The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-03
A Faithful Fisherman.

AS faithful and persistent fish
erman, Ben. Butler has no rival. 1t
is true he does not land his fish eve
ry time he hooks one, but he gets
more bites than all the rest of fishers
in troubled waters put together. One
peculiarly of his fishing is the fire.
quency with which he changes his
bait. He has already landed two
nominations, and is casting his line
for more. The first nomination that
was conferred upon him this year,
was that of the anti-monOpoly party,
from which it is to be inferred that
he is a strong opponent of excessive
capital. Besides bling an anti-mO-
nOpolist, he has turned out to be one
of the most rabid greenbackers III
the whole country, having accepted
a nomination from that party with
an eagerness bordering on frenzy
He goes, moreover, to Chicago, with
the solid Massachusetts delegation
at his back, and does not hesitate to
say, what some knowing ones have
been suspecting, that he is an aspi-
rant for the nomination. As del
egate from Massachusetts, to the dem
Ocratic national convention, he will
have to assist in making presiden-
tial candidate to defeat himself, as
the head of the anti-monopoly tick
ct, which places him in rather anon
alous position; but, then, Ben is new
er more at home than when he is III
an anomalous position. We presume
that if he should capture the demo-
cratic nomination, he would also
have the presumption to keep right
on running simultaneously in Oppo-
sition to himself on the greenback
ticket. In order to appear before
the public as riding two horses 60
ing in different directions, he would
cheerfully pay the additional expense
of the greenback campaign during
the coming contest. Taking him al
together, Butler is undoubtedly the
willingest man in the United States
as far as presidential nominations
are concerned. We see it stated that
when he learned that the Undertak-
ers' National Association intended
holding a convention he dropped the
secretary note, stating that if the
organization contemplated putting a
presidential ticket in the field, they
might consider him as a candidate
1t does not seem so very improbable
that Butler should have done this
very thing, when his extreme willing
ness to be endorsed by Tom, Dick
and Harry is taken into considera-
ton. He steps into the arena this
year with the legend L. w. l. B.
Want 1t Badly-inscribed all over
his banner, and if there be any truth
in the scriptural saying, "Knock and
it shall be opened unto yOu," Butler
will certainly get into the White
House sooner or later. In fact, his
plans are cleverly laid, and the pos
sibility of his capturing the demo-
cratic nomination is not so remote as
might be supposed. He is picking
up delegates all over the country,
and several secret organizations are
doing effective work in his behalf
Hence he may not have intended it
as satire when, in accepting one of
his recent nominations, he wrote:
eff the electors shall entrust me with
executive powers, my official acts
will be governed by the platform of
principles enunciated by the party"
We forget which party it was, but
it was one of them. 1t does not make
much difference which one it was. 1t
was probably some reform party
Teas Siftings.