The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 3, 1883, Page 2

Colored Cenvention. ‘them, but when they do not uphold Louisyille, Ky. Sept. 25-—-When itheir principles JIaid down in ; Z ith them. Fred Douglass, at 10 o’clock this their plattorm, down morning came into Liederkranz hall | Follow no party blindly. We have to deliver his speech, he found a very | learned how to talk, and let us speak large crowd in attendance, many | tor ourselves about crvil rights. Ev- white persons having come to hear ery manis sole proprietor and lord his plea for his people. On the | but when any stage, besides leading colored men, place isopened for public, Eas sat ex-Attorney General james Speed | body has the right to enter. This of Lincoln’s cabinet, General James | does not make men equal. Talent A. Eakin, United States army, re- | and intelligence are always trium- of his own house, tired, and a number of other whites | phant ef prominence. Douglass spoke| When I speak : r two hours and always interesting. ; man five minutes 1 forget all his col- He sketched the history of his race | or. since the emancipation, and was fre-| Now about poli quently sarcastically severe on the | never was a politician. government and incidently upon the | career asa pleader tor the aggran to an intelligent I itical equality. I began my! He was listened | dizement of my race, # nd I am not} ESTABLISHED 1870. BENNETT & WHEELER DEALE*S IN HARDWARE ANC GROCERIES, HEADQUARTERS THE CELERRATED | Bring in the chains for another devil | that ali Democrats were first to be | ! robbed and then butchered, politic- {| ally, as the Puritans first robbed and then butchered the Indians in_ the flesh. No doubt the devil when he took Christ up to the top of that t high mountain was just as unctuous, just as patronizing, just as fall ot ar- | rogance and self-importance. And | yet what is the order? That this be chained for same devil shall a thousand years, and jafter the thou- sand years to be put back into his | } | burning lake forever and ferever. The Rich Man's President. | | wien Preston vier coo TH Mitchell RacineFarm Wagon n&Nolf North Main St Lyo Two Doors South of the POSTOFFICE —Dealers in— GROCERIES HRARDWARE —AND— republican party. to with interest anareceived frequent and generous applause. Since the conclusion ot his speech vain labored Too tmany orators are on and Green, temporary chairman, who is presiding while Douglass rests from his recent exertion, is unable to con- trol them. Since Fred Douglass has been a} freeman he has probably not been prouder than when he walked down | the hall to the president’s desk this | morning. The really fine looking | old colored apostle ot his race was | dressed for the occasion. Hs white | hair never streamed in the wind more bravely, nor was his step ever firm-! er. He had won a victory it seemed to white and black alike here, and | be had a right to feel elated. The | white and black had come to hear the | nost celebrated colored man in the world. Leading lawyers, mer- |} chants, doctors and military men of the white race sat onthe platform and on the outskirts of the hall. It was | ascene to enthuse, and Douglass eltit. Hehad a message send to the country, and sent it in form. Referring to the old days, when of slavery haunted the land, he passed days the convention has in to complete its organization. the floor, to excellent the specter quickly to bett nd brighter which brought freedom, education | and entranchisement. Referring to | causes leading to the convention, he said: No reasonable man will ever ob- ject to white men holding 2 national convention when they are in ourcon- dition and we in theirs. Examples are plentifully abundant where whites have hated the blacks, borderman the Indians, the negro, the Chinese, and vice versa. We mnst move asa people toward the goal ot prosperity and education. Now that we tree men, take the reins in our own hands and compel the world to re- ceive usas their equals. This city metropolitan in size snd cosmopoli- tan in ideas, is still not free and lib- are eral enough in opinions to receive us as equaly in the public buildings and hotels. This 1s why we are now sitting in a national convention, We have given numerous platforms, but we are still the same What we want is not words, idle ep- ithets in our praise, but We have never been helped upward, but assistance comes from