New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-11

THE ADMINISTRATIONS And MR. BUTLER.
Massachusetts has not hitherto been apt to
ask the President of the United States, or any
member of the Administration, whom she
should choose as her Governor. Federal in
reference in that State has not been looked
upon with favor ordinarily. She has been
somewhat shy of it; has with something OF
dignity, and at times of resentment. declined
il. But times change. Just now the organs
of public opinion are principally occupied
in discussing the question whether the
Administration desires the success or
defeat of its eminent supporter, who so lately
has announced himself as a candidate for
the seat of John A. Andrew. 1t having re-
Gently been given out in one of the most
respectable of the Administration organs, with
some color Of authority, that the President
does not desire the nomination OF Mr.. Butler,
another organ, hardly so respectable, perhaps,
but vet not uninfiuential, denies the state
ment point blank, and asserts on the authority
of Washington dispatch, backed by Wash
ington semi-oficial publication, that President
Grant is quite anxious to have Mr.. Butler
nominated. 1t states that there is no misap-
prehension Gin well-informed circles" upon
this point; that it is well understood that the
success of Mr.. Butler would be "highly graft
Giving" to the President. 1t is also said that
Secretary Richardson, Secretary Robson, and
another member of the Cabinet who is not
named are very friendly to Mr.. Butler and
desire his nomination.
And why not Is there anything in the
character of Mr.. Butler that should make his
election as Governor of Massachusetts offensive
to the head OF to any member of the present
Administration 7 Has he not been true to it
through thick and through thin And did
he not champion the measure which above
all others the President was most inter-
ested in and which doubled the latter's
salaryP There is , no reason I, why the
whole power Of the Administration should
not be devoted to secure Mr.. Buffers success
and nothing has transpired to indicate any
other course. The only prominent Admins
tration politician who has taken Butler by the
beard is Gen. Hawley of Connecticut, and he
has invariably been snubbed by the President
upon every occasion, while Butler has had the
Executive ear, and the ears-which was no small
affair-of all the departments. Some of the news
papers are innocentlyTnquiring what business
it is of the Administration any way who is
Governor of Massachusetts,, and others ask
how it is possible for it to interfere. How
the perpetuation of its power by controlling
the Executive Departments and" conse-
ouently the management of the party in
the severalA States concerns an Admins
tration that has had already two terms
and is cropping towards another, is too
simple question to need answering
How it can interfere has the beginning OF an
answer in the late appointment of Judge
Sanger as District Attorney, the effect OF.
which was to give all the ofice-hdlders and
Office seekers-and they are the men who con-
troll caucuses and elect delegates-the impress
sion that Mr.. Butler is the disposer of Offices
in the State.
Massachusetts is very respectable State
Her citizens have great deal OF
State pride, and glorious history to
be proud of and her Governors and Senators
and public men have been with very rare ex-
ceptions men of great ability of unspotted
integrity Of nobility Of character But Massa-