The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22
BUFFERS LETTER.


LowELLs Mass. Aug. 19.-The address, as it
is styled instead of letter. to his constituents
was given out yesterday by General Butler.
It is a most voluminous document. occupying
nearly five ordinary newspaper columns set
in small type. The following is synopsis OF
its principal points. 1t opens as follows;
10 II yConstttSteRts: In compliance with oft
repeated and anxious inquiries, hasten to
give account of my stewardship of the polit-
zeal interests with which was charged They
we're four:
81 Hostility to all monopolies in COM
merce, industries and lands.
~ The preservation of the National legal.
tender currency of the people, constitutional
ly issued by Congress.
%. The needs of all men and women who
labor in the production of wealth, to be pro-
teetsd against the ercfoaehments of those
who absorb and consume without producing.
II. The necessity for reform and correction
of abuses in Government so that Its pressure
on the people would be made as light as pos.
sible; its administration effective, to guard
the rights of American citizens at home and
abroad; to make public servants, individual
or incorporate, subservient TO the use and
will of the people only, so as to restore the
prosperity of the country, with equal rights,
equal burdens, equal powers and equal privi-
leges of all people.
"These latter we're specially confided to me
by the Democratic masses OF Massachusetts.
to whbn alone l owe grateful dnty for high
consideration and support during years OF eff
fort in reform of government, but to no Dem
Ocratic organization whatever. They were to
be presented to the National Democratic
Convention for its acceptance and adoption
as the aXiomS or Democratic rule as pracuced
by eur fathers.
Il had intended if these great principles of
Government, by tbs people and tor the peo--
pie only, had been cordially received, and
earnesly and honestly adopted by that
convention as the political chart of the
Democratic party to have permitted MY
name TO be presented to the conYen-
ton for the suffrages Of the people as Chief
Executive to administer and CARRY forward
the necessary measures; in which case
should have bsen bound by its action to sup,
port both its platform and nominees. That
should 10 placed in that high position knew
was the will OF the 150U90 voters OF that COM
monwealth; who had expressed their conf
dence by their votes so unanimously that ne
man from that State could have been del
egate to that. convention it he had dared to
breathe aloud that he was opposed either TO
the principles Represented or TO my person
al candidature: In thus doing th6 VIII OF
those who sent me, sought none OF the hon
ors of the convention, and interfered with
none of its proceedings, save 10 serve as a
member of its committee on what should nave
been its platform OF principles, and not OF
eXpedientS." HsYsxa
The address then refers to General Buffers
action in the Committee on Platform and its
work. He found himself holding the con
trolling vote in the committee, one not new
to him, and presented second minority re-
port Of one which was adopted by the con
vention. The series of resolutions which he
presented in the subcommittee are summar
lied in the address. Theresult of the action OF
the subcommittee made his candidature in
the convention impossible.
The address then proceeds to give in sue
cirict order all of his a5tions, both in commit
tee and in the convention. All OF his resolu
tons in favor Of labor were voted down. His
resolution to sustain the legal tender curren
cy; the one opposed to mOnOpolieS; thai
against the ''swoOping" of the land of the
people by the arIstocracy and all others pre-
sented, he says, suffered the same tate. lie
was granted the boon of thirty minutes to
present his ideas. He warned Inc body of its
action.
He admits the fact that id the platform
adopted there were certain sweet phrases
used toward the toreign-born citizen. There
were certain honeyed words, over and over
repeated in order that their repetition might
seem like earnest advocacy put IN favor OF
labor, and upon some of the topics OF oul
platform. But he does claim, and submit
TO the just Judgment Of the people, that
comparing the Two platforms, and TAX
ing the action OF the convention, ey
cry claim OF the anti-monopolists ant
of the National Greenback and Labor men
was so CONTEMPORARY rejected or so thor
oughly Smothered by platitudes which would
permit any financial theor1St or any mOnOpO
list to subscribe to the majority platform
that it is most apparent on the face
of the resolutions that they were simply
resolutions OF expedientS to catch votes bS
indlrection, deception and illusion, not decla
rations OF those high principles which should
form the basis of the united action of q grea
party of the people
The country has had no experience for {
0,.tsa Of RI hot no
racy would do if in power; but" he says
1.-THE farmer and the laboring man do know
that a Democratic House OF Representative!
