The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-11-15
What Gen. Butler Thinks.

1IE REGARDS THE ELECTION AS A TRIUMPH
FOR AMERICAN PRINCIPLES, AND CONSID-
Frs THAT THE LAST HOPE OF THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY Is GONE.
Gen. Butler was interviewed on Wednesday
on the result of the election.
"What is your opinion to the outcome of
the election, Gencra:" asked the reporter.
''Oh, we have beaten the English both in
their attack upon our manufactures aud trade
and our markets and upon our fisheries These
have been the issues Of the campaign, and the
parties have been England on the one side, led
by Cleveland and West, and the American peo-
Pile on the other sde led by Harrison and
chose who agreed with him.
The outcome Is particularly grateful to me.
because it settles the question of protection for
many years to come. and still more grateful
because the questions between the North and
South are now settled forever.
The South, taking advantage of the amount
of power that they get, because of their negro
population, in the House of Representatives
and in the Electoral College, have tried, with
the help of the city of New York, dominating
that great state, to rule the North. and to re-
cover what they lost by the war. They have
signaly failed, and they can never make the
attempt again.
In the first place, the next census, which will
determine the representation in Congress and
I>itttOl SOllcSt W III DililS III 50 great
increase in the inhabitants of the States and
Territories of the West and Northwest that the
South and New Ork cannot govern the nation
any more. Second, that by the fourteenth
amendment, whenever Congress finds that the
freedmen made voters are deprived of their
political rights then the States in which that is
done can he deprived of their political powers,
and the North will no longer tamelv and fool
Shlv allow, as they have. the South to Nerci>e
the political power of the negro vote and not
let him vote. There are good many people in
the North who think the negro has 100 much
right when he has the right to vote. and until
he is educated very great many men are iu-
clined to that view. But | do not know of
anybody who believes that the negro ought not
to have the right to vote. but that his former
master shall have the right to vote for him,
and that is what is going on in the South now.
1t won't 90 on any more. They will break up
or get broken.
There will be two new States admitted, Da-
kota and Montana. which will settle the con-
troll of the Senate, and perhaps also the territory
of Washington and possibly New Mexico.
The result is grateful to me, because it dis
poses of threat OF the southern politicians
that the Western people would join with the
South to beat the East, and if we did not give
the South what it wanted, we should be swept
hy a Western whirlwind have lived to
that Western whirlwind. 1t took place in
ls6l. 1t was relied on then by the South But
to the men of the East and of Pennsylvania
and of New York and Connecticut, who settled
Il e West and who are continuing that settle
ment still West, and who lately have voted as
they fought and. | regret to say. have done
better in their votes than every New England
State has DONE showing their appreciation Of
the question of protection OF American indus
try and of American workingmen-I can now
fully trust the future de>tines of the country.
There is a single other thing that am clad to
tind-that this election has demonstrated that
the Iri>hmen have found who their true friend,
are, They are no longer to be deceived into
aating with those who claim to he their
especial friends at the very moment they are
hobnobbing and collea"uing with the English
Government"
''Shall you look for any new tartleyi>lation.
General, if the Republicans have gained the
control of both llouseS"' was asked
''Oh, the tariff is to be revised and lowered
replied the Lowell statesman ''but our Victory
is that it is not to be M English tariff Don't
make any mistake about that