The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-26
Political Notes.

TuE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLooK.-Thcre
can be no doubt that at the present time
the probabilities are in favor of Mr.. Til.
den. NJ. Hayes chances have not i'm.
proved since his nomination. The longer
he remains in the field the weaker he be-
comes. There is no life in his canvass
except what tho oiliceholders give to IT,.
The strong men on his side are nearly all
under cloud, and what they say has no
weight with the people. His most promi-
nent supporters are the men whom we
are all anxious to throw overheard. Ham
iton Fish is one of the few heightened
honest, honorable men left in the Repub
lican ranks, but Mr.. Fish has nowhere
said word in favor of Hayes Wendell
Phillips has not opened his lips for Hayes
Garrison is silent. Whittier has not even
written poem, and the respectable gen
tlemen of the Union League in Philadel-
phia and New York seem to have forgot
ten that We shall have a presidential
election in sixty days. The burden of
supporting Hayes has fallen entirely upon
the shoulders of Grant, poor old Judge
Taft, of Ohio Zach Chandler and Don
Cameron. Mr.. Tilden, on the other hand,
is growing every day, and if his campaign
receives no unforeseen check he will be
elected by as large majority as General
Grant received in 1872. Scores of strong
men, many of them identified in the past
with the Republican party, are earnestly
working in his behalf Mr. Curtin, Of
Pennsylvania, the most popular of all the
war governors, and one of the nearest and
dearest friends of Mr.. Lincoln, is on his
side aud will canvass Pennsylvania for
him. In Massachusetts there is Mr..
Charles Francis Adams, Lincoln greatest
of foreign ministers Mr.. Adams is for
Tildon, and will possibly be the Democratic
reform candidate for governor in his ma
tive State. In Connecticut Mr.. Wellcs,
member of Mr.. Lincolns cabinet, is u
warm supporter of Mr.. Tilden In Ohio,
Illinois and other Western States, there
are scores of men less known, but almost
equally influential, who are striving to
drive the present corrupt gang from power
and make the centennial campaign in its
results worthy of the centennial year.
If Mr.. Blaine had been nominated at
Cincinnati, and had succeeded in showing
his entire innocence Of the Arkansas bond
business, the position of the Republican
party would be infinitely stronger to-day,
Blainc's plan of campaign was the only
one to win. He took the aggressive. He
defended nothing the Republican party
had done or proposed to do. lie threw
the religious question into the campaign
and endeavored to revive all the bitterness
and luminosity of the late war Zach
Chandler, Judge Taft, Mr.. Cameron and
Gen Grant have been feebly endeavoring
to follow out the plan of campaign for Mr..
Hayes which Mr. Blaine had marked out
for himself. All limitations are failures,
and the rule holds good in politics as in
everything else. Grant and Chandler
have made mistake in endeavoring to
put Blaine's armor on Hayes. The small,
Ohio politician, is completely lost sight Of
and hidden behind the buckler Of the
Maine giant. Blaine would have carried
the North Cor attempted it at least even
on 30 old aud tritc an issue as the late
war When Grant and Chandler and
Hayes attempt it, as in the late order TO
Sherman, they succeed only in arousing
the indignation of the whole country.
Hayes is weaker to-day by hundreds of
thousands of votes than he was before
Sherman was directed to hold the troops
in marching order to assist his election.
Blaine would never have permitted a
blunder of that kind, or il his friends had
. been SO indiscrcet as to commit it, his re-
. pudiation of their action would be prompt,
stern aud electric by its very eloquencc.
4 Thus far the canvass on the part of the
Republican party has been characterized
by the grossest laundering aud stupidity;
that of Mr.. Tilden has been able, wise and
sagaeious. He has his party well in hand;
he manages his own campaign From
Florida to Maine i. is easy to sec that one
man directs the whole political line Of
battle. On the other side there is chaos,
doubt, uncertainty. If Mr.. Tildcn is as
wise in the sixty days that are to come;
if his followers will be guided by him as
implicitly as they have been up to this
time, his election in November will be
ccrtain.-Baitimore Gazeite.
The Confederate Congress" is the
name applied to the Congress just adjourn
ed, by the Radical press of the country.
Il Call it what you please, it has reduced the
appropriations $50, 100000, in the face Of
the fierce opposition of the Republican
Administration, the Republican Senate
and the Republican press. 1t has forced
retrenchment and economy in the expen-
ditures in spite Of the determination OF
the Republicans to increase them over
former years. 1t has exposed the thlev-
cry and rottenness Of the Republican Ad-
ministration aud broken up some Of the
rascally schemes for plundering the people.
" Whatever may be said of it, none charge
the House Of Representatives with jobbery
or plundering schemes, as has been the
ease with several of the recent Republican
Houses. There have been no Credit
Moblier swindlcs nor railrord subsidy
jobs 1t has stood between the public
plunderers and the people and protected
the interests of the latter.-N u World.
The New York Republican State Con
vention, which met at Saratoga, on We'd
ncsday, has nominated for Governor Mr..
Il. d. Morgan. He is probably as good a
nomination as could have been made, ex-
cept that Of Mr.. Evarts The most i'm
portant bearing of this nomination Is the
fact that it is defeat of the better ele-
ment of the Republican party, which q; ae-
sired the nomination of Eyarts' The
latter would have gotten the support o.. o.
che Independent voters, while Morgan VIII
only carry the thick-and-thin Republicans
Another significant thing is that 4 IS a
practical defeat of the magnificent Roscoe
conkling, who wanted Cornell. The Lo-
eral Republican Convention, which met az
the same place, endorsed both the national
aud State tickets. The Libcarl lndepen-
dents also held conference at Saratoga,
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