Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-28
BEN BUTLER IN THE FIELD.

Ben Buffers letter accepting the nOmina-
tions of the Greenback-Labo party and the
"Anti- -Monopolist organization" for the
Presidency has been given to the press. 1t
is long and Wearisome document, full OF
fault-fnding with the two great parties, and
abounding in the cheap eloquence of the
professional demegogue and political turn
coat Himself typical monopolist, he af-
fects hostility to the other monOpolists, and
with his accustomed effrontery appeals to
whatever considerations will, in his judg-
ment, be most likely to capture votes. The
letter bears the genuine Butler stamp in
every line, and it is only necessary to give
several specimen passages as samples OF
the whole.
In referring to the Republican party Gen.
Butler says: "The Republican party has
in it's ranks many good, true and consclen,,
tious men, who followed its fortunes and
carried it's elections because it protected the
labor of the South in its rights, and claimed
to protect the laborer of the North in his
wages. I call the attention of such men to
the fact that that party has failed to do eth
er. LabOring men are out OF employment
and starving, after quarter of a century of
Republican rule. Nay, more! 1t is we'll
known in Massachusetts, and Rhode island,
and how far in other parts of the North l
leave the good and just minded of those
localities to speak, capital has coerced the
votes of the laboring men to its own pur-
cases worse means. The negro of the South,
also cannot 60 to the ballot-box for fear of
the shotgun, and if he does the ballot-boX
suffer puts in two votes to neutralize his
One."
In telling his parties how to win he says:
"In framing your electoral ticket make a
fusion in all the States with the supposed
minority, and make it upon this theory; not
that you are going to vote for the electors of
any candidate opposed to your interest not
that the friends of the other candidates are
going to vote for yours, but agree that you
will run the same electoral ticket, provided
the electors who compose it are, as they
ought to be, reputable men who will be
which is all there is that binds the elec-
toral college to vote in any direction {;
and then have it agreed that the elec-
toral vote of the State shall be divided in
the electoral college according to the num-
ber of votes thrown for your candidate,
and the number of votes thrown for the
other candidate on the same ticket. The
number of votes which each candidate gets
will be known with substantial accuracy
long before the official count is made.
Therefore you have every incentive to vote
for your candidate because Cne larger NUM-
Der of votes you cast the more electoral
votes will your candidate get, and the less
will the other have. And those who are
voting for the same electors with you will
throw as many votes as they can for their
candidate in order that he shall have as
large a share of the electoral vote of the
State as possible, neither in fact voting for
the candidate of the other. Thus you will
show your strength and hold the balance
of power"
Referring to himself, Gen. Butler says
''You will have one advantage in your can
didate-you will have to spend no time
in defending him. His doings have been
known to the country for more than a quar-
ter of century. Every act of his life has
been under a microscope lighted by the
lurid fires of hate and SANDER He is yet
unharmed, 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 man
/ kind in calling back the Government to the
purpose for which it was framed by our
fathers, Government of the people, a Gov
ernment by the many, and not by the few,
nor for the interests OF the few.