The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-04-27
ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

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II appear as il seen through smoked glass.
When we learn of disaffection in the Demo-
cratic party we can walk into it without stills,
and without getting over our boots or getting
smirched as others do, or finding unsavory
stains upon our raiment. What we have had
to say in vindication of Governor Butler, the
head and front Of all offending in Massachu-
sets, and of his offences, has been forced
upon ds. We are again bound to speak for
him. The Democrats Of the Chicago Iroquois
club are said to be Jeffersonian Democrats,
but If so we think they are water colors, for
in solution Of whisky and water the color
disappears. Anyhow, they invited to re-
cent banquet of the club the Governors Of all
the States excepting only Governor Butler.
This is supposed to be because the Massa-
chusetts, or Governor Butler Democrats, are
Andrew Jackson Democrats in oil colors, and
will stand washing, and scrubbing brush and
soap. They hold that the mantle of the
original hero of New Orleans has fallen upon
the shoulders Of the modern hero of New Or
leans. And some mixed color is given to
this political theory by the fact that history
records that President Jackson had Benja-
min f. Butler of his own, who lacked the
great military attainments of the great B. F.
b. Of the future, but Old Irorsides did him as
President Arthur did Brewster, made
him Attorney General, which seems
to have served him right, as
he retained his hold on Old Hickory. Yet,
like Frederic the Great, this Il. f. B. of the
Jacksonian era wrote poetry, but instead of
carrying it in his pants pocket and having it
on hand, as Frederic did, in emergency, he
put it in the Democratic Review and lost it,
or in Park Benjamn's Magazine and lost it
more. Now the confused impression in Mas
sachusets Democratic politics, that the man
lie mentioned has fallen as aforesaid, may
come of the apparition of the original b. f. b.
dropping, from old habit, into Democratic
headquarters in the old cloak of the great
President with a view to seeing his own name
on the Presidential ticket of 1884, it being
probable that just 50 years ago that bee dis
turbed his political slumbers. If SO, let us
while here warn the Chicago Democracy
against the dangers of slight in that famous
party in the days of old. Once President
Jackson sent Little Matty"-as the favorite
son of New York was fondly called by his
enemes-to the post which now supports the
gigantic Minister Lowell, near the Court OF
St. James. But the United States Senate of
that day was in the same lurid and ghastly re-
lations toward President Jackson that the
Senate of Massachusetts of this day is toward
Governor Butler, and Little Matys" creden-
tials failed to follow him. Then the
Old Lion reared for he was en-
ragged, and the Democratic party made
the disgraced Minister Vice President. So
he sat in the chair which the lcviathan Bene-
dict, David Davis, successfully retired from
few weeks ago, during four years, and the
Senators saw him and daily considered
whether they would not have liked him better
as Minister to the Court of Her Majesty.
And after the four years had expired the Old
Lion, who was still mad and thought, anyhow
that the Senators had probably not yet seen
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enough of Little Matty," roared again.
whereupon the Democratic party, which seems
to have had more its own way in those days
than lately, put him in the seat of the Old
Lion, who proposed, like President Grant, TO
retire, making the Minister who, it had been
supposed, would be smashed into eternal
squash, as with broad AK, by the senatorial
slight. President. But after the Old Lion
went back to his Jungle, in Tennessee, "Little
Matty" fell victim TO Hard Cider We be-
lieve this is all we were going to say.
THE national tariff admits of theories
enough to enable not only every member Of
Congress but every citizen to have one to
himself. 1t is susceptible of as many varie-
ties as there are degrees of protection or
measurements of revenue. They are not so
numerous as sands on the sea shore, or
waves of the sea, but may be taken as we
take the census. Every American can have
his own tariff.
A Proclamation.
To the people of San Antonio and Western
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