New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-07
the doll it cherishes Is nothing but rags, aud
amt and sawdjIst

| the nOll " CnfilSneS Is UOJnlnR D1t rags, d1u
| amt and sawdust.
| Yet we have sometimes imagined, not with
| out blush at own skeptlcsm, that per-
| haps in his inner consciousness the witty and
eccentric orator knows the wood whereof he
has made his Mumbo Jumbo. Perhaps his de-
light in him is no more real than that OF the
| Hooser gentleman in his roast crow, which he
ate with infinite gusto simply because some
one had said he could not-but afterward
admitted, in a moment of dyspeptic candor,
I" kin eat it, but | do Mt banker after it,"
We wonder how Mr.. Phillips. would find Mr.
| Butler for IN every day diet. Just now he as
| serts TO all sorts of proper and improper per-
Sons that the General is his first, last, and
| ONLY choice for Governor Of Massachusetts,
He affects to believe that there is no one so fit az
BENJAMIN Franklin Butler-this cxtravagant
and reckless intriguer, whose life is one long
story of sudden and interested tergversations-
to be Governor of the honored Commonwealth
of Massachusetts. The accomplished and
learned scholar who talks such nonsense as
this is a believer in the progress of men. He
| knows there are better men in Massachusetts
now than there ever were. And yet in a State
that numbers among its dead Winthrop and
Hancock and the Adamses Webster and Ey-
erett and Andrew, he expects people to be-
leve he thinks that Mr.. Butler should be made
its Governor by reason of his preeminent
ability and character. In no State was the office
of Governor considered so venerable as in this
only here was it accompanied by title OF
honor No one else, not even the President,
has legal right to the title the Constitution
of Massachusetts gives to His Excellency the
Governor" Yet Mr.. Phillips affects to think
that no man in the State deserves that decent
and decOrous place 80 much as Gen. Butler.
If anything could be more melancholy than
the moral obliquity which is indicated in the
advocacy of such candidature, it would be
the Stiffness of the political reasons assigned
for it, Mr.. Phillips sees visions In the near
future of the defeat of the Republican party
i'm Massachusetts unless 1t takes mp Gen. But
Ter. He alone can unite, by the purity and
elevation of his character, all the warning fac
tions. The voting ladies, who have no votes,
the workingmen, who DO no work but brawl
in the streets to keep others from working as
they like, the temperance men, who VIII
vote the whisky ticket If they are
not conciated-all these Mr.. Phillips
SAYS, will rally to Benjamin and
will bolt from any one else. All of them who
were natural fools bOlted to Wendell last year,
and it did not take long to count their bal
lots, and no others will revolt from any re- =.
spectacle Republican candidate. All men who
really desire reform know they can only obtain
it from the party which has fulfilled thus far
all the magnificent promises of three triumph
ant campaigns The Republican party has
everywhere within the sphere of Constitu-
tional possibilities carried out those schemes
of reform upon which it came into power.
The reforms of the future lie also in its hands.
1t will accomplish them as rapidly as 1t is safe
and lawful. We do not fear that American
workingmen are OF such feeble material that
they can DO deluded by the eloquent pipe OF
| Mr.. Phillips, or the brazen bugle OF Mr.. But
| Ter, into any platform or combination which
will throw the Government into dislOyal
or dishonest hands. When these two
reckless takers approach meeting of labor
ing men with their shallow mOuthings OF Com
munism, let some one ask them what Is
their bank account, and by what labor they
accumulated it, The luxury in which both
these wealthy gentlemen live, being III the one
case the fruit OF inheritance and in the other
the reward of chicane, would be considered, in
the slang of socialism they both affect, as
garing "negatiOn of the fraternlties' as
that uckless column of Vend6me, whose fall
they greeted with such fluent enthusiasm.