The Sun

Cleveland is in the woods. Butler has finished his address.

BOSTON, Aug. 17.—Gen. Butler has got tired of waiting for Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance, and has determined to delay no longer his address to the American people giving his reasons for running as an independent candidate for the Presidency. The General desired to ascertain Mr. Cleveland's views upon the question of protecting American labor from the aggressions of English enterprise operating through a tariff adjusted on the principle of "revenue only," and he delayed completing his address that in it he might do Mr. Cleveland, as he said in his recent letter of announcement, no injustice, but as the semi-official announcement of the appearance of Mr. Cleveland's letter was changed after Butler appeared in the field, and Cleveland started for the woods, the active and busy Commoner of Lowell said "I can wait no longer," and put his document in shape.

He has placed it in the hands of the Associated Press, to be sent out on Tuesday, and its publication will be the formal opening of his campaign. Gen. Butler will not appear on the stump until Aug. 30, and then he expects to present his cause to the voters of New York city. The most active part of his campaign will not begin until the last of September, and from that time on he will draw heavily upon his abundant stock of ammunition, and will be heard on the stump in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. In all of these States fusion electoral tickets will be in the field, as they will be in Michigan, California, and in one or two other Western States, the fusion being naturally with the minority party in each State.

Gen. Butler is in most vigorous physical condition, and in great good humor. "He is confident of showing some of his critics, especially Lamar, that he was no Satan taking the Democratic party to the mountain top, to show them falsely claimed possessions, when he said he went that he represented and spoke in behalf of the claims of 1,500,000 laboring men.

The General's friends say that he has a stronger following to-day than ever before in his life. It may be a consciousness of his remarkable political power that is so vitalizing in effect upon his health and spirits. He has composed most of his address sitting on the piazza of his beautiful Lowell home, listening to the music of the waters of the Merrimac Rapids, and watching the breezes blow the petals of his white hydrangeas about his feet like the ballots of his countrymen.