The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-10-07
BEN BUTTERWORTH.

Last Friday President f. A. Jack
man, OF the Mckinley Hobart Glnb
wired Ben Entterworth who was a pas
scngcr on train No. 1. asking ii he woult
give the people Of Wadsworth IL few
minutes talk On the political situation
Mr.. Butterworth replied that he wa:
hoarse, worn ont and hardly physical,
able to speak.
Then a more urgent request was made
setting forth the fact that the opportu,
mites of our people to hear good speak
ers were limited and they could not
very we'll miss the chance of hearing
him and demanding IA surrender. MIR,
Butterworth reluctantly answered that
he would surrender to such importantly
B6ntires were lazing and the cannon
~thundered when the train pulled into
station. Mr.. Butterworth vas conduct
ell to the platform OF the passenger de-
pot which was thickly crowded with
people who we'll deemed a treat was in
store. The speaker WAS introduced by
n. A.. Hummel. Mr.. Bntterworth's
opening remark were to the effect that
his fellow citizens should carefully study
the issues of the campaign and vote ac-
cording to the dictates of their consci-
ence. For himself he believed that the
Republican party was right and proceed
ed to give his reasons.
He had no more than got we'll started
before he was interrupted by two men
high in business standing, by some
drunken cowboys who were passengers on
the train and by other OF our townsmen.
Tie Interruptions continued until many
OF our respected citizens who are avowed
Bryan men began to take a hand and cry
"ishame!'
Mr.. Butterworth answered every ques-
ton civilly and to the point evidently
too convincinglv and when he saw that
| they would not let him continue told
them when their Silver orators address
ed Ohio audiences he was sure they
would receive the most courteous treat
ment and be listened to attentively.
The Mckinley Hobart Club thought
that in getting Ben Butterworth's on
sent to make IL speech here that they
would be giving everybody an intellect
ual treat. Ex-Congressman Ben But
terworth for many years has been con
s~picious as one of Ohio's most eminent,
able and successful lawyers and states
men, and enjoys a national reputation
as an orator.
Suppose one does differ with such 8
man in political faith, no broad minded
man will say that is. a reason to insult
him and those whose guest he was. Such
a thing never happened here before, W,
pray it never will again. Some week.
ago Yale rowdies had the bad manner,
to insult Bryan when he visited New
Haven, and what the Sacramento Be,
said about it now fits locally:
"We read much in Eastern periodia.
calls concerning the lack of culture il
the " est and its Overlooking abundance,
in Eastern circles, while Yale and Har
ward are forever paraded before our eye
as the very apothoses of intellectual
polish and educated grace and courtesy
And yet no community in the IVES
would have 80 far disgraced its manhoo,
and shamed its own self-respect, as t,
have perpetrated upon VIM. McKinle,
o~ne-hundredtb part OF the ~indignitie
heaped upon VIM. j. Bryan by the al
legged flower of Eastern chivalry. Nc
Kinley could visit the toughest minin,
hamlet or the hulnblest logging camp in
all the wide and wild West, and h,
would be received and treated az a gen.
tleman by gentlemen, no matter how
much they differ with him, nor how
bitterly they are opposed to the financia
policy which he now champions.
1t has remained for the educated son
of rich men, the alleged cream of gu
American civilization, to demonstrate
that a college curse cannot eradicat
the native littleness OF u tlackguard anc
u h%oodluIn, any more thsn W2ter cai
wash out the spots OF "A leopard"
.