The daily gazette., 1878-11-09
Butler Explains.
HE DID NOT GREATLY EXPECT TO BE
ELECTED, AND SETS FORTH TaE
CAUSES OF HIs DEFEAT

| tAOoho Ut MS DEF Al.
A correspondent of the New York
| Herald interviewed General Butler In
| Boston yesterday. and in the course OF
| the conversation Butler said that he was
glad that he was not elected, and that
he should probably try again 70 be elect
ed. On this point he said -
~ came forward In this campaign st
the demand OF the people, and should
do the same thing again and again. [
see some Of the Republican papers say
| am 'deaG'-politically dead. | am
glad they think so. II they do they will
20 Oh In their career OF oppi esei ing the
people both in the State and in the
nation, and if they do will show them
the liveliest corl Sc at funeral they
ever heard Of. Personal success or de-
feat TO me is nothing. Resurgam."
In explanation Of his expectations Of
! defeat he thus expressed himself -
"Well, every Federal oflice-h holder
including seven Custom Houses and
their dtpendants there every posi-
master, With all their clerks and depeD-
dants every State officer, amounting
To more than 1000, aud all drawing
pay from the State ; every county otii-
Ger and every city officer of The eighteen
| cities, with two exceptions, and their
r. tainers, employees, and dependant,
nearly all the combined press of the
S;ale, including the religious weekles
one of which, at least, know had been
subsidized previously against me
large por ion OF the clergy, especially
| those located over churches
highly oruamen,ed with painted
windows nearly or quite all the
hlgher-gIaded schoolmast-rs, Shose
salafios 5, made high in flush times, have
not come down, but would ia case OF
reform; all the treasurers and superin-
ten1ents and agents of manufactures
OF which the same may be said ; all of
the co l,ges which are derelde on the
State, aud the hired officers Of nearly all
the railroads, whose salaries are enor-
nous, while the dividends of the stock
holders are small, were all combipd
| agalnst me. or these I'll who had men
IN their employ or control were advised
to use civilized bulldozing upon their
employees and workmen against me,
strongly, unsenily, aud bitterly. And
these men, holding official places, wonld
nearly, II not quite, be equal to Mr..
Tal6ors msjerl,y, especially if we
reckon their immediate relations. which
1t is but justice to say would not ip.
crease the vote largely, as most OF them
were in Office. Added to this was the
whole force of the administration and
two Cabinet officers, one OF whom wa.
brought here to speak to the men OF
his own race, an organization of both o.
the old political paltl,s, the combined
organized capital of the State and
national banks, the managers of the
) savings banks controlling $240,000, ,0O(
) OF capital, may OF whom did not desire
that their stewardship of the none,
ihstrusted to them should be looked
into, some OF them old, gray-headec
t men, who were found SO Jealous as t,
V bear torches in the night in procession
y aud the best orators OF the party brough
from the several States. A wiliin
y Presidential candidate, a Senator witt
= PRESIDENTIAL hopes from New York, tn
n two Senators from my own State, with
o out any hopes at all, except to saw,
themselves with eight Representa-
lives in Congress sPeading to save them
d selves against me with neither OF tn
: other two saying word in my behalf
with members OF the bar of Massachu
sets, some of whom earned(more fees TO
their services in the campaign than the,
have earned daring the year, together
n with the Collector Of the Port of Bosto
l. ana large number OF Custom Hous,
officers, made an oraterical force whicl
should have been competent to annihi
late any cause less just, less dear /
e the people, and less important to tn
e safety and welfare OF the nation. Thes
n acts demonstrate that the people wer
with me at heart, and the majority c
i the people not holding Office, or thsi
lr relatives not holding office, voted 70
1t me. This is shown by the fact that
IL received more votes than any other can
didate for the ef1ice Of Governor ever re
u ceiVed who was defeated, and more vote
.e thar any candidate for the office {
" Governor ever bad in this State exceI
NJ in Presidential year, and greater tina
the total vote of all candidates for tn
'r years 1861, 1868, and 1865, which yeal
g were not Presidential years. NeaIl
g. 10000 of the voters of the State stoo
20 for Inc, in spite Of all this, and it ougl
" to more than satisfy the reasonable an
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