Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-08
So uruaI anS CCurisr.
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Thursday November 8, 1883.
TRIBUTES TO BUTLER.

Judging from their newspapers, the re- spectacle people of Massachusetts are very happy in the consciousness that they have performed high and solemn duty in com. plete and satisfactory manner. Bold Ben has been all over the State for the last few weeks roaring at and about them, and they have trembled some, but they have been an- Imated by stern resolve to vindicate their own and their ancestors honor.
 It is interesting to notice how the anti Butler newspapers treat their glorious vic- tory. Most of them continue to kick 'the old man'' though he is down. Thus the Boston Post, which, though good Demo- cratic newspaper, could not stomach Butler, says: They (the Democrats of Massschu. setts) were never in the debt of this man. They have heapsd honors upon him that he never will repay. So far as the result is a condemnation of Butlerism our resignation Is profound and consummate. He can still make trouble in the Democratic family, no doubt, but he cannot enter upon his cher ished scheme of Tammanyizing the country with the prestige of Massachusetts behind him. This should be great consolation to many in an hour of seeming trial, for prob ably in all the history Of parties there did never one sustain more blessed defeat than this.
 The Boston Advertiser calls it 'tsplendid result" and reioices with joy unspeakable. It says that Butlsrism is dead and buried, butappears to have haunting fear that it may be exhumed, for it warns the people of Mas sachusetts that ''in order not to be forced in- to such contest as that which has ended 50 happily, they must beware how they testify the smallest amount of sympathy with him whom they have emphatically condemned, and they must withhold from him even the least encouragement to TO enter the field from which they have driven him with ig- nominy." The Boston Herald, which made a lot of money publishing advertisements for the Butler gang while 1t did it's best to neu- tralize the effect of these advertisements by it's editorials, thus desposes: 'tThe great victory achieved is not victory for party, but for all citizens who love the State and approve of decency in office. All honor to the Democrats who refused to bow the knee to the demagogue who captured their organi- zation! Those who did yield have rolled in the dirt for nothing. They have helped to deal deadly blow at their party and fasl of the promised reward" The Worcester Spy believes that Bon ia at the end of his political carsOr, for 'the hos tile majority created by his own perVersity has slain his ambition. There is nothing he dssires except the presidency, and that is nov out of the question for the next election, and before the canvass for the fol- lowing one begins he will be seventy years old, if he should live so long, too old for an available candidate, even If circumstances should otherwise favor his candidacy. Mas ssehusetts, therefore, may well hope that he will trouble her no more." And the Spring field Republican thus disposes of It's old friend: ''Be good boy, leave politics and play with your yacht and your millions. We shall have better governors, heaven forbid that we have worse,-but we never shall have such comioal one. Farewell, Benjamin !"
 And so forth and so on. It really does seem that Ben is 8 dead man politically Probably he is, but he has resurrected him. self from political graves so often that even some of those who have helped kill him this time are not entirely certain that he will stay dead