Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-06
Saturday, Jan. 6. 1888.

l KIND WORDS FOR GOV. BUTLER. Governor Buffers astonishing ifteen-col-
 umn message does not meet with very flat
 tering reception from the Massachusetts press The Boston AdUertiser calls it
 '.greai State paper" (referring to it's size), and sa, rs: ''Time and space would fail to
 correct the nisstatements, to repeI the in.
 sinuatit ms, and expose the false reasoning which iake this address stump speech of the char acteristic sort. That the situation is such as to call for such & base attack aa his exceileney makes upon the in-
 stitutions of the Commonwealth and upon it's
 laws, upt ,n it's officers and upon their con-
 duct, is an imputation which every loyal son
 of Massach ,nsetts should indignantly resent"
 The WorcsA ter Spy reminds g. readers that
 it has not been in the habit of Hattering
 ssMr. " Butler, and knows no reason why it
 should begin now because he has become
 Governor Butler. It continues s'Of his
 inaugural address, the first of his acts as
 Governor, we shall speak without prejudice,
 and candor compels us to say that it is the
 work of an interruptions demagogue, arro-
 gant, adrcdtly oourting the applause of the
 ignorant thoughtless and ill-disposed among
 our citizens. It contains much that is in-
 genious, somewhat that is plausible and among so many miscellaneous criticisms and recommendation it would be strange if there were not & few which are not acute and sen- sible. On the whole, the promiscuous cut 1 ting and slashing is overdone." The Spring l field Republican thus frees it's inde- | pendent mind: "'It the message) is strange | mixture of shrswd suggestion with wild | nonsense, grave presentation and argu- ment from combination of admitted facts and gross misstatements of fact, half truth dove-tailed in with suppression of the other half, and evintsing denagogic tendency to mislead the public. While there are good points in the message, these faults, which upon the stump might be dealt with more leniently, are nexcusable in an official state paper, which is supposed to have been pre- pared with some pains and care for accur- acy. It will take 8 long time te correct the calumnies upon Massachusetts and the mis- representations which Governor Butler has put in his message''
 This indicates how the message is treated n what might be called the enenay's camp. ( But the message fares little better in the ( 0emocrdt1c press. AAuS eAa oio Ooston r Post says: 'sBut due caution should be ob- , erved in the perusal of the recommends ions. Few men are competent to radically I ;hange the systemE and institutions of com l nonwealth of their own wisdom, and doubt | ess the people of Massachusetts would pre- CT that even the most brilliant of Governor 3utler's suggestions should receive careful
 xamination before becoming laws of the ( State.'' ::
 It is not denied that Governor Butler has d Iaid many things that ought to be said in his t lmazing message. But it is evident that he 2 las said too much and has deeply offended 6 arge part of the people of Massachusetts.
 t is strange that so able man as he is should i lot have written wiser aea more reasonable ' nasaaQe.