Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-10
BEN BUTLER.
Notes for the Historian Of the Coming
Political Campaign.
important Secrets for Party Leaders Only
Prematurely Divulged.
fhe Slate Made mp and the Great Com.
moner Of the Bay State to Join
the Democratic Forces.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, JuLe 9.-TuE GAzErrr's
New York and Chicago specials, pub.
hshed In this mornings issue, were
read here with much interest, as. com.
ing from New York and Chicago the
present centers of national politics.
they bore semi-oilicial positivepess
that lends Endorsement To what has
been well-founded political rumor
In small circle at Dallas for more
tnan week. A Dallas gentleman
who Is we'll and favorably known To
the Democracy Of Texas, and who has
been leader for years past IN the Marty
battles, said TO THE GAzgrrE cor.
respondent, on the day of Blaine's
nomination at Chicago: az will inn
part to you what is as yet
PARTY SECRET,
something to be known only to the
leading men Of the party In the differ
ent states, and not lust vet
Tor the rank and file--the men
who do the voting. II is
political history, rs yet i'm embryo.
put ~ the time this campaign Is over
II Will form very important chapter
Ana the nomination of James q.
Blaine as the Republican candidate
ior president makes the task of the
Democratic managers of the scheme n
much easier one than anything else
that could have happened. He is lust
the man that the movement can be
the most successfully worked against.
Among shrewd Democratic politicians
the nomination of Blaine has been
more earnestly desired than that of
any o'her Republican, because he can
be the easiest beaten. But to the little
scrap Of
EMBRYOTIC HISTORY:
You know Ben Butler is power in
Massachusetts politics, and no matter
what his reputation may have been in
certain directions, which has tended to
make his name odious to large ele-
ment of the Democratic party, he
cannot be accused of lacking in
political sagacity and sincerity.
He is no fence straddler. 1t Is an easy
matter to find just where he stands on
any issue. And taken all together, his
present ideas coincide more nearly
with Democracy than with Republi-
canism. and are acceptable TO very
large and respectable following. Aud
Butler is also one of the ablest law yers
of the age, and this fact has much to
do with the political plot, if such il
can be termed, that 1 am about TO al
Jude to. You know he is already the
nominee of the anti.monopoly and the
National Greenback Labor parties and
has accepted. He 10 also Massachu-
sets delegate at large to the national
Democratic convention to assemble at
Chicago on July s, and which beyond
doubt will nominate
TILDEN AND HENDRICKS,
the "old ticketn of 1876, for president
and vice-president. Butler may or may
not attend that convention. There
Is no telling what he may do in a PEE
culiar and eccentric way In that direc-
ton; and his acts, while looking jncon-
sistent to great many, and perhaps to
a majority the people, can by him he
made to appear plausible, consistent
and salisfactory-at least to himself
and his friends. After the Democratic
ticket is placed in the field, no matter
who the nominees may be, then But
ler's attitude becomes interesting.
THE PLAN,
as at present determined upon, is to
have him keep in the race AS the can
didate of the two parties that have
nominated him. He will in Massa-
chusetts make canvass, personally
and by able SUPP orters, that will
draw TO him all the elements opposed
to the Republican party, and also all
the Republicans land their
name is legion) who are
personally and unchangeably opposed
TO James q. Blaine-the Maine states
man who, few years back, from his
high Lace in the United States con-
gress threw insult into the face of
Mass achusetts by criticism and de-
any native of the Old Bay state. II
Will be Massachusetts, against Maine TO
a more pronounced degree than II will
be Butler against Blaine. And Butler
and his speakers will be the champions
to stand up and enthuse with burning
eloquence the Massachusetts masses
on their state pride, her dignity, and
her honor, (Tewksbury, of course, be-
ing now an Elysium).
THE BUTLER ELECTORAL TICKET
will be composed of men for Butler
first, but Blaine never. No DEM
Ocratic electoral ticket Is
to be put in the field, and
the chances in a red-hot campaign,
such as ! have outlined, will lie de-
cidedly more favorable TO the Butler
electoral ticket than to that Of Blaine.
No Massachusetts Democrat will hesi-
tate as to which ticket he will vote
when it comes to choice between
Maine and Massachusetts,, Blaine and
Butler,
STATE PRIDE AND STINGfNG INSULT.
When the electoral college meets 1t
is of course safe to predict Massachu-
sets will be the only state presenting
Butler electors. New York, New Jer.
sew and Indiana are certain to be Dem
ocratic, and there are better than even
chances of The party carrying Con-
necticut, California and Nevada. No
Southern state Is counted upon as TO
be lost in any contingency, but In
the event of o miscalculation
on any OF the Northern states TO the
extent of making the count 30 close as
to be decided by few electoral votes,
you can see what an important atti-
tude Massachusetts, would occupy,
and 1t Is not hard 10 guess how her
votes would be cast. II would be safer
and more honorable than an eight to
seven electoral commission solution
of the situation. Then, as q fair
political recompense for the part
PLAYED by Massachusetts, she Is TO. be
honored by a cabinet poition. and II
Is to be supplied by offering to her the
portfolio OF the department Of Justice,
making
BUTLER ATTORNEy-GENERAL.
"And then look out for GRIFFIN rings
emanating odors of star route density.
There is no doubt the work OF
Butler TO cleanse the Augean
stables would be thorough and