The daily gazette., 1878-09-19
nutler's Com nm ents
of the Press.

In commenting on the capture of the
democratic convention by the adherents
OF zen. b. F. Butlerand his nomination
for Governor,the New YorkHerald claims
That the General undoubtedly had on his
slde large majority of the regularly
CHOSEN delegates, expresses the opinion
tlat the Butler movement will grow in
strength in the interval before the Fan
euil Hall convention meets, and says the
adjourned convention "will be rump
respected by no Massachusetts democrat
who is not already committed against
Butler" The Herald adds:
"The anti-Butler democrats will ioin
the republicans just once in order to
teach lesson to mutinous democrats.
and convince them that they cannot win
by rebelling against party d III ne. If
the hard-money democrats of Masschu-
setts unite with the republicans to defeat
Butler, AMI sucgS..f u, their attempt.
great step will have made toward the re-
construction of political parties, at least
in that State. We see no reason for
doubling that Gen.Butler could be hand
somely laid out as political corpse by
union between the republicans and the
nard-money democrats, and the political
drlft is toward such a combination.
Without 1t Butler would probably be
elected, and it is for the common interest
OF both parties to eXtinguish him forever,
This can be accomplished with certainty
only by union, and we expect both of the
old parties 10 join hands to put this un-
quiet, daredevil politician in a position
where he can give no further trouble to
either OF the regular organizations"
New York Times: "Butler has been
nominated in spite of the democratic
machine, and the party may as we'll make
the best of it. 1t is to be sure, little
rough for party to be led now by man
whom they have ridiculed, maligned, de-
spised, and derided. Beast Butler and
Spoons Butler at the head of the falstaf-
fian regiment of the Massachusetts de-
mocracy is a grotesque sight. But party
that nominated Charles Francis Adams
for Governor is equa! to almost anything.
Butler has outgeneraled the democratic
engineers of the machine"
New York World: 1t is a ludicrous
thing to see party driven out of its own
convention by candidate particularly
objectional to its manager and its place
usurped by an assembly ofpolitical strik-
ers, no one of whom appears to carry
much weight in the party or the State.
Ii is personal triumph for Butler, and
one especially agreeable to him, mas
much as he owes it only to his own right
ARM"
The New York Tribune: "It may be
that the Butler party in Massachusetts,
has only succeeded in dropping its resolu-
tions in somebody else's premises that
when it enters upon the campaign it will
step forth merely as the Butler faction
after all, the miscellaneous odds and ends,
the horny-headed swaggerers, the heed
less people who are always running after
some new thing, the vulgar who love
brawls; and that it will take no advan-
tage from its burglarious entrance into
the Worcester convention except, per-
haps, the prestige it may have won in
the eyes of small body of voters who
think it was dreadfully smart to occupy
a hall which the other fellows had paid
for"
New York Sun: .tThe wonderful
movement of Worcester is by no means
verdict on the relative soundness of
different mems democracy. 1t is rever-
beration OF the Maine earthquake. 1t is
the voice of general discomfort. 1t is
protest against the corruption and extrav-
agance and fraud which have made taxes
heavy and wages light"