Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-05-03
IND MAINE.

MASSACHUSETTS, IND MAINE.
Acting upon the idea which has been
circulated abroad by overzealous friends
of Mr.. Bristow, that the late republican
convention in Boston was unfriendly to
Mr.. Blaine and favorable TO the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Bristow, some remarks have
been made calculated to create wrong
impression between the people of the two
States. In the last number of the New
York Tribune we find the following:
A correspondent familiar with the Gins" and
"outs" of New Englapd politics writes thus: 10
those who know the inner workings OF Massachu-
sets politics the apparent Withholding OF support
from Mr.. Blaine as Presidential candidate IS not
surprising. Massachusetts, has never affected
Maine or Maine men since the separation of the
two States in 1920. In old times, Gov William
King, John Holmes and Prentiss MIllen felt the
weight of Boston displeasure. Later 1t took the
form of opposition to George Evans-confessedl
the leading Wing in Congress from New England
| after Mr.. Webster entered Iiarrisons Cabinet.
Still more recently, Hannibal Hamlin was opposed
by Massachusetts, at Chicago in 1860, and beaten
| by her at Baltimore in 1864. Mr.. Fe,senden to
the day of his death felt and felt very keenly, that
injustice WAS always done him by Massachusetts
men and Massachusetts, papers. If Mr.. Blaine is
the latest instance he has long line of illusrous
predecessors. But Massachusetts will not readily
forgive him for being a native Of Pennsylvania
aid citizen Of Maine"
While there is too much truth in what is
stated above in relation to the course oil
Massachusetts, in times past concerning
the cases referred to, there is not any
sufficient reason for asserting that
Massachusetts will withhold her support
from Mr.. Blaine as candidate for the
nomination for President. The Bristow
men in the State have made good deal
of buster about their candidate, and en-
deavored to create the impression that a
majority of the delegates elected are in
his favor, but their claim rests upon no
substantial basis, as we know and the best
informed of the Bristow men in Massachu-
sets know also.
But allowing that it were true as repre-
scented by the friends of Mr.. Bristow
(Which it is noil that a majority or even
half the delegates at large will favor his
nomination at Cincinnati, this by no means
establishes that the vote of the State in
the national convention will be for Mr..
Bristow as against Mr.. Blaine. The State
is entitled to twenty-six delegates in the
convention, and only four have been elect
ed. There are yet twenty-five to elect.
OF course those yet to be chosen are to
have voice in the convention. or they
might as well not be elected. They will
not only have voice. but it will be the
voice of Massachusetts, for the vote of one
district delegate counts as much and
weighs as heavily in the ballot as the vote
of delegate at large.
| We therefore advise the friends of Mr..
Blaine TO await patiently and confidently
the result in Massachusetts, and in New
England. With Mr.. Bristow the friends
of Mr. Blaine have no quarrel. They
have no wish to take from him single
honor that belongs to him. But they be-
lieve there are good, sound, important,
weighty reasons, dictated by common
sense and experience, why the republican
party should at this time nominate Mr..
Blaine rather than Mr. Bristow. If the
argument of locality was all the ground
upon which the friends of Mr.. Blaine could
appeal to Massachusetts and New Eng
land for support for him as a candidate
for President, his case would be much
weaker than it is. But there are other
grounds, and 10 no State should they ap
peal more powerfully than to Massachu-
sets. Just now the Bristow men. inflated
by their construction of the action Of the re-
cent convention, are claiming what does
not belong to them and making absurd
and noisy pretensons, but the sober, con-
siderate, intelligent thought of the people
of Massachusetts is well convinced that the
State should support Mr.. Blaine as cordially
as though he were q son Of the Old Com
monwealth.
4 FITTING TRIBUTE AND ITS 4kORAL.
The UNIV cling of the statue of President