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| The Butler Weekly BUTLER, MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY eine ST. LOUIS & EMPORIA zens and bring about that universal ee H. M. Stanley 1s now Negroes in Convention. all the mater Lynchburs. Va., Sept. 30.—The in Brussels convention of colored men as- good fre which cught t. exist | Meeting Thursday Evening Last having a good time with the King of ite ei 2@ he tworaces . p alo .% bled here to-day. J, B. Syphar, between the tworaces. and Committees Appointed. the Belgians, a cs re gee The address was adopted and the | ; ; exandria, was elected tempo- f z t H eee ae . - eo : convention adjourned sine dic A colored man in Richmond has chairman and M V. Beckley,of The St. Louis & Emporia railway invented 1 a razor-proof suit, whicn is jchmond, addressed the convention, The WWondertal: Preacacr ; meeting advertised to be held at the | ; to be worn at balls and parties. = ntion bad not as- i | City Hall last Thursday yas | ayn this conver The St. Joseph Gazetie has this to y Ha ast Thursday ev SE | = rts tiie bled as republicans or democrats, eave helen. Samios hemrent well attended by our leading citizens. | A New York doctor thinks he has } pot as citizens of Virginia, and dS cloaligeoue Kola eT S. E. Price was called to preside, | made himself took young by eatin ming the right of free men, and os : Bs ee 5 j and Mayor Calvrid to act as secre-| 3,000 lemons annually tor ten ye he poped their deliberations would | at ; lane tary. On taking the chair jude | ‘ sre does he ge s wer > . monstrate that they were worthy | ee ae : °| Price delivered a short speechs | Ex-Gov. John B. Long, ot Bos s | this duplex-elliptic. doub k-ac- | | : j ee le hi ° 5 | ' be citizens, H - - 5 ‘i + | strongly tavoring the building of an j fon, made iimself so popular in his ! . perpetual-moti x ider of | : | | | = sassembled at 8} Hops perpen gee : a j east and west railroad. | | | Essex Club speech relegating Jas ne convention reassembled 2) | the gospel, who is attractine people | i % 7 ot 1G. Blane . R. B. Beckley was elected k f | 1 Ne ce j Judge McBeth complimented Clin- } ae tine to political obscurity, that > p.m. »y the thousands and tens of thous- | j P. anent chairman, and N. y i if = i ee ton on her onward progress, and | the Lynn Republican Club will give perm: 2 ne * | ands, an our times a day, to é < = tary. The following | es Sas aac: s ,.| Predicted a bnght tuture. She is} him a dinner October 7, and look for Backers secretary. &) canvas tabernacle on one ot St Joe’s a | now leadir he va eress, | another speech was presented amid great cheer— | many hills? pas leading m the van of progress, | I ing: | What is the secret of that magnet- To tHE CoLoreD PEOPLE oF Vir- and 1s bound to continue to go for- | , : Ben Butler has at last b 2 ‘“ ward. He was ii favor of a committee | itler has at last blurted out ism which draws to the tent Chris- s and Prot- j his real sentiments respecting the | laborers of this country. He says they ure not inte | to act with those of other towns on We, the colored people ot; tiaus and Jews. Cathe } a | casts: Virginia, believing as we do that the tme has come for us to call a halt! ers ahke, and holds them there for the proposed line ot the St. Louis & | ep © © | estants, non-protessors and unbeliev ent and that **nine | out of ten of them would sell Emponia, to assist along the pro-} . their jathe unqualified support we have | hours and hours at a tim nd until |! adze ga. Ge JAvery was shea in| votes for $2 a piece.’? This is what ee | udge si. oe iss as a Hl . e a party, do here | he voluntarily lets them ago? = t they get for retusing him thei : given the republican party, as > m tavor of the —— east and} oe a Ghee eee their votes | m convention assembled solemnly’ It is not inspiration from on high SoG, eae SAI Ae oon: a 4 year ago when he was exploiting : see st road. Id Z st yeclare ourselves pohtically inde-| He doesn’t claim to be inspired. It Sash aces “i ae himselt as their ch ampion, their ec: i ection o ch agnicuitura stock | matters which pertain} is not because he 1s presenting a new pendent in all t I I S raising, coal and iron and lead Bios didate for president. He says that of fous as citizens and voters of this / religion or creed or docaime. His | x they were afraid of him because | jducing country. It would be not i ea MRE AEG ee ‘Now R ead f he had a little property. But. the commonwealth. We have for} teachings are as 0 Wl anly a blesene-torthelpeoples but a ‘ property. ut the twenty-five years adhered to our/ itself. Itas not his deep learning, ly — eee a tact is that they saw through him then former political associations with | for there have lived a world full of splendid investment to the owners of \ } as clearly as they do now. when he | | aE aan | ; f : - | the road. | frank] t } 1 teeli z ed fidelity because in those | preachers more profound an he. } ' } - pe dara eta teers adidas cs ge onstruction the re-! But he isa p ee preacher and | Judge Dorman was heartily in ac. | toward them, and that } le ot : me : eee Ee Lea ‘ ‘ towa hem, and tha sole object dark days of re By cord with the proposed building ot | ae ee i | publican party proved that it was | a great genius. That none will deny. | in Every Department at then was to get them under the con t the St. Louts & Emporia, It would | trol of **a man with considerable which the colored} He 1s a preacher worth going hun-)|. 