Iron County register., 1883-05-24
A Chapter Of Massachusetts Republic
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The history Of American politics has,
we think, no more an1using chapter
nor Butler and the Massachusetts Re-
Massachusetts, Republicans regarded
Buffers candidacy as an insult to the
State, and his election calamity sec
ond only in dimensions and disgrace to
the election of Satan To- the same office
r+r=if the latter ,eyentsr were possible,
Everybody knew. too,t tn that when the
announced the Republicans of Massa-
chusetts adopted as their daily prayer
the legend attached to all State papers
from time immemoriial: "s'God save the
commonwealth of Massachusetts, and
that, in their estimation. salvation. from
the Gubernatorial devices of Butler
would surpass all other salvation vouch-
safed by mercifuls Providence since the
Mayhower discharged her freight on the
Yankee blarney-stone,. But everybody
gled hatred, disgust and fear
the months rolled on, and that
when it was ascertained that Butler had
no intention of stealing Faneuil Hall,
setting fire to Bunker Hill Monument,
or selling the bones of the Pilgrim
fathers, his Republican rfellow-citizens
would accept the inevitable with good
grace, and perhaps treat their Chief
Magistrate with the. common courtesy
to which q his, office ii certainly entities
him. But matters seem to be growing
orI 1xo,-co
Rausting mtiUs the vocabaiary q YitSpsfation a M
for his benefit, aid the Republican
leaders and rank and file echo and en-
phasize the abuse, and apparently only
wish the hardIiwords could be made
harder The almshouse investigation
for which, tine bfGovernOr deserves
praise rather ithamohlame---has, added
fuel to the .tire,,and, from the tsmpef
displayed bNievsn the most respectable
and .digniGed, Republican, Journals, one
would think that institution as holy as
the Kaaba of Mecca or the Church of
the Sepulcher at Jerusalem. For the
very mildest condemnation these fines
from Shakespeare might be substituted
if Slightly changed without ex-'
aggerating the 'wrath and horror that
vexes the righteous Republican party of
Massachusetts: -f%7 .f3 Flstfs-sf stu!isS4 b.
A shadow like an l angel, With With bfighfft iff hair :"
Dabbled in BLOOD: /: and he 'shrieked out alond:
Clarence is come-false, ifeeting, perjured
That stabbed me in the sield by Tewksbury-
Seize on hims furies. take him into torment"
Now, what Is, all this tremendous fuss
about?,, Whatis Butler and what has
he done to provoke Accommodations. 8.
strong aud bitter enough to fit the vilest
ruffian that ever Stretched hemp? We
are neither his champion nor his a d.,
mirer. We Thought and said, at the
time, that the Democrats of Massachl1-'
setts could and should ,haYei selected a
more worthy standand-hearer,l and we
have never considered his election as a
'Demeeratic triumph to be, specially;
proud Of ,, But Republicans, either in
or out of Massachusetts, have no right
to wag. an uncivil tongue, against Bat
ler. Let us have a, little Of the Jewel
consistency II When Butler, in 1861.
jumped from the ranks of the ultra
pro-slavery, secession Democracy into
Abraham's bosom and front
seat in the Republican family, did not
every Republican saint and sinner rejoice
at the conversion and hail the convert
as ga brand snatched from the burn
ing" ? Did not Republican Journals Of
high and low degree applaud his mill
tary performances until Dutch Gap and
the petersburg Mine exiting nguishedhim
and have they yet ceased to applaud
"the energy and courage of his deal
ings with rebelsin and out of petticoats
at New OrleansP lAnd when, after the
war was over, he bloomed out into the
reddest of Radicals, advocating military
Government for the whole South, and
declared that all Democrats. South and
North, were only traitors in disguise,
did not Republicans pat him on the
back and encourage Him ffi 'hisl 'dhty
work? Was there a Single Republican
in Massachusetts, who did not . then
think Butler - an anointed. of the
Lord" soto speak and consider his serv-
ices in the Republican, cause as inyalu-
able? The files of the very papers now
holding him up as an irredeemable po-
litical scoundrel and personally desti-
tute of honor toor honesty, then |
chanted his praises and congratulated |
upon the possession of
such perfect patriot and superfine |
Well, Butler is no worse !
now than then; considerably better, in I
fact, for he, now claims to be a Demo-
crat and is trying to=establish his right
to a place in the Democratic household |
on probation. His objectionable sin,
in the eyes of Massachusetts, Republic
ans, is that he has been elected Governor
Of their State against their wishes and
in spite of their opposition. They could
bear him as Governor of any other State,
but Massachusetts,, they insist, is not to
be governed by such as he. :" The first
families of the old Commonwealtha are /
as much disturbed by his occupancy of
The Executive chair. as Queen Victoria
would be by the presence of a Lon don
at one of her State dinners;
and as for the Republicans generally,
no comparison can do o:justice to their
feelings. = So i 4t.I
Nevertheless Butler is what he is,
Governor. of Massach chusests, by grade Of
God and the voice Of the bal1ot-box..
Moreover, Massachusetts has had no
better Governor-if as good-in the last
fifty years. His reform may be rough, Il
out it is the genuine article; and, judg-
ng from the. revelations at the Tewks-