The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-06-06
TIE OHIO DEMOCRACY ExUBEIANT.
Especial dispatch to the Baltimore Sun:I
The District of Column bia ComElIssIO


GENERAL BUTLER AS A FIRsT-CLAss SORE
HEAD-HE INDUCES IN SARCASM CONCERN
ING THE PREsIDENT-HOw THE LOSS OF IN
rLUENCE AFFECTS THE HERO OF DUTCH GAP.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-To-night a dele
CATION of citizens Of the District OF Column
bia called at the house OF General Benjamin
T. Butler to solicit his influence in behalf
of a certain gentleman for commissioner OF
the District. After hearing the object Of
their call, General Butler, with grim
twinkle Of the eye, unbosomed himself
about as follows: He said he had no
favors to ask OF Mr.. Hayes. Mr.. Hayes
was a man Of great breadth OF intel
lect-a great statesman. The Republi-
can party had gone into the great State OF
Ohio and secured one of its greatest
statesmen for the presidency. In his inau-
gural address, delivered on the steps OF the
Capitol, President Hayes had promised to
revolutioniZe things, and he is perhaps
doing it. He has told us representatives OF
the people that when he wants our advice
be will call upon us for it. He has not yet
called upon me, and presume he does not
want my advice. il you want your friend
to succeed you had better call upon W. w.
Corcoran and General Gordon to help you.
IL this new policy succeeds / don't know
but what / may want to get into 1t.
If we are to run the party without money
people will trample each other under
their feet at the ueXt election II order
to get to the polls. When ran for office
I have generally subscribed literally for
music, transparencies, fireworks, uniforms,
and things Of that kind. But under the
new order Of things we are to have no more
of that. We are told that the Republican
party is to be disbanded, the Democratic
party is to be disbanded, and the great
Wing party is to come into life. You had
better 60 to some graveyard and take of
the tombstoneS the names Of some Old-Line
Wings and put them on your application.
The General here interrupted himself,
and said he had asked one favor OF the Pre-
sident. When he was in command OF the
Department Of the Gull during the war the
noble, eminent, and patriotic surgeon-in-
chief of the Department sacrificed his life in
his labors for his country. His son, now
a promising lad Of sixteen years, desired to
enter the Naval Academy. The boy did not
live in his General Butler's) district, or he
would have appointed him himself. He
therefore went to the President, who at
the time had three nayal-cadet appoint
ments in his gift, related to him all the cir
cumstances, and asked him to bestow one
Of the appointments on this poor boy.
When the President made the appointment
the boys name was not among them, but
all of them were the sons Of men of the
style Of Mr.. Corcoran. General Butler then
said that Dir. Corcoran had been asked to
name the new District commissioner, and
had selected Archibald Campbell. One Of
his visitors made an allusion to the anti
Catholic book written by Secretary Thomp-
son year or two ago, General Butler said,
sarcastically sob that book is a great book.
It.was not written to array great political
party against a religious sect. 1t was writ
ten as pacifcator, and is in accord with
the paciticatory policy OF the Admtnistra-
ton" Eel