Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-28
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BUTLER.
Massachusetts, RepudlateH the Many.
Sided Radical Rascal, nnd win
Defeat Him ut all Hazards,


Defeat Him ut all Hazards.
BOSTON, October 18.-The support
ers of Judge Il. II. Hoar for congress
in the seventh district issued this az
ternoon a circular to the Republicans.
which opens by defense Of the right
of voters to bolt any candidate, by
whatever regularity OF process brought
forward, whose public character is not
good, or whose opinions and acts have
been adverse to those of the party On
important questions. This view IA sus-
tanned by an extract from the Re-
publican platform at the State conven-
ton this year. The address then re-
views Buffers Republican views, his
rag-money heresies, and his various at
tempts to capture the governorship,
and adds Ii is enough TO say that
each Of his schemes for popularity,
arising out Of inOrdinate ambition, van
lty and unscrupulousness. have been
utterly repudiated by the Republican
party as in bad faith and dishonorable.
Had they succeeded he would have
claimed the chief honor; as they have
discarded he must bear and has borne
~
alone, without other causes, would
have been enough to account for the
ill-favor which is attached TO his name
wherever American politics are known.
1t next takes up the civil-service re-
form, and sums up az TO Butler, He
opposed every principle OF the Repub-
llcan party respecting slavery SO long
as slavery was political question be-
fore the war, and after the war he
strove to induce the Republican party
to repudlate the national debt By paying
It IN green0acks, and his policy was
condemned and its condemnation has
become part Of the Republican creed.
de then strOve to commit us TO an
other form Of repudiation--a tax on
the interest of the debt, and was put
down by the moral sense of the nation.
He next is found striving for aud still
believing in the paper money on it's
own basis, aud opposing any return by
act of law TO specie payments Now
he is the opponent of that kind of civil
service reform which his party aud its
candidate for President intend TO car
ry out. His public conduct has, in
many respects, been disgraceiul. In
the course of the war Governor An
drew said i am compelled to declare,
with great reluctance aud regret, that
the course OF proceedings under Ma
joT-General Butler in this common
wealth seems to have been designed
and adopted simply to afford means 10
make money unscrupulously, and TO
encourage men whose unfitness had
excluded them from any appointment
by me to the volunteer military SER
vice, to hope for such appointment
over Massachusetts troops from other
Authority than that of the executive
OF Massachusetts. In the campaign
of 1868, in the fifth district, he offered
reward of eight hundred dollars.
over his own hand, TO any person who
would bring him evidence, written or
oral, against the character of any Re-
publican engaged in opposing his cleo
tion, and he threatened to follow any
such private citizen up in his relation
with the assessors of taxes, and mat
ters Of like nature. La fact, his atti-
tude TO every Republican voter was
our vote or lite. Vote for me or 1
will harrass you to the end" Congress
was obliged to pass a law 20 protect
its members from General Buffers in
perception of their telegraphic CORES
pondence. lie set spies and paid in
formers upon the steps of a political on
ponent, even OF his own party, in these
base ways. of which he seems not TO be
ashamed when detected, he tries 20
keep up reign OF terror over his on
ponents. After such history, aud
with such character, having ruined
himselfand half ruined his party ia an
other district into which he moved 10
geta political step, he now returns 20
the district he deserted and thrusts him
self upon us--a discarded politician at
war with the chiel principles of his par
ty, and in state ofquarrel with no small
proportion OF its members. The ad-
dress concluded with this consolinc
paragraph, designed to reassure tinid
Republicans who fear that vota
against Butler will help TO electa Dem.
ocrat There are Republican votes
enough III the district to elect Judge
Hoar and still leave q considerable
margin for such persons standing in
our ranks as shall be inclined 10 favor
General Butler; but whatever NAV be
the result Of the polls, the only result
to the individual voter can be that he
will or Will not have done his duty ia
the best way possible for him TO his
State and country. The support of
Judge HOar cannot aid in the election
Of Mr.. Tarbox. The total vote caSt
in the district has never exceeded
nineteen thousand votes, but in this
Presidential year will undoubtedly
reach If not exceed that number. The
Democratic candidate has never reach
ed more than six thousand votes. ex-
cept in the election Of 1874, when Mr..
Tarbox received three thousand Re
publican votes. In estimating the vote
Of this year, II we cOncede Mr.. Tar
box the large number OF six thousand
votes, there still llremain thirteen thous-
and to be divided between Judge Hoar
and General Butler. Therefore. IL the
Republican vote should be equally di-
ylded, each Republican candidate
would have majority over Mr.. Tar
box, and whether Judge Hoar or Gen
eral Butler shall have the plurality IL
in your hands" The boItagainst But
Ter seems 10 be gaining in strength, and
while no one seriously expects Judge
Hoar's election, there are many who
think Butler will be defeated, in spite
of regularity" government inhunce,
and all the terrorism which old Strab.
ismuth maintains. Butler is stumping
the district nightly, bowling about the
satanic press, and abusing Judge
Hoar. Tarbox is also speaking night.
ly, and it is probable Judge Hoar will
take tho stump next week. The tri-
angular fight will be hot till election.
Why Don't They RaIlyl