New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-22
RTTLER'S NEXT RdID.

BUILERS NEXT RATD.
The great disturbance In Massachusetts
which, from the dreadful moment of Sim
mons's nomination for the Collectorship of
Boston. has kept the responsibility OF the State
awake and astir, has been succeeded since the
election of Gov. Washburn to Mr.. Summers
vacant seat in the Senate by great calm.
The agony is apparently over. The purest
and best of Massachusetts are no longer lying
awake nights devising means to escape Butler
without offending Grant. The election OF
Washburn, though il means nothing at all IN
itself, has been hailed on all sides with
grateful feeling of relief, and oil parties are
resting from strife. The Butler people VINO
supported Dawes are satisfied with having de-
feated Judge HOar, and the anti-Butler men
arc reasonably contented with the defeat or
Dawes. So far it seems q drawn game. But
is it
All things political in Massachusetts, being
considered now in the light of Butler ana anti
Butler. and it being understood that the late
disturbances were only Mr.. Buffers leading
up to the Gubernatorial campaign OF 1874. 1t
would perhaps be wise for the good Admins
tration Republicans who have the Butler night
mare to consider how he and they have been
left by the result. 1t will be remembered that
in Mr.. Buffers first dash for the GOvernorship in
1871 he was the leading candidate, the OPPOSE
ton to him being divided upon three or
four prominent men; that it was only
at tho last moment, when Buffers sue
cess seemed probable and almost newt
able, that all the opposing candidates
were withdrawn. one after the other, ana the
anti-Butler strength was concentrated upon
Mr.. Washburn, giving him the nomination
1t was a close rub. In 1873 it was an admitted
impossiblity to concentrate the anti-Butler
vote upon any other candidate than Mr.. Wash
burn, and he was accordingly nominated as
the anti-Butler candidate
Ii is a serious question whether, In the
coming contest for the Governorship, the oppo-
sition to Butler will be able to agree upon
single candidate. We have had for the past
two or three weeks an illustration OF the
danger to which they are exposed, OF divided
counsels and . plethora OF candidates: Tue
election of Gov. Washbum to the Senate
removes from the field the most available
candidate upon whom, in the event of there
being number of aspirants, the opposition
might again agree. Mr. Butler talhes
one in the election of Gov. Washburn to the
Senate. His opponents will not find 1t an
easy task to fix upon single candidate 10
whom they can bring united support.
Among the most earnest opponents OF MI.
Buffers Gubernatoral aspirations hitherto has
been Mr.. Henry l.. Dawes. That the Senate
rial contest has resulted in leaving Mr.. Dawes
hors de combat hardly needs demonstration.
After tho fight which Butler and his
friends have made for Dawes for the
Senatorsbp, it is not probable that the
latter will make any strenuous exertlons
in the fight against Butler for Governor. Add
to this that the friends of Dawes who have
heretofore opposed Butler, but were assisted
in the Senatorial campaign with so much
force and persistency by Buffers adherents,
will hardly have it in their hearts to abandon
their late allies and go to the assistance of
those who defeated them, and we have sit
uation in which it is easy to see Mr.. Butter
is greatly strengthened for his new campaign.
BY the removal of Washburn to the Senate,
and the alliance with the friends OF Dawes,
the Massachusetts claimant" Is put In bet
ter position than ever before to secure the
prize he cOvets. But these are not the only
particulars in which he has strengthened him.
self since last September. He has secured
what is of more consequence still-the patron
age of the Federal Government, and through
il the support of the office-hOlders and their
dependents. Simmons in the CustOm-house is
a reinforcement which counts more than all the
rest. There is now no doubt of his influence with
the Administration, or OF the fact that he can
claim the support of the Administration when
ever he wants it and for whatever he desires
He has made two grand and audaciOus sallies
for the Governorship, and each time frightened
his timid adversaries almost out of their boots.
He cOntemplates another attack, with better
organization and equipment than ever, and,
from present appearances, with good pros
poets of success. If the anti-Butler people in
Massachusetts propose to defeat him this time,
they have no time to spare before beginning
to organize for it.
THE SOURCE OF ALBANY Woes.