Litchfield enquirer., 1876-04-13
Reform l!

The popular voice of the Republican party demands the nomination of Bristow, for the presidency because they recognize in him a real reformer, and because they recognize the further fact that what our government most needs to-day is 8 real reformer at it's head The corruptions that inevitably spring from the increased expenditures of 2 great war have infected the departments to degree that calls for the strong reforming hand of just such a man as Bristow has shown himself to be. It is useless denying the necessity of reform, and the party that offers in its candidate the best promise of reform will almost surely win.
 F Connecticut has candidate to offer in Gen. Joseph R. Hawley who could not be cheated or corrupted and who would make as thorough a cleansing of Washington corruption as Bristow himself. But this is no time for wasting votes on ''fayorite sons." Hawley has no such national re- putation as bristow, and would not be ac cepted by the people at large as Reform candidate. The politicians evidently prefer Blaine to Bristow; and the reason is obvious. With the politician his party is the first consideration; all others are subordinate Mr. Blaine has come out of the fire that has blasted so many regulations unscath- ed; but there is a strong impression that he is of all things partisan. The poll ticians are confident MT. Blaine would never press reforms that would hurt his party. Mir. Bristow is the kind of mau they do not trust. He is for reform first and party afterwards; and that isn't polit- ics. It is also pretty evident that the politicians are to control the Cincinnati convention; and if they think they can elect a politician they will nominate one. What needs to be specially impressed on the Republican politician just now is the fact that no mere Republican politician can be elected President of the United States, next fall.
 Mr. A. T. Stewart, the great New York merchant, if not the great merchant of our or any other time, died on Monday after 8 brief illness. It is pleasing to know that his success was founded on the sound rule of honest dealing, and that the merchant who had but one price for customers, died worth $50, GOO, 900. He left wife but no children.
 Judge David Davis has considerable chance for the Democratic presidential nomination. He ought to have the en- dorsement of all the Fatmen's Conven- tions and then, if he can carry the 1000 lb and over" vote, he is sure of election.
 Among the Republican presidential tickets he ar propose d IS "Bristow and Anthony"-Susan B. That would cer- tainIy ensure an honest president if any thing happened to Bristow.
 The Springfield Republican maintains that the New England manufacturers of cottons and woolens favor the Morrison tariff and an abandonment of Protection while the iron men, here and elswhere, ,are bitterly opposed to such policy.
 The present drift of Congressional opinion seems to favor taking the care of the Indians from civilians and giving it to the army.
 The English University race was won, Saturday, by the Cambridge crew, by three lengths.
 The Dynamite Fiend was Blue Nose and not Yankee, after all.
 Leavenworth, Kansas, has gone back on the colored scholar.
 Rhode Island went Republican, as usu- al. on Wednesday of last week.