New-York tribune., 1883-03-11
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TOPICS IN THREE CITIES.
BOSTON,.
PHASES OF BUrLERISM-WTLLIAM WAR.
REN-THE FOREIGN EXHIBITION.
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Boston. March 1O.-Governor Butler is stiu
baked of his Insurance. Commissioner by the Ex.
ecutlve Council, and is apparently losing his tenn.
per over it, for he now administers the unnecessary
kick of a summary eectment TO the outgoing in.
cumbent whose only fault within public knowl.
edge has been that he made no resistance to the
Governors demand for his place, but obedently re-
signed. People beginning to have soms
respect for the Executive Council. As an insti.
tuition it has latterly been considered a superuous
relic of colonial times, when the Governor appoint
ed from without needed to be checked by an exec
utive representative of the Ople In modern times
the Council has come to be a echo of the Govs
ernors DEGREES. Governor Long suggested its aboli
ton. The present Council which is Republican, was
thought, from its assent to the decapitation Of
Warden Earle, to have become Buterized. Unless it
were going to abdcate altogether, however, il could
hardly do otherwise than refuse its assent to tho
nomination for Insurance Commissioner of
man who is not only conspicuousy
lacking in the business character and
standing required of SO responsible official,
but who has mOdestly declared at a public dinner
that he well understood that his election for the
position was not on account of fitness but because
he was expected to put in some heavy work for
the Butler party in other words, to emulate tho
New-YOrk example of Insurance Commissioner
Smyth. Yet there are Republican managers lof the
Worcester machi e stripe. it is true, who hold to
the discipline and division of the profits of party
service), who advise the Republican Council TO con-
firm all of Buffers nominations. believing with
Butler that government must be in the hands Of
its friends.
Poor Palmer" was nickname that stuck to
Mayor Palmer when he first went over to the
Butler lines four years ago chagrin in not receiy.
ing what he wanted from the regular Republican
party. The plying adjective is more than ever ap-
pIicdble now. He is reported to be nearly dis.
tracted with the demands made upon him by the
"boodlums," on whose shoulders the nervous
schoolmaster was at last borne into City Hall. Ha
bids fair to be associated with the corrupt aud
disgraceful year In the municipal annals He begged
hard to others to defeat the moves he publicly
sharing in at the opening of the year. and this week
he has made wild and rather Ill-consdered at
tempt to stem the dirty tide by an exposure Of the
dining and wining OF his followers in the Alder
men and Common Council at public cexpense. He will
not stop the swilling and he has made himself q
"yearling" by il. as his enraged partsans now
openly declare. The outside public show little
sympathy OF confidence In his efforts and are per-
haps content that the Butler triumph in the city
politics should roll up for itself the backest record
it can.
Although the veteran and beloved comedian Wills
lam Warren, has every year for five years past de.
clared that he would not continue in the Boston
Museum Company and has been persuaded TO re-
main, the conviction seems too well founded this
time that be will retire at the end of the present
season. lie is in fair vigor but weary, and has at.
tanned every possible honor aud an ample compe-
tence.
The foreign exhibition TO be held in Boston next
fall promises in connection with the great Manufac-
turers Institute with its Southern and Western
exhibits, the two expoSitons 10 he connected by
Edison's electric railway to come very near the
covrted Worlds Fair after all Twenty-seyen spe-
cial commissioners are at work all tue ends OF tho
EARTH from China TO Peru, collecting the exhibits.
An exhibition of Japanese art excelIing that at
the Centennial is assured also a remarkable ex-
hbt of Persian goods. The first appearance of Ire
land as a manufacturing country will be a notable
feature, and the Mayors of Cork and Dublin have
cabed their intention to come over with II. The
foreign exhibition will be held III the large and fine
permanent building of the Massachusetts Mechan-
les Association.