The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-09
OUR nOsTON LETTER.

DOvn-Banks not Observation-Disclosures
Botticd-what was Done, How II
was Done, why 10 was D0ne-Thc
Cradle of Liberty Rocked by Green
Hands.
When VIC proposed 10 visit the battle
field and report the list of killed and wound
cd, we had no Idea that we should ourselves
be stunned by the shock Of the conflict,
but as we gaze upon the transparency"
and read the votes as they were received
by telegraph, we became so bcwildered
that it has taken four and twenty hours for
us to collect our thoughts enough TO write.
Few were better prepared for defeat than
myself, as previous letters Indicate; but
there has not been candid democrat who
entertained the breath Of suspicion that
such total roul were possible. Neverthe-
less the fact stands that there has been most
astounding (not domocratic) victory, re-
publican defeat all along the line the ranks
broke and fed into the nearest camp, be it
democratic, Independent or liberal
A blue day like unto this fourth of No.
vembcr, 1874, was never chronicled in Mas
sachusctts. Dawes, Blaine, Boutwell, and
their associates who have wasted so much
oratorcal skill, look very much like refu-
gees they are ruined men, judging from
the outlook to-day; they are weary of po-
litical life to say the least they have
spoken every night for two weeks in the
fifth district and then lost it by six thou
sand majority for Banks. A startling fact
indeed, one hardly creditablc TO them as
leader, of the national party.
Banks never swept his district SO clean
as this time, and no reason can be assigned;
ii was simply astonishing, and he did it in
the face of the most powerfully organized
ring in the country, backed by limitless
money and the whole custom house and
postofllce clique. We are not So badly de-
featcd as not TO admire the pluck of n. p.
Banks in th campaign.
Tie pill man was elected To stay at home,
and it was done handsomely. Butler is as
dead as though he were buried four thou
sand feet below the surface Many pre-
dict that like Webster and Greeley, he
will soon pass away broken hearted. 1t is
u terrible defeat for him, his own strong
holds sweeping him clean from their list,
and everybody says that the vote of the
state was aimed at him sure it is that
every candidate who had the good will of
Butler was dropped from the republican
ticket by the voters, and he can never win
himself foothold in the state again.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.
Bullelism is cternally dead. Rings and
and cliques arc shown to be powcrless
when the people are aroused. Money for
elecioneering purposes will be at dis
count hereafter. The republican party has
been taught that it has no lease of life that
it does not earn by good behavior and
purity of character, and prohibiionists
have learned to be more wise and less pre-
sumptuous. 1t IS an incontroverlible fact
that the majority of the citizens of the
state, yesterday. did not want prohibitory
law.
HOW WAS IT DONE?
Wise heads are numerous, who can tell
how it all happened, but we don't propose
to increase the list of foolhardy expounders
of causes in this case, for it was absolutely
inexplicable. We can, however, give
several facts which helped the cause along,
but beyond all explanation there lurked
in the atmosphere ruinous element.
Among the abetting causes, may
be mentioned, first, foremost and upper
most, the ruinous influence of Benjamin F.
Butler Since the day he thrust w. A.
Simmons upon the business men of the
state as Collector of the Port, lie has been
a doomed man there has only waited an
opportunity for the people to manifest their
disgust it has come at last, and they have
thrown overheard every man who has been
tainted with Buterism. Secondly, the re-
publican leaders have displayed superior
genius for stumbling error and error has
marked their course from last summer un-
til after election this was manifest in the
class of men nominated, in the reckless
manner in which they used money and ma
tional patronage in the line of argument
pursued by the speakers, and in the trad
ing, pickering spirit which pervaded all
their dealings and movements. Thirdly,
the prohbitory leaders have precpitated
the defeat by injudcious radicalism per-
vading all their councils. Lastly, an mex
plicable undercurrent which swept the vo-
tiers into the democratic line without giving
any excuse for their sudden departure.
WHY 1T WAS DONE,
Is beyond our philosophy, and yet. it was
deserved, and will do the state, the party,
and the country good, although the remedy
racks the system numerically. May we
be spared ever receiving second dose of
the same cordial ca.
You may be assured that old Faneuil
Hall rung with democratic echoes to be
sure, it was new business to most of them.
/ bnt Gen. Banks was among them and he
! knew how to make it rock right earnestly.
II the republican party OF the nation Is
wise enough to purge itself of all corrup-
'ion, so MS to enter the canvass two years
hence with men of character, ability and
principle, standing upon platform OF
sound philosophy, simple and unequivocal
we shall never regret the admonitIon re
ceivcd yesterday. ALTRN.
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Valuable Horse stolen.