The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-02-10
Current Notes.

The New Haven Democrats owe it to
themselves TO send solid delegation to the
state convention pledged to oppose all at
tempts to foist hard-money platform on the
party.-Ne,o Hauen Union.
Without knowing what the Meridian
(Miss.) Mercury means by PATRIOTISM" the
the following paragraph from that paper is
inexplicable le:-"The action Of the Federal
congress in refusing to grant full amnesty and
pardon to MississippPs distinguished patriot
and statesman, Jefferson Davis, effectually
locks the door against all patriotic Mississip-
pians."
Thus far, democratic performance has nei-
ther tailed with democratic promise, nor
with public expectation built upon that
promise. The party in the lower house of
congress is still getting ready to begin; the
party at large has not developed yet, in any
remarkable degree, either the intelligence or
the spirit of reform. 1t wants very much in
deed to be restored to power; but it does not
as yet seem to have any very clear notion
what it is going to do with its power after
getting it. This is unpromising and discour-
aging nough.-Sprinafeld Republican.
Take Mr.. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia,
for example, and he is by long odds the best
type of the Bourbon members of the house.
Mr.. Tucker is gifted, loyal, eloquent Vir-
ginian of the bluest blood; he has much of
the learning of the schools, and all of that
which emanates from the school of states
rights, and yet Mr., Tucker is palpably no
more educated by events than if he had
passed the last fifteen years in sleep as pro-
found as that of Epimenides. A more stu
pendous anachronism than Mr.. fuckers ar
gument could not be conceived. 1t suggest
ed to nae the famous irony of Gen. Early in
| the midst of the rout of his army in the
Shenandoah Valley. Riding up to Brecken-
ridge, who was detected and silent, Early
said, swell Breckenridge, auhat do you thi k
Of the rights of the South in the territories
no,of'-Washington Correspondent Agusta,
Ga. Chronicle.
Several indications come to hand that Mr..
Blaine's stock is rising:in the West. A cor
respondent of the st. Paul Pioneer-Press has
canvassed the Minnesota Legislature and the
State and Federal officers on the Presden-
tial question, and announces this result: For
Blaine, 4S; for Washburn, 12; for Bristow, s.;
for Morton, A; for Hayes, 2, and several scat
tering votes for less prominent candidates.
Total for Blaine As, against "a for all others.
All of the Federal officers, and all of the
State officers except three, were for Blaine.
A special dispatch from Leavenworth to the
Chicago Tribune, says of Kansas sentiment:
''Over one-half the newspapers in this State
have declared for j. G.. Blaine for President
and John j. ingalls, for Vice-President. The
Kansas delegation will probably 60 to the
Cincinnati Convention instructed to vote for
these two men," Of the feeling in Iowa. the
Davenport Gazette says: "Mr. Blaine is max
ing unmistakable advances in the Presiden-
tial race. This is welcome assurance.
Should it soon become evident that he will be
the winning man, for nomination and elec-
tion, Republicans in this region will be a.
bundantly satisfied"