The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-07-14
Political News.

AVhtICdA NcNSs
The Tribune remarks that Gov. Hayes
letter has called large number of indepen-
dent voters from the fence.
Hon. j. W. Dixon, of Iowa, is another
influential Democrat who refuses to support
Tilden and Hendricks.
The Third Indiana District Democratic
Con yention Wednesday nominated George
A. Bicknell. The district is new represented
by NJ. c. Kerr.
The name eff ex-Postmaster General Jewell
is already mentioned as the Republican can
didate for Governor in Connecticut in No
vembor.
Mr.. David A. Wells is still. hesitating over
Hendricks. The Democratic journals are
doing their prettiest to sweeten the dose for
him, but the chances are he won't be able 10
swallow il.
The Philadelphia North american ex-
presses the belief that it is in the power of
the Republicans of Pennsylvania to return an
almost solid Republican delegation to the
next Congress.
The House of Representative is typical
of Democratic economy. The members
proudly refuse TO vote money for iced tea and
lemonade and then they go to the Senate
and get all they want there free.
Gen. Dix, in apologizing for being unable
to attend the Republican mass meeting says !:
''The nomination of Tilden and Hendricks is
combination disingenuous and dishonest,
and if it were successful it could not possibly
lead to any practical or useful result"
A gentleman from York county says that
Hon. Ira T. Drew OF Alfred is prominent
aspirant for the Democratic nomination for
Congress in this district and is actively en-
gagged IN ''scooping in" delegations which
will support him.
Ex-Gov. Samuel j. Crawford, of Kansas,
prominent leader in the Greeley movement
of 1872, is said by the Lawrence Journal to
be now cut square for Hayes and Wheeler.
The same is true of Colonel S. N. Wood, an
other Kansas Liberal of influence.
During the war a hotel-keeper in Daven-
port, Iowa, kicked wounded soldier out of
his house because he was selling Chicago Trib-
uneS containing an account of Union victo-
ry. The night he heard of the nomination
of Tilden that man illuminated his hotel
from roof to Office.
A New York exchange says that the DEM
ocratic authorities of Clinton prison allowed
the Tildenites to take the cannon which had
never been used except to alarm the country
when conuict escaped, TO Plattsburg to
fire salute. That night Jack Williams, one
one of the most noted desperadoes in the
prison escaped, but no alarm could be given.
Gen. Tuttle, OF Iowa, says that he does
not pronounce against the Democratic ticket
because Of the supposed attitude of the De-
mocracy on the currency or the tariff ques-
tion. He abandons the Democracy because
it has abandoned itself to the old rebels, and
because he knows the nation would be in
peril in its hands.
The Tilden managers hope to carry the
election by shouting Tilden and Reform so
loudly that Hendricks will be lost sight of. To
succeed in this plan they must cork up Hen
dricks. If he continues to chuckle over the
demand for the repeal of the Resumption act,
the people will! insist on not losing sight of
him.
A correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean, writing from Bowling Green, No., on
the 4th. says: "All is quiet in Our town, ex-