The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-19
MaSs0cl Ii slsetts.

Inc people OF MASSACHUSETTS are
now reaping what they have sowed.
The long domination ofthe Republi-
can party which the civil war entail
ed upon the State, domination
which has never been interrupted I'M
til the recent election of Gen. Butler
as Governor, has raised ,upa race of
officeholdcrs of a very peculiar class.
The typical Republican politician of
Massachusetts is man who thinks
that the Bay State is the most virtu-
GUS and enlightened community on
earth; that it degrades her not to be
governed by the set to which he him
self belongs and to this satisfied
assumption of her politicians the peo-
pie of the State have largely contri-
buted by their belief that Republi-
can administration of affairs cannot
possiblyabe attended by abuse, cor
ruptions and rascalities. They have
now been somewhat rudely awakened
to state of things in one Of their
public institutions that is to the last
degree disgraceful.
1t is astounding to witness the re-
sistance that is made to the Cover
nor's efforts to uncover the abuses in
the Tewksbury Almshouse. He is q
pestilent intruder into matters that
ought not to have been exposed to
the world. He is a self-seeking SEN
sationalist. He is bringing the State
into bad repute in the most unneces-
sary manner. He must be put down.
Massachusetts will put him down.
She will protect her public servants
from the assaults of this ambitious
demagogue. Her people are the best
educated, the most intelligent, the
most moral people in the world. They
will not allow Gen. Butler to make
political capital out of the alleged
wrongs of lot Of miserable paupers.
The managers of the Tewksbury AL
mshouse have done nothing that the
law did not allow them to do. They
have omitted nothing that the law had
made incumbent upon them.
The people of Massachusetts have
to learn that if they would recover
the position which they once held in
the estimation of this country, they
must put themselves in sympathy
with that great movement for reform
that is about to sweep away all
abuses in State and nation. They
must recognize that for them this re-
form has to begin, like charity, at
home. They must recognize the
truth that the long habit of looking
into distant evils for which they had
no special responsibility has betrayed
them into the habit of neglecting
evils in their own borders, and for
which no body is responsible but
themselves. They must exercise
the pharisaical spirit that has led
them to believe and to proclaim that
they are perfect community. They
have doubtless many of the elements
of a great commonwealth and no
BILE public character. But their error
has been the belief that their honor
and prosperity and dignity cannot be
safe in the hands of any party but
the Republicans; and this error has
brought them to the alternatives OF
throwing off the Republican DONNA
ton or Of leaving it to be inferred
that they will cover up any abuses,
however fragrant, and refuse any re-
forms, however needful, because the
exposure has been made by Benjamin
+. Butler.
Our own opinion about Gen. But
Ter in all this Tewksbury business is
that he is doing good work; that
his motives are of far less conse-
quence than the truth of his charges
and that the honor and good name
of the State cannot be indicated by
anything but full exposure Of the
facts, and the application of every
remedy that the case calls for.
Whether Gen. Butler shall make more
or shall make less political or per
sonal capital out Of the affair is OF
no moment to anybody.-New York
Sun.