The New York herald., 1878-09-17
A Field Day for General Butler.

| Worcester; which may or may not succeed
in organizing which, if it organizes, may
| be enlivened by bolt of the old line dem-
ocrats if Butler should be nominated, OF
by bolt of the Butler mon if they
should be defeated, is likely to prove
the most exciting and tumultuous political
convention ever assembled in the old bay
State. General Butler himself is on hand
to counsel, encourage and direct MS
friends, and he possesses all the audacity,
ingenuity, readiness and fertility OF re-
] sources which such an occasion demands.
| Such friends as he has among the delegates
! are not mere lukewarm adherents, giving
him tame and halting support, but
stanch and enthusiastic partisans, who
are prepared to go all lengths
| and to submit themselves entirely to his
| guidance. If he fails it will not be from
any siackness or want Of zeal on the part
Of his democratic supporters. but only by
lack of numbers. The propelling power,
and the directing power, and the shrewd-
ness, tact, boldness and feryor are on the
| Butler side. Not less important to Butler
as an element Of success is the fact that he
has the sympathy and good wishes of the
democratic party at large.
| The democratic party of the United States
as whole is very pronounced greenback
party, and the Butler delegates who have
been sent to Worcester are not ignorant OF
q fact which is SO well known to everybody.
| They know too well that the democratic
party, as a national organization, is
| opposed to resumption, and that the
votes Of its members of Congress have been
almost unanimously on the side Of
obstruction and postponement. They are
not ignorant Of Mr.. Hendricks change OF
base and Mr.. Thurman's change Of base on
| this subject, in compliance with what these
| distinguished candidates for the Presidency
and astute observers Of political tendencies
know to be the drift Of democratic senti-
1nent Buffers democratic friends at Wor-
cester will not be restrained or abashed
by the hard money democrats Of Massa-
| chusetts when they know that they are
acting in harmony with the mass of the
party in other States. They feel that the
ardent support they are giving to Butler is
| great step toward bringing the democracy
of New England into unison with the demo-
| cracy of the West and the South. If Butler
| is elected Governor OF Massachusetts as the
democratic candidate the party will stand
side by side with the party in Ohio,
! and great stride will have been
made toward the full unifcation Of the
democratic organization on the question Of
the currency. They will care little for the
dissent and hostility Of the hard money old
liners in Massachusetts, when they know
that the election Of Butler by their votes
with the democratic party of the West and
South at once, and with the democratic
party Of New England itself after brief in
terval Connecticut is moving in the same
| direction, and the next election in Maine
will not exhibit three parties, bnt two;
for nothing is more certain than a union
between the democrats and the greenbackers-
in that State in the next election. 1t will
be the general policy Of the democratic
party throughout the Union to head of and
absorb the so-called national party by
adopting it's views. There is no room for q
separate greenback party in the Mississippi
Valley, because the democratic organiza-
ton has anticipated and appropriated
it's issues and now that a strong green
back sentiment has been suddenly and
surprisingly developed in New England
it is in the line of political tendencies that
this unexpected movement will be absorbed
into the democratic party. The democratic
party as whole being vigorous and ag-
gressive greenbsck party it is the most
natural thing in the world that all the minor
greenback streams should flow into the
main river. however devious may be their
windings after gushing forth from their
New England springs If Butler should
get the Worcester nomination for
Governor channel will have been
cut for the direct fow OF New England
preenbackism into the main stream Of
Western democracy, which has swept such
bard money statesmen as Hendricks and
Thurman into it's powerful current. Butler
will be strong ut Worcester to-day, not
merely because so many delegates have been
instructed to vote for him, but chiefly be-
cause his supporters are conscious that
their democratic brethren in most of tho
other States will indorse and applaud their
action and rejoice in their success. They
are likely enough to think that they have
mission to bring the democracy of Msssa-
chusetts into harmony with the party in the
West and thereby insure great national
victory in 1880. The supporters OF Butler
cannot very well be read out of the party
for doing their best to make the party
unit on the chief issue Of the day.
1t appears from our Worcester dispatches
that the old recognized democratic lead
ers were present last evening in unwonted
numbers So great an array implies a
lively sense of danger. It is said also