St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-16
REVOLT AGAINST BUTLER.
The Prospects of the Man With Two
Nominations Said to be
Waning.
Special Telegram to the Clone

CHICAGO, Aug. ia revolt exists in Illinois
at present against Ben Butler. Ii il claimed by
ms friends that is of small proportions and will
be speedily put down. His opponents, on the
contrary represent that it is of an important ex-
tent and cannot be easily suppressed Butler
owes his present prominence entirely to his nomi.
nation by the Greenbackers, who are of such
numbers and Importance in any campaign that
they are not to be lightly regarded The anti
monopolists, $50 called) in convention assembled
ratified the Graenback choice of the cock eyed
son of destiny. There are plenty of people who
say that the anti-monopoist convention was
reconyention of the Greenbackers, but the fact
has gone out that Butler has been nominated by
two separate parties for president, and it carries
more or less weight
Since the nomination Gen. Buffers workers
have not been idle. With mis- two nominations
as nucleus they have gathered around them
somewhat of a following, which may increase OF
dwindie away as the campaign progresses. But
however many converts they may make outside
of the Greenbackers and Anti-monopolists are
still desirable as voters. This detection, there
Is good reason to think, has COM
menced in Illinois, and the Butler managers
nave before them the prospects Of seeing their
best Haders bought up by the Republicans and
Democrats and turned against the Massachusetts
man, for whom unit! now they have expressed
undying allegiance and never ceasing loyalty
The first defections in the ranks is \. Il. Nc
Keighan, chairman of the Illinois state Green
back committee. This committee is the head
and front of the Greenbackers strength in the
state. The Greenbackers and ante Monopolists
pooled their issues nationally and selected But
Ter as the candidate for president of both
parties, and the agreement in all the states has
been that coalition should continue in the state,
and together the Greenbackers and Ant-monop
olists should nominate state tickets with this
derstanding. z. Waters, chairman of the state
Antimonopoly committee, called general state
convention of Greenbackers and Anti-monopo-
lists to meet at Bloomington, August 10, and
nominate a state ticket The call was issued by
the consent of \. H. McKeigan a month ago.
In The meantime, however, McKeigan has, it
is claimed, without effort at secrecy, boldly de-
serted the Greenback for the Republi-
cans. Having accepted service at the hands Of
the Republicans, he proceeded to act at their
dictation, which was TO ignore the coalition with
the anti-monopolist, call Greenback state con-
vention, and in that convention decide that
nominations for state officers this year were in
expedient and unnecessary. He said rule
would bind them, and the Greenback strength
being subtracted from the anti-monopolists, the
latter having a very inefficient organization in
the state, were expected to go to pieces and vote
solid against Cleveland on the representation
that he was the friend of monopolists h. a
former railroad attorney