National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-11-16
nom you yourself Just hou much truth there is in

from yoa yourself just how much truth there Is In
TSere i one thinx said the General inter-
rupting ''that you can say. and that is that Vice
Pre- sident Wilson denies that be ever attributed
10 me the defeat Of the Republican party In Mas
saehusetts, ~ charged IN what purports TO have
been an interview with q Newspaper correspond
emit q lew days after the election. ] saw Mr.. VIII
son Yesterday. and he told me that he never said
anything Of the kind 70 anybody, and he said fur
thermOre that no such interview as the one pub
Hshed ever took place."
local incidents preceding the elections, during
which the matter Of
HIS FUTURR PoLITIoAL NovK1rEETs
and the rumors concerning them, were alludedto.
what are those rumors3n the General asked.
"Well, have heard II stated that you were
going TO- be q candidate for the United States
Senate this winter"
81 have no such intention" answered the Gen
ernl, "and you can say 90 very emphatioally."
SLOW about the GoveTnofship next falR Are
you going for thatGn asked.
# have seen it stated in the papers today
added, ''that President Grant has tendered you
the Russian mission and that It Is likely you win
accept Is there any truth IN that statement3''
mo, not word Of truth; and you can say fur
1 am going TO Europe tor the beneht OF my
health. During the last session Of Congress my
physical condition was sueh that journey abroad
now July recovered, and the idea Of foreign
tour has been abandoned long aInce."
political party that the lSvsfiiSsr speaks Of this
SYO1 can say there is not word Of truth in
"There is another story sfOat, General, % the
effect that yOu contemplate writing q letter for
publication, giving in detail your views Of the
general Generalization Of the Republican party
throughout the State and country How about
'sNot . word Of truth in it, sir. As told you
before, shall have something TO say on such
matters, but shall not be heard except from my
seat IN the halls OF Congress. shall write no
letter and will not be interviewed on the subject.
As have already intimated, and you can publish
It In the Herald, / shall not write any letter,
neither shall be q candidate for Congress or for
Governor Of Massachusetts. Neither am going
TO Europe or TO RusF!s and neither am going
to have anything to CO With the starting Of new
An allusion to the third term matter failed to
elicit any opinion from the General, fact which
people have settled that question pretty effect
uelly during the last few days. In some further
conversation the question Of
THE GENERALS DETKAT
was vaguely alluded to, and limited that Il was
currency question might have had something to
dc with 1t. Without admitting this might be the
badly beaten as popularity believed, and that the
rout was certainly not SO great in his own as In
some Of the other Congressional districts: Com
election It appeared that he had lost about 5000
votes In 1914 It Ahould be remembered, there
was Presidential election and an absence Of any
formidable opposition 70 General Butler. By
comparing the loss Of General Butler now IN his
own district with the losses OF some Of the Repub
lican candidates in the other dstriets the record
is not so damaging TO the Essex etatemanis pop
ularity as would seem 1t first. Take 1t, for In
stance in the Tenth and Eleventh districts in
Western Massachusetts,. The Republican candi-
dates lose nearly 600 votes, about twice as
much as General Butler, and in the Fifth dis
triet, where General Banks was elected, the loss
to the Republicans since 1872 was upwards OF
1000. In the First .(Mr. Bunnton's) district
there was also loss Of upwards OF 5000, and Of
nearly 5000 in the Second district, where there
was no contest whatever. In the Fourth (Boston)
district the Republicans also have comparative
loss in two years Of 2,23S; Of o223 in the Seventh
district and Of ans In the Eighth district. This
shows that in all Of the districts where there
were any contests, excepting the Fourth, there
was q larger actual loss and much larger rela-
tive loss to the Republicans than there was in
General Buffers distTict-s fact which disputes
most emphatically that Massachusetts, was lost
to the Republicans on account Of Butlerism.
As was about leaving the General, referring
again to the rumors Of what his future political
movements are 10 be, gave the impression that
he will probably
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