Butler And Samner

Coming up front Fall Rivef on khe mórning of the tflth od September, ■■■ tal Batler bad aa opportooity toroad the sinister paragxaph whiota fchat nevi most dangoi'ousconspirator, Senator Sirm n-jr, had e.-iused tobednsertedin the pnpers of tho day. In tliis tho editora repv.--,'u;vl that théy bad . Ben Senator Sumaorand Senator WiJson, and wero " authorized by them to say ' that fchey " deeply reur. fcted and deplored thfl exti nary canvass which General Butler had preoipitated apon theoOramonwe ilth, and espooiaüy the ntta iks whioh he had voli:n red against thfl e risting B . eminent and the Elopublioan party in Mlassiohusette ; and tliat in their opinión kis no.jiaationae Gtovernor w tile to the best interesta of the oomtn in wealth and of the Itepublioan party." Immediately after th Gteneral'a arrival in Boátou 1 proeeedèd I i MCr. Sumaert voorns the Ooolidge Honse, and fooad the Senator busy over his morning woik .nd oomi'oitably cliattinii with his collaague. lakiog tho morning paper from hifl-pookat,theGreneralread the paragraph above quoted. "Tiiis purpclistobe by iiuthority," said he : " is (bis truef " 'Yes, General." Xurning in Senator Wïlson, " Did you Ciiicur, ir 'r1 " " I did." Aftor a moment'a pause, as it' he expeoted sume modiüoation, the General temarked to Mr. Sumnor that there W M a time who.'i he was lying iip;:i his ! 1, struok down and suffering. " I aalled upon you to oxpress my syinpat'ny," said he ; " anfl now you are co-oporating with onn lm t that timo snt down to gapper with your assailant. And now you strike nte a blow on the head." "You are ÜLrur.itivc, General," said Snnmer ; " I liave struck you 110 blow on the head, but have simply gtatod to the pcople what I think of your present courso. Had you allowed your name te go beforo the pèoplë as other candidatos do, aooording to our u should havo quietly waii ion ot tlie conventiun. iiut you have como forT,-ard a self-seeker, attaoking tho EopubKean party and tne ezisting State governmout, maMng war on them tor the purposo oi' elevatini; yonnèlf. 1 do not think this is a good example. You uro deuiorahzing the people. Buoh a system carried out, as it might be by any candidate foroiÜL-e, would be Bcdlam again, bosides the spoils systoui with a veiiíjeanoe." Tlse Öeueral hore bogan to insist that his speeches wero not currcotly reported : but tiie Senator remiudcd him that the Woroester and Springfteld speeclns wro evidontly written out or revised by 1. and these wero cnough. Baffled at this point, General Butler brought np his resorves. " This all c retorted, of your hostility to Grant : k am for Wuw and you are against him. J have foivsei'ii this, but thought it would not cönie befbre May; but I am ready for it. You have always been ;ii?ainst Grant, and every meaêure of hisadminisiration." " Ah," s:id Mr. Bumner, " every moasure ? " Be good enougb, General, to name one." - "The Santo Domingo treaty," "Waiving the question," said Mr. Suinner, " whethor this was an administration , mcaure, be good ynough to name anothei" To this thero was no ansver " Yöu aro silerit. General; pica n an oth.;r." Thü Oeneral remained tranquil " You are Bfciilsilent, Q neral Butler! You mention only the Santo Domingo treaty, and yot you alloga that I liavi: heeu againt every ineasure of the administration. I aak again for an anawor. - Tsow, General," (after a pause) " havo you not been against the treaty 'i so that in opposition tothe administration we are even." General Butler then proceeded to juote certain language whieh lie al llr. Sumner had used in dispara) of the President, adding, "1 have an affidavit of it." The Senator Raidthctt this matter of obtaining atlkUivits scemed a littln too Braotvacoording to the p of the criminal eourts. "liut,"s:iid he, " General, to 1' fnuik, do you think any better of General Grant than I do?" No answer. " You are silent, General ; you do not answer me. I a.?k you again, Do you think any better ot' Grant thaD 1 do'f Xknow you do not. This I know." Here Sanator Wilson joined in the oonTersotion, and it beeauio loss pointed, and in a few minutes General Butler took his leive.