The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24
GLOBE WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY "a 1876


Mr.. Edmunds, for instance. will be very
resigned II something unpleasant happens
to Mr.. Morton. next month, and that he
won't cry his eyes out over any little dis
appointment that may befall Mr. Conklng.
-,Sprinafeld Republican.
Alexander T. Stewart once remarked
about Brstow that, while the country
knew him best by his campaign against the
whisky ring, his most valuable single SER
vice had been the extrpation ot smuggling.
Mr.. Stewart added, In substance, that it
was real pleasure to do business with the
secretary of the treasury who knew what
he was about, understood things when
they were put before him, and applied the
remedy to the spot.
To-day, Wednesday, is the great con-
vention day of the year, for nine states
meet to choose national delegates. The
Spencer wing Of the Alabama republican,
meet at Montgomery, the California demo-
Gratis meet in San Francisco, the Illinois
republicans at Springfield, the Kansas re.
publicans at Topeka. the Michigan demo-
Gratis at Lansing, the Minnesota republicans
at st. Paul, the Missouri republicans at
Jefferson City, the New Hampshire repub-
licans at Concord, and the Colorado demo-
Gratis at Pueblo.
1t is very doubtful whether, with Blaine,
Morton or Conkling, the republicans could
win. But it is certain that with Bristow
they could carry every Pacific state, as il
| by whirlwind, against any democratic
rs.
| forms will count for little this year. The
party that expects to win must put up a
man whose character and anteccdents are
| such as to command the respect and con-
| fidence of the people. Bristows name IS
| in itself tower of strength and splendid
| unwritten platform, far more attractive
| than any that can be- devised by the most
| crafty and experienced manipulatOrs of the
conventions. San Francisco Ch1ontcle.
| MIR. Blaine il at fault with the wind and
| tide he is rowing his bark Up stream. Ii
an ordinary time, with the republican party
assured of its hold upon the country, his
industrious exercise of his extraordinary
powers of manipulation and combination
would certainly give him his party's nom
ination and pretty certain election. AS
it is, he seems likely 10 have the nominal
support of about third of the delegates +;
but even these will be greatly permeated
with distrust and hopelessness, with the
feeling that ii wouldn't be safe to nominate
him, and we doubt if he could command
more than 100 to 100 to lead forlorn
hope Springfield Republican.
OF course, Col. Scott is TO be believed
when he exposes himself to disgrace by
clearing Mr. Blaine from suspicion, but we
are left sadly in doubt if such clearance is
not, after all, worse than conviction. The
last 10 or - years have been an iron age, a
railroad era, and temptation has stalked
everywhere. Public men who have not
yielded to it, and who arc capable of with
standing the friendships of those who have,
do not, in a test hour like this, leave their
characters in doubt by maintaining discreet
silence on the reform agitation that is be-
ginning to move the masses. Ii IS not
enough for man to be personally white
be must be politically and socially on the
side of disinterested craftsmanship. In thia
last respect, Mr.. Blaine leaves Us still in
doubt.-iSt. Adams Messenger.
Senator Alcorn, being informed that
Governor Ames is trying to place upon him
the responsibility for the failure OF the re-
publican party to maintain itself in Mississ
ippi, has been industriously collecting
evidence against Ames, and now produces
very long letter written by E. G. Harris
late Acknowledgement of Mississippi, to
the president just after the state turned
democratic. The letter recounts in deta
the political events of Ames' administration
and attempts to show that the loss of the
state Is due to corruption and gross mis-
management on the part of the governor
Indeed, Harris undertakes to prove thai
Ames tried, and in some instances with sue.
cess, to corrupt the judiciary for the benefi
of some of his friends