Show BLUFF BEN BUTLER Lieutenant governorelect Oliver Ames gave a reception in honor of the new elected candidates in the Oakes Ames Memorial Hall at North Eaton Mass Several thou sand people were present and a collation col-lation was given after which speeches were made Governor John D Long just elected member of Congress from the second district gave a humorous review of the canvass can-vass tendering to Goverelect Butler But-ler his speeches for cattleshows and other like affairs and also a copy of his translation of the t Eneid He I alluded to the election of the entire republican ticket with one excep tion as a vindication of the republican republi-can administration for twenty years past This gave Butler a chance for his sarcastic retort and he improved im-proved it He said I hardly know how to address you following the polished speech of the governor and especially after his kindness toward to-ward me in offering so many advantages ad-vantages in the performance of the duties of the position to which I am chosen He promises me a translation transla-tion of Virgil Laughter I trans lated Virgil when I was a boy Loud laughter and applause When I was a child I spoke as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I laid aside childish things Laughter Again I I thank him for his courtesy in offering fering me the most excellent collection collec-tion and I speak in all seriousness the most excellent collection of public addresses at agricultural airs horse trots laughter little gatherings and little meetings of small qualities of people that I ever heard or read and if I understood that was my duty as governor I should take them with great pleasure Laughter But I dont mean to occupy myself much that way Loud laughter which was increased and prolonged as the general turned around and Looked at the governor I think that this great commonwealth with its 1800000 people its diversified in teiests of commerce whitening every sea of the busy spindle workshop work-shop machine shop and above all of the great leather industries which aggregate more in value and give employment to more men than both the last named I think that to attend at-tend to the business of such a commonwealth com-monwealth will demand every hour every thought every energy every exertion every quality of mind which I possess to bring her to that high plane which is the ideal of us all Applause And I say to you she shall have it so far as I am concerned Applause When I can see the ballot in the hand of every man because he is a man when I can see every man with his rights respected everywhere every-where in the commonwealth when I see every industry prospering when I can see the laws so framed and so executed that there shall be no injustice felt bj labor and no oppression op-pression made by capital and when I see courts of conciliation established estab-lished by law in which all differences differ-ences can be settled by the employer em-ployer and the employed so that we shall be rid of all occasion for any conflict between them and when I can see further the safety of everyman every-man assured whenever he may travel by sea or by land by stringent guards and when 1 can see taxation so diminished that it is no longer a burden and as equally dIstributed dIstri-buted over all as the dew of heaven falls upon the just and unjust un-just alikethat being done I shall have the opportunity of amusing myself with cattleshows horse trots dog lights and like matters Laughter and applause I Do you know sir addressing Governor Long that you tempted me very much to say harsh things but will resist this temptation and therefore there-fore only suggest what I might have said saying all the time that I dont mean it But turning to the audience to show you how he lays himself open to the opposing counsel coun-sel in replylaughter my excellent excel-lent and revered friend the governor gov-ernor told you that the fact was one for congratulation to the republican repub-lican party that all the rest of the ticket was elected and the head of the ticket only left at home Well could not one imagine if one was uncharitable unchar-itable a reason for that The commonwealth was satisfied with all the rest of the government Loud laughter in which the general and governor joined Now mark you my friends I dont say that Applause Continuing the general reviewel the canvass at some length and closed with a complimentary allusion allu-sion to his host and his father the late Oakes Ames Among the speakers who followed Gen Butler was Mr George A Marden Qf Lowell who in the course of his remarks said Gen Butler has told us how little there is partisanship in the politics of Massachusetts I have seen legislatures legis-latures come and go for the last ten I successive years every year from forty to sixty democrats in the house but from nothing that was ever done or said by them on the floor could I have selected them from the repulicans And I quite agree with General Butler on one thing at least that there is very little of the partisanship in the conduct of affairs af-fairs in Massachusetts But I am inclined to think that the governor elect will find that the programme he lias laid out for himself is one that will require a good many more years of service if he accomplishes what he has promised than is often allotted to man in this poor world of ours But before he has arrived at the millenium stage when every every man shall vote when everyman every-man shall have all his rights when there shall be very little taxation and that distributed all over the commonwealth equally he will be glad to take himself to a horsetrot for recreation and to the translation transla-tion of Virgil for amusement |