The sun., 1873-08-27
The Campaign in Massachusetts.

The contest for the Republican nomiua-
tion for Governor of Massachusetts is
chiefly distinguished for demagocism,
personal abuse, aud downright black
guardisn.
The opponents of Gen. BrTLER nssail
him as an cmh, dimCnt and cXcnplar OF
the trick,ry, the inpudouce. the vcunlity
Of the present rascally, corrult, domora-
iacd era in politics.
ON the other huud BC1iEU dcuoWccs
GOV. WAsIHUENu "a muuufa, turcr ofpulls.
w.Io went to Congress poor and rc-poct-
ahlc. got ON the Committee ot Claims. be-
clmc Chairman thereof. and hy virtue Of
his position ac'ui ulat'd riches. while his
houc partners IN pail making continued
honest ana poor.
How this >tNlc of carving II campaign
would have appeared TO the Massachusetts
of forty and nfty years ago. when CnI1sro-
PIER GoRE, Lew LINCOLN. and EDWARD
EVERETT held the oilice of Governor, and
when all the children of the Common
wealth went 10 school, and all the youth
know the cat,chism by heart, and all the
adults attended church twice every sun
day! We may laugh at those prim, ascetc
times; but We should bear in mind that
al AiAbS' NislN SbullN III
tcgrIty counted forsomothing, and ii would
have been an impossibilty for either party
10 nominate f1r Governor any man
against whom the bittercst factionists
would venture ~ bring such charges ms
are now hurled back and forth between
the champions of ByTLER and wAsHBURS.
But II is not so now with the party
which claims to ombody in is member
ship n larFr share of the virtue of
Commonwealth which sets il elf up a.
model for the other states OF the Union.
In this war of words, in which slang SO
much prcdoniuntcs over argument. the
national Administration takes the side of
Butler. when Gen. GRANT was passing
through Boston on his tour TO Maine, he
gave it 10 le understood that he was for
BUTLER and that the olicoholdcrs must
throw their influence III his favor III elect
ing delegates TO the Worcos cr Convention.
That there might be no mistake on this
point, senator CAMERON, who speaks by
authority, caused himself to be interview
ed, and In the course of a long convcrsa-
ton laudcd BUTLER rs n frank. bold man,
who always meant what lac said aud there
fore could bc trusted wli'e on the other
hand DAWES, IIoAR, ana his leading oppo-
nents were "A cowardly, sncaking ,ct. whose
opinions were of no value in a crisis like
the present.
Well, why should not the AdmnistIT-
tion second BUrLrR in hs aspirations 60
he Governor n stepping 4 ne to sum
SER's seat IN the senate, ana perhaps even
t. GRANTS clair in thr white House: The
Republican party controlled the Forty
-
which that Congress is chiefly distinguish
ed are the salary law and the Credit Mo-
hlicr investigation. The former put a
muuItcent cum into tn" purse of GEN
GRANT, and rcplensaod the empty pock-
cts of many IA Republican Senator aud
Representative, while the latter threw
cloud over the regulations of some Of the
eminent leaders OF thr party.
In this crisis, who loomed up ns the fore
most man Of the party m Congress Was
II not BUTLER; Wucn the salary hill was
lost be rcsu-citatcd il, and ly his skill and
audacitY engineered II through the two
Houses; and he has since openly defended
the measure, hurting contempt and de-
fauce in the faces Of all Cougrrssmen who
have returned the back pay. lie, too, Vig-
orou-ly and almost single hnndcd eSpoused
the cause OF the Credit Mohlicr offenders
in the debate on the committees report,
ASST ling BANKS and POLAND, and throw
ing the shield of his protection over DAWES
nnd AMEs, and trying to prove that they
aud the other lcnetiCialies Of AMEs were
not as great scamps as those who arraigned
them.
II, Therefore. TO have led lis party in the
two measures for which the Republicans
of the Forty-second Congress will be long
est remembered entities man 10 distinc-
tiou and promotion in that party, then
why should not BENJAMIS T. BUTLER be
the Republican nominee for Governor Of
Massachusetts?