Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-05-10
From the Bangor Wing and Courier.
".SNAp THE WHIP"

| "SNAI HE WHII.
However sincere some of the personal
advocates of the Secretary of the Treasury
may be in their preference, it is very evil
dent to any tolerably sagacous observer
that the actual engineers Of the 50 called
"Bristow movement" whoever they may
be. are encouraging it mainly with the OBJ
ject of imparing Mr.. Blaine's strength in
New England That this section should
be chosen as the special field for pushing a
Kentucky candidate, in whose behalf hard
ly any effort is visible in other parts Of the
country, indicates design; and the most
obvious design is that of weakening the
local support of candidate who already
is far in the lead Of all others with the del
egates thus far chosen, and who is daily
receiving Endorsement by whole delega-
tons in different and remote sections OF
the Union. Whoever may be secretly man
aging this game of "Snap the Whip" we
do not believe they have the slightest no
ton that Mr.. Bristow has any chance for
the nomination. OF the 754 delegates who
will compose the National Convention
about APO have already been chosen, and
of those Mr. B.istow Is not known to have
the preference Of more than 20, if so
many, while of five other candidates the
one having the least known support among
delegates chosen has more than double
that of Mr.. Bristow, and Mr.. Blaine is alb
solutely the first choice of more than one
third of those already elected, with the So
votes OF Pennsylvania and the large ma
,jority Of the AZ of Ohio sure to be cast for
him after the complimentary ballotng;
while the 1874 delegates yet to be chosen
will include those from the great North
West and other sections where Mr. Blaine's
popularity is greatest.
Keeping the above exhibit in mind it is
easy to reach the deduction that some one
it not several somebodies-may deem it
specially desirable to organize deter
mined raid upon the home support of
New England candidate, who alone is re-
ceiving the Endorsement of numerous State
Conventions in other parts of the Union,
and who stands already far in advance OF
all competitors. And this does not neces-
sarly involve any doubt of the sincerity of
many of those who are favoring the Bris.
tow movement in our adjoining States, but
the circumstances point too Significantly
for mistake to the conviction that the big
end of the whip is in the hands OF ADLER and
shrewder politicians than the callow ora.
tors OF the Boston Bristow Club, and that
the ultimate object of the movement is
to hamper the leading candidate and not to
advance the interests of Mr.. Bristow.
Leaving the reader to form his own con-
illusions as to some of the elements which
would be likely to combine for such pur-
pose. we may suggest that the democrats
have u special interest-which they have
not been able to conceal-in encouraging
any movement calculated to impair the
chances of the nomination of Mr.. Blaine,
whom they fear more than any other can
didate. Their earnest desire to stimulate
The Brstow division in New England, has
found palpable expression in the tone and
tendency of their party organs. and the
glee with which they hail every announce
ment of the choice of Bristow delegate,
shows Enthusiastically the democratic eager
ness for anything to beat Blaine"
There is another phase of this movement
to which the attention of republicans has
not been directed sufficiently, if at all: 1t
is the significant fact that of tn newspa-
pers most clamorous in its championship,
many of them are quite likely, and some |
OF them are sure, to be found opposing the
republican nominees in the ensuing Presi-
dental campaign. While there are some
staunch and sterling republican papers
Mr. Bristow honestly as their
first choice. the most vocilerous and SUPER
seryiceable organs of the movement are
such as the Springfield Republican, which
has fought the Republican party with vim
dictiveness since it went over with Greeley
in 1872; the New York Sun, the most
piratical journal in America, which does
the bludgeon work for democracy in the
name of independence ; the Boston Globe,
which has no settled convictions, but whose
policy has been to damage the republican
party to the extent of its ability in all the
recent campaigns and especially in the i'm
portant contest in New Hampshire; the
Louisville Courier journal, which prints a