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Then the horsemen appeared. Sheriff Mac Sim Butler, with a cane in his hand, led the dozen riders into the intersection. At least two of the mounted men were state troopers; others were not in uniform...
...possemen charged the civil rights demonstrators, Lackey asked Montgomery County sheriff Mac Sim Butler to help him get a small crowd of the marchers back to the other side of the street where the bulk of the crowd was being contained. Whether from personal sadistic zeal, or sheriff's orders, the possemen went wild, and began to charge both groups of demonstrators...
Harvard was the first named of the two New England teams invited to the regatta, which is held each spring. Ned Butler will skipper one of the Navy's 44-foot yawls, and will be supported by a crew of eight--two of whom have had wide experience on 12-meter America's Cup racers...
...Beast Butler was too far ahead of his time, concludes West. Uncompromising in his "liberalism," he broke with the Republicans in 1884 to run for President as the candidate of a coalition known as the "People's Party." Though he campaigned with a verve and color reminiscent of Daniel Webster, his reputation-deserved or undeserved-had caught up with him. He polled only 175,000 votes of the 10 million cast in an election that went narrowly to Democrat Grover Cleveland. When Butler died in 1893, at the age of 74, Charles Dana of the New York Sun wrote...
...enforcement officials are also divided on tactics. On Tuesday T.H. Lackey, assistant chief of police, attempted to stop the horsemen of Sheriff Mac Sim Butler from beating and whipping civil rights workers. Since then, Lackey has told the sheriff that he doesn't want horses ever used again, stating, "personally, I don't feel like it [the violence] was necessary...