Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-29
CHARACTERISTIC REPLIES.
y. r. Butler on the Alleged Letter BY BIN
to Dorsheimer.

,. +. Butler on the Alleged Letter By Hin
to Dorsheimer.
BosToS, August 2S.-General Butler was
seen at bis Office in Pemberton square yes.
terdsy upon q matter which the text below
will explain. he said:
you show me telegram clipped from
the Boston Herald, headed Butler Turns .
Fipfsp,' which says that President Cleve-
land received from Hon. William Dorsheim.
er, United States Attorney. letter written
to him BY Benjamin Franklin Butler, late
Major General in the service of James G.
Blaine, which the General requested Mr..
Dorsbeimer to show Mr.. Cleveland. and
which was, indeed, written for that purpose.
why, Mr.. Reporter, can't sue the Her.
aid for this libel because it has fixed it 20
that il will claim that it don't mean me
that 1t is speaking Of somebody else,
msjor.genersl late in the service Of James
G. Blaine, and there is late General But.
Ter in Maine, who is. | believe, Q strong
friend Of Mr.. Blaine. But If it means mel
it is simply misstatement Of the fact which
is to be read as every statement of the Her
aid is, directly opposite. | have written no
letter TO Mr. Dorsheimer which | requested
him to show to Mr.. Cleveland, and especially
none before Mr.. Cleveland went fishing. did
not declare that my present belief 10 that Mr..
Cleveland is the greatest President since
jackson. never asked Mr.. Cleveland or
anybody else 10 overlook the part took in
the Blaine campaign, whatever that might
be. do remember he came within thou.
sand votes or so Of succeeding, and party
beating in hotly contested campaign like
that it's certainty of future success is about
like yachts winning forty race by
twenty seconds That might be owing to .
slant Of wind. The article further says:
1t is we'll understood here (Washinston)
that Butler is anxious to resume his place
in the Democratic party in Massachusetts
"a man cannot resume what he has not
lost do not think have lost my right 10
my pew in church because don't sit in it
on q given Sunday. When | do 60 to
church the sexton will open the door to me,
and | shall take part in the services as us.
ual, and | shan't ask the leave Of President
Cleveland or anybody else. Seriously
though, Mr.. Reporter, General Grant Is
dead, and his funeral is over. Everything
has been said that can be said, and the
newspapers are empty, aud that Is why you
have such improbable lies te!eGrsphed over
the country. Now, let me say, l went to
Block Island on q purely legal matter. /
ssw nobody there but n Judge
and bis family | should moi have
gone there if ! had not found
Judge BIatcLford had left Newport, where |
hoped TO find him. ! have no occasion TO
peak we'll or i'll of Mr.. Cleveland for the
information of himself or anybody else.
There are acts Of omission ip his admins.
ration, if not commission, with which !
lave personally some reason to be pleased.
Re has not filed the Federal offices in Mas
sschusetts thus far by giving them to the
moss-bscks who bolted the action OF the
Democratic convention in 1882, when the
Democratic party carried the State. lfhe
should hold firm in that direction, after
awhile he will get Democratic party in
Massachusetts, and I might then want to
90 to church, but at present have no desire
TO do anything except practice my profes'
sion"