Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-09-26
THE LOGIC OF NEW ENGLAND
POLITICS.

Inc result OF he election IN Maine,
and the nomination of Ben Butler in
Massachusetts,, create considerable
stir. They are unexpected surprises,
and desire to understand, what is in
dictated by them is natural enough.
If our friends will accept our judg-
ment they will not hang out Grape. 1t
is only a Republican funeral.
Since the carpet-baggers disbanded
in the South, Republicanism has
been reducedto sectlonalism. 1t has
been trying to sustain itself as such,
but there is no sectional interest, at
present in this country, wide enough,
and intense enough for party basis.
The late movements in the East DEM
onstrate, if any event in American
politics can establish anything con-
clusively, that the attempt to prolong
the gold and National bank currency
mama Is q failure.
They indicate also that the area,
that such an idea can dominate, is
becoming day oy day beautifully less.
Prim old Massachusetts, can plume
herself upon her dignity now. and
the Pharisees of Maine can pass by
on the other side, and let the Sama-
ritans pour oil and wine into national
wouRds
Mr.. Gorham, of the Republican
executive committee accepts these in
exorable conclusions, and after mis-
pending lots of campaign funds rec
ommends his party to claim anew
Greenback paternity. But he is only
a dcmagogue, a veritable weather
cock, that can be put to no higher
use than to show which way the wine
blows. The hard-shells of his party
charge him with greenback infatua
ton, and regard him as a frightfu
~turncoat.
That Democrats have manifested
decided interest and taken active
parts in both Massachusetts ant
, Maine is undeniable. In Maine the,
voted with the Greenbackers, nation
ais and Republican sore-heads. Ii
Massachusetts, in the regular Demo
cratic convention, out of LAO dele
gates 917 turned up for Butler. Apar
from the innate desire that ever,
true Democrat has to knock Rcpub
licanism in the head, our Massachus
etts friends have labOred under specia
grievances. They have been over
powered foc years. When did the
have an opportunity to show in Con
!, gress whether they favored gold G
paper, wanted resumption or demand
v ed its repeal, and when in the ordi
nary course of Massachusetts deco
rum, without political revoluticr
would it have been possibI
n for them or any one else to have upse
f Eastern financial fanaticism. Their
: is much method therefore, and lit
madness in what they did.
y In Missouri however, Greenbaekel
: can best promote their ends by su'
e tanning Democratic representative
ID Thee fraudulent establishment
+ Mr.. Hayes in the presidential cha
4 had also much to do with VIII at hi
[. happened.
The Democratic executive con
= m ittee, after attempting to eXclut
the Butler delegates, adjourned
V quiet order, but when the conyentio
a meets again. the Butterflies can east
: show that a majority of it, before tt
committee undertook to manipulate i
, favored their candidate.
e Ben Butler has no popularity an
deserveily so with Western Dem'
:, Gratis and the most of them will prOl
ably sympathize on that account wit
the Executive Committee. But tn
cannot defeat him nor prevent hin
1t if elected from raising Cain gene
J ally in Massachusetts. There IS Il
g possibility however, even if he Is I'll
infationist and repudiator, he
charged to be Of his doing anythin
t to effect national interests beyond II
y commenting taxation of ~. S. band