Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-19
BUTLER,s COUP D.ETaE.

wholly undemocratic and repugnant tx
the people of Massachusetts. That sucf
a dictatorial intimation should be promul
gated was calculated to arouse opposition
and to strengthen the Butler cause. The
committee had no legal or implied power tt
I utter or carry out such threat. They hao
no authority from the party which created
them to interfere with the freedom of the
peoples choice. If the people chose tc
nominate Republican or Greenbacker, q
man or woman, an idiot or knave, it was
their undoubted privilege to do so without
let or hindrance, other than protest, from
the State central committee or anyone else
SO the committee transcribed their au-
thority by their pronunciamento and brought
about the very result they thought to avoid.
1t may teach them wisdom in the future
may bring them to understand that the
people may be prevailed upon but they can
not be bullied into pursuing any given course
of action. It will be well if they take the
lesson to heart.
| In one view of the case the nomination
of Butler for Governor of Massachusetts, is
an excellent one. He has been able to COM
blne all the elements of opposition to the
Republican State government, and seems to
have his forces well in hand. He is i'm
mensely popular with the working men who
| constitute SO large part of the voting popu-
latlon of Massachusetts. These have gener-
ally cast their votes for the Republican can
didates, and in them lies the strength of that
party. Before the Democratic party can
hope to gain control of the State the ranks
of their opponents must be broken, and Just
at present Butter appears to be the only
person who can do it. He is a disorganizer
as we'll as an organizer, and can spread the
seeds of disintegration among the Republi-
cans with better prospects of fruition than
any other man in the State. If he shall sue
coed in breaking the power of the party of
spells, so as to give the Democracy a chance
to organize year hence with a good pros
pect of success, his candidacy will prove to
have been blessing, and those Democrats
who support him will be proved to have had
greater wisdom and forethought than they
now receive credit for.
The platform adopted by the Worcester
convention is unexceptionable as far as it
goes. On the currency question it is silent.
But 1T protests in no mistakable language
against the extravaganza, the corruptions
and the expressions of the Republican party.
On the Presidential conspiracy it is pointed,
showing that no disposition exists to con-
done the great fraud. Viewing with exceed
ing shame and sorrow President, elected
by the votes of a majority of the people, at
an election held in accordance with the pro-
visions Of the constitution, set aside and the
people deprived of his services in that high
Office by series of most astounding forger-
les and perjuries, the possibility of the sue
cessful existence of which weakens the very
foundation of the republic, the convention
"unhesitatingly declare that no man ought
to be permitted to hold Office who is tainted
with fraud and corruption, and if it can be
done without rebuke by the people, then,
indeed, we fear for the perpetuity of republi-
can Institutions
This is we'll said, and atones in a measure
for some of the faults of the convention. It
is doubtful if that portion of the convention
which seeded will do better when it meets
on the 25th.
The probabilities are largely in favor of
the election of Butler and his associates on
the State ticket. Massachusetts is the center
of the labor agitation, and all the elements
OF the community that are dissatisfied with
the present order of things are united in
Buffers cause. Against them the Repub-
llcans and the anti-Butler Democrats can
make but a feeble resistance. But whether
the success of this ticket shall be productive
of good or evil to the commonwealth the fu-
ture will have to determine.