Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-18
HOME AND ABROAD.
IsrEcAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-USIoN, ]
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Buffers Formal Acceptance-His Letter
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Greenback Labor National Convention General
Butler says.
LOWELL (Mass.) June 18th.
Gentlemen Of the Committee: / have received
at your hands the official announcement of the
action taken by the Convention at indianapolis
with deep sensibility. IN the ordinary course OF
political events the choice of a Convention OF
representative men from any considerable
portion of my fellOw-citiZens, according
to me this, the highest honor they can
confer, would call for a grateful ac-
acknowledgement, even though it might be a
selection TO represent the thought o. such a
Convention upon questions which commonly
divide political parties. The views upon such
questions may have been inherited, or an out
growth of measures merely of administration.
The great questions you present are higher and
gTander than any mere political measure.
Nearly IL quarter Of century ago when the
very existence of the Republic and the eStab-
lishment OF a democratic representative gov
eminent hung trembling upon the issue of the
greatest civil war the world has ever known, or
may ever know, by the wisdom born of an impe-
riOus necessity, u financial system sprung from the
patriotic impulse to save the nation life, ana
rescue the hope of free institutions for all men
from going down forever in darkness and death,
was devised by the great and good men of that
day, 10 whose care republican Government,
TO be administered for the people and by the
people, had been conhded. That system OF
finance for Il free people in its infancy saved
the life of nation perisning without it, and
broke the chains which enslaved four millions
of men. 1t gave to this country-a war raging
"a prosperity il had never known. 1t enabled
the people to assess upon themselves and to pay
taxes to an extent before unknown i'll any coun-
try. Ii made it possible for the Government 10
repay threefold all the loans it had received
from any creditor, or gave TO him d security
more profitable and stable than had ever been
issued by any power in the world, and
made the financial system of our Gov
eminent at once the envy and
admiration OF all men. This was done by the
While IN :
stability were raised by the very form of the
legislation by which it was enacted, and while
still graver doubts prevailed IN the minds OF
many wise and patriotic men as TO whether Il
legal tender currency, inexpensive IN fact, rest
ing not on the intrinsic value Of the material on
which it was coined, was within the constitu-
tional competency and power of the legislative
branches of the Government That question,
having been three times submitted to the SUI
premc Court of the United States-the very
highest tribunal of constitutional construction
was at last decided in the affirmative with such
unanimity that there could not possibly be Il
reasonable doubt against il. one purpose of
your organization. and of those who thought
and acted with you, although not of 1t, was TO
support TO sustain, this money as the currency
of the people. This peoples currency, you
will remember, was designated by its friends
by the pet name of the "greenback.'
Two years ago I did myself the honor
TO say that that currency-so commended
by the merit of its great good wrought for the
highest legislative power, adjudicated by such a
Court and with the decision about to be reat-
firmed-was an accomplished fact never again TO
be disturbed or doubted; so that its friends
might we'll say; See the end of our labsrs in
this regard has come. So let us rejoice" Let
those who aided in this great work press on to
the goal. The legal tender has become the very
foundation of, as well as measure of value in
terlined with all the business of the people-the
engine of the prosperity of the nation. 1t seems
TO me almost an act of cruelty to again disturb,
causeleSsly, a tinancia! question which has been
so set at rest with the assent OF all good men; as
much so as the question of the right of a man to
hold his brother man ia slavery. Therefore |
said am glad that that question has no longer
part in the political consideration, and that
craftsmanship may now turn from it, as the
country has turned from the questions of sla-
very and war. But, alas the power of the
darkness of error, the resurrectionists of false
ideas of the dead past, have dug UP the re-
mains of contention from the peaceful
graves, where they slept, and threaten, by re-
hash of exploded resolutions, formulated into Il
platform by a party Convention, TO revivify and
ugitate controversies which will unsettlc com
mercial values. hinder and delay the business
energies of our people. with apparently but the
single object to extend a system of purely paper
currency issued by corporations established by
the Government: indeed, but for the private
