Litchfield enquirer., 1876-11-09
RepubrIcanism against ButIerisn,.

If Gener al Butler were a candidate for the Presidency, there is no doubt tEat lie would be summarily defeated by the votes of Republicans. He represents neithe r the Republi can character ner purpose, and he scoffs at the Republican platform.
 But the reasons of Republican votes against him as President are equally valid
 for voting against him as Representative in Congress. The republicans of the Low ell district in Massachusetts have an op-
 portunlty of showing what they under stand Republicanism in this contest to
 mean. There are two candidates, one of
 whom. Mir. Hoar, represents the princi- pal and character and purpose which have made the name Republican honorabie and
 trusted; the other, Cen Butler, repre-
 sents all the dark ways and tricks and p0-
 litical dishoDor and corruption. the Ia- sponsibil1ty of which sope Republicans have thrust upon the whole party. It is such men as General Butter who have %iy- en the Republican party all the discr tit 1t has. It is he and such as he who faye
 made it in the least doubtful whether tie party is to succeed. And the most power ful argument against Republican success of Butlerism.
 There can, therefore, be no higher du- ty for the Republicans of the district than to defeat General Butler. T. l. mnuil more national than local question ! involves, to degree, the whole Evft;..l. can name For if 1t could be tru etjd that any considerable body of }ja~sat,.. s,s- setts Republicans preferred the Republi- canism of Gen Butler to that of Mir aoar, 1t would go far to justify all that the mos5 superficial Democrats declared during the canvass. The real hold of the Repub-
 iican party upon the most intelligent and patriotic citizens is the conviction that its general character and spirit are q aurer guarantee of wisely maintaining the gains of the past and Of securing t.oana
 progress and reform than those of the other party. But the success Of men like Gen. Butler would at once either drive
 such Republicans from the party or bring on conflict within the party. Butlerislo and Governor Hayes are essentially and hopelesslY opposed. A vote for But Ter is an enormous obstacle to the Hayes administration Mir. Tilden, were the case reversed, would yield to him and ac- qulesce iii his sway, as be did to Tweed, and as he just now yielded to the infation- ists. But Governor Hayes is not a man of that kind. He would no more acqui- esce In Butlerism than in Tweedism.
 It is to be hoped that no Republican in the Middlesex district will be perplexed by the ''regularlty" of General Buffers nomination. His methods are of the kind that so often make ''regularity' mere ly name for sordid intrigue. IL is the unhesitating difference to regularity, " ! however obtained, that makes party des- potism so dangerous; and resistance to a regular nomination may, under certain cir cumstances, be the highest duty to the party. All that is required in the dis trict seems to us to be intelligent inde- pendence, comprehe tension of the simple 1 fact that the success of General Butler
 would be deadly blow at the objects
 which make Republican triumph desira- ble. Mir. Hoar stands with Governor Hayes in spirit and purpose. He is the l type of that honest, infexible, intelligent, progressive character of administration
 which the patriotic intelligence of the country depends. Moreover, he stands ! upon the whole platform of the party,
 and would go. to Washington with 8
 thousandfold truer Republieanism than I General Butler, to secure what all honest
 men desire, and not merely to 'stir up 1 rebel brigadiers, "and form Sanborn rings, ! and appeal, as General Butler boasts that he appeals, to ''men's selfshness. '-H0r- per's Weekly.
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