Catoctin Clarion

Information Wanted.

We have always been taught to look upon Gen. Butler as the greatest scamp in America. Democratic evidence abounds to that effect and during the last two or three years Republican evidence to the same effect has been cast around loose. Now if he couldn't find pards enough in the republican party, he was certainly demanding too much company. If he went into the democratic party to practice, it must have been because he expected to be supplied with said pards, to an amount that the other party couldn't furnish and we were never taught to believe him to be a fool. Or was it, that, with all Butler's wickedness, the republican party was too wicked for him? Did he leave it for its or his own good and did he enter the democratic party expecting to make the party or himself better? Which is the worst, the democratic party, the republican party or Gen. Butler? The party organs have so by turns, abused and praised this man within the last few years, that we've got all mixed up. The Westminster Advocate would make it appear, that our article last week, 'the hair trigger,' loses its force, because the Garfield and Arthur, ticket will, from its standpoint of view be overwhelmingly defeated. We are not in a position, either to affirm or deny that, but we are in a position to insist, that neither such be overwhelmingly defeated and in case as that of 1876, we should be pleased to learn from it, just what position the Advocate would take. If we have read it too superficially, we may be pardoned, when we say, that we would not hesitate long to discount, in advance, the Advocate's position in any such crisis and would build our faith on the doctrine laid down in 'the hair trigger.'