The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-29
VOL. Kill.
Tho .snASncau.c,ss G0rerDorshtp-A
Radical Cr.v,ctsna on sneJer.
rsce.,m 20. iuspon,isnce OF the hartford Con-


ions, new eXcftemeDtS. ana new hotoTietv,
md this seems the nearest thing at mana.
He wanted to he Uni'ed States Senator In
,scn. Wilson's place in the same way ne
spccula,cd about his chances ana fclt his
way with rcoplc before he gave that up.
This seems more open opportunity from
Ihc withdrawal Of Governor Clatlln, and
hourh his prospects Of success are no bet
ar in The one case than they were in the
other, tie is too ohtuse to appreciate the
r,ct. Butler IS about aS Tar from being
shr,wd and 81 sacinuS politician rs any man
|,yiro. hi. constant failures in Congress
show this, and his p;cscat mistake is only
\ somewhat stronger proof ol Wnat was
before appatent.
Ur,s restless, and he hasn't really the ca
pariiy TO Judge rs To whether his time has
ar has not come. lie SAYS now that he en-
tcrs for the fight in dead earnest. Admit
ting in effect the failure Of his Congressional
career. his words are pretty nearly: " am
tainted in Congress with the charge that |
am not a representative nun OF MaSSachu-
setts. They say that no other district than
that of Essex would send me, aud that |
am losing favor even there. That the real
representatives Of Massachusetts sentiment
are those who differ with rue among my
colleagues. have stood this kind OF talk
rs long rs l mean to. l propose now to
test nv power and influence in the Sta'e. |
am going to appeal 10 the people TO make
me Governor. My name is going into the
Republican Convention, and it will stay
there rs long as there is Il nlin lett to vote
for it. This matter Uf my strength with tho
people has got 10 Ha settled. III the people
want TO make me their Governor, they
shall have the opportunity. they don't, land
will make this apparent, propose to retire
Immediately from politics altogether"
This language, or the substance OF 1t, Gen.
eral Butler has used within week
Whether he will adhere to the latter
pledge, you may judge. Perhaps he will
forget it as readily as he has his remarks oi
year or more ago, chat the House of Rep.
resentatives of Congress was his place, and
that he desired to stay in it, especially
through this present session.
canvass for the Goyernorship for another
reason, too, as he SAYS. He desires to 60
before the people and have it out with
those who have aS>ailed him, in appeals to
that tribunal. There are several parties in
the State whom he wants to deal with in
this way. And here he still blunders and
mistakes Massachusetts sentiment. There
could scarcely be anything more distastefll
TO our people than to have the CON
test for Governor partake Of the nature
of Il personal controversy, Butler would
lose votes all the time in this way. He has
always been in disfavor from his tendency
to quarrel in public. 1t injured him ut the
bar; it injured him in our Legislature il
has immensely injured him since he entered
Congress. Next to his want OF Judgment
in being a candidate at all is this plan he
has laid out for the canvass.
ua aoni4 mt possihty rrpcap6 in n coTrce
more auicidal. If men were disguised with
bis wranglings before he was asking TO be
Governor. how could he expect to have
this feeling otherwise than greatly intensi.
tied bv au attempt to wranglc his way into
the Office? The only time that the uuscrll.
pulous sharpness of Buffers tongue was
ever tolerable TO them was when it was
directed against rebels.
There is no chance whatever of General
Buffers nomination 10y the Republican
Convention. You may regard me as an
unreliable prophet because L predicted
that he would not be Il candidate before it,
Ny views in this resi- ect have been founded
nu the belief that General Butler himself
would see how little was his strength among
the Republican delegates. lie may be
brought to this vet, and withdraw. | con.
feSs, however. that one who is so blind to
public sentiment as his present course in.
dicales him to be is little likely to do this
now. and is more probable to hold Oh till
he is beaten out. His strength in the Con.
rcntion will be confined to the delegates OF
Il few OF the manufacturing towns and cites
Of the STATE. with what aid the Otlicc-hold-
e.s of Essex county can give him.
North, South, East, and West, no other
Republicans of the State are for him. LII
deed, in Essex county itself L hear OF but
cne prominent politician, exclusive Of Of
ice-holdcrs, as his supporter, aud he hopes
TO get him out Of Congress that he may be
nominated in his place. There is no fol.
puhl;cans who attend caucuscS and nomi-
nate delegates. don't believe it is in their
power, even by management, to get
him delegates beyond the places named.
He looks himself only for small ma
jority in the Convention. He is the Sc
c0nd choice, too, of nobody out of ES-cN
county. The strength for DR.. LOlino,
which is much more considerable, cluuoU
be transferred to him except from this
locality. People see this generally now.
The real fear is not that General Butler
VIII succeed in the Republican Conven-
ton. but that he may defy it, bolt, and run
on labor reform ticket, or on his own ac-
count. He is om!nouSIy silent in his letter
doubts that he had control Of the full cor
questions asked as we'll
as the answers given. Timid people fear
that, running thus, he may defeat the Re-
publican candidate for Governor and let
Jack Adams in. Such Il course would re-
suit in Buffers political ruin. He has got
to stare this fact in the face and those who
know Butler best regard him As tic reverse
of plucky.
But then we have to remember that he
must be badly damaged in any event. He
wants to demonstrate that Massachusetts
men endorse him; and being sent out Of
the State Convention with pointed evidence
that they do not, his natural resource is to
apply to the voters outside the party. He
would, in that event, pitch his standard and
call to it the discontented. The labor men
would probably come. Dick SDofford and
Mr.. G. j. l.. Colby might perhaps persuade
over few Democrats. A portion of the
lowest stratum Of the Republican party, it
may be, would be added. The great bulk
of the organization, with a proper candi-
date, would stand firm as rock. The
temperance men would be more likely than
not to come back to us. They will not sus-
tain Butler. This vote comes very largely
from the churches and from the stricler
class of moraliSts in society. and as their
own organ says, the inOral sentiment OF
distrusts Butler.
PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL IN INDIANA
louisville, July 27.--The lease Of the JET.
Ecrsonyille, Madison and indianapolis rail-
road to the Pennsylvania Central has not
been cousummated. 1t is understood the
Central will take s., 100000
worth of stock in the road at scventy-tiye
.ents, and assume its bonded and other in
lcbtcdnesS. The Pennsylvania Central also
lerecs to take the stock owned by the Jcl-
trSonville road in the Ohio river bridge at
- ,Chis uill nina the control of the JET