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"late In The Field."

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
August
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New York Tribune says of the movement recently inagurated in Boston for the purpose of checking Butler in Lis onward march to the Governorship : " General Butler has managt'd to take a Urge hold upon the interests and goodwill of many peoplo in Massachusetts, and it will not be eaaj lor Messrs. Dawes, Hoar, Jewell, and the other estimable gentlemen who still represent the decentër portion of tho Republican party, to arrest the rapid demoralization of which the uicmber from Essex is the best representative and the largest factor. They have need of all their wisdom, cuimiug and good judgment. Thu dny of the convention draws nigh, and tho industriou and cti'ulgent politioan whoni they so mueh dread began his work last winter. His opponents are late in the lield. "It is not easy to form an estímate of the depth which has been ueached by the sentiment that is represented in the Luii uit;t:iiiiL. int; 1UU5U1UU3 OIJJOCI OI the opposition of the members of the citizens' eomniitteo wil], of course, laugh, in his Lirge, aggressive manner, ut this formal dtclaration of war, and ho may indignantly inquiie why he, the faithful lienchiuan and swordbearer of the President, is not as good a Kepublioan as any of thoso who have convenanttd to beat aira before the norainating convention. Being, therefore, as good a líepublican and administration man as thcy, why, he will deiuaud, shall I not be (iovemor of Massachusctts, if I like 'i ïhey who plot igainst this luan's elevation to office will not find it so easy to answer these nes. If Gen. Rutler does not typify 'the JUiest and best' of Massucliuscttsï he is unaeniably the perfect fiower of the official Republicanism of the period. What vvill the Boston coinmitteo do about ifr"

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Old News
Michigan Argus