The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-28
% BUTLER AS A DECOY DUCK.
Mahaged and Paid by the Republican
Commitfpp
Committee.
From the New York Times, Oct 18th.


From the New York Times oct 10TH.
.BALTIMoRE, Oct. 19.-The Butler
movement in Baltimore has gone to
smash, owing to positive information
having come to the knowledge of the
organization here that Butler is acting
under the orders of the national republi>
can committee, and has his expenses paid
by the republicans, who also control his
movements. A few days ago Gen. w.
H. Parsons, who is chairman of the
nstional greenback labor committee for
Maryland, went to New York to get But
Ter to come here and speak. He was re-
ferred by the Butler managers in New
York to the republican committee. He
went to the committee and was told that
the republicans could not afford to send
Butler to Maryland, as it was not doubt
full state, and that they had no money TO
spend in experiments.
What Gen. Parsons learned in New
York he tells in letter about to be pub
lished, in the course of which he says:
Step by step, after persistent effort and
waiting on the movements and decisions
Of Cen Butler and his political managers
and careful observation of the movements
and decision of Mr.. Blaine and his politie
cal managers, we are forced to announce,
with all the responsibility of our official
obligation to those whom we represent,
that we have most unexpectedly IN.
earthed the deepest political intrigue i'll the
history of presidential campaigns, and
that Gen. Butler is using us and our par
ties, and those who sympathize with the
principles he assumes to champion upon
labor aud finance, solely for the purpose
of defeating Mr.. Cleveland in New York
by drawing to himself a sufficient number
of voters heretofore democratic, to secure
its SO electoral votes for Mr. Blaine
Knowing that the members of the NatiOn>
al greenback labor and antiimonOpOly
parties, and those of all labor organiza
tons in sympathy with their purposes to
relieve the toiling masses, which have
already pollcd congressional vote of
over 800 600, are profoundly indifferent
to the fate and fortune of either of the
monopolistlc candidates we oppose We
view with surprise, Indignation, and alarm
Gen. Buffers self evident purpose to
promote the election of a party through
whose legislation, as he aTfirms in his ad-
dress, laboring men are out Of employ
ment and starving after a quarter of a
century of republican rule. The sinews
of war used by Gen. Buffers political
managers are furnished entirely by the
National republican committee, who
thereby control Gen. Buffers movements
and confine him to the states they dictate.
This is claimed by them"
George Stewart, the head. of the Butler
movement here, made the following state
ment tonight: 81 am very sorry to say
that the bottom has fallen out of the
labor movemens. Gen. Parsons has taken
considerable interest in the movement.
He is Knight of Labor and hailed But
ler's nomination with Joy, especially as
he had been q member of the convention
when Butler voted so many times
for Jyfferson Davis. General Parsons
went to New York to secure
Buffers attendance at labor meeting to
be held here. He called on Col. Noah
A. Plympton and Mr.. Fowler, Buffers
lieutenants. The latter said that Plymp-
ton was in indianapolis, but it transpired
afterward that he was in Worcester, Mass
When charged with the falsehood by o
friend. Fowler became very indignant
Gen. Parsons then waited in New York
for two weeks in order to see Butler him,
self. The latter said he was in the hands
of of Fowler and Plympton. AS Gen.
Parsons was about to leave he was told
that the republican national committee
desired to see him. Calling upon them
he was told that that committe controlled
the movements of Gen. Butler and had 8