The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-31
The Next Democratic Candidate.

General Benjamin F. Butler is not
only the Democratic Governor of Mas
sach sets, but he is considered an avail
able and probable Democratic candidate
for the Presidency in 1884. He has car
ried his own State for Governor against
great odds, and that is regarded as a
test of his popular ty with the people.
The, e,Goyernorship of a great Sta has
always been looked upon as the STEP
ping stone to the Presidential Office,
and rum ng lor the former Office is SIM
ply scoring for the greaser race. 1t is
not strange. therefore, that both Fuller
aud his Democratic friends look upon
himself as the person who is as likely as
any man to carry the Democratic stand
ard two wears hence. Besides having
carried his State. in which he has been
repeatedly beaten for = overnor, General
Butler possesses many striking quali,i-
to endear him to the De pocracy
and to make him the It representative
OF that conglomeration OF political odds
and ends. Butler was first a Democrat;
then Republican,; then a Sreenbacker;
then Trades Unionist; then Dennis
Kearney sand lot Communist: then a
Democrat under false pretenses, and
no !. Republican. as he calls himself.
The sheet that the apostle saw let down
| from Heaven did not contain as much
unclean stuff as may be found in Gov
ernor Buffers drag-net. And, although
! the re ell Democrats in the South nick
i named him "the Beast" during the
war. he is now reg rded as their friend,
! and the remembrance of his sixty odd
votes in the Charleston Convea ton for
JEFF Davis as the democratic candidate
/ for the Presidency against stephen A
Douglas, ought to .endear him to every
4 ex-Con Tederate heart in the Solid outh.
4 General Butler is more able, adroit,
INSCRIPTIONS, and more prolific in nat
! ural resources than any of the little fel-
lows who W uld be leaders of the fos-
silized Democracy. He has belonged to
all parties and knows the secrets of all.
He is a geat inventor of handy and eX-
pressive definit;o ons. When the great
LAWYERS AMI the army o'tcers were in a
quandary over the real status OF the col
ored man during the war-a creature
J that was three-tifths a person and two
fifths chattel under the Constitution :
Butler settled the whole difficulty by
declaring him contraband of war. y
That was definition which fully met
the exigenries of the case.
Now General Butter has invented
another term that will make him pop
ular with every spoils-seekinE Demo
crat- He knows that the idea of Civil
Service Reform is "p zen" TO all dyed
in-the-wool / ourbons who are out o
Office, and lu.ler is now sold with the
boys on that score. At the oston din
ner, on the Sth of January, in memory
of Andrew ia :kson, the second hero
of New Orleans made q neat little
speech in the course of VIII ch he said
1.-THE doctrine which adopt, for one,
is not that t. the victors belong the
/ spoils, but that the Government be
, longs to its friends" That is 'ht
10 rbon old wine put into new bottles
and is the old Jacksonian motto put il
: new dress Mr.. tlannigan. of Texas
/ iunocently inquired: What are W.
! here for9" alintiing to Office gett ng
/ and Governor Butler has answer d tn,
question for the whole Democratic
party. THE Government belongs b
! It's friends" and no Civil erv;ce rue
must be adopted to keep thos'
"friends" out of power and place
"Do,h the OK low that hath f.dderr
Not much.-Chicdgo journal.