Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-20
BUTLER ONLY A TOOL.
Proofs fosiiivs That lie is Managed ana
Paid by tho Republican Committee In
his CANVASS Tor the Presidency.

SNhS w oHaS SVieS w fCSAsA'N
ton having come to the Knowledge of the
head of the organization there that Butler
Is acting under orders of the Republican
| National Committee and has his expenses
| paid by the Republicans, who also control
his movements. A few days ago Gen. W.
| II. Parsons, who is chairman of the Ma.
tional Committee for Mary land, went to
New York to get Butler to come there and
speak. Hc was referred by the Butler
managers in New York to tho 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 doubtful State and that they
had no money TO spend in experiments.
What Gen. Parsons learned in New
| York be tells in letter about to be pub.
| lished, in the course of which he says
"Step by step, after persistent effort and
waiting on tho movements and decis
ions of Gen. Butler and his po.
| litical managers and careful obser
vation of the movements and deois.
sion of Mr. Blaine ard his political man
ayers, we are forced to announce, with
all the responsibility of our official
obligation to those whom we represent,
that We have most unexpectedly un'
esrthed the deepest political intrigue in
the history of presidential campaigns, aud
that Gen. Butler is using us and our par
ties, and those who sympathize with the
| principles he assumes to champion upon
labor and finance, solely for the purpose
| of defeating Mr.. Cleveland in New York
by drawing to himself sufficient number
| OF voters, heretofore Democratic, TO Sc
cure its sc electoral votes for Mr..
| Blaine. Knowing that the members of
| the National Greenb back Labor and
Anti Monopoly parties, and those of all
labor organizations in sympathy with their
purposes to relieve the toiling masses,
which have alread polled a congressional!
vote Of over 1900 900, are profoundly
indifferent to the fate and fortune of either
of the monopolistic candidates we oppose,
We view with surprise, indignation, and
alarm Gen. Buffers self evident purpose
to promote the election of party through
whose legislation as he affirms in his ad
: dress, laboring men are out OF employ
ment and starving after 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
aud contine him to the states they dictate
This is claimed by them"
George Stewart, the head of the Butler
movement in Baltimore, made the
following statement tonight 3" | am very
+ sorry to say that the bottom has faller
ont of the labor movement. Gen. Parson'
has taken considerable interest in thu
move ment. He is knight of Labor anC
hailed Buffers nomination with JOY
especially as he had been member OF tn
convention when Butler voted so man.
a times for Jefferson Davis. Gen. Parson
, went to New York to secure Butler
f attendance at labor meeting to be he'll
, in Baltimore. He called on Colonel Noal
A. Plympton and Mr.. Fowler, Buffers lieu
tenants. The latter said that Plymptol
J was in Indianapolis, but it transpireC
, | afterward that he was il Worcester, Mass
When charged with the falsehood by
a friend Fowler became very indignant
Gen. Parsons then waited in New 9orl
T for two weeks in order to see Butler him
s self. The latter said he was in the hand
y of Fowler and Plympton. AS Gen
l | Parsons was about to leave he was toll
4 | .bot ha pap,,hr;a,r National rnittp q
? desired to see him. Calling upon them
he was told that their committee controlled
D the movements of Gen. Butler and had {
Q right to say where he should speak
4 inasmuch as they paid his expenses
: They thought it possible that they nigh
permit Butler to speak in Bal
r timore after the Ohio election
Q Gen. Parsons, becoming disguised
, | broke oil all negotiations. He is con
4 vinced that Butler is not running in tn
= interests of the laboring men, but ha
. sold out to Blaine in order to avenge hin
0 self upon Cleveland. The Republican
a propose to keep him entirely in New York
[ New Jersey, and such Northern states a
are naturally Democratic or doubtful, i
order to draw votes from Cleveland. The
also have no intention of endeavoring t
8 break the solid South. In fact, they pre-
fer to keep the South solid, as they deen
s that the best way to hold the North within
n the Republican ranks is to arouse and in
tensify sectional feeling"
: The Butler party in Maryland was t
pat an electoral ticket in the field mex
Wednesday night. The meeting will no
now be held.
q BUTLER's DENIAL.
Butler telegraphed from Batavia, N. Y.
( Sunday night to Senator Grady denial o
, the statement of w. II. Parsons that h
Parsous) had applied to have Butle
5 speak in aid of the peoples party in Mary
land, and had been referred by Colone
PIymptoh to the Republican Nationa
committee. General Butler says tha
I Parsons is a fraud, and that he warnet
, Plympton against him.
JAMES REDPATH on BLAINE.
James Redpath. an old time Republican
and devoted friend of the Irish cause
! has come out squarely against Blaine. Hi
speech Saturday evening at tChckering hall
in which he corroborated the story told by
> Daniel Mos Er;Jay p;nht and %