The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-20
The Press orr au.ler's NOmina ton.

THE VICTORY BARREN AFFAIR.-[By
| telegraph to the New York Iribune.l-
| Worcester, Mass. September 17.-Gcnera
Butter won barrie victory in Worcester
| to-day. He has spent his money like water
10 pack Democratic c;ucuses all over thu
State, and actually secured majority Of
the rcg,llarly-elcctcd delegates to the Con
ycntion TO. day in order that lie might secure
the prize OF the regular Democratic nom
nation; and he then allowed it all to sliI
| through his fingers by the bad management
OF his friends. The nomination he did gel
will be worth very little more to him than
one made by any other mass-meeting OF hi,
| friends. It lacks all the authority Will
which he hoped to 90 before the people rs {
| candidate OF one Of the two old-eStablishcC
parties in the State; and it makes it almost
| impossible for him to have any standing in
the genuine Democratic Convention which
will meet in Boston next week. The Butler
| tail did wag the Democratic dog, but il
| wag@ed 1t so furiolsly that it shook it Off
and the dog feels better to-day.
IAlas for Miss Polly Mahone.l
We trust the Democratic party OF Massa'
chusetts will never consent TO become The
property OF General Butler He, OF all
men, is the last for whom an honest Demo
crat can ever vote.
His election as Governor OF Massachll-
sets would indeed be Just rctrlhuton to
the people OF that State for having so oltcn
imposed bin upon the country as its repre-
sentative in Congress, principally because
il loved to hear him bltlster and swagger III
the House on all national questions. But
we should be sorry to see that Justice ad-
ministered at the expense OF the Sood name
OF the Democratic party.
we trust the Democracy is not about to
commit another crime as well H. bluudcr by
cnIisting under the standard OF the Beast.
NortoiE Virgini0n.
There has been no greater farce in AmcrI-
can politics than the presentation OF Ben.
Butler as an exponent OF reform in any
ining. His greed OF ganis notorious, Ill:
urgency CT the sai;lrr-grab and his enor-
nous fec in the Farragnt prize-mcney
award are illustrations Of this characteristic.
II the Labor party in Massachusetts, takes
him for its champion it shows how easy a
thing it is for demagocuc to make lhe
laboring men the scryiceable tools OF their
ambition Cincinnati Commercial.
Butler saw a chance to use trick, his
fayorite kind OF warfare, and lie could not
resist tie temptation. This gave al the
moral advantage to the other side, and left
him nothing but mob in place OF a con-
yention. vi course his nomination by the
delegates assembled in Mechanics Hall has
no weight. The organization OF the party
with its brains, its dignity, and its money,
is against him, and more deadly opposed
than ever before. He can make no more
jnroads on the Democratic party, and the
Republicans will hardly reinforce his army.
Boston Herald. .-...
BUFFERS TRIcK.-The feat has filled with
unutterable disgust the whole body OF re-
spectacle Democrats in Massachusetts. and
has made them more than ever The bitter
enemies OF this constituencies trickster.-
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Boston Post (Democratic) says:
"Bmler can't he made a Democrat by Dem
ocratic votes any more than nuX vomica
can be made French brandy by labelling it
cognac." .