has just appropriated more money raised by
taxation than any other Rouse of Representa-
tiveS has ever appropriated in time of peace
We also know that the Democratic majority
would have free-trade.tariH, containing al
the odiouS features of the present war tariff
so far as regards its monstrous Inequalities
by horizontal reduction OF the tariff t.
break down very many rising and struggling
industries, and cause the destruction OF the
homes of our WOrdngmen and the home mar
kets of the American producers.
who does not know that the very fear o.
the actions of the Democracy in Congress ha'
so paralyLed American enterprise and bust
ness that mills are everywhere osing, mines
shut up, furnaces blown out, and every kline
of employment so curtailed that the mechan
les and WOrkingmen are not earning enough
to support life in comfort; so that the farm
er, even, deprived Of home market anC
crushed down by discriminating rates O
TRANSFORMATION, finds his corn, wheat and WOO
lower than they have been within the presen
generation? Can the people therefore trus
the machine Democracy with power, upon
shifting, evasive and deceptive platform
On the Republican SIDE he says: 1--WE know
the Republicans. The country has had ex
perience in Republican party rule twenty
i've years, and know its results We, there
fore, have no need to look at its plati orm
for by their fruits We shall know them.
The Republican party in its inception wa
Os,1TA hafi 40 orr n
had in it substantially neither monopolis
nor capitalist. 1t was as poor as was thu
convention of delegates who framed thu
Declaration of independence. Taking on
five men, the rest could hardly pay thei
board bills.
1.-THE Republican party was formed upon
grand ahl noble idea, to do for one class o.
work1ngmen what the Democratic party, ever
under Jefferson and Jackson. had failed t.
do. Their Democracy dealt only with thu
white man. The Democracy of the Repub
lican party dealt with the black man, anC
equal rights. For that purpose anC
that alone was that party formed. 1t wa
the radical party, and so radical
party Of the people that the aristocratic par
of the Wing party, the old adversaries of thu
Democracy of the days OF jackson, merged
themselves in the Democracy without drol
of Democratic blood, as they hoped, i'll thei
veins, or thought for the people, except a.
the lower classes in their party, and such o
them as quarter of century has spare
are found With the Democracy of to-da,
largely guiding its councils in the manner W.
have SEEN" At this point the ad
dress treats of the manner in which
the Republican party became the part.
of monopoliStS. '"The necessity for money II
carry on the war drew all the bankers ant
capitalists into the Republican party, and j
any stayed in the Democratic party they wer'
in confederation with the same class, to so ar
range politics that whichever party came int
power, capital, in all its varied and powerful
forms, would be sure to control, and the PEG
pie be ground up as between the upper anC
neither milestone" Thus it will be readil,
seen and he who runs may read, that the Re
publican party is the party of monopoly, O
corporate interests in every form of industry
and every depa1 tmentof business and finance
1.-THE Anti-Monopolists can expect nothing
from the Republican party for reasons be
fore stated, and because it holds both House
by the rich men who are the owners of mo
nopoies, or their paid attorneys. True, i
has in all it's tariff legislation claimed to pro
tect and cherish American labor, but Away
only as an adjunct to American capital.. Tit
question of imported labor is touched upoI
at great length. On this subject the Genera
says:
and the use of convict labor at a nomina
price wherever it could be had, thereby debas
ing and lowering the high standard of Ameri
can labor, the perfection of machinery, b,
which so great share of production i
effected, has so lessened muscular effort il
labor that capitalists have been enabled tt
utilize the labor of women and children to
very large extent to do that work which mel
formerly did. Thus the workingmans wife
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