The Portland daily press., 1876-05-18

ooi oui n"''ondi airs and profane other musical
productions. These people will assemble about
these grounds Sundays by tens of thousands
Ii the gates over tho way were omen the oreat.
er part of the crowd would 90 in wbara tbev
could only get lager in limited quantities. or
where the authorities could entirely prohibit its
sale on that day. Every one in his sober senses
VIII admit that to make lager beer sponge of
man is about as wretched a use as he can he
put to. came to that conclusion Sunday eve
ming between five and six O'Clock. when the
wide walks across from the Centennial grounds
were crowded with fuddled and noisy beer guz-
zlers, and the so-called gardens were little bet
ter than Bedlams, 1t is a shocking thing that
Sunday has become to be the day of drunken
ness and boisterous rcvelry in our large cities.
If it.comes from lager beer and the so-called
light beverages, let US keep them out of Maine
by law as far as we can. Simpson, of the Bel
fast Journal, has been investigating lager. He
says it is salted so that when the victim gets
one glass he thirsts for another, and when be
has two he is on fire for four, and after that his
appetite and. thirst increase in geometrical pro-
gression.
MIR. Lanier's cantata for the opening exer
cises continues to be the subject of humorous
comment One city editor gravey asserted
that it reached the dignity of the occasion and
otherwise extolled il. i: may be that it is all
right, but if that editor, Mr. Lanier or any 9TH
er poet scholar or gentleman will be SO kind as
to put its meaning into easy reading English,
ne Will obliGe great many people who have
read those solemnly jingling lines and have new
ergot at their reainwardness, if they have any.
A morning paper thus parodies one stanza:
Squedunk, out of thee
Oshkosh, thee-thee, New ,Jersee
SpriDgtime cries-It rains; Away!
summer cries-Its warm; Away!
Winter cres-It sEows; Away
Leading Republicans in this city say that
Mr.. Blaine's chances for the nomination at
Cincinnati are improving very decidedly of late.
In conversation with the venerable and Justly
venerated Morton McMichael Of the North
American newspaper, be warmly avowe1 HIM
self in favor of Mr.. Blaine's nomination, mot
because he is my.personal friend" said be, "but
because he is man of large capacity, of varied
information, of public resource, and in nv
Judgment, will not only be the most popular
candidate the party could name, but would give
the nation statesmanlike administration"
He also proceeded to speak of Mr. Blape's
sagacity as leader of the House, and said that
by his tact, nerve and skill, he had caused the
Democratic leaders of the South to declare
their real policy. The young Republicans whom
have met are enthusiastic for Mr.. Blaine, and
am told that COL Forney would show his old
time zeal with Blaine for leader. Aleck Nc
Clure is generally "agin" the prosperous man
He has the independent disease very badly, yet
among the editorials of his sparkling paper of
Monday morning find the following:
1t seems that Blaine is decidedly the head man in
the Cincinnati race, and therefore his pate must take
struggling to the 'front.' Bristow's mules, Morton's
war disbursements aud Conkng's fees as Senatorial
attorney have all been played as trump cards with
Blaine only gets the railroad scandal throtte in one
form to ind it pop up in another. 1t is now con-
treatment, since it has been discovered that she still
lives in good health and favors Blaine for President
and the religion Of his mother isn't considered
specially Objectionable, since it's discovered that
what little religion he induges in is of different
persuasion; but the railroad scandal has the adyan-
tage OF special crookedness all around and with two
or three important witnesses dead it's difficult to
incline plausible inferences in any direction most
desired If General Lane were alive and prominent
Tor the Presidency the story would be made to fit
him exactly, and il Tom Ewing or the other Blaine
were making rapid strides towards Cincinnati they
would certainly be halted as the repository OF the
corruptly abstracted bonds. AS James G.. Blaine is
the man who turns longing and rather hopeful eyes
toward the pork metropolis. he Is the fellow to
handicap with the story, and he must accept the
tricks of hostile jockeys as the home-stretch Is
neared. We don't pretend to say just what Mr..
James e. Blaine had to do with railroads, but it's
due to truth to say that be has yet convicted Of
any corrnpt transactions connected with them.
From what can learn, majority, and
large one, too, of the Pennsylvania delegation
will vote for james G. Blaine at Cincinnati.
The people of Pennsylvania are for him and so
are the delegates, and so strong in that way
that no good old man can coax them away
Lots of people go to Independence Hall. of
itself, it isn't much of a room. bat people do
think that it and its relics are the most sacred
mementos in the world. Let us keep on think
ing so.