Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-18
BUTLER AND THE PLATFORM.

Gen. Butler was source of grea
trouble at Chicago. A majority o
the delegates at the convention, wht
were old enough, had at one time o.
another abused him in n public speed
as cock-eyed spoon thief and insult
er of women. To the southern dele
CATION he was simply lOathsome, ant
TO the northern delegates he was al
affection. but he was there. an accred
tied delegates from Massachusetts,. ant
there was ms getting rid of him, and
being there, he had his say, and Their,
was nobody bold enough 10 cry hin
down. He was put ON the committe,
on PLATFORM; he watched the commit
tee shivering and chaitering for thir
ty-six hours in an endeavor to craw
around the tariff issue, and when ht
got back into the convention this i,
what he said about the pusillanimou.
result of the committees delibera
tions:
Think of it a moment. The Demo.
cratic party refusing, when they must
raise taxes, to raise them in such d
manner as best to sustain their own
idbpi III w lfldt uOE xAIC NOu
ready to go into a contest with our OPP
ponents with such platform! leone
here as no mendicant-no beggar.
come here representing more than /,
500 600 laboring men. have brought
their condition before this convention
| demand, not that you should give
them anything. but when you are tax
ing from the people that you take il
only where it will hurt them least Is
that an unreasonable demand? DO
you think you can get along with
out them! do not, and therefore
brought them here rs
your allies, if you receive them, and
they will see me go away sorrowing il
you do not receive them. object to
the tariff plank of your platform
adopted by the committee, for it took
them thirty-siX hours to frame il. and
il ii took these able gentlemen thai
time to frame it and get it in form.
there must be some reason for il: and
if they could not find out what they
meant in ihirty-six hours, how is a Ia
boring man to find out what it means?
The tariff plank of the platform should
be so that he who runs may read. The
difficulty was that there was radical
ulnerence between us,a diheiehce OF
principe. Inc very abe chairman OF
the committee, Col. Morrison for whom
| have the very highest respect be-
cause he believes that there should be
no such thing as protection of Ameri-
can iapor Dy, revenue taNati"n-iIl-
decd, thlnk he believes 1T cannot be
done; ana believe there should be
mat protection-such fostering, such
cherlshihg. lie could not yield to iIls
CONVICTIONS. could yitld 10 hlne.
Ana therefore our associates on the
committee mao 10 spend all Their time
10 say something Wlilch would mean
one ihihg one way ana another thing
another Ana now read the platform.
Read me tarlh plank, and see II you
can ma out exactly what Al does
mean. IL does not mean protection.
II IL ana, Coionei morrison is 100 hon.
est 10 bring IL here. Ana yet II IS
twisted so that IL Is supposed
mat d. nlght mean protection.
Democrats IN the convention, you
passed tarlii plank IN 1870, a tarln
Tor revenue ohiy,-oniy Ter revenue !;
ana you had statesman on u that
could carry very poor platform ON
ms back ana YET WIN. In 1851 you
iiad nrin Tor revenue only, ana u
broke the BACK OF the most gallant
soldier IN Inc country. ANA you lost.
ana now you nave got a farln Tor
puDlic purposes extensively. what Is
the difierence! Exclusively means
only, and "only" means exclusive
ly." Think 1t over. am here
about no boys play. The
success OF this campaign IN my
judgment, before Tod depends
upon the question, this night to