The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-02-07
He Doesn't Know Benjamin.


If man who had enjoyed opportuni-
ties through m nv wears OF personal OBJ
servation and occasi nal pc iods of init
mate ACQUAINTANCE and a SOC atom for
finding out the friskIneSs. uncertainty
and ub vi y of the ca should del. ber-
a ely and atuitouSly, in m xed COM
pany contemplat ng the saltations of
some parJicu arlv. vely lea, risk his
reputation ON "a poi itiNe. prediction that
the flea would not m Ike his ne ap-
pearanee on the bald head of the most
remote and ma ;ceSs be spectator, we
should sa. that G ther he was h mSelf
una counrably lresh or. that he, utterly
IA led to appreciate the Iperyasiyeness
and unexpectedness of the bird in ques-
ton. What then sha l we saw of a
Democratic newspaper pu jl,shed in
Richmond, Va, which, after years of
opportunity TO cOmiag acquainted
with overnor BEN AMIN +. Butler and
his un que gifts and graces is down
de iberately and comm IS itselfto posi-
tive pre- lict on as to where that profess
sor OF the hop. apost e of tn skip and
gh priest the Jump Will not app ar
next? Is tn /, RirtnlO tt DispTtcl mere
ly too fresh when it says in ahalf-oracu-
lar manner :. GOVERNOR But er m ght
as well iearn first as last that neither
party will ever nominate him for Presi-
dent or is it possible thIt ter all
these years it ails to comprehend that
ate iman's wondrous q fits whereby he
fore er eludes the thumb of investiga-
ton and pursuit and steals up the eeve
OF his p rsIcr? We sp ect that it does
not know him. 1t certa My does not
know m rs they do in TO ton. Should
a wager b. offered in that tahgle d town
that ove-nor Butler would be found
some fine morning sitting in his night
shirt on the spIre of the Old Sou b
Cku ch. there would be no takers And
no Boston man woIld ever 90 to his
days work without look ng at the
steep.e Old South to see if Ben amin
had got there yet.
AMI ct the Richmond DispGich has
the assurance 10 undertake to forecast
his iutu so as to say that he can
never lie nom mated for Pres dent by
either party. . " ull it doe n know
him Why, when this man q eS Tor a
Dmination o any sort he means usi-
ness. 1T isn't an Fort isher racket
blowing up a lot of powder and gong
ava He never did that but once.
Now when he wants nom nation he
ST cks to it till ne gets it, and if he
doe mt get it from one party he does
frp the other. 1t makes no di erence
with h m which he gets t from. It's
all the same so he ge it. If d rect as
sauit fails he lays ege;F he trenches
and mines and approaches by zig-Zags
and a multitude indirections as he
did during the sue eSsion o years N
which he sought the Re publican nomi-
nation or oternor OF Massachusetts.
Al these failing, he simpl sends out
-, 10
er the co vent on of The othe party
by third st ry W ndow and capture
the nomination by sur rise No flea,
e., en- under a galvan battery. could
male livelier work than this. One
moment the large heavy umb of
Nj ssach setts epubl anism drops
heavily on the spot where he is suppos-
ed be. and naturall ought to be-; the
next he win IS at you rom the extremely
aid head and sensitive scalp OF the
exceedingly respectable Massachusetts
De hocracy. Reiched it part Y by salta-
tiona and partly br ladder A year pre-
viDus, persons who knew he General
only bv his abortive attack on ort
+ sher au his unsucce-s ul siege of
Worcest +. and had neve- seen him in
his great grasshopDer act, would have
laid heavy ids that he could never be
nomin tied or Governor OF Mass lchu-
sets. 1hev w uld have laid still heav-
, ier that h. would never be nominated
by democrats, and would have laughed
anv man to scorn who srgge sted The
possibility tn t he would be the Demo
cratic cand date within year. But he
was a | the SAM. He isn't a safe man
to Law wagers on or prophesv abo {.
The Richmond paper mantle stly does
NOT know him Ma IN docs
So do os' on. And so. to an un usual
degree. with know edge born o. hard
knocks, does the Hon. Frank Bird All.
for how MANY ccessive yea did
Frank Bird and - am" Bow es and
''Bilp' Warrington Robinson, an the
Hoar brothe and the rest S together
in q musty room in the Bav STATE ouse.
at Worcester, on the eve . the State
Convention. workiEg up the opposition
to futler and devising ba riers between
hIm and the Republican nomination
End the most de ected an melanch rly
Bird in the who ii ok o er the posi-
biiitv o Butler was Frank. Tired out
a last with fighting Butler. he went
over to the emo racy. "The villain
still pursued i'm He had hardly
struck the roost when Ben am was be-
side h m. Worse still, he got the reg
ular democrat nominal on or Gov
ernor, and Bird was Obliged to
signalire his entrance into the party
by bolting regular n mipation.
Nobods who knew Bird well and
Butler not very well would ha hesi-
lated at tina time have laid a wager
OF say a m II on dillars against a nickel
that rank Bril- would never found
voting for Butler for Governor Blu he
was, a | the same. And what is more
and must have made Bowles and Robin
son turn over in their gra es, he has
since then be N attending dinners in
honor of Butler, and publicly express sing
coniiden e in him. The Ri hmond a
per clearly does not k ow Mr.. Butler.
Let it asten IS mind little more
friendly upon his chara ter and career.
beginning. say. with his vote Je Ter
son Davis in the harleston Conve 1t on
1850. and coming down by easy
stages to the present time. r after
careful onsidcration of his charact er
and quail les it is prepared to risk the
prediction that it VIII not itself be found
urgi~g Buffers nomination for the
Presidency in 1884. we shall-wa and
see.-M 7. Tribune.
Colonel John B. Ba helder, writing
to the Phi ladelphia Times regar ing the
death o Genera Farnsworth at Gettys-
turg. says that on the third day of the