New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-09

to be obliged to emerge from nis IeViio'ooi0 ON"
be Governor of Massachusetts. NO douo'
however, he has felt for long time that sooner
or later it would come to this, ana that ne
would be unable always to resist the claInor Oh
the people recalling him into the puDllo scr
vice. 1t is not impossible that, with some dln
foreknowledge of the pressure ABOUT 10 NC
bronpht TO bear upon him, and with his natu-
raj shrinking from publicity, he has liited MS
white wings and fluttered ont to sea simply TO
escape the importunities of the populace to De
como the deliyerer of an oppressed people
But it is more likely that he mas departed III
order IN rive the various committees having the
business in hand an opportunity 10 arraDse .io
uprising without being embarrassed by MS
presence II is always better when you kho"
Won are about to be taken by surprise TO look
the other way while the surprise is being put
up. I'LL,
The nprsing. according to The Boston Herdtd'
is to take its earliest practical shape IN an III
depeudcnt State Convention, or an independent
Republican State Convention, which Will
snrine ND. 80 to speak, ont of the intense
popular enthusiasm-nOw so long represS ed-
for General Bntler. There will be no machln-
cry about it. Indeed, the movement Itself Is
he spontaneous. This has been the most
marked feature of every attempt that mas Deeh
made during the past ten years TO induce "en-
elal Butler to be Governor OF MASSACHUSETTS
There was no machine management. COMMIT
tees rose up on every hillside, without so much
as the Formally of an appointment, ike Ine
warriors of Clan Alpine; and without even
waiting for the whistle of their chief Meetings
were called. halls hired, hand-bills printed and
brass bands enlisted in the most spontaneous
and unconventional way, and though III the
end General Butler paid all the bills no ques-
tion was ever raised as to the spontaneity OF
| the spontaneousness on the part OF the puDhc
| or the gennineness of his own surprise. vi
| several occasions the demand for General DuC-
| Iers nomination has been so general that no
| body seemed able to resist lt-eXcept the ne
| nublican State Convention. The uprising ousl-
| ness at length took hold of the Democratic
marty of Massachusetts,, but In slightly dliier-
| emf form. The Massachusetts, Butler Demo-
| Gratis instead of spontaneously rising up early,
unanimously sat up late. And on Convention
morning in the early dawn they stole ladder,
| entered the Convention hall through third
story window, took possession of the hall, the
Convention and the party, and before night
| General Butler was the regular Democratic
| candidate for Governor of Massachusetts,
The spontaneous uprising stopped there,
however. The Massachusetts people elected
another man Governor. Since that time the
General has had comparative quiet. The people
have respected his desire for secluson and
have refrained from pursuing him with brass
hands and professions and petitions to be Gov
ernor of Massach usetts But they can do with
onr him no longer Another spontaneous mp
rising is under way He is to be nominated 10y
il in an independent or Independent Republican
Convention, following which the regular Dem
ocratic State Convention Is to take MN uI
with stiI moro spontaneOusness and ratlly the
action already mad, and then-and then-wel
then we suspect there will be the usual out
come. and the General will return to political
seclusion. The truth is, the people get so worn
ont with spontaneous uprlsngs to get General
Butler nominated that they never have strength
enough left to rise up and elect him. All the
same we are glad to see the announcement OF
his return. We have missed his picturesque
figure IN the foreground of our politics. with
ont him Massachusetts, politics were becoming
duh and stagnant. When he comes back h'
will bring music Let the band strike NJ ant
the professions form A spontaneous uprising
Is about TO take place, and General Butler is t
reappear.