2 2 E the only party to v s | ! : give us a competing line toSt. Louis, | man ot the south couid consistently j dreds of miles to hear. No concep- aliay himself. To that end the | colored voters nobly responded and | reading his sermons and sayings. To rased to power and peace men who | read of him and then see and hear grew wealthy while administering | him, are like looking through a glass | the laws ot the United States gov- | darkly and then face to tace. wealth and a family and property in- terests.’”” They clearly understood that he had devoted his whole public i | and thus save money to the people, tion of the man can be tormed by } Bee t add to our wealth and population, and make Clinton the business town ot the Southwest. As Clinton’s ——— | life to the accumulation of great lw vealth in the service of the money | citizens have been on the alert in the | citizens have been On the alert in the | | kings, and the land grabblers His | Past, they must look cut tor the ernment in the Southern states. W e} Many will doubt the efficacy ot whole record in congress had taught en ) A ae » aati future and be ready to do their duty SS feelever grateful for what has been his style of preaching. Many wi aes ‘ at he was running, not in the a but the time has come for us] say he can never make real converts, |" > ‘ interest of the toiling masses, but in oe - | The speeches were well received. Re : bina agst ; to think, act, vote and speak tor! for he keeps the congregation gig- pi z i the interest of Steve Elkin’s candi- 2 4 3 nee Ee . a ~- | The following committee was ap- pes the | gling one: halt the time at nis oddities date and in the interest of that clas» ) ves, i especially so sinc E = ourselves, and espe es 1! oe i idseeeece dewanciatencobens pointed to cu-operate with the com- | icans have practically aban-! and his severe denunciz 2s ioe, i a rpublicans have p y POP” | mnittees on the line-of the proposed sin campaigns and] ular follies. Well, he has demon- | aly } ERS ght | strated th ticabilit abikisueth | St. Louis & Emporia, and to extend atters ere the negro ous strated the practicabili - | fe all matters where ba = iss P ye | to it hearty encouragement and as- to have had recognition in proportion | ods and he has added thousands up- | AOA s | sists : on thousands of new names to the | church rosters throughout the South, H.W. Saimon, W. B. Calvrid.J. | labor vote is neither so purchasable H. Britts, W. D. Tyler, A. C. | nor so lacking in inteligence as But- of political jobbers to which he aml Steve have always belonged. The | small vote given to Butler and the 'T'"'ET EF; | utter tailure of his efforts to elect | Blaine are conclusive proofs that the to voting strength and intelligeace, We know, too, that many of our face have been murdered m_ the a A > , Southern states, but the cause which | Is he like that Ca@ur de Leon, Rich- | Avery, A. P. Frowein, T. J. er has always believed it to be.— led to these sad occurrences which | ard the Lion-Hearted of England, | Lingle. | Post- Dispatch. have spilled our blood and created 2 | camping with the Black Friars in | THE ST. L. & E. IN BATES. 6S 6S 6 é¢ 6 | a : : : : [5 eee Bat ge : | The Greatest horse breeding establish Sees -- ; caves ¢ aging in a tournament | St. s 2 t : weg Worings 5 : bitter race antagonism, which BO ace and cusasie ; The St. Louis & Emporia TOO | ment of American one of the many won retards our progress and makes it! on the side of the Robin Hoods for} has tound much favor in the town- | difficult tor us to live in the land of! the sake otf enlisting the rugged | siips in Bates through which the \ our birth, are largely traceable to} yeomen of his great cause? Is he | proposed line passes. Judge Cole, cat should pase seeing is the great the federal officeholders in our sec-! come to reclaim a kingdom that was | of near Ballard post-office, was in \ : ' Bice ing cn aeoseeie Ween tion. | lost, and to accompl'sh this end chinks | town Tuesday, and laid on our table | And M ost Complete Stock of | miles from Chiago. His importations of | : ae = a5 | perche h ex f; s ce | glasses with the noble Thanes that | bills tor a meeting of the citizens ot | pubapetidenticiys: pried tenl a pad o Or is be among | Spruce township at Ballard. Henry ; | 000 O00, and at the present time at Ouk “Lhen what manner of man is this? { { | dertul enterprises the great west is noted | for and which none tavored with oppor- These foregoing reasons led us to | jek} vi adopt such inethods and so demean hated his kingdon j and soo head ot the choice | urselves as tu make friends ot those | US Merely as some | county citize cS on phe line of the e nearly all recorded with thei: ‘‘Hilderbrand-allabrand road, in Walker, White Oak and the the Percheron Stud book ot whose interests are identical in every i : , Sword in hand, e seen while on their Col way with our own. We therefore ee | western part ot Deepwater, might lato ratiees apoio eager canes or appeal to the coiored people of our) jjounted upon a swift charger and | ' do well to attend this meeting, or to ted Percheron stallion in breeding. hative state to look well to the alter | yee ping through the land, fighting ne ld similar ones, auc 1 appoint com- : i. ee ed condition ot affairs and im th«) of every side, riding down all oppo- | mittees to be in readiness to co- } 5 future to make such political alliances | Grion. tre npling under toot eyery operate wi other committees in | a will most adyance our interests, ‘ foe that dares strike his lance or cross securing right-of-way, etc., when | educationally. financially and politi ~ : -! blades with him. merely because he ns tee — ae bad ae iis hdd KEE, Wis. cally. We feel sure that there is, loves to fight. loves God and hates |! a: Bence us wore that he wantst he | eae throughout this broad limits of the) the devi, the enemy of bis kindred ? T 1 built, and is ready to do all in| ' -commonwealth, a general disposition Thic m : | his power to help it along.—Henry ! ‘GE oO. Ww. P r CK. Co. Democrat on the part of the white people to | tend that ! ote or : Editor and Proprictor , butsome wi a Don accord us all our rights before the . Sancho Panza, arrayed against the vee dow and tomect-us h sind anise the plan A EKansan’s Estimate of Faank James. FE eet us h {-mulis on the plains. i i F PI i unn _ Paper in America. Whatever people may think ot | Independence, Mo., Oct. 1.— Vil IN RY CAR 5. p 6 i . - ; Some proceedings developed yester- | 5 ; PRCK Tcon- tly in eve advance we make tor the upholdin > he of our people. It behooves us then) jim or say of him or write of him, to so use our ballots in that we M&y | 41] must agree that he is a great gen- day which brings Frank James be-! 1 ate “te , gone sid drive out all discarded elements in} ius, a wonderful man anda preacher | fore the public in a new role. A } iF Virginia, whether they be headed by | the Gkeobavhich was never seen “or farmer trom the Biack Bob Land, | Z PECK’S SUN ] Natives or aliens to the state. We heard of before ow earth Johnson county, Kansas, atter ne- H Every Shown In Butler. ; " also condemn the raising of the race io, cell gociating with James through a triend i is poulied rl pe wt witely: 20m pargtin — | issue by ary class of men, who assay | It turns out that Victor Hugo died | came here to-day, to perfect arrange- j without a peer in its specialty | ! to lead the masses, because it can do Orth Gnome eee ments with James to get him to kill | a | i nothing but prove detrimental to our hon tases or nea et and ‘a neishbormg Kansan. The price | oO The Originator of the Celebrated ia cause and our interests. We there- pound sterling. This considerable agreed upon was $100, and was; BAD BOY Papers. ne fore ask a hearty co-operation Of our | ¢ ane has heen Soe ean Slaw plaeed in the fmnend*’s hands. The | | ; People in Vi irginia to the success of quite all, made during the last few exact location of the farm on which | specamen Copies Free to any itt our movement. We have cause to 1 eae Pack ueutmlaneine aoe: On the victum lived was mapped vut, and ; i aye address, tit be thankful for the liberality of the 0 pacietasiie dk tasdaiddgaae: 12 igements seemed perfected, riges as Sila f OW d om et| Ii} Be iT Presenf administration to our people cd'to ao less th when James ar friencs told the > u 5 ba : ‘ F at n i : Rog j an one miilion two } a be fellow t on him, and m the south. We also beleve ou = they were working a game hundred ¢ Telations to the state debt are sucn 2t uniess he would go queathed fiftv thousan anes to the in quietly they would coc SAMLLEVY & CO. as to justify us in hoping that poor of Paris- home and ren Sinia will be relieved from he ent finar a name to de- al embarrassment yiven by t given oy from the federal government will enable her betier to provide for faulting ctshrers.