab
was what was first put before the people,. You say
What need is there to discuss all thlsf why SPEAK
of those little differences of statement! becanss