Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-24
BUSY BEN BUTLER.
He Finds Time to Talk With an Ia
terYlewer.
HIS VIEWS ON STATE POLITICS.
Knows He Will be Re-eIected-The En-
quirer Wants an Honest Vote and
Count-The Prohibitionists
Over in Ohio.

BosIoN, Mass September Ex-Governor
Butler has again been interviewed. When
asked if he was confident of reelection, be
said: Il see no reason to doubt it at all. l
look over the State and carefully and fail
to see a single spot where I have fewer
friends than l had year ago. No, have
no opposition for the nomination, and l
believe will be reelected by larger ma
jority than I was before. Last year I got
135, 600 votes out of about 245,0O0. This
year ought to have 40, 900 votes. fthey
beat me they will have to draw out larger
vote than they DO in Presidential years,
which is an impossibility."
Governor, what are the chief issues in
the State Just now"
my issues are reforming and simpli-
tying the State government; securing the
greatest benefits to the greatest number Of
people; breaking up rings
Checking Corruption
and turning rascals out OF place whereyerI
can find them. havsunearthed some, am
hunting for more, and if God spares my life
and energies I will break up every species
OF official wrong-doing, csrelessneSs and e1-
traVagance in this State. / will do il with
the aid Of the common sense, respect and
affection Of the whole people and the force
of q public sentiment that has grown and is
growing. My sympathies have ever been
with the humber classes, the bone and
sInew and inherent good sense of my fellow
citizens. There are wrongs to right, and
We cannot right them by eloquential plati-
tudes My policy is to sct-secure results
by actual and intelligent effort"
II take il, then, that Republican policy
today is dictated largely by memories of
the past-by respect to well-remembered
but entirely unliyed'up to principles re-
marked the listener.
Just so. There was great need Of the
Republican party in its day, but the day is
past
IL Had n Great Mission
TO accomplish. and it accomplished it, The
mission of the Republican party is ended.
Ii has nothing new to contend for. 1t has
accomplished its life's work. 1t cannot
and ought not TO survive as a mere lever
see to protect -, 100 otficeholders in place,
spd handle the national revenues"
Il believe" and as the Governor warmed
up he began to lose sight of his surround
ingS--"I believe" he said, that il our peo.
pie make no mistake within the next
President. The people are ripe for change.
There are discontented and disturbing
forces at WORK in the Republican ranks
that will hasten the downfall of that party.
l can see the work Of disintegratioR going
steadily on. No party can live for more
than twenty-five years without more to
feed on in the way Of
sOnnd Principle and Practice
than the diet of the Republican party to-
day
Governor, what mistake is the Demo
cratic party most likely to make"
They may make two. They may go
wrong on the tariff, and they may make a
foolish nomination. So far as the tariff
goes l am unhesitatingly for tariff solely
for revenue, with here and there, perhaps,
incidental protection. For instance, where
ever We see something that We either pos
seSs in abundance or can produce as well
as they can abroad. let US protect it. We
might so protect salt, coal, and other
things; but such protection l would have
merely incidental
And about the nomination - which
would be wise and which unwiSe ~
'Oh, that l would not speak Of. There is
nobody prominent enough before the pub
lie as yet.
Mcdonald is n Good Man
and would make good President, but un-
lCSS NC Gdu GOlllc luLO TUG SOENCubAOu HlbA
bis State wholly pledged to him he ought
not 10 come at all. We cannot afford to
risk Indiana by any quarrel between the
friends of Hendricks and Mcdonald, and it
Is pretty certain that if either Of these gen.
temen is shown preference the other will
kiCk.'
And how about Mr.. Tildeng
Mr.. Tilden is not candidate in any
sense Of the word, and will not be- Moth
=. . I hfa
lie has disappeared as entirely from the
range Of Presidential possibility as Horatio
SEYMOUR. The old ticket talk that you
hear so much about is kept up BY ihe
IitnGs Of Hendricks TO Offset the McDon.
o 4 talk; that's all there is about that. II
Huadiy should carry Ohio il might bear
him TO the front IS possibility. NO,
there isn't nybOdy around whom party
sentiment has sufficiently CrystaliZsd TO
warrant prediction. Maybe, after the
fsll elections, matters will shape differ
tn''y.'
What DO you think of
HOadIey'S Chances in Ohio.
Governor
Well, cannot learn exactly how far
the Democratic discussion extends there,
or how weak q candidate Hoadley really is,
but my judgment is he will be elected.
predicate that upon hope of capturing the
whole Of the German vote. / know they
talk of the Germans faYoring the Scott law,
but that isn't in the nature Of things. l
believe the Germans will vote solid for the
Democratic ticket as they did last year tor
Congressmen. There IS nothing in the
Scott Law to change their opinions. Indeed,
il is more calculated to intensity their Op.
position to anything thar interferes with
their personal liberties"
No; Arthur's friends are working up
his boom, and so far they seem 10 have
things all their own way. Well, can snly
say that if We have to have another Repuo'
lean administration I would rather see
Arthur at the head Of il than anybody
else. He has made q respectable President.
He has done no harm and has done some
good things, in a small way. He is easy
and good natured, but has the courage OF
bis convictions. He is gentleman, socially
speaking, is Il fine, manly fellow, frank,
sincere and courageous. He likes 10 hunt
and fish and 90 sailing on the deep, but
who of rs doesn't? No, Arthur has made
a very good PreSident-better, perhaps,
than Garfield would have been had he
lived, for Arthur has not the faculty OF
making enemies that Garfield possessed.
And he is more cautious, too, in his friend
ships. Garfield had but little Judgment OF
men. and bis blunders in that respect
would have imperilled his administration,
bad be been permitted to complete it.
There is nobody else but Arthur that IS
much TAXED Of; still there is time enough
yet