Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-31
BUTLER'A CAMPAIGN.
The New York Greenbaek- Labor Party
Give Him a Boom.


NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-The State Con-
vention of the Observation-Disclosures party
was opened in Masonic Temple this morn
ing. The Sixty-ninth Regiment Band
supplied the music. The convention was
called to order by George A. Jones, Chair
man of the State Central Committee.
When his gayel fell there were present
about 100 delegates and about half as
many spectators. In his opening address
Mr.. Jones said:
FeJL0a0 Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: The
National party met at Indianapolis and nOmi-
mated for President Gen. Benz. F. Butler
loud applause and Gen. A. Nj. West, of
Mississippi, for Vice President IApplause.
Two millions of young men who are about to
cast their first vote are especially invited to
vote with us, not as Northern, not as Southern
men, but as citizens of the United States who
patriotically desire to preserve and advance
the interests of the whole country. APP
plause.l Those who now control the govern
ment have robbed the farmers out of $780,
00O00O and the laboring men of Sl,000,000,O00
by the practice of systems that are most OBJ
noXious and injurious.
Mr.. Jones then proceeded to arraign the
Republican party. The Democratic party,
he said, had been inconsistent in its
money principles, and he added that it
would be unsafe to entrust that party
with power.
Time is dissolving the old parties, and the
time is coming when the party shall be placed
in power that will put in circulation money
enough to enable men to disown master.
THE OLD PARTIES ARRAIGNED.
On the labor question Mr.. Jones said:
Both the Democratic and Republican parties
have made the workingmen slaves, and it de-
pends on themselves to free themselves. The
National party represents the advancing civ
ilization of this age.
At the conclusion of his address Alden
Spencer was made temporary chairman,
and the usual committees named. While
the committees were out James Sheppard,
President of the Farmers Alliance of Wy
Oming, addressed the convention. He adj
vised the Greenbackers, Anti-MOnOpOlists
and labOrers to unite. Prof Cushman, of
New York, sang campaign song enti-
tied ''Turn the Rascals Out" The song
declared that Butler was the man to ac-
cOmplish this task. 1t was sung to the
tune of 'EJOhn Browns Body"
BUTLER ON THE RosTRUM.
Gen. Butler addressed a large mass
meeting in Union square tonight. He
said that he found that some portions Of
his address to the people had not been
comprehended by certain newspaper
critics, who seem to misunderstood it,
notably by the New York Times, which
was controlled by an Englshman who
ought to know the English language in
the matter of definite comprehension
of the distinction between labor
and capital and imported labor.
BY imported labor he meant that brought
under contract from abroad, as coolies
and Chinese, or foreign convict and
pauper labor, depOrted here by authority
of England and some other countries.
Would the Times say that the great woes
of the country do not come from these
sources. The line is to be drawn between
those classes and laboring men and
women, attracted by cur institutions to
become part of us, who have brought
their families here BY their own energies,
and should be welcome. By the capitalist
he meant men of large wealth
living on interest or dividends without
doing anything himself to use it in pro-
duction and instanced the holder of rail-
road bonds who waters stock, aTsyes fast
horses or lives abroad. He classed men
who engaged in honest industry, using
their capital to produce that use to man
kind and benefiting their fellows, as men
of enterprise. In this class was the far
mer. manufacturer, transporter of
freight, trNder 0nd the members of the |
professions even perhaps the newspaper
editor.
LABoRING MEN.
BY laboring men and women he meant
people VINO WORK IOf wages at SblpUIaJeQ
price for a stipulated time in production.
The mOnOpOlist was one who controlled
some method of production of a useful
article, excluded others from competition,
and thereby raised the price of the product
above fair remuneration, making the rich
richer and the poor poorer, and establish
ing dangerous classes in the republic.
He held that the mon0polist should be
punished by law like the criminal. The
General cited the sewing machine and po-
trOleum (the poor mans light) as an in
ventiOn, and an indispensable product |
controlled by monOpolists, and denounced |
the Standard Oil Company III bitter Ian
guage. He said:
our fathers never dreamed that anyone
could in a single generation accumulate |
500, ,00O, 900, and that hundreds, perhaps thou
sands, could accumulate $l0000,000 each. |
What should be said of Legislatures that Gre
ated and sanctioned these monopoles, especi- |
ally If that Legislature has been purchased?
To abrOgate such laws was the purpose of the !
meeting of these vast throngs. The peope |
want neither jobbery, corruption, poiti-
cal or other cOntrivances; ask nothing |
but what is right, have the power, and if they |
stand together, irrespective of party, the !
government could be brought back to the |
paths Of the fathers, and the country have |
new and higher career as an eXemplar OF uD- |
erty and equality of rights to all the earth.
BUTLER's COHORTS IN OREGON.
SALEM, ORE, Aug. 3O.-The State Cen
tral Committee of the Greenbackers and
Anti-Monopolists met yesterday. Butler
and West electors were chosen, and it
was decided to print and distribute 50,-
600 copies of Buffers addresses.