Year: 1873

ton help to bear the burdens OF the ''s state
and the people. In consequence the literary


miration Society OF the Atlantic Monthly, the
alumni of the university and the professors
and students in the colleges are opposed TO him
| to q man. The 0ffce-holders under the State gov
| ernment are all his enemies, and would not put


HIM IN because he weuld put them cut A man


pute as the correspondent OF a country paper,


was turned out OF his ONCE ct the State House last
year Dy Buffers friends, aud he now prints
| pamphet TO prove that there could not have been


salary steal had 1t not been for Butler. 1t mat


ters not 70 Robinson that Dawes and the others,
| u they can, took the money-they are good while


Butler alone is bad. Nearly all the newspapers
posed HIM and partly because he compes them to
| print his back talk All these things and many
more point back to the days OF his democracy, and
are made more potent because there was whg
| republican dynasty in power before be became and
ever since he has been member OF the party.


| A CASE IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. B. LORING.
| When General Butler told me that this whig
| dynasty opposed him because he had once been
democrat, smiled rather incredible smile.
Mr.. George B. Loring, which is even more marked
| than that OF General Butler, because LoTipg hPs
not Buffers vlgOr IN overcoming Obstacles Mr..
Loring was long a democrat, but he became the
| most radical Of republicans He is a very pom.
plenty Of money, and who knows a great deal more
| about fancy farming and bloOded stations than
t blue blood % Of salem. which is blaer even than the
| blood OF the Boston Brahmin. 1t was the East In
dia trade OF the Oiden time which put the divine
| fire in New England VEINS and LOrlng has got IL.
The real Brahmins OF the Asiatic world were poll
tlcians, and consequently the counterfeit article IN
lion to obtain political preierment. lie might
have been favorable to Butler If the latter had
sc in Congress- Bnsr hoWever Se preers
| General Cogswell as his successor, and conse-


But dS n
blood is blue enough, 1t Is tainted with democracy
and the wings re refuse to sye TOO great Latitude to
| but he cannot be Governor. He would be per-
mitted to go to Congress If Butler would let MIN,
| but he must not aspire to be United States Sen
ator. He Is graciOusly recognized as a republican
by small distinctions, but he must not expect the
Chairman OF the Worcester Convention if they can
and so mold him. but they will continue to balk his
a. aGey nave Always h nace6 IT, because @
must 20 back to fancy farming and the education
OF colts for there is no future lOr him while the
| whig dynasty rules the State and he Ia their SER
want This point Is conceded on every hand
ana what is true OF Loring may also be
horror at the alleged blackguardism OF the latter
and proves that 'lfshness and self-lnterest and
all the baser elements are as potent in blue blood
as in the ordinary claret A question which natur.
| ally suggests Itself under such circumstances ls
Where then Is Ger General Buffers strength? Tne
not possible that it should be anywhere than with
| the people,


GENERAL BUTLER AND THE MASSES


The concessions OF the dynastic republicans illus
| trate General Buffers popular strength. From
the first they conceded him all the Boston deega-
| tiOns to the Worcester Convention, except from
three wards, and never tried to conceal their ears
that he would carry every ward in the city. They
admit his strength in all parts Of the state, and.
they are by no means certain they can secure IT,
wel-lniormed gentleman, who is not parti.
of wide observation, assures me that he
can carry the Convention if his affairs
expression This gentleman does not believe But
ler's avowal that he was cheated out OF the nOmi
| the result OF blunder. On the test question OF
| the admission OF the Butler delegation from the
sixth ward ard, OF this ms city every delegate was % re-
and he thinks many weakkneed persons who
| would have voted for him by ballot went against
him in consequence OF this open method out OF
| fear OF the party leaders. cannot say how true
this is, but it Is at least very plausible theory.
| Whatever may have been the cause of mis- defeat
at that time his strength with the people very
| great. and it has not been diminished. The masses
do not believe the stories that told to his dis
credit, but regard tnem one and all, as ISLANDERS
and calumnies. The great number OF these sto-
RES the persistence en- and bitterness .na Wth WHICH i
as to their truth, all operate against their accept
ance. The people tired OF hearing them, regard
them as only aDcther version OF the old slander OF
the spoons, and to the general accusation that
Butler is bad man they laughingly answer in
got bad eye.' In making these accusations SO
| perslstently and by constantly painting General
| Butler as the chief criminal OF American political
| life his enemies overshoot the mark and their
arrows fall harmless to the earth.


WHY BUTLER WANTS TO BE GOVERNOR.


l have been thus minute in all these details to
! show all the elements opposed to and in favor OF
| General Buffers nomination as preliminary to an
| explanation OF the reasons which make him desire
| to be Governor at all. Indeed, have just had
from him direct avowal on this this very very
he must conquer his enemies at home before he
| can aspire TO achievements on the broader field OF
national politics. He sees plainly enough that he
didate for President with his own State against
him. This shows that he possesses wider amb
\ han haS haAn ffrih lint IN Inn
possible that the desire to be President has never
been ascribed to him because of this want OF local
strength. All through the war and throughout his
entire career in Congress he suffered from con-
slant fire in the rear. His partial failure as .
military Leader stst ne @ 70 want o. ~
complished in spite OF obloquy and abuse
with his enemies holding the power OF his state


and he has not yet given up the idea OF pushing
onward to higher station, he is organizing and
concentrating all the elements in the republican
iesce against the whig dynasty. No one before him
ever had the courage to attempt this, or the abn-
ity accomplish it. 1t is giant work, but at the
present moment it is In a fair way OF achievement.
Should 1t be accomplished and Butler become the
Governor OF this State it Is not unlikely that the
scene of determined enort on his part to become
| the next President OF the United States.


| THE ANTI BUTLER LEADERS OF THE YEAR


Having thus detailed General Buters motives in
! making this contest and described the power
| against which he Is compelled to contend, 1t may
be wen TO glance for a moment at the men who are
just now the ostensible leaders against him and
his pretensions. The organization formed
| at Hamilton Hail. some weeks ago, are
the managers Of the contest on behalf
OF the old whig dynasty. The first name on
this list s that OF Judge Hoar, Grants first Attor


ney General. The Judge Is as ambitious as he is
proud and unbending. He wanted to be Chief
| Justice OF the United States, but he soon found


that the whig dynasty could not and the inchoate


Butler dynasty would not help him TO the place 80


his eyes rested on the corresponding position in the


GnnrA AVnnN NnnPf nj MaQo fts do ,w


the death OF Chief Justice Chapman This place


Washburn can Rlve him. II the wings who direct
the Governors course satisfied; but he could
not hope to obtain it from General Butler. He ac-


cordngly wrote the so-called republican address


which emanated from Hamilton Hall, and in which


Butler Is denounced and Wasburn eulogiZed. All


this is well enough in Its way, and II Butler Is


beaten his brother wings will certainly owe him


the place. Associated with him, so as to give the


document weight with the people, are some rather


remarkable men. They are mostly men OF


wealth and high social position. John M. Forbes,


OF Milton. Is BOSTON merchant. but no YuRar shOp.