New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06
TOPICS FROM THREE CITIES
BOSTON,.
BUTLERIsM AND RUM IN POLITICS.
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Boston, May 5-The tussle between Butler and
the remaHder of the State authorities has this week
come to the rough and-t tumble stage. The Gov.
ernor, as soon as he could recover from his chagrn
at the Board of HEALTH Lunacy and Charity takIna
charge OF the Almshouse. he directed without
removing the Marshes informed them in q letter
that he would pay none of their appontees there,
The Board responded in the guise of an interview
that they had created no new Offices and tnat the
pay of their representatives at :he Amshousc was
already provided for; furthermore, that they arc
not the agent of the Governor but Of the people Of
the State and, as he had himself complained in his
inaugural, not under his control.
But the most extraordinary news of the week is
Buffers proposition to take the Almshouse upon his
own shoulders and pay the expenses out of his
own pocket. This he has proposed, both in his
sancy letter to the Board of Health Lunacy and
Charity, and in a conference with a committee of
the Legislature. He calculates on this being re-
fused, or if in the deadlock on appropriations and
crppling Of all regular procedure which be is try
ing to bring about he can pay the bills while
from his private purse, that it will harvest paying
crop of votes.
The discovery that Superintendent Marsh had
Inadvertently neglected to renew his Board since
legal superintendent solves the question as to tho
Marshes "gong.' but not in the way Butler tam
cles. He wants to eject somebody, and now it will
probably be the Board of Health, or perhaps only
its secretary. Whether he remove the Board,
its secretary and how be IS going TO work about
It, are now the objects of expectant curiosity.
Interviews with a number of leading Democrats
OF this State indicate that Butler has stopped
ll,, all no b,tsf
stall, representing the blue blood Bourbon De-
mocracy = Frank W. Bird, of the ex-Liberal Repub-
lican wing, and General A. P. Martin, a moderate
and public-sDrited Democrat locally much re-
spected all testify that Butler has shocked and dis
gusted this community, and not only gained no
votes but lost them among his own supporters.
The interviews were primarily sought TO ascertain
the tariff sentiment among Democratic leaders.
All the dozen OF more interviewed except the hfst
two named above, think that the incidental free
trade possible under the present tariff will be az
much as the Democrats can go in for In the nexs
Presidential election.
The Butlerism domination in municipal politics
has again added to the disgust of good citizens bY
the spollsmen in the Board of Aldermen charging
the new superintendent of Streets, for whom they
elected an able Incumbeut of twenty years stand
ing, with incompetency," because he does NOS
turn out all the trained clerks in the department TO
make places for their spollsmen. A. Simmons has
been confirmed as Water Commissioner.
At the same meeting, a school-house IN the neigh
borhood of which are eight large drinking saloons
which cannot have licenses under the statute tor-
bidding rum-shOp within 400 feet of school, was
ordered sold This IS the second schoolhouse 10 yieid
70 the rum interest within year In this city. Tie
new Law and Order League, which has been max
ing it somewhat lively for rumsellers under TINS
and other existing laws, is doing good practicai
work. though antagonzed, of course, by the ianau-
cism of the Massachusetts, State Temperance Az
ance. which this week resolved against high IL
cense as tolerating covenant with SIN.
The great country park of the city OF Boston IN
West Roxbury consisting of about 500 acres OF
romantic natural land, was opened TO the pnei'e
use this week, though nothing has been done ID tAs
way of laying out rs yot
The Handel and Haydn triennial festival thoush
decided success artisticaly, is not great success
popuIarly this year, the public having been sur
feited with music in the popular Saturday mgns
Svmnhony concerts of the past four months
The models for the statue of Theodore Parker
have been added to those for the Paui heVefo
equestrian statue at the Art Club.