Show HAVE BEN the democratic COnTOUt convention might glit have butler for its choice Clio ico A As tho want lani with a will by asaji press 16 0 thal HERALD CHICAGO july 9 0 general butler er arrived in chicago from bastou thi thia 0 evening on the 6 t train over tho the michigan central railroad ho lie was aigul accompanied anida by his secretary and be several era of his hiss personal sl friends represents Re representatives presenta tives of the associated press met the party at kensington a few miles out gut of chicago and accompanied the general to the city butler ler was somewhat fiti fatigued gued after his long hot journey but still bears in his person evidence of physical vigor his hair is a trifle grayer than when he lie last visited I 1 chicago and the line of baldness has pushed its skirmishers well I 1 ell 1 out I toward the crown offis head which was covered while in the car with a black scull cap on being introduced trod by colonel plympton the associated press representative recalled to the Genc generals rals mind an incident of tho the early days of the war when general butler wag was in command of the united states forces at fortress monroe and bad had secured for the writer at that time a private soldier who had just been thrashed at big bethel a seat on a flat boat for a rido ride across hampton creek the general smiled grimly as his memory ran back over hig checkered military career and he remarked those were r a a ther warm days and then relapsed into silence while I 1 he be cas cast this his eye meditatively out of the car window he ile did not take with extreme kindness to any dis cassion of current politics or br the po possibilities ties of tho the democratic conven tion but said there would un doubts edly be ben a protection plank in the platform referring to the wrangle among the illinois democracy which so hotly at the state convention last wednesday he be glanced at tho the reporter w with ith a peculiar expression in his eleand eye and said they needed a candidate who woula would harmonize all factions tho inference as obvious the subject of in his direction introduced and I 1 in n the general observed t that at chad had ng doubt new lievy orleans would give Ove laiman him an enthusiastic reception political temper of the interview ended at this point for farther mation all inquirers were referred to his secretary the position in the tile matter v lio iha vt lu iu information nation to the status of the candidates and he lie came to chicago to find out on tho e arrival of the train at the tile the distinguished man was waited upon by a committee depre the labor organizations of the city headed by mr muldoon and after a short season of handshaking hand liand shaking king the general was escorted to a carriage and driven to the palmer house ho lie was met by a cron crowd d of about citizens who greeted him with three cheers by a direct flank movement t through a sido side door he lie avoided the necessity of making a speech Ap eccli which was called for and retired to lis his boom on his route through Blich michigan igan tho the general was warmly received at various towns along fl the michigan cent aral road at michigan city tho the mayor boarded the train and introduced butler to the people eople tho the general then delivered delivered a few r remarks 0 in the course of which he lie said tho demonstration was an evidence that they approved his course tho the local labor demonstration in tho the butler interest did not ako ake place till nearly 10 clock the labor societies representing tho the bricklayers seamen and the various typographical unions selected market street as a rendezvous and from there they I 1 proceeded to tho the palmer house by a circuitous route along which were largo waiting walting crowds the marching column numbered about speaking strictly and carried a variety of transparencies all of which bore I 1 the face at 0 buller butler supplemented wa with th euch such sentiments as labor needs a lata statesman if I 1 am not for you I 1 am against against you butler to the factory aza azars czars 4 of Tx I owell ivell the workingmen groen welcome butler toward the rear of the column was vias borne klofta ft mammoth sp baoen oon on which was inscribed bed buller butler will feed you all the extreme rear of the line was made up tip of a broom briga brigade dg display ing tafe device butler butter will sweep weep the tr 1 country As the column approached the vicinity vicinity ofalie palmer the scene became an extraordinary one the electric lighted streets in every direction were filled avith a mass of of people I 1 numbering who awaited P the a appearance ppe arance of the massachusetts man the great crowd may hot inot hayft have been drawn out solely to seo see and hear But butler butlers leras as the loca location was a focus cfall of all the interest which centers about the approach of the national convention ven tion but the knowledge that butler waa was to speak caught and retained the attention oatlie of the vast auditory gen butler was loudly clie cheered cred on his bli appearing but his remarks were distinct only to those who were near him |