The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-06
Buffers Eel.Pot.

When the Willy General Butler sailed
away from the Massachusetts, shore in
the early part of last week in his yacht
America, it is said that he gave nauti-
cal wink with his left eye that was in
tcrpreted to mean mischief to some of
the people whom he left on shore. Al
day or two afterward came the news
from Halifax that General Butler had
turned Rear Admiral and bought piI
ratical craft with the significant name
of the Conquest. and then some believed
that he had abandoned the dry land al!
together in order to work his devasta-i
tions on the vastly deep. They were
mistaken. His operations are still on
terra frma, although he himself Isl
tempting the raging main like an
original buccaneer. Before he went
away he troubled the political waters of
his State, and set cunning POLITICAL
eel-pot into which his slippery forces
might crawl as he sailed, and be kept
there safely until his return.
Other eel-pots he may have out, but
this one was planted IN Boston and
called Greenback Convention. Itmet
on Friday and the cells all wriggled in;
and nominated Butler for Governor
This is in accord with the plan he pro-
posed to the Democrats before he en-.
barked, which was to get a nomination
from some other convention first and
then have the Democratic Convention
indorse him. When this last-named
body meets it will be a wonder if its
members do not find themselves in a
wicker-work inclosure to which the ac-
cess seemed very easy, but with no way
to get out. They will, unless Benjamin
has made mistake in his bait, be COM!
PEELED to ratify the nomination of the
ex-Stalwart Republican made by nom
descript crew calling themselves Green
hackers.
Butler has accomplished his first OBJ
ject in getting a nomination of some
kind spontaneous" he will say
wherewith to 90 before the Democratic
Convention for simple Endorsement,
but he has done more than that; he has
got platform out, probably of his own
construction, upon which he will rest
one foot while the other is on the sea,
for the special purpose of catching the
labor vote, which in such manufactur-
ing centers as Fall River is very large.
1t has high phrase about "the 1aborer
and the profit of his toil;" the commu-
nistic platitude about '' no monopoly of
land, air, light and WATER" Hibernian
twist on '' British bastiles" and slap
at Minister Lowell.
General Butler will keep his weather.
eye on the GoVernorship of Massachu-
sets until either he or the Office becomes
extinct, and the Republicans viii never
have walk-over when he is in the CAM
vass. He is fruitful of schemes and un!
heard-of devices and he plants eel-pots
all along the political pools and estuaries
that nobody else thinks it worth while
to explore. If for any purpose he
wants a nomination from such a
party as might be called. Z" Liberal
Democrats he will set An eel-pot
and sail away beyond Cape
Ann, and in due time convention viii
turn up, properly labeled. and nominate
him. If the support of another batch
IF men calling themselves "Butler Re-
publicans" appears to be desirable, down
will 90 another pot and up will go another
Butler standard. He would get a Prohibi-
ZIONIST nomination, or one from an evan
gelical church, if he wanted it. He
knows how to whittle out q platform
and make 8 convention, and with g
campaign staff of twenty men and not
another individual in the State who,
knows or cares anything about his cam
will shake up the Republicans to good
purpose and in all likelihood cause the
Democrats to go entirely out of sight
until after election.
Buffers methods would be preposter-
Gus in anybody else, but in his hands
they are never anything but dangerous5
He is shrewd, plucky, rich, ambitious
and unscrupulous, and Massachusetts, is
not the only State where man with
such ammunition may be likely to do
harm. Detroit Post and Tribune.