People's Party Convention Nominates Butler Ticket in Worcester
The People's Party met in Worcester on September 24 with 1500 delegates. Delegates backed Judge McCafferty for governor and Col. John F. Marsh for lieutenant governor, with Webster party platform supporting broad reforms including pensions, eight hour work limits, direct democracy, and naturalization changes. Butler and West were ratified for president and vice president, urging unified support for the ticket.
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Committee On Permanent Organization
Hor
Noah A. Plympton
O'Neill
Committee On Credentials
John J. Baker
Danvers
Thomas W. Clark
Boston
Mr. Hamilton
Hon
John. Baker
Beverly
Mr. O'Neil
A. C. Drinkwater
Braintree
Internal Revenue
Congress
Internal Revenue Tax
Republic
Massachusetts
General Court
United States
Butler and West
Benjamin F. Butler
Mississippi
Platform of General Butler's 1872 Chicago beliefs read aloud
Colonel Clark leads resolutions reaffirming a tariff and labor platform. It endorses customs duties to finance government, opposes direct taxes, supports American enterprise, and urges arbitration for labor disputes. It backs public schools, public corporations as servants, currency by government, and a Isthmus waterway linking east and west.
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Butler
Chicago
Thomas W. Clark
Clark
Caplital
Congress
Civil Service
Jackson
United States
United States of America
Paramus
Butler addresses Massachusetts People's Party convention
Secretary J M Galvin recalls a Wisconsin remark mocking Grover Cleveland as Democratic factions clash. General Benjamin Butler is welcomed amid cheers as delegates deliberate balloting fraud at Chicago. Butler condemns convention corruption, praises reformist aims, and pledges to pursue honest primaries and anti monopoly action.
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J. M. Galvin
Chicago
Bragg
Wisconsin
Hisses
Grover Cleveland
Massachusetts
Benjamin F. Butler
Grady
New York
E. F. McDonald
New Jersey
J. N. Buffum
Stephen M. Allen
I. 5
Swan
Butler
N. A. Plympton
People’s Party
Old Commonwealth
Commonwealth
Committee On
Collins
Avery
Committee On Permanent Organization
French
Laughter
Appree
Democratic Party
Old
Ohio's Mammoth Meeting in Columbus Demoralized Democracy Rally
Columbus, September 25. The Ohio capital hosted a vast Democratic gathering with thousands marching and a 70,000 strong crowd. Delegations from Cleveland and Hendricks clubs, speeches from Bayard Pendleton and Cleveland, and a nine car governor Hendricks train drew nationwide attention to the campaign for Cleveland and Hendricks.
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Columbus
Ohio
Buckeye
Cleveland
Hendricks
Comstock
Opera House
Bayard and
Pendleton
Payne
McLane
Maryland
Denver
P. A. Collins
Boston
C. H. Mansur
Missouri
Newman
Indianapolis
Indiana
Strself
High Street
State House Square
Randall
Slocum
Joe McDonald
Hewitt
Franz Sigel
Clanie
M. F. Vilas
H. J. Jewett
Allen G. Thurman
East Terrace
Thomas A. Hendricks
Robert M. McLane
George H. Pendleton
John A. McMahon
G. H. Barger
South Terrace
John G. Carlisle
Charles H. Mansur
Durbin Ward
D. G. Gooding
KE. B. Finley
West Terrace
Thomas F. Bayard
James RK. Doolittle
Henry B. Payne
James B. Craig
Joan F. Follett
North Terrace
Patrick A. Collins
Ilon
James A. McKenzie
George Boadly
Jd. W. Denver
J. McCarthy
Bayard
Senate
Hayes
Wheeler
Blaine
Elaine
Logan
Carl Schurz
Grant
New England
Middle States
Grover Clevelan
Thomas Hendricks
Faxon Declines Party Ties in Prohibition Governor Run
Henry H Faxon writes from Quincy on September 25 1884 accepting nomination for lieutenant governor by the Prohibition party. He denounces party malpractices endorses reform and urges independents to vote for temperance candidates while criticizing Blaine and the Republican leadership. He urges nonpartisan right over partisan wrong.
