St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-08-28
GENERAL BUrLER's ACCEPTANCE.

GENERAL BUTLER's ACCEPTANCE.
To the Greenback Labor Party and
the Anti MonopoliSt Orga nizatiOn, and
to the Laboring Men: ! had accepted
the selection of your conventions as
for president. Anxious for
the success of the principles which you
in which, Us You know, | so
heartily concurred, presented, as you
have learned, rs your representative,
your platform to the democratic con-
vcntion, in the hope, if it were pos
sible, that they might be adopted and
made the rule of that party, which
should be composed of your friends
and allies.
For reasons that | have made APP
parent, your principles We're rejected
and Your alliance spurned. Personal
ly, | have no grievance with the con
vention. | was treated with every
courtesy and consideration by its Of
iiccrS and members, for which | take
pleasure here and now to express my
obligations. But for you | have II
grievance. The democracy has left
you to fight the battle against the OPP
pressors of the people alone. We will
fight the battle of the people together
III the best manner we can, and |
pledge to you all that | have of re-
naming strength i'll declining years to
do all that in me lies in behalf of the
principles that you and | hold dear,
and without the early prevalence and
adoption of which this government can
not stand.
You have one advantage in your
candidate you will have to spend no
time in defending him. His dOings
have been known to the country for
more than quarter of il century.
Every act of his life has been under Il
microscope lighted by the lurid fires of
hate and Islander. lie is yet unframed,
and has no opinion to take back, no
policy to recant, and no just charge to
explain for what he has done either in
peace or war.
OF personal advantage to myself
nothing can accrue. | am too old to
make selfish plans for the future yet
| hope, as my last political act, if it so
be, to do some service to the people
and mankind in calling back the gov
eminent to the purpose for which it
was framed by our fathers, II govern
ment of the people, government
by the many, and not by the few,
nor for the interests of the few.
TO the Democratic Party of Massa-
chusetts: As your representative, |
carried the principles which you have
twice over enunciated us your plat
form i'll your state conventions, and
asked that they he adopted by the
national convention. That they were
acceptable to the people | know, for
they sustained you to victory once III
form, and again to victory in fact, by
u larger vote than Massachusetts ever
gave any defeated candidate for chief
magistrate Be, 900 more than our
choice for president, Gen. Hancock,
got two years before. | had hoped to
see the party of the people, which
should be the true Interpretation of
the word democracy, adopt that plat
form, and go on to victory under 1t
and carry out its beneticent professions
in behalf of the weak and lOwly who
need protection ut the hands of II true
democratic government.
TO withdraw us much as possible all
personal cOnsidera ions from interfer
ing with my duties as your represent
ative i'll upholding your cause and car
rying forward your principles, did
not permit my name to come before
the convention i'll candidaturc, al
though | am instructed that the fact is,
and | glory liz it. that ! was the unani-
nous choice of the democratic people
of our state.
The convention, for reasons and I'M
der circumstances that have herein
before stated, rejected your principles,
spurncd your platform, and, instead of
taking any statesman of the democracy
nominated as your candidate IA gentle
man whom two years ago there were
not forty voters i'll your ranks knew
lived on earth. | cannot be bound by
the action of such II convention, 50 re
gardless of the interests of the people
and of democratic uSageS, and | so told
that body.
Party allegiance carried to such an
extent is neither democratic nor use
tul. | shall therefore unite myself
with the laboring men and the true
democracy of the country, to do my
endeavor with them to bring back the
government into the control of the
people, and | invite every good citi-
zen, of whatever political faith, to Join
the peoples party" to purify and re-
form the administration, and redress
the wrongs done by oppressive legis-
lation.
There are some who call themselves
democrats that | would little rather
would not come with us. TO the hon
est and fair-minded democrats who
have acted with me, but now believe
their duty lies in an opposite direction,
bid kindly political farewell until
their conscientious patriotism shall
bring them back, in the near future,
to labor with me again i'll the peoples
cause, admitting that. if saw not too
wisely, | saw better than they did the
necessity for change from party to
country. BENZ. F. BUTLER.
EX-Gov. HENDRICKS ACCEPTANCE.
Gentlemen,-I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your com
municatiOn notifying me of my nOmi-
nation by the democratic convention
at Chicago as the candidate for the
office of vice president of the United
States. May | repeat what | said
on another occasion, that it is nomi-
nation which had neither expected
nor desired, and yet | recognize and
appreciate the high honor done me by
the convention. The choice of such "A
body, pronounced with such remarka-
BILE unanimity and accompanied with
so generous an expression of esteem
and confidence, ought to outweigh all
merely personal desires and preferen-
ces of my own.
1t is with this feeling, and trust
also from deep sense of public duty,
that now accept the nomination, and
shall abide the judgment of my coun-
trymeu. have examined with care