The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-24
Political News.

Ex-Gov. Talbot of Massachusetts refuses TO
be candidate for Congress-
The Petersburg (Va.) Inder alludes to Mr..
Tucker as ''the representative of Gen. Lees
grave in Congress-"
Returns from thirty-one counties in Michi-
gan show that the Republicans have made
gain Of forty eight supervisors over last year,
counting all the Independents with the Dem
ocrats.
The New York Tribune sums up the Indi-
ana Democratic platform thus: eve are in
favor of putting the Democratic party in and
the Republican party out. Also of having
plenty of money and of printing it as we want
it."
Some of the Democratic Congressmen are
already talking of sitting right through un-
til December, with a recess during the
month of Augus., and they are quietly count
ing noses to see whether or not they can
carry such a plan into effect.
The Richmond (Va.) Despatch predicts
that the Democratic National convention will
no more entertain any idea of nominating
Gen. Hancock for President than of nominat-
ing Jefferson Davis. Is this to be taken as
an indication of Southern Democratic senti-
ment?
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch is very sure
that Gen. Hancock's connection with the ex-
ecution of Mrs. Surrat renders it certain that
he could not be elected to any Office of honor
or profit by the people of the United States.
The same condemnation it passes upon Gen.
Hartranft, of Pennsylvania.
The Atlanta tGa.) Times wants Ben Hill
to be permitted to talk whenever he pleases
and in whatever tone he pleases without re-
buke from the South now that the South sis
about to emerge from under the cloud made
black by the most rigorous terms ever i'm
| posed by conqueror upon the conquered"
The Bucy rus (Ohio) Forum has received
circulars urging it to favor Tlden for the
Presidency, and says: "As he and his Tam
many clique did all they could to defeat
Uncle William Allen last fall, we rather think
| that their efforts in Ohio will be wasting
| sweetness on the desert air. or words to that
effect"
The Malone IN. " Palladium published
at the home of Hon. William A. Wheeler,
says that that gentleman has never in any way
entered the contest for the nomination for
the Presidency, and that whatever may
transpire will be without any effort or en-
couragement from him. If nominated, the
| office will seek the man and not the man the
| office.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that some
of the most intelligent of the delegates to the
recent colored convention in Nashville ex.
press their confidence that the Republicans,
with candidate acceptable to Southern Re-
publicans and upon a sound platform, can
carry Virginia, the two Carolnas, and Flori-
da. They also say that the Southern delega-
tions to Cincinnati will be divided in their
preferences for President, and that Morton's
chances do not seem to them so good as
Blaine's or Bristow's, and as for Conklng he
is not much talked of or thought of among
them.
Four of the speeches of Gen. Thomas
Ewing, of Ohio, and Gen. Stewart L. Wood
ford, ofNew York, made in Joint discussion
during the Ohio campaign last Fall, have
been published in pamphlet form. They are
exceedingly interesting reading. Both speak
ers are clever debaters, both are apparently
equally sincere IN their views, and the audi
ences were keenly interested. The report Of
the discussion brings out clearly the great ad-
vantage which the public gains from this
| method of canvassing. 1t would hardly be
too much to say that the majority in the
State was determined by the arguments ad-
dressed by Gov. Woodford to the Democrats
who came to hear Gen. Ewing