The Portland daily press., 1876-03-22
Current Notes.

yard matters has been Indefinitely postponed.
Is a Democratic "dad" of the name of RAM
dali under the hay ?-Springfeld Republican.
By vote of26 to 20, the Senate yesterday
passed an act fixing the salary of Hon. James
G. Blaine, from the 4th of March, 1877, at
$4,000 per annum.-St. Louis GLobe-Dens-
ocrdt
There is no doubt that the New England
states will favor Blaine's nomination, and the
new York delegates, after giving Senator
Conkling complimentary vote, would like
10 look to Mr.. Blaine as their next choice
Ne'0 York Independent.
The Republicans of Missouri are as unani-
nous for Blaine at the present time as they
were four years ago for Grant. Delegates to
the Cincinnati Convention will please note
this tact. We are very sure they can not
gainsay it.-St. Louis Globe.
The Boston Globe does not believe that, In
order to correct abuses, it is necessary for
men to cast away long cherished principles,
and help into power a party whose record
they detest, and whose proiessioss they dis
trust: But, 1t says, the men who are in ear
nest IN their desire to secure reform, and not
the of1ice-holders, should run the Republican
party this year.
80 lar as we have noticed no Republican
paper has failed to condemn the iniquity of
General Belknap. And so far as we have
noticed, also, no Democratic paper has had
any fault to find with the peculiar position of
Mr.. Pendeton and Mr.. Clymer. Neyerthe-
less, we suppose the only hope for the tri-
umph OF purity and reform is in the success
OF the great party led by Fernando Wood,
Pendleton, Randall, Clymer, and Ben HILL
Hartford Courant.
1t has been proved that the old-time Re-
publican sentiment is not dead in New Eng
land. and it will be made manifest in due
season that it has equal vitality in othe Sec
tions OF the country. At the same time, 1t Is
possible to place too much reliance on the
extent OF the Democratic capacity for blum
derlng. The Republican party must keep
we'll abreast of the honest and intelligent
sentiment of the people to be able to profit by
the lack OF character and principle in its ad-
versary.-N. Y. Times.
/ affirm from my positive knowledge as 10
the Republicans, and from my best informa-
tion as to the Democrats, that not nearly so
much money has been used on either side
during this canvass as in many previous
years. That few voters were bought on
each side IS undoubtedly true; that the result
was In the slightest degree affected by these
purchases is undoubtedly false, and libel on
the people Of New Hampshire of all political
oplnions.-Concord Letter to the Veao York
Times.
Investigation is good thing, so long as 1t
exposes the skeletons in rival house, but II
it results in bringing out your skeletons, and
danPinO fhoYn nm md Aor,,, hofo, al.
public, its political expediency is doubtful.
There is possibility of disturbing the repose
oil Venerated Democrats, as well as Republi-
cans. Hence, IT there should be falling off
in the zeal for investigation, in the House,
no one need be surprised. Investigations
may prove troublesome. 1t wasn't Mordacai
who was hanged on the gallows that Haman
coDstructed.-Cincinnati Commercial.
Mr.. Blaine still holds his popularity In
Minnesota. The st. Paul Pioneer Press
says: "Of the seventy or eighty Republican
papers in this state, at least three-fourths of
them have recently pronounced for Blaine,
and we doubt whether there are half dozen
OF the whole number which have expressed a
choice for any other candidate. One or two
more explosions of the Belznap sort might
make serious inroads upon Balne's strength,
ahu give the STATE 10 Brlst0W, but candor
compels us to admit that as the case stands
at present, Blaine would probably be taken as
the first choite OF at least nine-tenths of the
Republicans OF Minnesota" We believe Il Is
the same in Wisconsin and Iowa.
Mr.. Blaine has unquestionably a stronger
ollowing than any other person named for
the presidency. In other sections of the
country he has received unexpected support.
The friends of Mr.. Blaine aud of Mr.. Bristow,
who are Republicans, would naturally act
together in the national convention, in the
interest of honest gentlemen and honest
money, in case it should be necessary to pre-
sent single candidate against that portion
OF the convention which look upon those two
grand objects as of secondary consequence.
But which would be the stronger candidate,
or whether either of them would command q
more united support than Gov. Hayks of Ohio
or Mr.. Wheeler of New York Is not, we
think, yet fully settled. Those who can see
their way perfectly clear already are to be
congratulated. Now Is the time, however,
to enter protest against attempts at this
early day to close the case for or against in
dlvidual candidates by raising false and
misleading issues calculated to distract and
weaken those who are substantially agreed
in everything except their personal pref
erenee as to candidates.-B0ston Advertis-
err.