The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-09-20
General Buffers Uphill Fisht-Anothc,
Orthodox Manifesto Against Him.


Orthodox Manifesto Against Him.
General Butler, we fear, has too many irons
in the fire to come up to time for Governor in
Massachusetts; but he has evidently alarm ed
the tight-laced orthodox radicals of the old
Bay State with his unlooked-for successes In
the election Of Butler delegates to the coming
regular Republican State Convention. So the
old-school managers have found it necessary
to bring Senators Sumner and Wilson to the
rescue against the audacious hero of Fort
Fisher. And SO the Boston Journal and Daily
AdUertiser says eve have seen Senators
Sumner and Wilson, and are authorized by
them to say that they deeply regret and de-
plore the extraordinary canvass which General
Butler has precipitated on the Commonwealth,
and especially the attacks which be has volun-
teered against the existing State government
and the republican party of Massachusetts,;
and that, in their opinion, his nomination as
Governor would be hostile to the best interests
of the Commonwealth ard of the republican
party"
There you have it; and if that don't settle
this enfant perdu, this bad boy Butler, we
should like to know what will settle him.
We suspect, however, that he will not be
frightened off even by this manifesto from
Senators Sumner and Wilson,. General Butler
has two strings to his bow. His first is the
Republican Convention; his second is the
party of women's rights women, labor reform
ers, anti-ring and temperance men. The Re-
publican Convention, they say, will be COM
posed of nearly thousand delegates. 1t will
not assemble yet for q week or two, and in the
mean time, of some two hundred and ffty
scattering delegates elected Butler is reported
as having at least hundred, and he is work.
ing like beaver for more, and he appears to
turn up at every little town meeting where
delegates are to be elected, just in time to
take hand in the work. The only issue in
the State just now is Butler or anti-Butler for
the regular Republican Convention. The Goa
lition against Butler will, we conjecture, be too
strong for him; but if they neglect him then
he will say to the Convention, 'Good morn
ing, gentlemen" and proceed to his new de-
parture."
Weuucu haS utAouSOu OhO piO-
gramme General Butler as an Independent
candidate will be proclaimed as standing upon
the progressive ideas of "Down with the
Boston ring, up with labor reform Down
with the moneyed monopolies and aristocrats,
and up with the laboring massesl Down with
the despotism Of heartless men over defence
less women, and up with the banner OF
women's rights Down with the old fossiized
republican party, and up with the new liberty
and equal rights party Of General Butler -
This is what we expect will be the upshot Of
this Butler campaign in Massachusetts,. And
while he will have discouraging battle
before him against John Quincy Adams as the
democratic candidate on the one side and the
regular republican nominee on the other, we
shall not be surprised if in November we have
the beginning Of great political revolution in
Massachusetts,, though in the beginning Butler
may be defeated, and Phillips, as usual, may
.'come out of the little end Of the horn"