The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-04
.BUTLER'S RECEPTION. C]I5jj' /
Attic GREAT cirynYrillEl.' 'i..s 'LiARsE.
Inv ms Candidate of tho "On,niu,n Gatheruin"
Party Delivers Iiin,xclf In No Cnc ertnin
= Language-lie Wants Evcrybodyto
fete eior Him and Save the Land. n I:

Butler arrived here tlils aiiterTno66S. Owing
to the fact thatthc Ira IL camcut mn ,,nex.
pacted hour tho committee was not at tie
d'pot, lilo proceeded to a hotel and spent
the time till evening In consultation, ,ifls
appeared shortly, after 8 o'cloek:ahd,.wias
received with cheers. lie saitl most Of the
people, both in tho Republican, and Dem.
ocra1ie parties, were honest !, md there
were bad men in both. Tho fsayiour n
mankind, in choosing twelve APOSTLES.
1 lound one VINO had adGvil and was d lhiei. Z
me doings OF the Republican partyiof iate
mad shown there was Tconsidctable nAmf.
her Of corrupt menin It. Tho Demuaratic
and Greenback- parties within tic past
twenty-five" yearsyhatl, no ichance To- IL
tempted, and therefore it. could not be
known whether they were 2corrhDt Ths
The Republican partyihatl made; "a pouf
record IN saving the Union and freeing
four millions Of slaves, but thattwas d pust
record like that on a tombstone. ii !rln,
Democratic party made d good record.
under jackson, and II Jackson were alive &
today he would vote for hinf NTH, ali his >
heart. 1,El5 5y;fislS a.is? :it:s's - a,H :,
At the last election something, oyefa
s's"t h'llllon votes were east. al tho
coming election there would be. eleven
millions. The workingmcn Ioftho Nntion %
numbered sixteen millions.' What VIII 10
prevent them from choosing a ;ProsidentY.
II they voted with either Of The oM parties !,
or divided their votes between them, the.
v, .WN,orkinsinctfs' vote would be thrown away.
me speaker was lahoring to keep other
mrt,os IRON is!lc.seeding in their scramble
x. PERSONAL FLEA. K K = /. 5f' u
II his hearers would vote for9 9hinma,s tlHieinr
votes would not be thrown away, esa eyen K s
they did not succeed in elccting their can. ,
'lidate Men were in the habit 81 Ecii coming 3 I
10 him ny and m asking him II he really expect.
ed to be elected. Ills rcplyiwasus, stthatI heE$
aidn't care, Ilc was sent her, q to o. the =
, psnioctalc convention to- ask that body
Wlat ~ was going to do for.the laboring
'i't.. 'ht !! would not .proinise.to to lo.any-
hing, and he left it Sow-he wanted the
working men to vote together, no matter
their candidate was elected or
not. II they did this they would not hyc il
70 ask the old parties at the next conycn- I.
non what they would give the working.
man. Ihey would come to him and ask
what he wanted = - T';s'~. - il
!, The speaker then proceeded to speak Of
The demands which lie had made 81" the
Democratlc Convention in behalf of labor.
IN vein si,nilar to TINT pursued by him in
Iormcr speeches, and followed with simi-
ar references to the action of the tariff
laws and the importation of labor under
contract. He then proceeded to speak
of the labor agitation in Massachusetts,. I
begun by him many years agoS.s They y
" in electing nine men to the
,o', ,'e desas,nthie' ,a Nobody thought they
throwing away their votes, but these nine
men controlled the legislation OF the Stat,.
ana reduced the hours OF labor to, a basis
which exists to-day. The union OF labor Il
ing men in the little town OF Lowell made (
possible the election Of the great Charles