The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-19
Political News.

Blaine's calumniators have changed their
ground so quickly it is evident that the first
lie didn't stick so well as they expected.
Senator Gordon of Georgia, the Columbus,
| (Ga.) Enquirer says, believes that the cotton
tax win ultimately be returned.
Tie conviction is growing upon the Demo
cratic journals that Mr.. Bristow is a weak,
incompetent man. 1t is sad.
| The fastidious Democratic editors in Indi-
ana who have been turning up their noses at
Landers begin to smell trouble. There is an
ugly gleam in the pork-packer's eye.
The Troy Wing attributes to Congressman
Townsend the remark Ia few days ago) that
"if the House could nominate a President
they would nominate Blaine"
One of the House investigating committees
that on Indian afairs-has already spent $40.
200 on witnesses, without discovering any
thing to justify twentieth part of the out
lay. 3D.
The Louisville Courier-JoTnol says that
the independent voter will never act against
the Republican parry in crisis, unless the
Democratic party be out of the way, and of
that, it sees no prospect at present.
The Buffalo Blaine Club held banquet
last Thursday evening, and decided to send
delegation of 100 men to the Cincinnati Con-
vention. The membership is now said to
number 400.
Bristow says it's all moonshine-what they
say about his resigning. He says: "Of course
man can't expect to hold office always, or
know precisely when he is going out; but l
may say that expect and hope to go out the
l 4th of March next
| The past week has seen a rather notable
Increase in the pluck and talk of the Hayes
men. His hackers are pushing him with un-
expected vigor, and evidently mean to make
him the first of the second choices before the
Cincinnati convention.
Senator Thurman has been away from
washington for couple OF weeks, and think
he has gotten pipes laid which will secure
the instruction of the Ohio Democratic dele
gates to present his name at the St. Louis
convention and vote solidly for him.
The Louisville Courier-JournaI even,
which claims that Mr.. Blaine has succeeded
to Gen. Buffers unpopularity at the South
| with the old shareholders, of course) dis
misses the recent stories against him as the
worthless products of a ''defamatory age"
Speaker Kerr's clerk writes as follows to an
indianapolis paper: cat present the prize
seems to lie between Hendricks and Davis.
Hendricks has been longest in the field and
most talked about, but there is a strong un-
dercurrent setting in favor of the gentleman
| from Illinois,"
The Buffalo Express says: "Within itself
the Republican party contains the agencies,
| the instruments, the forces of reform. If
they do not exist in it they exist nowhere,
and the virtue to regenerate itself politically
has died out of the land.'
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald counsels
the Southern Democrats to look to the West
for candidate, holding that it is by no
means certain that a soft-money Democrat
from that section will not be nominated in
opposition to hard-mcney candidates of both
the old parties.
The Missouri Democratic delegation to the
st. Louis convention has been counted on all
| along as solid for Hendricks, but it is now
reported that there is a strong probability
| OF their going into the favorite son business
and presenting the name of James O. Broad
head, who was special government counsel
| in the st. Louis whisky ring cases.
| "Van" telegraphs from Washington to
the Springfield Republican: 'sMr. Blaine's
friends here are disposed to boast over his
success with the Virginia delegates to Cincin-
natl, and it is clear to the politicians that
neither Morton nor Conkling has any chance
whatever. Blaine leads them tremendously,
and he has not fear of them."
The Cincinnati Enquirer blows a sonorous
blast for Uncle William Allen. He has per-
ennial fires in him, historical recollections
cluster around him, "the light of Democratic
Observation-Disclosures that may be-illumines
him, and his silvery hair would make just the
nobbiest sort of an orifamme. The Ohio
Democrats should esteem it proud privi-
lege to present his name at st. Louis.
Kansas has for some time been set down
for Blaine, and therefore the following from
The Topeka Commonwealth is of interest
only ao a confirmation of the calculation: :
L NO Iuluh tuSic ID iltLlc uOuUL UuG LndG hal-
sas will give her vote to Blaine. We do not
wish to have our convention instructed for
any one, preferring that delegates be elected
who will do what is for the best, but there is
little doubt but what the first choice of this
state is Blaine. The delegates sent TO Gin
cinnati will go to represent the people and
not be under the control of two or three men,
as they have been at the last two conyen-
1 tions."