emOlument and gain 70 cOrpUratOrS which cur
made rcdeemab.e in the very gTeenback which
this ghOul-like agitation seeks to Tcpudiatc
overthrow and destroy. such a currency An
drew Jackson. with the preScicnce and wisdom
sustained by the Democracy OF more than u
generation ago, had wholly crushed out, and III
the hope of wise and good, had buried forever
as one of the grieVOus errors of an administra-
eminent for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of q few TO the
destruction Of the people As Demo-
crat taught in the jackson school in
nv early youth, with nv Judgment
tI-r pf in
affairs, aided by an earnest and deep study with
an intensity of purpose, which topic of such
magnitude. affecting every interest of the pcO-
pie nav, il NAV be, the very existence of free
institutions. demands, | am constrained, were
il the last act OF my life in view of this attempt
TO undo what Jackson had 50 well done. coming
from whatsoever quarter i may, to say to You,
gentlemen. that there seems q wisdom. indeed
organization in this renewed eXigency, and
therefore. upon this consideration. ] am with
YOU and if there were but two OF us, we ought
70 stand together against this great wrong. and
call upon all true men to stand with Us, either
inside or outside, as the case may be, of the
other political organizations which may aim to
perfect other measures for the good Of the
country | thank YOU for vOur suggestions that
in other matters toward which your organiZa-
ton turns. the interests Of labor, the preserya-
ton of the lands of the people tor the benefit
Of the people, the control of the agencies
created by the Government to be used
for the good Of the people TO regulate and con
troll Il system of interstate commerce, which
shall control and cheaper the transportation of
persons, freight and Intelligence and to protect
all i'll their JuSt rights, and conflne all TO their
true duties to the end that there may be in this
country equality of rights, equality of burdens,
equality OF privileges and equality Of powers to
all persons under the law has been the political
rule of my life | have the honor to be, with
personal esteem, very respectfully, your friend
and servant, BENJAMIN +. BUTLER.
Maine Democratic State Convention.
BANGOR. June 17th.-The Democratic State
Convention met here to-day. In the opening
address the names Of Tilden and Cleveland
were enthusiastically received. Rawson was
elected delegate at large The platform adopted
indorses the platform of the National Conven-
ton of $50; declares opposition 10 war taxes
and in favor Of the retention of the present
duties on whisky and tobacco and for such
laws as shall reduce the revenues to such an
amount as is absolutely required for the ex-
pcnses Of the Government; urges reform in the
civil service; demands such legislation as will
tend 10 promote the agricultural interests OF the
State: encourage all societies that tend to the
diffusion Of knowledge, and recommends the
establishment OF an experimental station in
connection with the Agricultural Colleges.
Adjourned.
The following resolution was unanimously
adopted and telegraphcd TO Chairman Man
ming of the New York State Committee:
RcsoltCd, That in the opinion of this Conyen-
ton, the nomination Of Governor Cleve-
land OF New York, as candidate for the PTcsi-
dency, is demanded as the best to unite all
friends of good government, sound morals and
wise and honorable administration OF the af-
fairs Of the nation.
The New York Democracy.
NEW YORK, June l7th.-Four hundred and
fifty members of the county Democracy started
for Saratoga this morning. Also 800 Tammany
Hall delegates. John Kelly said he expected u
quiet, pcaceable time. Tammany Hail always
supported the nominees of the National Conyen-
ton, and always would. one hundred Irving
Hall delegates lett on the same train.
SECOND DISPATCH.I
SARATOGA, June l7th.-One hundred and fifty
of the $50 delegates to the Democratic State
Convention are here, and all the delegates are
expected this afternoon. The result Of
mittee tonight is anxiously looked for
ward to. The friends of both Cleveland and
Flower are positive in expressions Of belief in
the success of their candidates The main
point of the friends of Cleveland is to secure the
vote of the Convention for him as the State
nominee; so as 10 send solid-Pledsed vote for
him to Chicago. This Will tc done if the unit
rule is adopted by the Convention. The Tam
many men here are not in favor of that rule, and
unless Kelly's influence be for il, they viii
likely oppose it. The question is likely TO form
one Of the principal points of the State Commit
tees deliberations tonight
THIRD DISPATCHl
SARATOGA. June l7th.-The quietneSS of the
afternoon WAS broken at half-past by the
marching of large body of men into the
United states Hotel, where Flower has his head
Quarters They began singing songs in favor Of
Flower The incident caused considerable
immense representation Of the county Democ-
ROY hooded by SlperyisOr Castigan and cX-