The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-22
BUFFERS BOLT.
Synopsis OF an Address to the
People by the Nominee OF
Several Parties.
WHY HE WASN'T A CANDIDATE AT
CHICAGO.


letter of acceptance, will be made public in
the morning papers. Copies were mailed to
the Pacific Coast some days ago. Lest they
may not reach their destination in time, the
following synopsis of two thousand words is
sent by wire. The address is very long,
amounting to about eleven thousand words:)
HIS HOPE FOR CLEVELAND.
General Butler says in q note that the ad-
dress is issued sooner Than intended, at the
solicitation of personal friends, but some
what against his own Judgment. L had
hoped, he saws, to have had the advantage Of
a distinct statement of the principles by the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency,
and, as contained from his own declarations
whether recanting some Of his public opin-
ions he might not show himself better than
the official action of his party has shown it.
self by its platform. General Butler ad-
dresses himself directly to his constituents,
which word is found TO embrace the people
ofthe United States.
THE ISSUES OF BATTLE.
| He saws the Democracy of Massachusetts
confided to him the following political in
| terests:
First, Hostility to all monopoles in COM
merce, industries and lands.
Second, The preservation of the national
legal tender currency of the people constitu-
| tionally issued by Congress.
Third, The needs of all men and women
| who labor in the production of wealth to be
protected against the encroachments OF those
who absorb and consume without produc-
| ing.
Fourth, The necessity for reform and cor
| rection of abuses in the government so that
| It's pressure on the people would be made as
| light as possible; its administration effective
| to guard the rights of American citizens at
| home and abroad; TO make public servants,
| individual or corporate, subservient TO the
use and will of the people only, SO as to re-
store the prosperity of the country with equal
rights, equal burdens, equal powers and
equal privileges to all people.
FRoZE OUT BY THE DEMOCRACY.
He says he owed duty to the people, but
| to no Democratic organization whatever, land
| he had intended, If these great principles OF
government had been cordially received and
| honestly adopted by the Democratic Nation
al Convention as political chart OF The
party, to have permitted his name to go be-
| fore the convention as a candidate for Presi-
dent, in which case he would have been
bound by its action to support both platform
| and nominees. He says in doing the will of
| those who sent me l sought none of the
honors of the convention and interferred
| with none of its proceedings, save to serve as
| q member of the committee on what should
have been its platform of principles. He
| then relates his experience on the sub-com-
mittee on resolutions, which was partly en-
braced in his speech before the convention.
| He says that resolution offered by him to
| SO levy taxes as best to promote American
| interests and industries and foster American
labor, failed of adoption by tie vote. From
| that hour his candidature in that convention
| became impossible. He afterwards offered
| a series of resolutions in favor of the indus
trious and laboring men and women of the
| country, declaring that the legal tender cur
| renew under the decision of the Supreme
| Court was made the Constitutional currency
| of the country; that all monopolies, as they
| tend TO make two classes, the very rich and
the very poor, are hurtful to the people Of
the Republic; declaring public land to be
| the heritage of the people; that the United
States should not permit a ship canal TO be
built across the Isthmus of Panama without
| its consent; that there should be frequent
| changes in government offices to counteract
the growing aristocratic tendencies Of the
| life officers, and that the United States
should protect its citizens everywhere, and
| that no American should be tried for any act
|
| laws and on its own soil.
| Thee declarations of principles which
seem to him to cover most Of the live ques-
lions in politics in which the people are in
| terested were one after another voted down
by the Democratic committee.
DAYS FOR CUFF; THIRTY MINUTES FOR
| PRINCIPLES.
| General Butler adds: Through the coirte-
| sy of the chairman of the committee and by
| personal intercession, | obtained a boon Of
| Thirty minutes TO present and discuss cues
| ton of the peoples rights at the hour of
| midnight, but before it could be presented
| and laid before the convention and with the
| refusal of the convention to adjourn the
| morning came before a vote was taken upon
| them, so eager were the members TO get at
| their work of Presidential nomination. Such
| a convention has been called deliberative
body. 1t is true that it spoke days upon the
| unit rule which required a mans vote to be
cast against his conscience and judgment.
| In spite Of his protests and of others, days
| passed in trying to settle the International
dlssensions of the machine politics of State.
But it would give thirty minutes only to the
discussion of the principles for the govern
ment of the nation. | could therefore sub
stantially present but one plank, the most
| important of all, the protection Of the Amer
lean laborer and producer, without which,
| in my judgment, there can be no prosperity
| TO this country, and this was voted down in
the convention by vote of 7l2a to III. l
felt it but right to warn the convention, how
ever unimportant such warning might
seem, of the course Of my duty If such vote
was passed against the workingmen and
women of the country, for whose welfare 1t
was we'll known had stood from my earli-
| The MT ice was in this
phalic language: "Even If you refuse TO
stand by the workingmen, God help you; l
cannot" In this there was no mistake. Mr.
Watterson, of Kentucky, who followed me,
took warning, saying: "The party would
| look to you fol- help; but the Scriptures
saith, The prayer Of the wicked availeth
nought."
| A. LICK AT CURTIS.
It was just TO myself not to adopt the
| course which certain pure-minded and up
right and highly moral politicians deem it
proper to pursue, to take part In the proceed
| ings Of convention to its end, and then,
without giving any notice to anybody and
without protesting, to refuse to support Its
doings.
SALIENT SINS OF DEMOCRACY.
| General Butler adds that notwithstanding
the sweet phrases, the resolutions are expe-
dents TO catch votes by indrection, decep-
lion and Illusion; not declarations of those
I high principles which should form the basis
the united action of a great party Of the
people. The country has had no experience
for nearly quarter of a century of what the
Democracy would do If they had the power,
so that people are obliged to require the
| most explicit pledge from them Of their in
tended action before we put the government
| In their hands. But the farmer and the la
/ boring man do know that . Democratic
House Of Representatives has just appropri-
ated more money raised by taxation than any
ether House of Representatives has ever ap-
propriated In time of peace. We also know
that the Democratic majority would have
made free trade tariff, containing all the
odious features Of the present war tariff, so
far as regards the monstrous inequalities, by
q horizontal reduction Of the tariff to break