The New York herald., 1873-09-01

occurred almost Immediately after breakfast u was
Yorker, VINO never thinks OF even beginning to get
drunk TILL IN the evening. More than this, the
wine was worse than the enforcement OF the law
The truth Is, the liquor law is o sham, pretence
Liquors are sold everywhere, and as openly as In
New York or Philadelphia. The Governor knows
know It, the people know 1t ana the cantiDG and
hypocritical temperance orators know it, COnse-
ask him whether he would enforce the law ss well
as Governor Washburn enforces tan offence the
only proper @ for which nr wSaiE s t ne no 70
sincerely repents.
CANVASS OF sHAMs AND sLANDER.
II there are any questions outside OF these have
never heard OF them. These are shams and the
others would be shams also From the wooden nut
megs OF Connecticut TO the single women OF
the entire region everything seems to be "imita-
tion." made up," sham, pretence. Butler appears
TO be the only honest thing in Massachusetts, for
ne AZ least never seeks to conceal his acts and
lieves
The older guv'ment is the better u suits,
Change ies' i9r change is like them big hotels,
where they shin plates and let you live on smells
Butler, on the other hand, is for
Al 1ns aSs elsHsa sss9 an the al AK sns se %', s
Each side Is ready to expose the OF the other
and each avows that 1t is the other that would feed
the people on smells. While the whig dynasty ls
shamming about its goodness and respectability
and 'vartoo" ana caumniating the other side
Butler Is giving as good as he gets. Says Mr..
George +. Hoar after referring to Buffers eulogy
OF himself "inever knew anybody else to say much
only public testimonial that he can show is dinner
OF thanks given him by the trustees OF o school to
which ne had come down with share OF his back sal
ary." Mr.. Adm Thayer, oil Worcester, went to Ham,
1lton Hall ana arraigned General Butler for taking
the back pay, whereupon Butler answers that
the administration republicans who do not
support tto bntierEdrew 50 mileage and $2os
ssy as sss Though t the time
the Senate. Robinson, who wrote the history Of
the .salary grab" is called persistent salary
grabber," and General Butler shows that in 1854
and 1865 he had his pay as clerk OF the House in
creased twenty per cent backward to the begin
ning OF tne session" All who assail him must eX.
everybody In Observation-Disclosures is, nearly every
body in polltics-s vulnerable to attack. Under
average Massachusetts, politician to do is 10 stick
70 TO- MS snSms but to quit lying Lying Is thing
ana Ieatners, II disgraces whole community.
THEY CALL NE BEN"
:, one OF the most plantive things which General
Butler ever uttered was the sentence In his Wake
HELD speech on Wednesday:-"If, sometimes, this
strain OF calumny shall stop and they cannot find
anything else, then they display their wit and call
me Ben" We have always been told that General
Butler has hide as thick as O rhinOcer0s; that
no accusation ever affects him, and tnat ISLANDERS
and calumnies are matters of no concern to him.
This little phrase, "they call me Ben," tells diff
ferent story: The strong man ls evidently growing
weary OF abuse-ls at least seeking for courtesy If
not for kindness. Boston paper the other day
even called him Benny" and in refuting mis-
WOTCesteT speech maze MIN Caik aOOuJ "Blu hOD-
inson." The practice is not complimentary to
American journalism, but in country where Wash
ington is called "George" as often as the Queen is
called "Her Majesty In England 1t has little sig
nlfcance. know OF one newspaper scribbler who
always calls the new American Minister to Japan
Demi-JOhn A. Bingham General Cushing is almost
invariably called "Caleb," and are often
pected to know that the President is meant by the
mention OF "Ulyss." 1t is no wonder. then, that
the familiarity has become offensive to General
Butler especially when it IS indicative of the spirit
which has caused cloud OF calumny % hang over
his lie and to obscure and almost OblIterate the
good deeds and vigorous actions of a strong, bold
man, who has his virtues as well as his faults.