Daily globe., 1883-08-10


ciated with Commissioner Loring in pol
itical affairs in Massachusetts, and being a
lifelong acquaintance, in course of a per-
sonal conversation with him yesterday,
drew from him the following:
SIS this your first visit to our North Star
state, and what are your impressions of
the country and inhabitants?"
Several years ago I made flying visit
to Minneapolis, when I was then amazed
at the beautiful scenery on the waters of
the upper Mississippi, and was charmed
with the vastness and richness of your
acres of bright prairie land, then but
sparsely settled, and which I felt would
some time blossom out into cultivated
farms, and be dotted with cities, towns,
villages and hamlets. It is needless to
say that on this second visit can hardly
believe my senses to find all so thoroughly
changed, as if in a few hours as it were,
by the wand of enterprise, capital and set
tlement. The dreams of my first visit
have been a thousand times magnifed in
actual fact, and there comes home to me
more vividly than ever before how great
and glorious is our monarch of all the free
republics the heavens have ever spanned
or the sun ever shone upon. In
my slight intercourse with the
people 1 recognize the hardy thrift,
the pushing enterprise, the social good
fellowship and the community bondship
and relationship of one man to another
which characterized our own New England
of low hafn 10
place self, in some localities. before the
common veal, to worship wealth over the
claims of intelligence, honorable purpose
and citizenship and the manhood as en-
bodied in the active brain and the brawny
arm before we grew so stiff-backed."
sit is now the rage for making the Yel-
lowstone trip. Have you not the time and
dedire to feast your eyes On what is still
farther westward?"
sit would give me infinite pleasure if it
were possible at this time. Gen. Baker
of your state and other distinguished gen.
tlemen are urging me to be present at
your state fair, but at this visit I cannot
give them positive answer, and cannot,
such are nay engagements, until I return
east, when if the way opens may possibly
do so. I return to Chicago this evening,
go Immediately thence to Washington,
and must arrive in Massachusetts by next
Monday. From that point, in addition to
official duties, [ am engaged to
speak at many of the agricul-
tural gatherings in the several New Eng
land states, my first engagement
being at Manchester, N. II. But if it is
possible for me to reach you on the date of
your fair, which I can determine on my
arrival at Salem, I shall certainly do so,
and give your agricultural authorities
| prompt notice."
"Who do you consider to be your strong
man in the Republican ranks to success
| fully cope with Gen. Butler in his second
run for the Massachusetts governorship?"
'It is rather humiliating for us in Mas
sachusetts to find ourselves with so much
of our good timber cut off by death or re-
tired to private life at this juncture.
consider that Hon. George d. Robinson,
member of congress from the Eleventh
congressional district, is the strongest can
didate who can be opposed to Gen. Butler,
but 1 hardly think he can be induced to
| take the nomination, as his friends have
higher aims for him, and in case of his
running for governor it would throw him
out of line of anticipated succession to
what is considered by them a much higher
Office"
"Do you refer to the plan of having him
succeed Henry L. Dawes as United States
| senator?"
"Most certainly 1 do. That has been
the political programme, and should Rob-
inson run for governor and be elected or
not elected, it would be certain to throw
the selection for Dawes successor from the
western to the eastern end of the state.
knowing as you do that the election of
| Dawes to second term was more the re-
suit of circumstance and accident than to
any enthusiastic party support, of course
you consider that he has no further chance
for political pre-eminence after the expira-
tion of his present term of Officer"
II can only say in that connection that
| the fact of Dawes retirement is very gen
orally conceded, and that Robinson has
been looked upon as his probable successor
Robinson, though not what you may call
an eloquent man, has sharp, strong, com
manding voice, which always wins him
attention in congress, while he is complete
master of the detail of legislation, and one
of the most untiring and industrious mem
| bers of the present house,
"What do you consider Gov Buffers
chances are for his own succession?"
every formidable, and his friends openly
| assert that it will take 10000 votes to beat
him, which l have no reason for doubling.
Not only will the Bourbon democracy stick
to his colors to man, knowing that ex-
cept through him they have no hope, but
he has large following in the Grand Army
of the Republic, while the labor organiza-
tions may be expected to stand by him
solidly."
"Do the assertions of some of the Re-
publican papers of the state, that he is
lowering Massachusetts in the estimation
of her sister states and the world, tend to
injure Buffers prospects with those in the
Republican ranks who asserted that they
voted for him just to see what the old man
would dor"
"Well, there are various opinions about
that, but the General, while he whips the
commonwealth with one hand, pats it low
ingly on the head with the other, and how
far its citizenship. will, on election day,
hold him responsible for having given the
state bad repute on the outside, as far as
the middle classes are concerned es special
ly, is question. Then his assertion that
the good name and fame of the common
wealth cannot ever be injured by his haul
!