The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-19
BLAINE AND BUTLER.

Ex-Secretary Blaine has agaiI
been publicly declaring that he j
not a candidate for the Presidency
He says he does not want the Office
and that he would not accept tht
nomination. The gentleman may
believe himself, but nobody else vii
do so. He protests too much. Three
times he has been a candidate, anc
twice the most active in his party
but has SUCCESSFULLY been headed OF
when the prize was within sight
and almost within his grasp. Il
looks now as if he were employing
different tactics. Heretofore he has
endeavored to force himself upon
the party; that policy having failed,
perhaps he thinks by holding back
the party will pick him up and
carry him to the front. The scheme
may be good one, but the country
long since became tired of Blaine.
If he shall be resurrected to great
ness or prominence, it will be a pol.
itical miracle such as is rarely
wrought.
In connection with Mr.. Blaine's
latest interview referred to above,
he declares that if Ben. Butler can
be elected Governor of Massachu-
sets this fall, he will be the Demo
cratic nominee for President next
year, and be elected. Both these
suggestions indicate that the distine
guished statesman was either in a
humorous vein when he made them,
or he is losing his political shreWd-
ness. 1t is possible that General
Butler will be renominated and
reelected Governor of the Old Bay
State. He is one of the ablest and
very best executives Massachusetts
has eyer had. His administration
has been characterized by its hon
esty, economy, ability and the
enforcement of the law. 1t has been
an eminent success. Butler is also
liked in the State, not by the rich
and aristocratic, nor by the monopO-
polist class, but by the labor
ing people. whose votes count
and whose friend he is
everywhere acknowledged to be.
The masses love and respect him,
and were it not for his political
filiations-Democracy beirg at
discount in the Commonwealth-he
might go along as Governor for as
many times as he wanted the office.
The aim or effort of his enemies is
to make it appear that it is in a
sense disreputable to vote for But
Ter.
But the idea that Ben. Butler
can be nominated or elected Pres
ident by Democrats is simply ridic-
ulous. The successful Democratic
must have a solid south,
and is anybody verdant enough to
believe that Butler could command
this? On the contrary the greater
probability is that he would have
solid south against him. Grant
even could poll more votes in the
Southern States than Butler, who
is regarded as mora of
robber or even beast" as Brick
Pomeroy used to vicioEsly and
cruelty call him, than IS an en-
statesman with humane
instincts and Christian impulses
The north even could not
swallow the old man without
a struggle with its stomach such
as it does not propose to in
viter. While there has been a good
deal Of talk about Buffers probable
next year, it has all
been of a burlegque character, until
Mr.. Blaine comes forward in pre-
tended sober earnest, and states
what he processes to be his well
grounded opinion in the premises.
Blaine is no longer authority in this
country. He has passed Into the
political retirement where he should
remain for the rest of his natural
life. We are saying nothing against
Butler. He would make q most
excellent President-far above the
average Of modern executives, He
simply could not be elected, and the |
Democrats are not in want of good |
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