Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-04-27
The Butler Year.

VERY SENSATIONAL YEAR IT Is FOR
Observation-Disclosures SITUATION TOLD
IN VERY RACY VEIN.
Boston, April "a The New York
Herald's letter from here says: The
tall campaign is well under way in
Massachusetts,. 1t is four mouths
ahead of time, for in ordinary years
the steady Bay State politician never
thinks of politics Il the latter end Of
August. The active campaign work
begins usually about September /. But
this is an exceptional year. 1t isa
BUTLER YEAR,
and Butler is making the most of his
opportunities. The staid Bay State
merchant prince and the work worn
farmer are equally puzzled to know
what to make Of it. Neither can fail to
ADMIRE THE PLUCK
aud energy OF the governor, but nelth-
er likes the prospective results. The
friends and supporters of the "Su
preme Executive Magistrate as he
likes to call himself, are delighted.
they are chuckliug over the
DECENTRALIZATION OF THE REPUBLICANS
and teel cobfiient that the old man
will carry the state next fall.
THE ALMsHorsE INVESTIGATION.
But everybody talks polincs. A
stranger travelling through the state
would imagine that he had struck into
"red hot" campaign. Coming from
Springfield yesterday ] overheard two
gentlemen discussing the almshouse
investigation in a very spirited manner.
One Was n stalwart republican, the
other o silver-top democrat who op
po-ed Governor Butler in 1873 and
1879. The former tried to maintain
lhaI so far nothing had been brought
out in the Tewksoerfy affair. II tell
YOU" he said, "that Butler is simply
trying to make political capital out of
the inquiry. He has taken up ali the
discnarged employees and the disafec.-
ed inmates AID induced them 10 recste
HofuI sGuriesi Of malddministratlon
and cruelty. OF course this kind of
matter sounds badly when read without
reference to the evidence that will be
brought out on the other side. Tee
disposal of the remains OF pauperS Tor
the benefit OF science is naturally re-
voting subject to contemplate, but IT
is legal ana has never been questioned.
"Yes," said his companion; but
you must remember that the statutes
give the superintendent no right TO
sell these bodies, 10 open graves and
dig them up and 10 carry on traffic
in the remains OF the pauper dead.
They give no license or liberty to the
trustees or managers 70
ROE THE POOR wGEIcHEs
of the scanty supply Of money and
other effscts which they may bring to
the institutions; they confer on them
no right to starve sick mothers and
feeble infants or to commit other mis-
4emeanors that are plainly chargeable
to them"
"You must remember" said his an
tagonist, ''that only one side has come
out yet. We will be able to show that
the governor Is at his old tricks OF
slsnder and misrepresentation and We
will bury him next fall as deeply as
We did IN 1S79,"
"We will see."
"Yes, you will see, and you viii be
obliged as matter of self-respect 70
help Is, as you did then, to save your
own party from disgrace and humilia-
tion."
81 am not so sure about that i OPP
posed Butler then because ne Was not
a democrat. He is now in the party,
and he ia doing the work thai the party
wants done and doing II well. We have
always held that there we're abuses iD
the public charitable and correclionary
institutions. We elected Castor 10
1874 and hoped that he would LET liz
tie daylight In on them, but he did not.