Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-14
TIFF NEW ENGLAND LEADER
BY sSAYOYARD


 can, ex-Magwump.= =eX-Coneressmane ex-goldbna, political man miIlineH is the Iead5ne Democrat of New Eng land, and AIr William Jennings Brg- ans manager in thas aailiwck and f MT. Bryan should e elected Presz- dent. NJ Nil,ama would be 10 his administrator #hat Ben Butler va to Pierce's and Buchanan's what the rascallg carpet aaggers and contempt ible sca3I3Wa47 af the South were io Grants Bnt Butler had a partner Caleb Gu hing. rh0ugh q jnnior paft- ner, win perhaps n DOT cent. fne3- est in the venture Both belonged 70 Jeff Davis and fefched and carried for him r##s iStl. when they dise9r cred fhe di9a 5t which they were made Easa1n2 MS in he Cabinet from GS5} - fS:,1. bHt Butler marshal ed the bread and butter brigade that was composed of recruits specially selected Gg him The one complains he made WAS thaf the party was E little too big there vas q lack of pie. That complaint has come up from Every Southern State since the ere tion of fhai mobjIized appetite. fcleDt the Republican pa9.5f of the South. Butler WAS deIesa6e= te the Bem6- cratic Ha1fonal convention of tSSf and sou9h D brlbc lhe South 10 bastpw on him the nomination for President by offefiHs q plank in the platform admitting ex-Confederate soldiers to full share of tle pension appropIi- alton.
 George Fred Villains soi to be | Bryan Democrat by regular stages and by accident He was reared in the school Of Charles Sumner. per haps the most vicious of all the vic ious schools known 10 American po- litical propaganda. If the impossible could have been achieved and Sum ner's ideas and ideals ingrafted on our governmental policy, We would have h iii Wo"se and more intolerable political structure than the worst of the Caesars gave the Roman For tuna ely, Summers damphoolerY Vas impractical. and we escaped il. though We feil in With the atfocity of Thad Stevens We got rid Of that simply because it was infamy without dis guise, child of the devil, openly ae-
 knowledged, while Summers idiocY was designed as I philanthropy and a fount Of perpetual social and patif- ica blessing
 The Republican national conVen- tion of 1SSl nominated Jlmes c Blaine for President of the United States. Ten George Fred Williams muaw0mped along With some other very excellen, folk including the Hon. Joseph Henry Walker. of the town Of Worcester If Socrates conviction that death is progress justified bs fbe event We shall find out in another world how # c,me that Henry Cabot | Loig, ana IT odore Roosevelt es- 'tapaf }'5 }'5i 5 ,,,,i,efY in lHSf, iheV ! wern fna flgtest raw material for mug | Wun az.3, in all the land. filter than I George William Curtis or Henry War. |, Beecher cyan, hui Inc miraculous sometimes happeNs in political mat- terS, and thus Lodge was preserved | for the ts-a of sumner and Roosevelt 1 for the char of Lincoln How iAscru- table are the iecrees of Destiny
 If Arthur or either sherman, or Ed mnhds, ol. Logan, or any on of scores of other Republican leaders had been nominated for President by the con vention that preferred Blaine in lSS4, 1 the chances are .000 to that George Fred Williams would have remained a Republican to this day; but Blaine was the author of the +Mulligan Let ters' No high minded man could ! further characterize ihem They cost the Republican party the Presidency. They made Jhe Mugwump rebellion. They awakened the public conscience. Perhaps the country lost ny tt in the end. Tn the White House James c. Blaine would have Aiven the South he hand of Fellowship and brothe"- ' hood, something no Republican Pres iden' since Lincoln eyer did, perhaps for t,,2 re2s 9n they did not know how.
 But Blaine WIS defeated, Cleveland haca5ce President and George Fred