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Republican State Central Committee
Blaine and
Login
C. Quincy
Commonwealth
Robinson
Republican Party
Blaine
Logan
Friends of Temperance
Massachusetts
ST. John
Dantel
Satanu
Henry H. Faxon
Quincy
Nominee sketch of Judge Matthew J McCafferty of Worcester
Brief sketch of Judge Matthew J McCafferty born in Ireland January 17 1829 and arriving in the United States as a child. He settled in Boston then Lowell, studied law, attended Holy Cross College, served in the Civil War rising to major, was legislator in 1866 1876 1877 1878, chaired probate and chancery committees, ran for Congress in 1880, and was appointed judge of the Municipal Court Boston on January 17 1883.
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Matthew J. McCafferty
Ireland
Boston
Lowell
Brown & Alger
General Butler
Holy Cross College
Worcester
Twenty
Massachusetts Volunteers
Massachusetts
Congress
Major McCafferty
Butler
Warning to Blaine Over Damning Proofs in Morrill Case
Augusta Me September 24 Mrs Lot M Morrill says she possesses damaging letters from Blaine to her late husband and will publish them if necessary The Morrill family faces harassment from Blaine supporters who seek the letters to counter her claims She denounces Republican pressure and vows to reveal evidence in self defense and for her family safety.
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Blaine
New Age
Morrill
Republican State Committee of
Ohio
J. L. Stevens
Mrs. Morrill
Gren
New York Herald
A. P. Morrill
Republican Party
Mr. Blaine
General W S Rosecrans Letter Attacks Blaine Catholic Allegations
The letter from General W S Rosecrans to Rev J S Early denounces Blaine as denying Catholic faith and cites the Madigan circular for alleged bigotry. It argues voters must choose an honest president and compares falsehoods to corporate deceit, urging informed, conscience driven ballots. The text also reproduces a Democratic plea to unite against the Republican candidate.
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Washington
W. §. Rosecrans
Rev. J
Washington, D. C
R&y
Blaine
Augusta
Morton
Maine
Republican State Central Committee
James G. Blaie
Repubican
Madigan
Secret Society of Jesuits
United States
United States of America
Kennebec Journal
Archbishop Hughes
Lincoln
Europe
Union
Republic
W. S. Rosecrans
J.S. Early
Highland Falls
N. Y
National Democratic Executive Committee
National Democratic Party of the
Republican Party
Ane
Congress
Friends of Good Government
James G. Blaine
Charles J. Canda
West Twenty-fourth Street
New York
James G. Blase
Waudential
Fisher
Arnaur P. Gorman
Nat. Dem. Executive Committee
Taxation Policy and Export Trade Debate in London Cable
A London dispatch relays William Hurlburt’s cable to Senator McDonald arguing Blaine’s federal taxation harms American exports. He cites English preferences for Blaine, German Ohio voters against Blaine, and predicts Cleveland gains with German and miner blocs. The message frames tariffs, free list reforms, and political fallout across Ohio counties and states.
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England
Witiat
Lei
Cleveland
America
France
French Africa
Engiand
Englistien
New World
Draine
Mexico
Spanish America
Asia
Dbhine
Panama Canal
Europe
Wintiim Henry Hurlburt
London
William Henry Hurlburt
New York World
Senator McDonald
Indiana
J. E. McDonald
Indianapolis
Blaine
Garfield
Togo
Some of Mr Blaine s Mistakes
A Boston Pilot critique catalogues Blaine errors from his early politics to modern campaigns. It labels missteps as blunders and crimes, contrasts morals with wealth, and argues the public should reject electing a man whose record shows repeated political misjudgments.
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Mr. Blaine
Boston Pilot
Mulligan
House of Representatives
James Mulligan
Massachusetts
Senate
United States
Commonwealth
Peru
New York
Fodger
Blaine
Clyvenes
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Col
J. F. Marsh
Mass
West
Henry Leman, Sr
Newton
John I. Baker
Mr. Leman
Marchlehead
Drinkwater
Provisional State Committee
Joseph H. O'Neil
Eratic Party
Bor
South Carolina
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Democratic Court of Appeals
Judge McCafferty
State House
Warren Fisher
Muligan
Kerr
Ren
Olio
Colling
Colfax
Kelfer
Albany
Gover Cleveland
Faxon
Charles Almy
William H. Colcord
Prohibition
Prohibition Party
Leutenant
Paart
Lot M. Morrill
Rosecrans
National Democratic Com
Mueller
Cuyfaboga County
Erie County
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Wooster
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