The Newtown bee., 1893-02-24
NUMBER 8.

the conventional custom of conferring the honorary LID. upon the governor of the state by Harvard university at the commencement. Gov Butler was the first chief magistrate passed over. He was renominated in 1883 and defeated by George D. Robinson in one of the most
 INTERESTING oRAToRICAL MATCHES which ever distinguished a campaign. The vote was exceedingly large, and But Ter had 150,O00 votes, or about 10, 900 less than Gov Robinson.
 Gen Buffers last political hunt was for still higher game, for the presidency of the United States. He was nominated by the antimonopoly and greenback labor fusion, the forerunner of the populists, in 1884, and he took the stump, travelling over many states and making speeches full of the widest vagaries of statecraft and finance. He succeeded in drawing audiences, for he was always a taking speaker, and he was widely called ''the peoples candidate, " but notwithstanding that, he received but 134, 900 votes, and 4,OOO of these came from Massachusetts. The Butler adherents in this state have shown remarkable attachment to
 1.-THE OLD MAN."
 as he was fondly called, and those not his adherents at all are said to have vot- ed for him in considerable numbers in hi campaigns for governor, just to sees "what the old man will do." In his cam paign for the presidency Butler had the dangerous assistance of the New York Sun, which supported him out of hatred to Cleveland, and made itself ridiculous by prophesying his election.
 After this campaign the lawyer and business man-for he had been for 40 years connected with important manu- featuring interests-devoted the rest of | his life to his practice and to the control of his industrial and money-making en- terprises. He had been counsel in all his public life, excepting his career in the war, for important cases, and he appear ed in court frequently. in Boston,
 NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON,
 and in fact it was in the way of legal business that he visited the national cap- ital this fatal week. He had his diver sions, and had great pride in the own- ership of the famous yacht America, in which he enjoyed many coastwise trip. Gen Butler was man of large frame, not tall, his head was massive. and his fea- | lures each and all of extraordinary mold. His peaked nose, his dropping eyes,-one of which had very pronounced squint, -his heavy cheeks, indeed every item of his physiognomy, attracted attention and curious interest. He was usually care less about the cut of his clothes, but he always wore on the left lapel of his coat a flower or little nosegay.
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 is told that this habit was in remem- brance of his wife, a most beautiful wom- an to whom he was devotedly attached, and whose way it was to affix such an adornment to his coat when he came to breakfast. A man compounded of con dieting elements, like his brethren, and falling far short Of what with his great parts he should have been, Benjamin Franklin Butler had in him something that warmed mems hearts toward him, and his strongest public opponents were often personally on most friendly terms with him. He had but lately published his own autobiography. .and it is his spec ial plea and his interpretation of himself Springfield Republican.