The Portland daily press., 1884-06-18

solid pledged vote for him to Chicago. This
can be done II the unit rule be adopted by the
convention. Tammany is not In favor of that
rule and unless Kelley's influence be for it, is
likely to oppose IT. The question is likely to
form one OF the principal points of the
State committee deliberations tonight.
SARATOGA, n. Y, June 17.-Up to the pres
ent moment Flower has the largest number of
friends working in his interest than Cleveland,
but a majority OF them are not delegates to
the convention. Late trains will bring large
number at Cleveland men. Already the tone
of the supporters of both parties has changed
considerably, and it seems to be an understood
thing that quiet work is the order of the day.
The interest seems to centre more and more on
the probable proceedings Of the State commit
tee tonight.
Conference of Massachusetts aud New
York Boilers.
The Independent Republican committee ap-
pointed at a meeting held in Boston to confer
with the New York Independents arrived this
morning. They have a conference with the
New York Independents this evening to ar
range plans for future action. The conference
will be private.
The Greenbaclkers-Genera Buffers Let
ter of Acceptance.
BOSTON, June 17.-General Butler has sent his
letter of acceptance to the nomination of the
Greenback convention at Indianapolis which con-
tains the following:
The great questions you present are higher and
greater than any mere political measure. Views
upon such questions may have been inherited, or
are the outgrowth of measures merely of admins
tration. Nearly quarter of century ago, when
the very existence Of the republic and the estab
ment hung trembling upon the issue of the greatest
civil war the world has ever known or may ever
know. by wisdom borne of imperious necessity, a
financial system springing from patriotic impulse
to save the nations life and rescue the
hope of free institutions for all men from
and death was devised by the great and good men
of that day to whose the COVER nment had been
confded by the people. That system Of finance for
tion, perishing without it, and broke the chains
which inclosed four millions of men. 1t gave to
this country while war was raging prosperity it
had never known before and it made it possible for
the government to repay TIN ee fold all it secured
In loans from any creditor and made the financial
system of our government at once the amiration
and envy of men. This was done by legal tender
currency.
Gen. Butler then quotes the decision of the
United States Supreme Court affirming the legality
OF the greenback dollar and recalls his statements
of two years ago upon this and the slavery ques-
ton, and makes as basis of his acceptance of the
Greenbsck nomination for the Presidency "the
hearsal of exploded resolutions formulated into
platform by party convention to revive and agi
tate controversies which will unsettle commercial
values, hinder and delay the business energies of
our people with apparently but single object to
extend system of purely paper currency issued by
corporators, which currency itself is to be valued
only because it is made redeemable in the very
greenback which this ghoul-ke agitation see ks 10
repudiate and destroy"
Gen. Butler then instanced his education as
youth in the Jacksonian School of Democracy, and
in reference to the Greenback party says: am
strained to say to the committee rendering me the
nomination "That there seems wisdom, indeed a
necessity for the further continuance of your
ganzation in the renewal of exgency and therefore
upon this consideration am with you"
General Butler then urges that f'1f there are but
two of us we ought to stand together" and calls
upon all true men, in which ever party they might
be- to stand with us in our aim to perfect meas
ures for the good of the country"