The Labor enquirer., 1884-08-23

t'CievelHnd'S YeSo00 lies In nut6neu.
The man is a corporation tool in the liva
efy.of democracy. II Tam wrong let
thim or his friends explain away this
miserable record satisfactorily. andI viii
apologize. Who will reply Z {
Wenden ,Phillips ON General Bs,tisr.
Wendell Phillips, who knew General
Butler from boyhood, thus spoke Of him
Ion the occasion Of his running for gov
ernor Of Massachusetts IN 1871 i
s"Gentlemen, within the last twenty
years, Massachusetts, has conferred
fhonor whenever she has conferred office.
| she has not received any, And ] have
T to say, that among the worthy men
whom for fifty years Massachusetts has
chosen to put into her governors chair,
there is not one that will do more credit
| I'd the state than he who just left this
| platform and TO whose voice you have
ljust listened. know the long list Of
the governors I know all that can be
said forB Brooks, Briggs, Andrew, or any
| lope else that may bc your fayorite; but,
when history comes to record the great
services Massachusetts, has rendered to
the bation and TO the age, she will write
| the name Of Benjamin F. Butler as high,
+ if not higher, than any Of those men
who have filled the governors chair for
| fifty years. 4 know what / assert J; and
though / do not choose 10 name any one
Of the long catalogue of candidates this
year, yet I ask every one Of you, no
matter to, what party You belong, or
what name you worship, show me a
name in that long list which has been
offered for your votes this fall, show me
one who represents an idea Show me d
man among these candidates, who, if he
died Tomorrow, any great progressive
idea OF movement would lose a cham
pion. titlH 9iiis u ;',s'I ss5! \ E}fi3
2 "The great question of the future is
money against legislation. Ny friends
/ you and / shall be in our graves long
before that battle is ended; 7; and, unless
our children have more patience and
courage than saved this country from
slavery, republican institutions will go
down before money corporations. Rich
men die, but banks are immortal, and
railroad corporations never have any
diseases n In the long run with the leg
islatures they are sure to win. Now, the
great battle which General Butler repre'
|sents is the battle of labor. And came
here to say that I hope General Butler
will be governor, because he represents
the element of disturbance in the Re
public, and the moment he does not rep
resent II, the great labor element will
trample him under It's feet. u
"There is one thing that the masses Of
this country are determined upon; and it
is that no future government shall be
tested by the protection It gives to
money, but to men. 73si' N iistafi,
II think General Butler has been
charged with about every sin Z that can
be imagined but there is one thing q
watch very carefully 4 put my ear
down TO the earth hike an Indian listen-
ingy he never has been charged, even
since 1860, Of not doing what he said
he would do. You cannot find d
newspaper correspondent so utterly reck-
less that he win charge Butler with hav.
ing broken his promise. J. 81 '7s.s ti'f' III " "
HAnd now + say, that this naneT pre-
sent to you to-day, stands as high, as
illustfious, as honored and a historical,
and represents as much ability and as
much will to work, as any one that has
been named and !, for one, If 7 hear ii
November, as I hope to hear. that from
Barnstable to Berkshire the people ot
the commonwealth have strangled the
press with one hand and the moneyed
corporations with the other, and made
Benjamin F. Butler governor Of Massa-
chusetts, T shall say, Amen, SO be il r''
For the Ladies'. 81 .,f..s,E 5gtl
Misses Jennie O Neil and Anna Smith
have opened millinery and notion
store and dressmakin2 establishment a
368 Colfa1 avenue, this city, and they re,
spectfully solicit the patronage Of ladies
desiring ANYTHING in their line. A full
lstock Of furnishing goods and notions
will be always on hand, and special
pains will be taken in fitting and making
ladieg wearing apparel. ...a,,
These young ladies are well yersed II
the business they have undertiken and
/ the public generaliy = sdsied p cal
and see them when pa4tins hing 4
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