Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-12
BUFFERS PLATFORM.
Resolutions and a Speech which arc Good
Republican Campaign Documents.

efforts at Chicago, he succeeded in exposing
the Democratic intents and purposes 10 an
extent which will continue to throw light
upon the Bourbon platform throughout
the campaign, much to the discontinue
of its projectors. The plank upon internal
! revenue, and the applying OF all money de-
| rived from this source to pensions ana sup
mort of " soldiers of the Republic" or, as
| Butler in his resolution more honestly puts
it. " for disabled soldiers who were Confed-
| crate or Union" will not be forgotten
throughout the campaign.
UNDIsGUIsED DECLARATIONS.
Before leaving Boston, Butler prepared
| eight resolutions which he determined
should be put on the Democratic platform,
| if he had any influence in the Convention.
| Buffers tariff plank declares that no taxes
shall be imposed upon the people, except
| to meet the expenses of the Government,
economically administered and continues:
Rescued, That the necessary revenues shall be
derived from duties levied on imports that the
materials used in the manufactures and raw
materials and necessaries of lie not produced
in this country, shall come in free that IN I'M
| posing customs duties the law must be carefully
| adjusted to promote American industries not
monopolies, and to foster aud cherish American
| labor.
Resolred, That internal revenue is a war tax,
| and that so long as it continues the money 50
raised shall go towards the relief of the people
from the burdens of war. as By paying pensions
and propiding for disabled soldiers i0ao acre Con
tederdte or onion.
! The members of the subcommittee, Mr..
Watterson says, were willing to accept all
| but the last clause of this plank, but they
desired to express the ideas in different
phraseology. Butler insisted upon the
adoption of his plank and dissented strong
| " from what he termed the aggregation
of negatives reported by the sub-com-
mittee.
BUFFERS FURTHER IDEAS.
Of the other six resolutions drafted by
Butler, one refers to the public lands, which
| he desires shall be reserved for actual set
tiers and not be controlled in large tracts
| by capitalists or monOpolists. He had
currency plank which will satisfy the most
ultra Greenbacker. He had a labor plank
that will please the workingmen of the
country. 4 plank affirming the intention
of the Democratic party, if given power, to
amply protect the rights of American citi-
zens abroad. This plank is devised to cap
ture the Irish vote which General Butler
believes is in danger of going to Blaine.
| He had a plank emphatically declaring the
sense of the party TO be opposed to
monopoly of every description. But
| Ter has also a resolution which he
desires put in the platform, declaring that
| the United States will not permit any
| foreign power to build a canal across the
! Isthmus without the full and antecedent
consent of this Government, and gives
notice that when it is deemed necessary for
the United States to take possession of the
canal already in process Of construction, II
| shall be seized without regard to the rights
/ of property of any nation or persons. He
also has q plank on the civil service, which
declares that the offices are the property of
the people who are taxed 10 maintain
them, and that frequent changes among
! office-h holders are necessary as a protection
against official malfeasance and miseon-
duct, and to prevent the aristocratic ten
dency towards the erection of a class of
permanent office-holders
CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH OF BUTLER.
| After the platform of the committee had
! been submitted to the Convention, Mr..
| Butler was allowed half an hour to speak
to the audience in support of his minority
platform, and he vigorously occupied the
| time. He said some things in the platform
he agreed TO some things ought to be
added, and enc thing, especially, ought to
be changed. He objected to the tariff plank
in the platform of the committee because
it took the committee thirty-six hours to
| frame it, and if it took these able gentle
men so long 10 frame and set it in form,
| there must be some reason for that If
they could not find out in thirty-six hours
what they wanted how were his laboring
men to find out what it meant2 Laugh
| ter There was radical difference between
| the committee and himself, The very able
| Chairman of the committee (Mr. Morri-
! SOM thought there should be no such
thing, or could be no such thing, as pro-
lection to American labor by taxation. He
| Butler believed there should be such
protection, such fostering, such cherishing
! Mr.. Morrison could not yield his conyic-
| tons, and he (Butler1 could not yield his,
and therefore the committee had 10 spend
all that time to say something that meant
one thing one way and another thing an
other way [Laughter.l He asked the
delegates to read that tariff plank and see
! if they could ind out exactly what it did
mean. 1t did not mean protection; if it
| did Colonel Morrison was too honest man
to bring it here, and yet
IT WAS so TWISTED
That it meant protection Laughter
The Democracy had in its platform in 1880
a plank demanding tariff for revenue
oniy,n and it broke the back of the most
gallant soldier in the country [laughter],
and now they had a tariff plank for pub
lie purposes exclusively" Where was the
difference? Exclusively meant only
and only meant exclusively" Laugh
ter.
Passing the currency question, he said
he affirmed the doctrine of Andrew Jack
SON that the Government alone could issue
money, and he would rather be wrong
with Jackson than right with the commit
tee. Laughter He represented many
Greenback men. good and true Greenback
men like Allan 6. Thurman Laughter,
and these men were willing to come to
the Democracy to root out corruption and
wrong in the Government if the DemOc-
racy would have them, but how were they
received2 With plank in the platform
that we are in favor of honest money"
as if the Greenbackers were not. Who
was not in favor of honest money? If
there is such a man here let him be put
ont. lIaughter.l
AS TO CIVIL SERVICE REFORM,
He vcntured to say that there was not a
man in the Convention in favor of it, I'M
less he was a schOolmaster. Laughter.
! Ex-Secretary Pendleton had been the
author of the original civil service law,
and he had never been heard Of since
/ Laughter George Washington himself
| could not have passed civil service ex-
animation for 81 200 clerkship. Laugh
| ter His earliest education had been neg
| lected, and in his viii, written by his own
hand, he spelled clothes, cloathes'
! [Laughter.l For himself, he wanted fire.
| quent changes in Office, in order to coun-
| teract the great tendency TO have a life
| office Ii an Office was a good thing then
! he wanted all the people 10 have chance
at it, and if it was a bad thing, then it was
too hard to put it on to fellow for his
whole life Laughter
In conclusion he said that if this Con-
vention told the working men and women
| of the country that they were to be, he
would not say protected" but fostered
and cherished then the Democracy would
sweep the country; otherwise they would
remain in their workshops. The Democ-
racy would be again defeated
! PROTECTION DEMANDED