The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-30
Chr 1ailg Arens,


From the Springfield Mass Republican.
There are some compensations for living
out of Massachusetts If you are truly
loyal Republican editor, you can then in
dulge your fancy that Gen. Grant is in no
wise responsible for Rntler's hold on the
federal offices and party machinery in this
State The Hartford Co0raat tries tn be
happy in a mist of this sort and seeks to
have every one else share its comfort The
Republican, must be excused it has been
there and graduated For year after year
now it has seen the President, in every
case of conflict over federal appointments
in this State, side with Butler; again and
again appointing the poorer officer some
times violating his own promises; turning
a deaf ear to the earnest appeals OF per-
sonal friends-all that this vicious and cor
rupt, but in the eyes of Gen. Grant and
bis near advisers, very useful politician,
shall be appeased, shall not be driven to
make war upon them.
No doubt, as the C0Hraat says Gen.
| Grant understands B. f. Butler as well as
| any man living And that is what makes
| his compliance with Buffers demands so
| disgraceful and so damaging The Presi-
| dent has had his choice again and again to
| follow the lead of Sumner, Dawes, " ash
| burn and Hoar in Massachusetts appoint
ments Boutwell, and Wilson would have
4cquiesced; the whole delegation would
have been detached from Butler the party
| would have been firmer and stronger in the
| State, the federal Offices more respectfully
| filed and Gen Grant more hOn0red by hon
| orable men all over the land. He did not do
| this-he did the other thing because he
and his Cabinet officers, and his outside
| friends in Office or in contracts found Gen
| Butler more useful for certain purposes
than the other set, and besides were afraid
DOT to please him Dawes and Garfield
would have killed the salary grab bill the
last day Of the last session If they had not
been afraid of Butler: and Gen. Grant
would not have given over the federal of
fees in Massachusetts to Butler practical
ownership if he was not similarly afraid
# him. These are not pleasant things to
think, not agreeable things to say--but
hey are the essential truth.
The CoUrdHt says. lit Is not Gen.
1rants business to purify Massachusetts
politics Perhaps not-but it is his bus
mess that he do n thing TO Pc lutte or dc.
grade them-it is his business that they
AXE no harm from anything he does OF
units to do That he has surrendered the
federal patronage in this State to Gen
Butler service is the simple truth-tha,
l he knows he has done this, and that he
aud his friends are enjoying the pay for it
] can hardly have escaped penetrating hi.
inattention Il don't say anything abou
my neighbor's sausages, says the L5ndor
grocer of the butcher, but where You see
them sausages, you don't see no dogs
Whenever you find a federal office holder
I in Massachusetts Of any note or power, YOU
lind man who is deep in the service o
Butler, or holding his silence in a STYLE
that Sidney Smith would have called elo
quent in Macaulay They know at leas
] IN whom to put their trust-they know
too, as well as the men above them il
, Washington, when it will not do to offend