New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-13
TIE STATE or MASSACHUSETTS And THE
MILTON" OF NEF-IORK.
IpRoN ouR owN CORRESPONDENT


inour. which Is within thousand Of Mr. Lncons
majority over Cen Mcclellan in 1864. Mr. Claiins
majority for Governor is something like 1900 less
than Gen Grants. This does not Indicate any per
sonal or political unpopuarty on Mr. Claims part
Ii is Renaissance of the Z. H. H. campaign OF lSt'
n certain number of LicenSe-aw Republicans having
not yet recovered their equanimity sufficiently to
vote for a Prohibitory-law Republican. To offset
this Mr. Tucker the Republican candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor was scratched" by n considerable
number of the Temperance men, he being regarded rs
not Sound ON the question in the other direction.
Whether the number OF prohlbltoTN sciatcheIS ~
larger than the number of license sciatohcrs Is not
known, and is not very important. Inc aclual ne
publican majority is that of Gen. Grant Inc people
here as everywhere else, voted ON street party
grounds, and for Grant and ColiaX ana tne hepuoi-
can Congressman, ana me htpuohcan Wv
ernOr and members OF the LcelNlatulc' peCauSo
they believe the party deserves me pup,
lie confidence. | suppose that creature VINO
is so mOurnfully funny in the columns OF me NGr-
York Nation will say that one of the ten DISTRICTS III
this State has repudated RepublicanlSm because u
las reelected Gen Butler else iOr there is no tel
ing what he will say that the district has Iepndl-
ated Butler by voting for Grant. can assure nm;
however that the issne was very WlIe ana geieia9
one here, everywhere else ana that IL IS ll slc
TO conclude that any part OF Mass4chusetis aS re-
pudated the financial doctrines sci i9ith IN inc Nhl
Cago platform, or on the other mana lat any part vi
the State has expressed lis appreciation OF thaI ui-
declared that the question of suffrage must
last May heard one of our members OF congress u-
nonnce that plank as "cOntemptlbe, and don't
think he has changed his opinion OF 1t. Ana since
the election have seen in half dozen newspapers
at least demand that Congress shall take lnilsdc,
ton Of the subject and submit constitutional
amendment to the States making universal rue lor
suffrage A fact or two like this may help 70 make
the foreigners and minors who expect To reform tho
politics of tins country by OF one weekly news
paper of circulation not ii supposed universal, That
as Mr. George y billiard used To say, Ioltlcal pat
forms made to STEP from, and not to stand on,
and that the voters. whether in large or
small bodies generally have sense enough TO under
! stand that fact and 10 govern themselves accord
ingy. Perhaps Others beside the editors OF iso Ng
ton may find this fact useful one to KNOW, though
! doubt if there are many persons Ignorant OF II.
The people of Massachusetts, then understand that
! in voting for Grant they approve the general pohcy
of the Republican party, and desire to have power
continued in its hands. and especially mat they pre-
fer il To its Democratic rival This is all. and any
one who undertakes TO deduCe special results rs To
doctrines in which the party is divided To any con-
siderable extent will find out that this is all be,
fore he has gone great ways SO we have elected
ten Republican members of Congress. eight of whom
are in the present House, without specially taking
note of the fact that oil various questions they do
| not agree with each other. Mr. BalaWln OF the
Eighth District is succeeded by George i. Ioar esq,
the most successful of the practitioners at the Nor-
! cester Bar; and Mr. EhOt by the Hon James Buihn-
! ton who was formerly IA member. having been first
elected by the Know-Nothings IN 1871. Nobody pre-
tends that Mr.. BufiintOn will make Mr. EOts place
good but Mr.. HOar viii be an able representative OF
the good sense and sound opinion of his district.
observe that he has committed himself on one
!
signed the call for the Convention to be held
here the 18th and 18th, to form association for
advancing the cause of woman suffrage / think We
shall be willing TO trust him on this question, aud
also to make up his mind on other matters, even If
they settled, as has been supposed. BY the plat
form aforesaid. The Legislature viii be nearly
unanimously Republican there being only two Dem
ocratic Senators and 20 Democratic Representatives.
