The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-05-20
Current Notes.

ANY more charges against Mr.. Blaine? The
livelier they are the greater the number of
Blaine delegates-which IS curious.-Boston
Journal
We do not believe that there is, to-day, a
citizen in Connecticut, with the courage to
think, but bushes for the acts of the domi-
nant party in the old commonwealth, whose
two seats in the Senate, once honored by
Buckingham and Ferry, are so soon to be
filled by bawler and corruptionist.-N. Y.
Euening Post.
The prospects of Blaine for securing the
Republican nomination for President at the
coming covention N Cincinnati are daily in
creasing. We feel very certain that he will
bear the Republican standard in this Centen-
nial year, and we know that under his lead
ership VICTORY is.assured.-Gold Hill (Nev.)
Ne,cS.
The conclusive answer to reformers' who
are ready to vote the Democratic ticket is
that the Democratic party is Indifferent to
reform, and eager only for office, while the
Republican party gives life and force to all
the refolm movements that are at work
throughout the country. A party which
thus manifests moral strength must be bet
ter, even from an independent" point of
view, than party that is destitute OF healthy
impulses. and OF all vigor save that which is
allied to groveling partisanship.-NeD York
Times.
"Fine professions will not satisfy; not
mere words are needed, but acts; not mere
platforms, but men," Judging the confer
ence by this standard we confess to a feeling
of disappointment. We find these most
worthy gentlemen asserting with emphasis
that they will support no candidate who
ever countenanced corrupt practices or com-
binations, and Immediately after we find
these same gentlemen applauding the name
of Samuel j. Tilden as reformer worthy of
support. Must we believe that they were
so ignorant of recent political history as Eot
to know that Mr.. Tilden was for years one
of the most prominent and successful cor
ruptors of New York politics ?-Hdrtord
CourGnt.
A loud voice for Mr.. Blaine comes from the
Independent of this week. 1t says careful
survey of the field shows that Mr.. Blaine has
no equal in popular strength; that the only
possibility of his defeat in the Convention is
the combination of all the other candidates
against him; that no Republican in the
country has more universally commanded
the confidence and esteem of the party; that
he has not been so allied with the errors Of
the Administration as to make him their
apologist: that he has executive abilities of
the highest order, and an experience in pub
lie life which has made him familiar with
governmental affairs; that all attempts to as.
sail his character have been futile; that there
is not a single Republican in the entire
country who is so well qualified as he for the
task of representing to the country the prin-
cples of his party, and at the same time pre-
ftnv .orfry 10 hovr
dependent concludes: 1--WE are, of course, in
dicating by these remarks our decided prefer
ence for Mr.. Blaine, over every other name
that has been mentioned. We believe that
his nomination would be accepted by the Re-
publican party as furnishing very hopeful
assurance Of success, and, in the event of
his election, a reliable guaranty for good gov
ernment. As we look at the matter, the
best ticket that the Cincinnati Convention
can present TO the people is Blaine and Brs-
tow, the former for President and the latter
for Vice President"