all sides to help us in our downward course. if we come as cart drivers or as vants, we are receryed; but when we come as scholars or the color line is raised. in condition. ser- statesmen, is The colored man is an oppressed and abject race | Trades unions admission, in the United States. retused him mechanics refused him as an apprentice, and even when he dies the same old con- tempt and despite follows him, and he is spurned from the gates and com- pelled to seek a resting place ot his own. If he applies for admission to colleges or aspires to an education and a protession, the race line is again drawn. it is what we ure here for to raise this line and make it the equal of the whites. The lies more m the diseased imagination of the Americans t in firm beliet. We are here to see that men ot our | color accused of crime shall have a fair tnal, that all these outrageous Iwnchings be stopped. Uur business is to organize for our rights and tor redress of our wrongs. Some sav that we should not hold this convent for it menaces the reoublican patty. Parties are made for men, and not men for partes. My hat was made fer my head, and not my head for my bat. If parties do right stand by ions, | cause | afraid to tell what [think about all |kinds of equality. This stamping out of black republicans ot the south has been done inthe face of the re- publican party. This convention | lition of this most detestable state of | affairs. tically what it is theoretically, and there will be an end to all this filth of the ballot box and to afl the in- justice ot the color line. The New York Evening makes agreat mistake when it says: “Be modest, you that have been but rs out of bondage. ’’ These Post twenty y office holders are atraid of our as- | pirators. We do pire, and will continue to do so. We have heard the voice of Jacob and felt the hand of Esau. We shall never cease to be despis- Iclass as long as ed and an excludex we are shut out from political pre- one of our class to the vice presiden- cy orto a position in the cabinet, and our equality shall be established. We are not prepared as yet, but let us aspire to those positions which we can fill. We hold it self evident that a nation made up of all varieties should not be governed by one class. When there is a ruling class there is a subject class, and when the day comes when this nation is gov- erned by one class it ceases to be a goverment of the people, for the people and by the people. The above is but a brief outline of a long and eloquent address, spoken with an earnestness which showed faith in the speaker in the destiny of his people. a The applause was enough to suit the most exacting. At the conclusion from Louisana moved that dress be adopted as the address ot the convention and be sent to con- gress. General were moved and rejected and the original the delegates the ad- amendments | motion was almost unanimously adopted. Retribution. The grand Old Party is in a bad way, a desperately bad way. | Torn to pieces in New York. | Massachusetts, In Iowa. in Kansas, in }ithas every appearance ot imme- | diate disolution. | History has very rarely it ever furnished arn ex { querors mn a to of mple where the con- war were the which civil | known | lifetime fought the war. ; party had | If it had made ti jshow inthe name It for {ever shown that it was a national i: sur power that generation It the republi half simplest kind of z ho been way decent, a nesty 1 ot and } peace. a single moment it | Stead ot sectional it had not plundered a organization. Te tl }at = and violated the constitution. had not done thing: which it should not so) many gs have done, and leftuadone so many things which it should have done, to-day its dire ex- iremity would not be so great, and the the | its condition so puti in very citadel of its hitherto impregnable But there Providence which has to do with all bad parties good ones. It ts lines, is a as well as S true that the republican party } itself for a long tim Lord. T 2 partners ‘That in the furth liance it was necessary tc ip mterest between tt iar and to call out to ever now and Boss!”" ! should implore congress for the abo- j Make the constitution prac- ferment. We canhot ignorc the fact | that tothis isto be attributed the degradation of tht race. Elevate j for pensions. 