The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-24
MASSACHUSETTS,.
The Senatorial Contestant Anal
ysis of the Situation.
The Chances on the Eve
of Battle.
AN UNCERTAIN SITUATION.


tration would like Hoar. That Is second
point. Those who do not like Butler nor
the administration nor anything particularly,
prefer CHARLES Francis Adams. The great excep-
ton to this rule is the President OF the Senate,
George b. Lorng, whose candidate is George B.
LOrinC. There Will be some independent votes for
Wendell Phillips. The democrats have nominated
b. X. Curtis. but they Will support General Banks
or Charles Francis Adams. General Banks is. as I
remarked, member of the Senate-a liberal re-
publican, elected by republican votes. He has q
peculiarly independent position-bound to no
party. and elected simply because he Is N. P. Banks,
and everybody IN Waltham likes him. He is a
tingent candidate for the Senate-that Is to say,
his chances for election somewhat resemble the
chances Micawber at one time enjoyed OF embark
Ing in the coal trade on the Medway.
DAWES.
So Butler supports Dawes This Is O surprising
fact, especially to the untutored mind not prone
the winding ways of politicians. 1t Is only yester-
day that Dawes came In furious haste from the
far Pacific coasts, burning with anger to cruelty
Butler between two thieves for daring to become
candidate for the Governorsnip. Have we not
seen them swordpoint to swordpoint on the floor
Of the House' Yesterday ali wrath and bitterness,
and now In loving harmony and mutual support,
Verify brethren, verify insci utabe the ways OF
public men, and 1t Is not for untutored mind like
that ofyou correspondent to presume to read them.
do not think there is much communion Of soul
between the two leaders. BY this mean that they
do not pray for each other except in the
general entreaty that God would be mercifui to all
sinners And as worldly reasons must be found for
everything now, for Massachusetts politics also,
am afraid, this is the explanation -Dawes is less
offensive to Butler than HOar or Adams. Hoar ana
Adams are from the eastern part OF the State, and
SeQQtOrShD n nj Uan.
erations. Elect HOar or Adams or any other east
ern man, and when the next convention assemblies
TO nominate Governor the argument will be
made that the west is entitled to some honor, else
all the public men in the west will move into Bos.
toni Now, General Butler Is also from the west
and he Is candidate tor Governor. Elect
Dawes to the Senate, and the west Will be
satisfied without Governor. Since Butler does
not crave the Senatorship he Will put it as far
away from his home as possible. Dawes repre-
sents the average political character OF Massa-
chusetts. He is no better and no worse than the
average. He has been sin harness." as the phrase
goes. many years. Now and then he leases the
administration to please Sam BOwles, but he keeps
in line with his party. He was in the Credit Mo-
bilier businessmen deep. but compromised. He
took ten per cent for his money from Cakes Ames.
People have said that If he had been honest, high
souled man he would have denounced the Credit
Mobilier at the time, that he might have earned five
per cent on his money in government bonds, and
Kept his honor pure. But he took ten and held his
peace. He did not shuttle like Garfield or say I'M
truths like COlax, but he was as seriously involved
in all that was morally wrong in that ira nsaction.
| JUDGE HOAR.
Remember, too that Dawes has time and again
leased the administration. Never seriously. but
still enough to rritate the source of human peace
| IN the White House. Now. we are instructed that
| true loyalty to our Caesar requires us to rebuke
| the man who thinks he has been spending
too much money. So the loyal beel-eaters who
are not under the evil eye of Butler, and who are
free to act for themselves. prefer Judge Hoar OF
Concord. Judge Hoar was formerly Attorney
General and was afterwards mentioned iu connec-
ton with the vacancy on the Supreme
Bench. But he had bad temper and irritable ways
| with carpet-bag Senators and Rocky Mountain
statesmen when they came to instruct him about
the duties Of his station and his appointments. So
they bothered the President until he edged Hoar
out Of the Cabinet and put in that shining light
| from the Dismal Swamp Amos 7. Alderman, who
may be dead now for what any one KNOWS or
cares. The President meant that Hoar should
fall on downy seat, but did not nominate him for
! the Supreme Bench. In the language OF high
| society in Nevada, the carpet-baggers and Rocky
Mountain statesmen ''woud have gone for him''
and he would never have been confirmed. No
man was ever more loved by his friends
than E. r. Hoar, but his capacity for ex-
citing malevoience amounts to genius. The
Judge is now in Congress from the Concord and
Lowell district. He ran to defeat DR.. Aver, the
champion pill-and-cherry pectoral statesman, who
is ambitious to round his career as patent medi-
cine dealer with seat in Congress- AS Massachu-
sets did not crave this particular form OF adver
tisement, and as cherry-pectoral was sure of
the nomination, Judge Hoar was brought in at the
last moment to defeat him. So that HOar is now
in Congress because he is not DR.. Aver. The Judge
lives in Concord, which is a kind OF Yankee Mecca,
near Boston, haowed by the life OF Emerson, and
the spirits OF Hawthorne, Thoreau and others who
have gone before them. 1t Is believed to be holy
place. where everybody reads Latin and goes to
bed at nine In the evening, and children begin
Plato in the nursery and bad boys swear in Greek.
Altogether it is great blessing to live in Concord
quite liberal education, and when 1t sends can
didate like Judge HOar to the front he comes with
presumptive light. But the Judge Is from the
east and Butler Is from the east and so "Bertram's
right and Bertram's might are met on Eangowan
height" and ''the boys" headed by Simmons, are
all against the Judge, who will probably be left In
the bowling wilderness OF the lower House.
ADAMS AND THE ADAMS FAMILY.
The candidate most spoken Of is Charles Francis
Adams. MIR. Adams Is nearly seventy years or
age, sixty-seven to be exact, but is a well pre-
served, courteous, cold, silver haired, silver
bearded old gentleman, who ran for the Vice Prcs
dency twenty.six years ago with Van Buren,,
and came near running for the Presidency
against Grant, Adams is more talked
about than any other candidate because,
among other things, It Is quite respectable
to support Mr. Adams-like going to church and
wearing kid gloves and drinking Burgundy. Some
how it is 'the thing to do" and as q consequence
many support Mr.. Adams without meaning it-Sam
Bowles, for instance, who is really for
Dawes. Mr.. Adams, no doubt, would make good
Senator. He Is an Adams remember, which means
that he is cold, correct dogmatic, resolute; man
OF high honor, who has served the country in
many stations with dignity and fidelity. But