The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-07-27
MARION B5TLER'S SPEECH
HG Talked Oyer Two Hours to Fifteen
Hundred People.
He EOLOGIzED SENATOR VANCE,
Read Extracts from the Senator's Last
Letter About the Silver Question
Says Vance Could not Get a Fourths
Glass Postmaster Apointed-Does
Not Stand i'm With Cleveland.

THE SENTINEL did not have req
resentatiye at Spanish Grove Satur-
day, but it learns from several
gentlemen who were present that
about fifteen hundred people-Demo-
Gratis, Republicans and Third partyites
were in attendance and heard Presi-
dent Marion Butler speak for over two
hours On various subjects. Some say he
was not as abusive as usual, but Others
claim that he was pretty severe on
| the present administration and Dem
| ocratic party in general. He talked
| to the farmers about the prices they
were now receiving for their tobacco,
corn, wheat, etc. He also made a
com parison of the present prices and
those received a few years ago. He
said there was a cause for the present
hard times but that he was unable to
tell what it was or what caused it.
Butler, however, expressed the opinion
that TIT problem would sooner or lat
er be solved.
Butler read extracts from Senator
Vauce's last letter to the Alliance,
after which the speaker lauded the
Senator to the skies. He said Vance
was a great man and had the back
bone to come over on the side of the
Peoples party, regardless of Cleye-
lands views on the silver question.
He said the Senator had always been
in favor of free silver and he now had
the nerve to say so.
Butler added that Vance was not
popular with the present administra-
tion, and could not get a fourth-class
postmaster appointed anywhere in
the State.
Butler said it would not do to keep
any party in power as long as twenty
years, from the fact that they would
become corrupt. Even the Peoples
party, he said, would get wrong were
it in power for that length of time.
He talked about the p liticians,
and SAID that they would get in every
party and that he was sorry to say
some had salready joined the Third
party.
Since the election, said Butler,
Democratic politicians have been run
ming to Washington after pie. He
added, however, that if either of the
other parties had got in he supposed
their supporters, too, would have
wanted pie.
In speaking of the office-seekers
Butler said that the men who howled
him (Butler) down during the late
campaign had had their heads hang
ing on Cleveland's pie counter.
One of The SENTINEL'S informants
remarked that he did not see much
difference between a Democrat on Mr.
Cleveland's "pie" counter and M ariOn
Butler with his chin on the ''pie"
counter of the Farmers Alliance.
Butler admitted Saturday that a
number of Alliancemen left the order
last fall on account of politics. He
said, however, he hoped they would
come back.
Among those who took seats on the
platform with Butler was "Brother
John" Reynolds. Butler rode back to
Winston in the hack of Brother
Charley" whose postoffice address is
South Fork, Kernersyille, Walkertown
and Bellows Creek.
After Buffers harangue Rev. Mr..
Hunt, late Third party candidate for
the Senate, discoursed awhile about
why he was not elected, etc.
A Salem man who went out says
| that the Alliance did not do what it
advertised. He went expecting fine
large dinner, but was disappointed.
He came back hungry.