and Mr. Sumner Though ] dare say he holds the
same opinion of the suffrage plank" IN the Chicago
platform as that which have quoted as coming from
one Of our members will be reelected on the second
Tuesday after the Legislature meets IL las goes into
the Cabinet il is generally thought that Gov. Bout
well stands the best chance 10 become his successor
If Gen. Butler becomes "A prominent and successful
candidate please 10 thank these gentlemen from
abroad who unnecessarily lnterfered 10 teach the
people OF the With District their political duties and
whose interference has been emphaticay rebuked
by the vote Of that district.
have compared the vote for Seymour and the
vote for Judge Lord the Democratic candidate for
Congress in this district III % towns which Is nearly
the whole, and find that Seymour has only ISL
votes more than Lord SO Gen. Butler received no
substantial support from the Democratic party. This
will be painful surprise 10 those people who thought
the General so great fayOrte with that party and
who were so fond Of quoting certain Democrats as
saying that Butler would receive the Democratic
vote because he would be a useful instrument 20
break up the Republican party with. suppose the
managers OF the Dana movement supposed that their
candidate would receive all, or nearly all this
vote. Their movement, ridiculous in every
other aspect certainly, can only be justified on this
supposiion. But the Democrats saw very soon, if
not in the beginning that it would be folly for them
to engage IN tins enterprise Mr. Scattering docs not
often succeed III peTsuading either of the principal
candidates to abdicate in his favor and in this recent
he had his usual luck. The Democrats held ON
their usual course and let the Republicans fight il
ont among themselves 1t is doubtful whether !
there contest in this State where 80 much
money was spent with 80 little return as by Mr. |
Danas friends in the late election very accurate
politician from Essex, whom ] met yesterday est- |
mated the cost OF the campaign 10 them at $4,000
don't know how well they adapt their means to ends
but hope they gave The Nation something. A small
matter OF $1,000 would surely prove good an
investment poor Major Stearnss in that paper /
quite taken aback by the way. by The Nations
statement, week two ago that any body who
asserts that the editor of The Nation either solicited
in Procuring the VOTE Of si5oCo 'V by b'T the
Boston committee for recruiting colored troopsl to
the capital of the paper or that he even knew who
composed the committee when the vote made
has either been grossly deceived or is guilty
of willful falsebood" The clustering character of
this denial must not blind the public TO the fact that
IT denies nothing which anybody 10 assert. 1t
is of no great consequence how much Mr. GOdkn
knew of Major Stearns's efforts here to obtain sub
scriptOns TO the capital Of this new Radical freed
mans organ but that the Major did get $4,000
from this fund, and that he paid nearly as muchmOre
out Of his Own pocket, and that he procured
many thousand dollars more from IN personal friends
and other gentlemen interested IN the freedmen, IS
true, no matter who denies IT, That The Nation took
the money. proceeded TO start itself established
Freedmens Department IN its columns, and for a |
time carried ont what WAS unquestionably Major |
Stearnss understanding is also true no matter how
blusteTngly this is denied, also That when the sub
scrpton had reached $4,000, Mr.. Wendell i. CARR
slon Vdnlc w IlVbtun dS agent dt
meeting OF this Recruiting Committee urged |
the claim OF the paper 10 $1,000 more, say |
ing that Mr. Godkn Thought he could raise the other
thousand dollars in New-YOrk city, is also true for |
heard him. and the Committee vote the thousand
dollars do not pretend that these facts contradict
in terms The Nations denial which / have quoted. |
but they help 10 make people understand It, and il
anybody after reading both statements thinks the |
editor il injured or is justified III adopting tone OF |
blnster this subject at least he is quite welcome
80 think So for aught care. am only sohcitous 10
make my small contributions toward the truth of |
history. A long while ago had "A correspondence |
with the Editor al The Nation n collateral point |