The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-06-08
POLITICAL NOTES.

IL
There about hundred applicants at Xenia
for places Board of MANAGEMENT Of the Soldiers
all Of them the who failed suddenly bee ams Con
scientiou and enlisted in the Heer than Thou party
Hence the milk in the Bristow Club cocoanut OF Xena.
II The Boston Herald lndJ says: "A prominent Re
publican ofceholder who has recently returned from
Ohio sheds some light on the political situation there
who said he believed that Blaine would be nominated
Cincinnati and that he hoped for snch result He
preached by Baines friends with proposition that he
the second place on the ticket and he Indicated that
he would accept the place He avOrs Blaine in prefe
ence to any other candidate named.
CF- Plain talk by the Bangor Wing The immense
lead which Mr. Blaine has taken in the Presinentia
vass and the almost certainty of his noinaon
first ballot unless he be overwhelmed with slander
before the IIt of June have driven his assaiants TO
desperate crusade Of scandal unparalleled in politics
From till the day Of the convention calumny will be
undertaken to kill of Blaine; private correspondence
will be ransscked the obligations of honor outraged
distorted nothing left that Bohemian scoun
drelism and political malice can suggest"
r. The Boston Globe is not q Blaine paper. but it
m to US quite conclusive regarding the nom
nation Of Mr. Blaine the best thing for the country
pressed at the outset canvass that he and
brilliant man. and honest and honorable We dep
upon him because there appear. to be no substantial
ground them and because they had for their
cation Of political life but were Intended solely nure
his character in the Of the people and
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me Nsm aorx iL.oae ,ulnisnes 81. 'ne A'es' as
.oununs p seSu' 1 pMne: ,;,, vii On 10
CoI Jack Dusenbury Of indi ananoli. told Major Rrn
Burton Of Arkansas that DR. PgarIic Of Kansas told
Colonel BeesTaI Of Virginia that Ben Butler told him
session Congress- proposed to procure n charter
suing ten millions of first mortgage bonds onehalf to
constitute eectioneering fund the benefit Of Mr.
Blaine for which that gentleman had agreed to put it
through Congress- excitement exists among
friends Of Mr. Blaine they fear that his prospects
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.,h I;t ~ 3mora,c Stst ;ncIrJss oxsry ona of H.
oa siass e'e,S S'He "nSn pAu an ",Ii Jul
ercs stte%ot to the Union Wbv L II that these
STAT. an5 pniS thaas sra snii5i na1acra,ic Uar.
they any common purpose or any common motive which
knits them in an indssouble league and excludes ali
other States and If they have what is the basis Of the
alliance A dozen wears ago they were united
and league called Confeeracy Is the league
Of to-day the league under a new name Does it
consist of the with the feelings the
principles traditions the purposes
teen years agoi Ifit does why is il that only
rr Tn. IpdiapanoI; corrs.,onds,, Of the New York
nuhIicsns Rut tbs fiends oS st ., S r. aid 10 the
pubI; that tbv are no I" pnmh,;nar % ~ an % Nton
and that the defeat of their avorte at Cincinnati
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the national ticket In fact s defeat will ipcre those
sxept and belle We tbsv can WS Tortnn they tbnk
thew will have an easy thing Of IL: without him hard
the State They are NOT going IN Cincinnati 10 threaten
that without Morton Indiana Is lost for they do not be-
eye IL and they did they would not press Morton by
20 narrow and unworthy an argument"
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York Herald declares that is mistake to underestimate
Blaine srsngtn IN rennss San,a ana says; the
Of the party in this State it wOald seemooking at the
probabilities from natural standg1n.Ithst no power
Maine leader could take mp district after district where
are no. eve even SS ana a. name ae G
egate atsr uelsgAe Nno Is LOT Dne oennu the cosk oI
.-s.L
ConkIng His ability and worth are universally admit.
t TN a aNsrs gVe 1y n% WG %
nominated at Cincinnati he will get an Instituted support
their idoI J VI anna D"' n'1'"0
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ty oceasionaly Br,sioT KePaGliean paper Is heard
ploded stories AGAINST Mr. Blame and retains eonvic
tion that he is honest vet the charges against him are
nominsts man abo1t " gbom s scsnJ,. .,tban oh
groundiess ones are crcuiatps Those who adopt this
h ~ If Pidntisi Wh Tho Mo- wen o, SUt ns
soul If Mr. Blaine were dropped and Mr Morton Conk.
the number of scandals that WonI instanav he mi in
circulation about him would fully eonal anything Mr.
Blaine has experienced. The reason those mule and
smuggling scandals about Bristow quiet just now
is that he has dropped out Of the Presidential race
sT, bs IN an s S on as
publican so attacked him as man ON this point the
Tune saws: No candid man as n seems TO us can read
the history Of the Blaine charges and which
have taken so much space in the paPers for several
weeks past without reaching lusion favorable to
his entire innocence No open accusation has been made
that he has not freely and frankly met and answered
and in every instance he has driven his sccusers back
from the open charge the safer refuge of suggestion
hint and nsinuaton The thing has occurred which
tne do lew weeks ago pointed out as Possible 10
Iron tne Oh thoss gsnlIemen .
@ 70 o .S lay ~ spc,a "a ans ~ I6I pi;
and have put him in the strong position Of having been
en- him the % leading i'm place among Tis canddates %
RuffalO ExDr.ss he intimation that