Year: 1878

To say that 'sthe evil men do lives after them." is to contradict fact, for no man ever ran or was pushed Chow few are push- ed) for office but he was most villainousy reviled and vilified by hIs political enemies, and not only held up as the incarnation of all the evil under the sun, and the base de stroyer of all peace, concord and good or der, but he is caricaturtd to a degree be- yond the ludicrons, to that of downright | coarseness bordering on disgust. The evil done by the aspirant for political favors is | magnified to wonderful degree, and it is | so shown and illuminated in bis race for office | that nought can or ever does remain to live after his death. s'Down with him, for he is not of ours" is the cry, and to effect the result nothing is too mean or low to use. The end, not the means for it's attainment, is the consideration. This fierce political strife indulged in by the doughty warriors in the

 political arena every year is at once anus ing and lamentable. It is strange withal,

 that men will be so tenacious of principles respecting the temporary defeat or election

 of one, who, espousing the cause they ad

 vocate, is to be raised into power by their snffrages. Be the interests of the county what they may, be the theory of philanthro- pists what it may, the issues are not meas

 uTes but men, and he may be best served

 who can summersau,t readily enough and with sufficient agility to light on his feet on

 a square platform and advocate principles hither strenuously condemned by him. The candidate may be frequently insufferable,

 '.but he toots for us and we will dance to his hornIng." His virtues may be as Bir- nam wood come to Dunslnane, plucked boughs that shadow the number of his vices, but that matters little. He may ''smell to heaven" but he is politician and as such, seeks of course, common veal. hence he is the peoples man and choice. Thisis just the condition of affairs in this state and this is just what it should not be. Butler has more followers among the Democrats than he has Republican renegades yet he is the man who has been the butt of all the ridicule, and contempt of Democratic newspapers and men for years. He has been up by them or the embodiment of po- litical meanness and baseness, and as repre- senting the Republican party. No epithet has been spared him, yet this very man, as by tap of the harlequin's stick, has so changed that he has become the god of the lett wing of the party, the leader of strong hosts to mighty victory. Then, too, the canvas has narrowed itself to one point, and that point is not a measurse, tut man. It is simply Butler or not Butler. The other candidates are scarcely heard of, nor men. ton made of them in the papers. They glide along quietly in the current and await the result. Butler is the only candidate on the stump now and heIs speechitying every night, nearly every afternoon and frequent ly on Sunday. All the papers repeat his speeches and frequently 1 read daily pa per in which there will not be an editorial on any subject other than on Butler, and every note or comment It flecting on him and his career. His whole life has been viewed and reviewed ill every possible shape, his utterances for dozens of years just recalled and commented on, his every

 business and political transaction submit ted to the microscope of fault finding and

 censure. Between Butler and the newspa- pers there is little war. It is criminate and recriminate, and it all serves to solidify convictions not to mollify or change them. It IS queer muldle anyway and the better class of people are getting heartily sick of it. If it must be Butler, the best of what must be and is will be made of it. He can not do much even if elected for his coun- cillor, and House and senate wall be against hlm and without them the chief executive is powerless. What is hoped for is not abuse and the utterances of fire-eating men, hut quiet. candid statements of facts and is sues. and on these let the people decide and act. Coercion ends only in violent re- action, and the gain is absolute loss in the a,d ALLEN.