The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-27
BUTLER ON POLITICS.
Tlden and tho Democracy-How the
Southern Ppalan1 VIII Be Broken-The
Repablican Party's Advantage.
Interview in Me,v York Herald.

What does the result of the vote on
Tuesday signify in the politics of the
State ?"
siIt signifies that my election mas sup
posed by the Faneuil Hall Democrats to
injure Mr.. Tilden's chances for the nomi-
nation for the Presidency, and hence the
action of that class Of so. called Democrats
who look to Mr.. Tilden to give them ma
tional Office. That bubble, however, is
burst, and Mr.. Tilden, in my judgment,
stands less chance for being elected
President than he does by being struck
by lightning in the coming Winter
The Democracy will hardly push the
choice of a man for the Presidency the
second time who had not the courage and
ability to take his seat when elected to it.
In my younger days it was not accus-
toned to such leadership. The election
in New York has settled that, if nothing
else"
els the Democratic party nationally
stronger or weaker for the defeat of Mr..
Tilden in New York;"
Stronger, because he represented
nothing that wasn't equally represented
by the Republican party. he represent
ed the wealth, the monopolies, the spe-
cial privileges, the banking and currency
interests of Wall street. On that class of
questions the Republican party can beat
him and give him six to ten in the game,
for they have become, from necessity of
administration during the war and since
the chosen guardians of all that class Of
interests. The Democratic party North
and West of Albany in New York, and
west of the Alleganies in the country, are
in an entirely different way of thinking
from-Mr. Tilden, and they never will
vote for MIN again, even if he were NOM
mated"
"Do you agree with the opinion which
has been so generally expressed that the
Democratic party has no chance next
year in view of the results in Maine,
Massachusetts, Ohio, California and New
York ?"
81 agree that the Democratic party,
under its present leadership, going in the
same direction hasn't any chance. 1t
has no chance, because fail to find any
distinctive difference in the principles
held unanimously by the members of the
. Democratic party from those of the lead
ers of the Republican party, for whose
candidate the lieutenants and captains of
the Democratic party in Massachusetts,
voted, and whom they have attempted
to elect in the past two years. If you
say the tariff, then the Democratic lead
ers in Pennsylvania are tariff men; if
You say the finance question, both par
ties are split in two upon that question
by the backbone of the Alleganies; if you
say on the question of protection of cit
izens in their rights by the General Gov
ernment, the Democratic party doubts
whether it ought to be done. Most Of
the Democratic leaders are afraid to say
that it ought to be done, and Hayes
administration is afraid to do it. If you
speak of foreign policy, there is no ques-
ticn between the Democrats and Re-
publicans upon that. 1t took them four
months in the special session of Congress
70 get up an issue last Summer on which
they could divide, and that was the ques-
Of putting troops at the polls when there
were. no troops to put there, and it was
wholly an immaterial question; and,
further than that, neither party claimed
that the presence oftroops atthe polls had
ever influenced one thousand votes. If
you say universal suffrage, the Democ-
racy are against it in the South and the
Republicans are in favor of it in the
South and against it in the North. On
the question of internal improvements.
the Democrats are as anxious to vote i'm
provements for their rivers and harbors
as are the Republicans for theirs. Upon
the granting of special privileges, so that
you make yourself rich by watering
stocks of railroads, q charge has been
made by Mr.. Field that our last Demo
cratic Presidential candidate watered the
stock of the elevated railroad to worse
extent than any such performance has
ever been carried in the United States
but Mr.. Tilden returns the charge upon
Mr.. Field, and believe them BOTH"
"You think. then, any party which
will place itself in line with the people
will succeed~
"The whole history of the country has
shown it. The Democratic party was
ruined by its support of the institution of
slavery, which institution was not in con-
sonance with the feelings, the. wishes, the
belief or the sense of justice of the peo-
pie, and was only sustained so many
years because of the Constitutional obli-
CATION to do so. That is now out of the
way, and very soon all of the evils grow
ing out of it will fade away, and when
that is done nobody doubts that true
Democracy will resume its sway in our
Governments except those who believe in
imperialism"
Southern Feeling.
"Do yon believe that the people of the
South, as people, are to-day disloyal or
in favor either Of secession or in the res
toration of slavery?"
81 don't believe that the people of the
South are in favor of the restoration of
slavery, for they have seen by free labor
a greater amount of product of cotton,
tobacco and sugar than ever under the
system of slavery. They see now what
the North learned early that slave labor
was not profitable and was wholly incon-
sistent with Republican Institutions
Nor do / believe that there is any con-
siderable body of men in the South that
desire secession. I think all rejecting
men agree that that question is settledin
this country, certainly forcible seces-
sion."
SIS there, then, any advantage to be
gained by keeping alive the spirit of Sec
tionalism which has existed in this coun-
try since the war;"
ga great advantage to the party which
cnn keep in power by so doing, without
disadvantage to the country: No man
deprecates and deplores more tEan l do
the spirit of lawlessness, the disregard OF
human life, whether ofwhite or of black,
the resort to force in conducting civil
controversies, which have shown them
selves in some parts of the South, and no
one would 60 further TIN would to
bring such mob violence to an end"
GLOW much longer is this condition of