The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-11
DOUBLE GOVERNMENT.
What Benjamin e. Butler Knows
About HAYES Southern
AZ u Policy.
Ben's Idea of a Political Ser
mon.
BY telegraph To the New York Herald

WASHINGTON, April Z. 1917.
General Il. +. Butler has been in this
city for the last two weeks, attending IL
business in the local courts and before
the departments. A representative OF
the Herald called upon General
Butler last evening, when the Mas>a-
chusetts statesman gave some of his
ideas on the political situation. In re-
ply to the inquiry what he thought OF
the policy of Cancellation and paciica.
ton he said, with the most transparent
irony II am as happy as can be
We are all happy. The whole country
is happy. We have all been waiting Il
long time for the blessed contamination
that has come to us under this new p0-
litical spensatoll-the political mil
lennium. God moves in "A mysterious
way his wonders to perform. All our
uuarreling and pickering, the strife be-
tween the sections. are at an end: in
truth. the lion and the lamb are lying
down together, and (glancing in what
to the HraR representative seemed the
direction Of the executive mansion) the
little child Is leading them. All our politi
cal disputes, contests and riyalries are over
now and there never was such a blessed
condition OF affairs"
| After a few minutes pause and some
! vigorous puHs VI his aner dinner cigar
| General Butler ssid:"Would you like to
hear from the Bible definition OF the
Louisiana commission business:' lay
ing down his cigar the General took
from small bookcase near his desk an
edition of the Bible, and, after fumbling
over ii for some time, read. with an in.
dsscribably humorous facial expression,
the following:
And unto the angel OF the church OF
the Laouiceaus write: These things
saith the Amen, the faithful and true
witness. the beginning of the creation of
God
| know thy works that thou art neither
| cold nor hot. would thou We're cold
| or hot. SO then because thou art luke
warm and neither cold nor hot, Will
spue thee out Of my mouth.
GLOW | should like" said he, Ito
preach sermon on that text as applied
to the administration in Parson New.
mans church" lie continued, "you
read the resolutions of the New England
Methodist Conference a few days ago:
Those ministers represent the sentiments
OF the New England Mcthodists. Every
one OF them is Republican. The old
fashioned Republicans OF New England
believe in precisely that doctrine. no
matter what you newspapers may say"
| At this point the Herald representa-
tive made inquiry, General, shall we
consider all this as for the public;
He replyed, do not care whether
you print it or not. | am not talking
treason, AMI do not intend 10 talk trea-
son. The Herak3 is welcome to make
any use it pleases OF my ideas
What do you think will be the end
\ M N of h.a .1t ipi-
well, said he, "al our political
history teaches one lesson, which is
ths-Compr0mlses have never won; on
the contrary, they have always failed
and destroyed the men who made them.
Compromises ruined Clay and Tyler.
They have ruined parties. Will the
present compromise be an exception.
That is the question. What is the situa.
ton: Mr. Hayes is the first President
who has not rought in the begin.
ming OF his administration house OF rep
resentatives with him. Grant did. The
folly OF the Southern leaders gave Lin
coin majority in 1861, and SO all the
way back without, believe, an .excep-
ton. But the next house is against the
| President"
GLOW about the senate-what Is tie
majority there" asked.
| Louisiana and South Carolina will
in short time make the division of
parties there so close that no one can
| tell what viii happen. Sharon will be
absent tbree-iourths oil the time looking
after his silver mines, and while he. and
others, possibly. are absent. what be-
comes ofthe administration, unless we
are TO have. az we have now. the lion
ard the lamb businessf''
But said /. How about organizing
the next house on the administration
| plan =
General Butler laughed a long, loud,
hearty laugh.
Then you have little faith in the
| movement 10 make General Garfield or
some other administration leader
speaker =
Said Butler: I'VE sLall see General
NaTneid Il q worthy gentlemen. lie
would grace any position, and especially
The speaker chair-that il, if he could
! Oe erected. Being an Ohio man, 1 90 not
know bu, that be ought 20 te elected.
| They had such 'heil-hrel majority out
there In the last election that they ought
10 get whs'eyer they want. I did not
know bu. that II would be a good idea
70 give every man VI the majority IN
! Office
GOiHg back 20 the Louisiana contest.
General Butler said "Presidcut HAYES
| evidently does not know what manner OF
man Packard is. He had better send
Tor him and see how he compares with
Hampton. His lstter to Mr.. Iiayeg yes
terday morning is exceedingly able-one
OF the best things the newspaper types
have set up for some time