Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-11-22

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BosToN, November 14-The vote in Mas
: sachusetts lastweek Is extraordinary, first of
all, from its magnitude 1t is much larger
than either party anticipated, and the Demo-
Gratis have made the largest proportional in
crease. They have almost doubled Their vote
of four years ago. and have Carried its fgttres
above 100000 The Republican majority,
which was over 10000 Ill 1872, and nearly
$4,000 in 1868; is cut down to 10000; a little
less than its aii1Junt in 1850 Republican
control in the legislature has never at any
time been threatened. When the Democrats
chose the governor in 1874; they had not more
than third Of the senate and house, and
this year they have lio more than a fifth of
either body. The only serious Republican
loss is iii Boston, Outside of the city the
State fully asserts her Republican faith Only
now and then a scattering Democrat is elect
ed to the Legislature, and the five congress
! slonal districts that are now represented by
men chosen by Democrats are all recovered
Inside Boston and Suffolk county limits.
everything is reversed. The Democrats there
choose FIVE out of eight senators, elect ma
jority of the members of the house of
representatives, and will have one, and
it may be, both the members of congress.
This is a result never before expert
enced since the organization of the Repubh-
can party. The Republican loss of congress
men in this city bids fair not to be so severe
| as at first appeared. The recount of votes
shows Mr.. Field to have been really elected
in the third district, and unless it is absolute
| ly necessary to have the seat In order to re-
tam Democratic majority, it would appear
as 1t it must be 30 allotted by congress. He
Is gentleman without Butler sympathies or
| affiliations, and he could have had several
| hundred more votes had it been supposed that
his election was in danger. The loss of the
fourth district to the Republicans is mitch
less serious. Mr.. Frost, the Republican can
| didate there, if not Butler man at present,
was one of those who gave aid and comfort
| to Butler in one OF his most Objectionable
| proceedings. He aided Butler iii forcing Mr..
| Simmons upon Boston as its collector against
| the general protest of her merchants He
hastened to put himself upon the bond of the
| collector, and the ink was not dry upon the
| document before the collector began to work
to get Mr.. Frost the nomination as member
| of congress. Reform Republicans have
never found any satisfaction in con-
templating the methods by which Mr..
Frost became a candidate, or the means by
which he sought to achieve an election Mr.
Morse, the new Democratic member from the
fourth, is personally popular and public spir-
lted and Is not likely to arouse anImositieS
by MS action In congress. General Butler
owes his own seat to the revival of the dis
like of the Democrats and Che distrust Of the
south, which remains even after the Issues
between the two parties have lost their sig
nifcance in most other respects The Repub-
licans of the State outside of Boston were de-
termined that whatever else might HAPPEN
they would not allow Democrats to represent
them in congress. They had no original
preference for Butler. 1t Is probable that if
those who were opposed to him had shown
skill and good Judgment in selecting their
candidate, and appealing to the caucusses,E ,Ea
better man might have been nominated and
Butler driven into an independent candidacy,
in which he would have been ANONYMOUSLY J
defeated. But when he got the nomination.
and the alternative was .larbox, the case was
settled. Judge Hoar's coming for
ward was chlvalric, but it was to lead
a forlorn hope Brutal as was Buffers
rhetoric, he was to be elected to body in
which he could exert it against the south
and the south deserved it all. This was the
feeling that carried him into congress. The
same signal revival of partisan feeling carried
in the candidates IN the fifth and sixth dis
tricts in opposition to large section of their
party. General Banks's nomination in the !
former was strenuouSly resisted. FOur-ffths
of the Republican convention was elected to
sections of the party. But Butler men and
mti-Butler men qliarreled, and there was
nobody at hand upon whom they could unite. !
The nomination went to Banks by luck again.
Some men were driven over to the Demo-
cracy. He lOsthis former stronghold, Charles f.
town. by one thousand majority but the .
great bulk stood by him. He was preferable .
to a Democrat. There was much stronger
opposition to DR.. LOring IN the sixth district. /
He was farmOre fOrnlidably attacked than was
either Butler Or Banks. Personal dislike and :
distTust of him among his own party assOci- /
ates took the most active and energetic form.
The Democratic candidate, Mr.. Thompson, had /
the reputation of being the most moderate .
Democrat in the State-almost an Independ- /
ent, indeed. He was still identified with !
the party, and the voters would have none of
him. The men who had risen up against
Butler and buried HIM under two thousand /
majority two years before, now, in the face of .
far more active opposition to the Republican
candidate, went back to the party and elected /
him by over one thousand votes Governor
Rice's majorityis full ten thousand votes mole
than was expected The Prohibition opposi-
tion to him proved to be failure. The leg
islature will be so strongly Republican that it .
IS feared among Independent men that Mr..
Boutwell, may be again elected senator. There
part of the better men of the party. 1t is un-
fortunate that in most cases II failed to find
direct expression. Some Republicans in this
vicinity are pledged against him; others were
left at home because the voters were not sat
isfed as to their position. Nine out oil ten
were chosen without being questioned ON the
subject. Men that have the party stamp OBJ
tain Office easily in Presidential years, and
those that are the most active workers are
apt to get the party Endorsement then. This
is in Mr.. Boutwell's favor. Naturally, his
most available rival would be George F.
HOar. Mr.. HOar is as good a party
man as is Mr. Boutwell,, and a far ADLER one,
and of more trustworthy Judgment on gem
eral questions OF legislation, as well as less
susceptible to Objectionable personal inhu-
ences. General Butler will oppse Mr. Hoar
because Of resentment toward his brother. as
well as from personal differences Butler I
bids fair to be very influential. and is not at
all unlikelytO turn the scale in Mr.. Boutwell's /
favor The house has one distinguished con-
servative Republican in Prof. Emory Wash
burn, of the Cambridge law school. and an
ex-governor of the State. The speaker, John
d. Long, has taken excellent positions in the
canvass. There are several capable gentle
men chosen from this vicinity, but none with
quite the capacity for leadership, Or from
whom heavy fighting against Butler is to be
exeected. F. W. Bird will lead the little
more than two score Democrats of that body
of which he is the only one with more than
a strictly local reputation. The State senate
is much stronger IN talent in both parties.
Among the Republican members. Ensign
II. Kellogg, F.-M. Stone, and ). B. D. Cogs-
we'll are superior men in regard to talent
and Messrs. Kellogg and Stone ought to be
depended upon to act against Mr.. Boutwell,.
Charles Theodore Russell and John S. Sleep
er, veteran Democrats, are also members.
The senatOrship question is very likely to
make trouble, especially if Mr.. Boutwell, |
should be elected. The Democrats are hard
" strong enough to accomplish anything by |
uniting with either wing of the party. The |
most they can do Is IN. increase dissensions, |
Of which the threatened aScendancv of the |
Butler element and the claims Of the prohibi- !
ton section threaten to make plenty before |
another election takes place