New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-14
TOPICS IN THREE CITIES.
BosToN-cHIcAGo-sAN FRANCISCO.
BOSTON,.
HoAE-BUTLER-THE STAGE -TINANc cIAr.

HOAE-BUTLER-T STAGE -FINAN CIAI.
Br TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBuSE.l
DoSroN, Jan. 13.-The week closes with dis
til city increased confidence in the reelection Of
Sci as)r Hoar. 1t is true that Thursdays confer.
euce 'teuphemistic for caucus) Of Republican NOM
bers of the Legislature refused to come to ballot
but the speeches and the lobby gossip all one
way with unimportant exceptions, and were Q
gratifying surprise to the Hoar men. The anti
Hoar men have apparently committed the blunder
of swapping horses in the middle of the stream,
that is. Crapo is their present candidate aud not
Long. But Crapo says no." and means it, while
Longs silence meant that he was "willln'." The
latter has decorousy, if not seasonably, gone on
visit to his native place. in Maine. 1t makes no lit
tie difference to his chances that his political god
father las Congressman, Oliver Ames.
is not so certain as he was that
Senator Hoar will antagonize Representative
Longs move in the House to have the eensure OF
Oakes Ames expunged. and if this object eau have
representatives in both houses of Congress- much
the etter for it, far that is concerned. Tha
changed feeling in regard to Mr.. Hoar Is illustrated
in the remark of a country member at the confer
ence: "Mr. Hoar belongs to a peculiar tribe,
know; don't know as he ever kissed his wife or
children, but he q statesman" Another one
dwelt on the figure he cut at the Chicago conven-
| ton. AS Ex-Governor Talbot put it In an unex-
pected letter the conference, che is the abest
man in public life in this State" The opportunity
pointed out the Senator in the present session he
has made the best possible use Of and his leader
ship In the bankruptcy and Presidential success
sion legislation and his vote for Fitz John
Porter have made him all over again
in the esteem of many recently lukewaTm or hostile
to him. As near as can be figured he lacks only
nine votes of certainty while any other candidate
lacks at least forty even with Buffers forces.
The week has also developed General Butler as
Presidential candidate. Inebriated with their tri-
umphs in State and city elections the Butterflies
converted the Andrew Jackson celebration on Tues
day into "boom" for the National canvass The
| Butler shibboeth as announced, is 10 be The
Goyernm mt belongs to its friends" To take advan-
tage of the Democratic disgust with the Pendleton
bill. and add to that force the discredited spols
politicians of the Republican party, already sym
path ec with him. and cast out OF the party IN the
recent revolution, would be good Butlerian
| politics. Ii should be noted that Buffers
inaugural message fouts Civil Service reform as
! n bumbug and that the recent Butler triumph in
this city was on an audaciously avOwed "spois
| platform Note also that Butler announces in his
message that he will not run here for second
| term. He undoubtedly means to give some Demo-
crat the opportunity TO be Oeaen Ior ne successou
lust before the Presidential year, in order to point
to himself as the only Democrat who can carry
| Massachusetts,. The Boston Post, ancient Demo-
cratic organ of the State, u now in open revolt
| against Butler aud denounces unreservedly hts
| Presidential pretensions.
The production of Gounod's Redemption Is 70
be the occasion Of cause celebre which Will test
/ whether a piano accompaniment can be expanded
into an orchestral score without infringement on q
musical copyright. Theodore Thomas having sold
to the Handel Haydn Society for $1,000 the right
to produce the work in Boston, naturally thinks 10
worth while to enoin, il he can, the enterprising
Young Irish churoh-choir leader who Is cutting In
ahead of the old society," heretofore left as matter
of course to produce such works Musical circles are
| aghast at the aesthetic impIety and crime contem-
plated against masterwOrk in performing 1t with
orchestration cobbed up by theatre band leader.
salvinl's first performance of Lear on any stage
last night was the event of his season bere lt was
| q sublmatlon Of his wonderful naturalism In " La
Morte Ciyile" A distinguished and crowded house
witnessed il aud recalled the actor some nine
times.
The local financial sensation Of the week has been
the rise of the common stock OF the short and
| Obscure and almost wholly Boston-owned mining
railroad in Northern Michigan, the " Marquette
Houehton and Ontonagon,D into the assured posi-
ton of an sper-cent-paying-s The first divi-
dend Just declared. amounts, with rights" 20
more than that with larger surplus lett IN tne
treasury.