The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-26
BEN BUFFERS BOOM.
The Chairman of the Bay State DEM
ocratic Committee Blooms It.
What the Ex-Governor Has Done for
the Party---A Genuine Seusa-
tiOa for the July COnyen.
t5On---0ther Points.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 26-"Gen. Butler
viii BE- a delegate to the Democratic national
convention at Chicago said Col Plympton,
chairman of the Democratic state committee
Of Massachusetts, to The Tribune CORES
pendent. Gen. Butler, Judge Abbott and
?, H. Collins will be three of the delegates
from our state. | don't think there is a
dissenting voice among us as to these three
names. The fourth delegate at large will be
either Albert Palmer, the orator of MasSa-
chuscrts, Col. Jonas Il. French, or some other
able man. The Bay state will go into that
convention with certainly as able a delega-
ton as any state in the Unlonr
"Who will be their canddate77
Gen Butler; and he will have some scat
tariug votes from other New England states,
and perhaps a few from the northwest"
"Then he is really candidate for tho
presidency@
His friends viii certainly canvass his
chances, and no doubt present his name ii
he had been elected governor last fall he
would have been a positive and formidable
candidate"
"NiH he be in the National convention and
take part in the proceedings"
II lie lives he viii go as delegate to that
body and think his reputation sufficient
guarantee that he will not be a silent or an
idle membern
as all opposition to him among his imme-
diate constituency silenced:7
YES, SF. His splendid canvass last fall,
ana the remarkable vote pollei has brought
in all the shy elements and the party and
Butler are stronger to-day than ever He
po.ied more votes than ever elected gov
gruor Of Massachusetts before, and was only
beaten by few thousand in a fight in which
the national administration and the ReDubli-
can party Of the whole country was arrayed
against him. He has brought the Demo.
cratic party Of our state from practically
hand ful to 80, 900 good substantial voters,
held together by common purpose and well
organized"
VIII he be candidate for governor next
YEAR,"
Without a Doubt unless the Democracy
should name q weak candidate and run of
upon this free-Tade heresy. Gen Butler is
DrotectioniSt within reasonable bounds. In
fact, great majority of our Democrats are
VI really have much more free-trade feeling
among the Republicans Of massachusetts if
you can judge of the strength of the senti-
incnt Of the newspapers. There is The Boston
Herald, Transcript, the Springfield Repub-
ican, and other journals do not now recall,
al for free-trade. No, the Democracy does
not seem to be any more divided upon the
tariff than their opponents"
Can Gen Butler be elected next year!'
Il believe he will be the next governor Of
the Bay state, for in presidential year we
will have no stay-at-homes and the fire Of
the whole country viii be drawn from oW
local fight to the national Gen. Buffers ap-
pearance in the national Democratic con
yention viii also be our element of strength
at home and his opponents will have to poll
more votes than they did this fall to beat
him. assume now that!he will succeed Mr..
Robinson. Twenty-four years ago Gen.
Butler broke the Democratic party into frag-
ments at the Charleston convention. The
armed revolution that followed his voting
tifty-siz times for JEFF Davis for the presiden-
tiai candidate of that party carried him into
the Republican organization and into the war
The country will now wait with interest,
concluded Col. Plympton, "to see this bold,
able man march into the Democratic national
convention leader again as in 1860"