Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-01

mat1rely and wisely considered, when the
day of nomination arrives.
Meanwhile let US discuss in proper
and temperate manner the names and mer-
its of different men, without violent
committal to any, but remain prepared
to give candid support to such ticket
as the combined wisdom of
the national convention shall
put in nomination. In the spirit
above indicated the GLOBE here presents
the remarks of the New York Star in ref
erence to Gov. Butler. The Star is COM
menting on the SUMS exclusion of Massa-
chusetts from the roll of states that should
present presidential candidate. 1t says:
The Democrats should nominate in 1884 their
most available representative man. The ques-
tioa o. geography has very little to do with the
matter IN these days of railroads and tele-
graphs and cheap papers and universal travelling.
Everybody lives everywhere nowadays. Mas
sachusetts is a good state to hail from. Massa-
chusetts is the heart of New England, and New
England is brainy, enterprising, plucky and
decidedly important part of the Union, which
has furnished three presidents and as many vice
presidents, and raised any amount of good pres
idential timber.
Governor Butler may or may not be the most
available man the Democrats can nominate for
president next year. But he is very decided
Democrat of large dimensions. His abilities
| are remarkable. His capacity for governing is
| unmistakable. His knowledge of public men
and affairs outruns that of most men in the
| country. He possesses remarkable personal
magnetism, and attaches people to him in a Won
derful way His sympathies are with the COM
mon people, the working people, the people who
constitute the heart and conscience as well as the
bone and sinew otthe country. He is deter
mined anti-monopolist and anti-everything that
antagonizes the interests and threatens the well
fare of the people. His views on the tariff question
would satisfy all classes but a few ultra free
trade doctrinarians who insist that they can get
peaches in blossom time by clubbing the tree.
His patriotism is unquestioned, and though he
rendered invaluable service in the war, every
Southern state would probably prefer him to a
stay-at-home nincompoop. Butler has eccen-
| tricities, but they are mostly of the human and
harmless sort. He is is lop-sided, unesthetic
creature, good deal sprawled about, like an
enormous apple-tree whose brances pay no heed
| to the fences underneath, but throw their shad-
| ow over the path and drop half their
| fruit into the public highway. He is indi-
vidual and original to the last degree. And so
was every man who made mark In the presi-
dency. When nature made Lincoln it broke the
mould; Jackson was made on no other mans
model: Jeffersol was genius in the best sense
of the word; Washington was commonplace in
intellect, but thoroughly Independent, original
character. Buffers idiosyncracies are in his
favor.
Whether Butler will be the most available man
for the Democrats to nominate for president
next year is question which events must deter
mine during the next nine month. But he has
elements of immense strength, and is not ex-
actly the sort of man that Democrats should
make mouths at.