1 "| the estimate, but had | | mences his round of « Newport he naturally begins with a dinner at Vanderbilt’s villa. There 1s an eminent fitness and propriety in this. | Vanderbilt, at New port. represents the triumph of money 1m society. Arthur, in the White Hox presents the triumph mone politics. Vanderbilt represents the corpor- ate monopoly interests. whose mot- to is, **the public be damned.’’ Arthur the _ political ot represents monopoly interest. which says in ics | every act, ‘‘the people be damned.”’ When Arthur and Vanderbilt clink their glasses they understand each other. The money power es tablishes an alliance, rounds out the collar wh t f about the neck of the peo proposes to fa people’s Presi- dent; he is the rich mat Arthur is not the sudge Hoadly Wasting Away. Chicago Times. | | Philadelphia, concerning Judge Hoacily is guarded It within a day or two been telegraph- ed trom this city to Ohio that Hoadly has typhoid This is not so. Hoadly 1s not to return to Ohio and undertake cam- paign work, and it is net hkely he will be able to do so at all 5 Speaker Randall has seen him with- in a day or two and reports that he is getting better, but very Another prominent gentleman of this city on the next day had his card returned with the statement that Judge Hoadly had gone riding. This wasa pretext, for Hoadly has not been out ot his room since he came here. At his hotel it is impossible to get any one to give one word of | information. Hoadly himself is very sensitive, and the taken to keep from him all newspa- per reference and any knowledge of the Ohio campaign. He report- ed as having abandoned all thought ef election, and does not anything beyond the recovery of j his health, which has been broken down by an excitement for which he is leading to much trouble. papers fever. able is greatest care is care Was not in any way fitted. It is remarkable what subtertuges | were resorted to by the republican nner eating at}! slowly. i for | Hapgood Light DraftSulky Plow, Haish close barb Steel Fence Wire. Guaranteed to be AST CORNER SQUARE, - Prices NORTHE BUTLER, Mu. J.M.PA ?TY, | j i ' { | Is now receiving and wili continue to receive a tull line of Groceries and Queensware, Prices and Quality of Goods, 1 in the city. with any SQUARE. MQ. PUBLIC BUTLER. STORE OW SOULE SIDE great secrecy with which everything ! 5 | SEASONABLE GOoOoDS MINNEAPOLIS TWINE BINDER | REAPERS AND MOWERS, BUCKEYE CULFIVATORS, BAIN WAGONS, | RACINE SPRINC WACONS. has and tull fine ot TropP BUGGIES, AT R. R. DEACON’S HARDWARE DEALER, MISSOURI | BUTLER, | | ! } Subscribe FE"or The |party to stave off any reduction jot tariff last sessions. The! jestimates of Colonel Dudley. were | the pension commissioner, the first place, a round $150,000,000 Congress investigz ved | of the tariff refom much. He then abated $50,000,000 {and $100,000,000 pensions ; provided tor. Now it seems |this1s too much by $40,000,000. There will be more money the | treasury next December than there was last. A n Francisco old wom who had failed in an attempt to write on a postal card as long a letter as she intendedto, presented the spoiled card at the postoffice to be exchan- j ged tor aclean one: and when the clerk refused she scratched his face and bit his finger With in the past week Philadel- ges under the department's or- hat mail matter on which insuf- nal der that he must pay full postage h € wants the package to s postmaster has detained 3,000 WEKLY TIM: $125 PER ANNUM. Satisfactory. QUEENSWARE | BUTLER, MO. no tt | | i | i | YY PARTicy G MACHINES cont ‘SEWING MACHINE CO- (30 UNION SQUARE. NEW YORK }} “ORANGE, MASS, TA, GA: sale ny == SPRAGUE & HUNTER, AGENTS, BUTTLER‘ - MISSOURI. PRESENT POWER. To-Morrow a Long Way When Help is Wanted To- Day, Comtort is never in a hurry. distress are in hot hast It to the | “friend ir, need’’—the triend who does something now—that the old adage pa the compliment ot being ‘ta friend in- deed.’? That they do not keep the sut- ferer in suspense is the saltent excellence ot Benson s Capcine Porous Plasters. The plasters of other days—whether por- ous or otherwise—said—“ Wait until to- morrow: We can promise nothing on the j spur ot the moment.” But pain unre- lieved, like hope erred, maketh the | heart sick. Benson’s plasters act. on ap- | a Pain and is | plication. ate, soothe, , as they do, agents of the motto is now, ve the word Capcine middie ot each 1 I ONS A DAY ) The Br Wor A tic , handsor org once to World Man NOTICE co-, (20 t. N.Y.