The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-14
BUTLER AND MASSACHUSETTS.

Republican organs rejoice over the defeat
OF Butler in Massachusetts,. To the Democ
racy of the country the result is neither a
cause Tor rejoicings nor for regrets. Buffers
relation to the Republican party was that Of
a surgeons knife to an ulcer. His business
was TO cut Into Republican tumors and let
out the vile and sickening pus; probe
TewksburY; horrify the world with astound-
ing Republican denominations; put an end to
the human skin tanning business; arouse the
people to a consideration of the pauper
''stiff" infamy, by which Republican Massa-
chusetts sought to create a revenue for the
State-transactions the moment they were
published to the world created a cyclone
of loathing. adherence, of eXecra-
ton and disgust, such rs never
before swept over the American continent
Elements the horrid uncleanness of the Re-
publican Tewksbury, were of such shock
ing proportions that the world cried out
shame" and Republicanisn writhed like
a felOn under the lash. Butler has been the
Nemesis of the Republican party in Massa-
chnsetts. He has made Massachusetts, Re.
publicanism the synonym of all that is vile
in government, of all that is despicable in
duplieity, OF all that is execrabe in venality
and of all that is malignant in partisanism
and Buffers mission was to strip from its
face its mask of hypocrisy and exhibit it to
the world in all of it's native deformties.
This he accomplished. He has purified
Tewksbury Its filthy pools where the insane,
the idiotic, the diseased, the blind, the limp
ing, hating unfOrtunates of Massachusetts,
were washed like swine, have been drained.
The damnabe dens where Republican Off
Gals skinned dead paupers have been de-
stroyed. The horrid holes where pauper stiffs
we're prepared for market have been turned
inside out and subjected to the purifying
heat of an enraged peoples vengeance. Tie
hospitals where infancy was permitted to die
to relieve the State OF the expense OF their
care, have been transformed into nurseries
where humanity presides and professions
of sympathy something more
than Satanic hypocrisy. And,
above all, the Wards where insane
women were kept, for the convenience of
monsters for whose Characterization no
proper words have been coined, are no
longer brothels where lacivious scoundrels
riot in the embrace of madness. Butler
probed the abomination which made
Tewksbury a modern Sodom, and seems to
have been preserved for that special work.
His business was to expose Massachusetts
Republcanism, and right royalty he did the
work. That said all that need to be said is
on the record. The Goldfish aristocracy OF
Massachusetts, did not like Buffers
rule and have succeeded in defeating
him, and now comes the boast from
Republican organ OF Massachusetts,
the Springfield Republican, which says that
Massachusetts is not yet given over to the
denomination Of ignorant, foreign born or
foreign fathers" This language is significant.
The foreign born voters of Massachusetts,, if
they voted for Butler, voted for humanity,
voted against Tewksbury Republican hor-
rors, voted against Republican monopolies
and for broader and better policy than
now prevails in that State Butler while
in the Republican party OF Massachusetts,,
became acquainted with its vices, and set
himself about correcting abuses. To the ex-
tent he has accomplished the work he has
been a public benefactor, and to that extent
he is deserving of approval. Beyond that
we care nothing for Butler