Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1884 — BURLER ON HENDRICKS. [ARTICLE]
BURLER ON HENDRICKS.
What the Crick-Eyed Son or Destiny Thought of Mr- ttendriefcw fit 1572I as Mr. Hendricks ha r rtfshtd Shat Lad We been the nominee of the Ihimoetf&Gc ptrty, Gen eral Butler would have supported him, the republication of a little political incident will not be without’ interest. In 187? General Butler, being about to ma te some speeches in this State, Govcrour H":idricks, in a public speech, said: “General IHHIe? is coming over here, and you must look oh? for j our spoons.” General biitler did come ovi r, anti a snort time afterward he made a at tlid same placs, in which he said: “I’here are two kinds of n't-?' ’W this, world. There is the bold, manly, odG , aud-out lie, that somehow makes us ru.-omet the man that utters it. because :Jje<bas courage; the other one the mean, covert, insinuated lie, uttered by a man . rhaL dare not say it and yet wants to. •ft is this Kind es a lie th** was told at North Vernon. Every cfmibti* on earth jump's according to the stand t-ref which he has, which is ids own capacity, his • own - sense of propriety, or his own pnw :rs. The lly th it lights on the dome ot St. Paul's Cathedral, looks round him to the distancr of right feet, -Limwi'ient of his-vision. ami thinks it's_ a fair, sightly piece of Work. The pig ill it Seeds out of the trough thiafis_.it a ver;, excellent piece of architecture that is the bes’ he can do with his instincts, and that is as much as he can understand. He does not understand the mansion at the back of whose barn his ti ou ,r h is at all. Evcrv man, thereO ■ v for. judges every other man by himself, and whoever believes that I, a ma for-general of the United States, with life and dealn at my Wigers’ ends, exercising that unlimited and despotic power given me by the war. went around picking up spoon*, knows that he would have done so if he had been in my place. [Tremendous cheering ] That is his conception of the office of a m ijor-general. That is his idea what a man shbuliTdo and what he wduTdTdd if he had the courage to go where he could do it, as t have. For the first time in my life' have I alluded to it, except last night at NorJi Vernon. I hung the man who tore eown the American flag on the spot where be desecrated the emblem of, his country’s power [applause], and last night I pilloried the blackguard who struck at my character on the spot where he committed the crime.'’ (Loud cheers.) Aver’s Sarsaparilla, being highly concentrated, requires a smaller dose, and is more effective, dose for dose, than any other blood medicine. It is ill: cheapest, because the Test. Quality and not quantity should be consider* d
