Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-23
BEN BUTLER BERATED.
pkNouSoku sY THE woRKiSemES
Tney Declare In . Set OF Resol itions rhat
He is q Fraud and au lmpo stor--Cieyo-
lands Letter TO Mrs Beecner

Tney Declare Ia sst OF Resoi atoms rhst
He is Fraud ana an mpostor-Cisye-
lands Letter TO Nice. Beeoher.
General Butler arrived In his special car
In Jersey City Wednesday morning. He
was driven over to the Fifth Avenue hotel
in New York, where he remained during
the forenoon. At O'Clock In the after
noon he started for Boston, He will
return tho latter part of this week and
resume his tlur Of the state
A committee from the National Labor
party Wednesday morning called at the
Democratic national headquarters aud
presented to the national committee the
| following resolutions. adopted by them
| at meeting held in Clarendon hall Tues
| day night:
Whereas Benjamin F. Butler is travel
ing through this state mssqueradiug as a
| protectiouist and friend OF workipgmen
| be IL
Rssolusd That we call the attention oI
workingmen and snti-monopolists TO tn,
following facts that prove him TO be 3
monopolist and an enemy of labor
| First. His whole career in Congress wa:
that Of q greedy, INSCRIPTIONS tool o
monopoly, salary grsbber and railroad
bank and corporation advocate.
| Second Ho only left the old parties snC
accepted the nomination OF the Greeabac
and Anti monopoly parties when he hac
outliyed all hopes Of reward from tn,
Democrats and Republicans, and comm.
into the labor movement at the eleventh
hour to reap the reward OF other men
| labor.
Third. Ho Ia not q protectionist, as b
ran for governor of Massachusetts, aud wa
| elected IA revenue reformer on q tre
trade platform, and all his letters an,
speeches in that campaign were in fa o
Of free trade aud his manager, Colone
Plympton. and his corefocmer, Grady, ar
Jealous free traders.
Fourth. When governor of Massachusett
hs signed the bill to employ convicts a
hatmaking iD the face of an earnest prC
test from the hatters of that state, an
vetoed the bill TO limit the hours OF labo
of children in the mines and factories. Ii
also employed pauper labor Utalians
cleaning the streets OF Boston aud othe
public works of that state to the injury {
the laboring classes, and in oth'r ways il
jured the workingmeu of Massachusett
when he bad political power, instead {
recommending measures in their interes
which ne now claims should be passed Il
!. the benefit of workingmer.
|
Democratic national convention as a dele
gate and as Democrat, and pledged h
delegation to support the candidates NON
mated there, and personally stated tn;
he would support Bayard or Thurma
(both free traders) if either were nom
} mated. He bolted the convention when /
, could not dictate on the lying prete,
that the Democratic party refused I
adopt labor planks in the platform in faC
Of the fact that the committee on resoll
tions placed in the platform every plan
, asked for by the true labor party.
Resofrsd, That We denounce Beniam
F. Butler as fraud and an imposter az
advise all workirgmen to support Il
candidates of the Democratic party.
JAMES A. THOMPSON,
D President Car Drivers Union, Chairman
. JOHN J. CAvANAUeH,
, President EDgineers' Union, Secretary.