The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-06-27
R,ltEer and massachusetts,.

BENJAMIN +. ButIcT HIS IOllS mao his
eve upon the Governors chair Of Mass
acbusetts The canvass he is now con-
ducting for the Republican nomina-
ton. though not as ostentations and
noisy as that of last year, is perhaps
quite as effective.
A few of the Republican newspapers
of that State mildly protest against .
Buffers candidacy. This is over-fas- ,
tidious. Certainly Butler went all !,
lengths in defence of the Credit Mo /
hilicr swindlers and perjurers, and was
their ablest advocate on the floor of
the House. But Massachusetts gave
Grant a tremendous majority over
Greeley last fall, and her Republican
journals are loud in his praises now.
And did not Grant recently give Col
fax, one of the most shameless of these
swindlers and pe:jurers, most eulO-
CYSTIC certificate of good character III
the very teeth Of these damning expo
sures? Moreover, has not Grant just
appointed as Minister to Japan John
! y. Bingham, another of these Credit
/ Mobilier rogues, who did not try to
conceal his guilt by false swearing and
! hypocritical xplanatiOns like Paterson
and some Of the rest of the villains, but
in his usual blathcrskite style brazened
! it through
Now, if Colfax is worthy of certi-
ficate of good character and Bingham
is suitable Minister to 90 to Japan,
is not Butler fit to rule the intensely
Republican State of Massachusetts,
whereof Henry l.. Dawes is the model
statesman?
True it is that Butler was one of the
foremost advocates of the salary gra b
and back-pay steal bill, and has gone
out of his way to insult people who
have expressed their disapprOval OF
this measure and many Of the Repub-
leans Of Massachusetts affect to be
opposed to it. But did not Grant lob
by for this bill ? Did it not double his
own salary after he had agreed to serve
four years more at the old rate? Did
he not write at the bottom of it, Gap
proved, L. S Grant ?' And do not
Massachusetts Republicans admire
Grant? And at their State Conven
tiOn for the nomination of a Governor
will they not pass eulOgistic resolutions
in favor of Grant? And if, wher
viewed from tue standpoint Of the
salary-grab bill, the Republican Con
vention deems Grant worthy of eulOgy
is not Butler fit to be their nominee
for Governor
This turning up of noses at Butte
! by some of the high-tOned Republicans
3, of the land of Plymouth Rock anC
Bunker Hill is sheer atfectatiOn. FO
six Years he has been thought gOoC
; enough to represent the county Of rs
: sex in Congress, the most Furitanica
! district OF the State, embracing And
over Theological Seminary, the stand
7 ard of modern orthodoxy the town o
r Danvcrs, where the Pilgrims hung th
. witches for disturbing their meetings
and the city of Salem, whence the,
. banished Roger Williams for heresy
5 And more significant than all this, tn
B. straight-laced Republicans of Essex
n not being able to find a suitable persO
. within their own county to represen
:, them in Congress, have for these 81.
+ Years past gone into the adjOinin
a county of MiddleseX and selected BUt
+. Ter, the model man of Lowell, to spea
} for them and vote for them at the nG
:. tional capital. Surely, if he is a fai
type of such a constituency, is he DC
fit to rule over the rest Of the people {
> tile Commonwealth whose virtue an
honesty and honor are graduated on
e lower plane than those of old Essex
" At all events, the outlying and MOI
o barbarous States of the Union wi
It watch with interest the experimer
u u now making by large body Of r.
Il publicans to nominate Benjamin /
!, Butler for Governor of a Common
= wealth which boasts of Brewster an
8 Winthrop, of Hancock and Adams, {
- Webster and Everett, of Whittier an
Garrison. If he is nominated an
/ elected the country will see the lev,
le which the Republican party in its for
= most State has reached II he is non
- mated by the Convention but beaten /
IF the polls, then we shall have obtaine
q a point whence there can be a new d.
, parture for the future.
q Let us watch and wait-N Y Stu