Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-16
THE HARDEST HIT YET.
Delivered ut the Administration Ben
ButIer---AnSWer to Delegation of
District PrOperty.HOlderS.

| Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer: Ben Butler got
off an additional installment of sar-
casm against the administration to-
night. The occasion for it came
about in this wise: A delegation of
property-holders, who have realty
contiguous to that where Ben has
landed estate, called upon him to
urge him to use his good offices with
the administration to have one of
their number appointed a commits
sioner for the District of Columbia.
Butler received the delegation quite
graciously but in reply to the main
question, said "Gentlemen, have
no doubt that Mr.. Hayes is man
of great breadth of intellect. The
Republican party saw fit to go to the
State of Ohio for an eminent states
man, and have no doubt it gained
one of the greatest statesmen in that
State. This man Hayes, in his in
augural address, and by his subse-
quent policy has promised to reYolu-
tiOnize politics. / have no doubt
that, if his policy is a success, when
the next Presidential election rolls
round the great mass of the Ameri-
can voters will be stepping over one
another in their endeavor to endorse
it by their votes. Now, when / ran
for congress in my district, | paid
for the music, transparencies and
uniforms which got up the eclat.
All this will be changed. The
Republican party is dead. The DEM
Ocratic party is dead. Now" said
old Ben, ''in view of this awful con-
dition of politics, [ think the best
think you can do if you want your
man appointed is to go into some
graveyard hereabouts, and select
about dozen names of defunct old
Wings, post their names on the ap-
plicatiOn, and then mayhap there
will be some chance of success. |
Why" said Ben, continuing, eff
the defunct Whig's influence is not
sufficient to have your man APP
pointed, go and get Senator Gordon |
and w. w. COrcoran, both Repub-
lican-DemOcrats, to indorse him.
No, sir, | am not asking favors of this |
administration. Let me see; I did /
ask One-Only one. When [ went /
to New Orleans in command of the |
south | took with me an emminent I
New England surgeon to administer
to the wants of my staff. He died /
at his post, and left behind him a
bright little boy. About two days
ago | received manly letter from
this same boy, now sixteen years
old he wanted to go to Annapolis
as midshipman. | went up to the
White House, and requested Mr..
Hayes to appoint the lad in consid-
Grafton of the services his father had
the country. Mr.. Hayes
told me he had three vacancies. l
told him [ had a vacancy in my
and that, by stretching a
point, / could smuggle him in, but
hat l did not care to do it, because
-he boy did not belong to my dis
5rict. Well, Mr.. Hayes took the
papers, and, of course, [ expected
ne would be appointed; but, 10 and
behold when the appointments
we're announced, the lad was left out
n the cold, and young men were
appointed recommended by Gener-
ii Lamar and w. w. Corcoran."
Next Ben gave an opinion of Secre-
5Ory ThOmpson's book attacking the
Catholic church, entitled, The Papa
~ and the Civil Power. "NOW,"
aid he, "that is a great book. 1t
s, of course, not calculated to array
my religious sect against our popular
but it is a book in ac-
,Ord with the administration poll
", in that it is pacificatiOn."