New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-07
BUTLER AFTER DEFEAT.
Ills PRESENT STRENGTH AND PLANS FOR
THE FUTURE.


DER AT woRCEsTER-TIIs PROBABLE CANDIDACY
NEXT YEAR AND IRIS RELATIONS TO THE
ELECTION FOR sENAToR-MR. SUMMERS PRoBA-
BILE ADHERENTs AND GEN. GRANTS HOSTILITY
TO HIM-THE STATE COMMITTEE YIELDING TO
THE BUTLER MEN-OTHER POLITICAL MENTION.
EFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.
Boston, Sept 3O.-Since the defeat and
submission OF Gen. Butler at the Worcester Convention
election campaign has become as quiet-amost as
humdrum indeed-as that OF any State in tho Union.
Butler personally has gone out Of the alto
gether and with him has departed all the life and in-
terest that perained to alrs Opinions differ as TO the
condition in which the Convention left him. Some aver
that his second personal sacrifice for the harmony OF the
party has made him new friends, and that the impu-
dent and audacOus style in which he champiOned
the resolutions Of Mr.. Geo. f. Hoars Com
mitee furnished proof OF his power and his re-
Others hold that he can never again find so
good opportunity that OF the present and that
he is decidedly damaged by this second defeat. All
agree on one pont-that his prestige as q man OF
courage has been seriously injured Very few people in
the say much about the pluck OF Butler and
his warmest adherents, in private conversation admit
that he is decidedly deficient in this quality. This Will
ALLEVIATE quite an important class from his support II he
should for the Goyernorsnp next year. The desire
tho head OF the State Government bold man.
who would lift administration OF affairs out OF the
ruts in which the Republican managers have held IT,
he's brought Butler considerable following in both
his campaigns. This sinking seryilely back into the
party has disguised this class very much he
will not be so formidable again he has been except
as q partisan. The Independent men In politics ana the
Democrats who stood ready to aid him this year. are
much disguised They will rally to his support IN
anything like the numbers that he might have counted
upon had he shown more spirit Gen. Butler cOngratu-
ates himself that he stands better than ever VIII ina
Administration. however Come OF his followers say
that he obeyed instructions from Washington in deohh-
ing to bolt
BUTLER PROBABLE CANDIDATE NEXT YEAR.
1t is assumed on all hands, that he means TO run Tor
the Goyernorshp more next year, and IL dicut
to see how his prospects be improved then except
by yet more earnest support from Washington than
that he has had his campaign for the Conyen
don There is little doubt that Butler estimates as an
important element in his calculations for the future enc
antipathy OF President Grant 70 Senator sumner The
Legislature chosen in 1874 will elect Mr. Summers snc
cessor 10 Senate Is assumed here-and generally
believed by all parties and factOnstha the President
will actively endeavor prevent the return OF MI
Sumner. There are those who hold that 1t would be
easier TO accomplish this effort Gen. Butler out Of
the way altogether But Batter will not down at any
bOdys bidding. He Is determined to be counted IN te
fght OF 1874 and whoever enters the lists against sena
tor Sumner must accept him ally Mr.. Dawes and
the brothers Hoar OF the Hamilton II Ill faction OF the
ter gentlemen very well affected toward Mr. Sum
ner and IL is very certain that many who with them
Will warmly support his reelection. The newer men IN
poitcs like ex-Gov. Bullock aud ex-JudCe Bigelow,
are not Butler Charles Francis Adams has
seriously impaired what strength he had IN
the Republican ranks by his dparl6emento OF President
Lincoln in his euogy OF Mr.. Seward All this would
seem To- tend inevitably to sweep the course Of Grant
candidates for the Senate Of everybody but Butler him
.ols IN nd no
tunties In this He will then be not only tine Admins
traton candidate but may the only orthodox party
candidate as well; for nobody would recognize Mr..
Sumner az in good and regular Republican standing.
There will probably be three-cornered Republican
fight considerable share OF Republicans will support
Mr. Sumner in any event and against anybody another
large section viii favor Gen. Butler in the spirit
still a third may find 1t necessary, IN uphOldng party
fealty to rally around Mr. Dawes or some one else But
this last as has been minated above amounts TO
anything, can hardly resist being swallowed by the
Butler vortex. The Administration will repudlae any
supporters who cannot be utilized TO prevent Mr. Sum-
ner's election.
NOT MORE THAN TWENTY THOUSAND MAJORITY EXPECTED
FOR wAsHBURN.
We shall then see if the Administration and the Re
publican party together enough to carry Gen.
Butler for he Will not have the outside support that
would have been his this year. The independent men
will all 20 for Mr. Sumner, and the Democrats and the
dissatisfied will be more likely to aid him than they will
Gen. Butler. In such an event, the aters prospects
will not be brilliant; for tho Republican party has
its hest days in Massachusetts. This ia not opinion
confined to those who are opposed to II. IL Is
expressed on every hand. There a general looking for
its early dissolution dsntegraton in any event and
numbers Of its best members Indifferent to how
early the day for this event arrives You confidently
look for fearful falling off in the majority Of the
party in this Autumn's election. Gov. Washburn had
over 10000 majority last year. He will be very lucky If
he get 10000 this year. Some shrewd judges OF political
matters set It at much lower figures, and this will be
attained at time when the Democratic party OF Massa
chusetts shares fully with its brethren all the
ton the unprecedented feeling OF announcement that
prevails. 1t will be more significant OF Republican fall
ing away than of Democratic increase for in fact there
Will DO none whatever OF tine latter. The Republican
party Will 20 into the campaign Of 1874 in Massachusetts,
therefore, shOrn very materially Of its aspect Of nvnc
blty And 10 will 30 with Butler the sheetanchor
that is to preserve its integrity Butler bids fair
beat the Hamilton Hall leaders in getting himself into
this position; but the Hamilton Hall leaders will have
this advantage that when he is got there they will not
care-or large proportion Of them VIII not-whether
the party kept together or dissolved Such the state
Of things toward which we are most certainly Tending
"rnE ADVERTISERS" BOLT NOT WELL SUPPORTED.
Perhaps the Butler leaders the State Commit
tee realize this fact already and thus make but feeble
efforts to preserve their ascendency in that body It is
easier TO believe this than to think them tid and so
little apprecative OF their opportunities their action
in organizing the State Committee would seem TO indi
cate They secured the control of the Committee as
incident OF their victory Butler at the State Con-
yentIon Yet they have yielded every advantage that
this gave them 1t in their power to follow up the
vigorous protest Of The Boston Advertiser against the
undue influence OF national ollce-holders in our
noIitics-a protest which the State Convention
had approved in its resolutions, II resolutions |
ever have any significance One of The Advertisers
staff was elected this State Committee, and went
into that body with mission to purify it Of the OBJ
iectionabe and obnoxious oticeholding influence. He