The Portland daily press., 1876-04-04
Political News.

1t is said that ex-Gov. Dix is Tor Mr. Blaine
for the Presidential candidate.
The Maryland Gazette of Annapolis hoists
the name of James G. Blaine for President,
and seems TO mean bust
Later adyices indicate that Senator Morton
hasn't the Mississippi Cincinnati dele
gates as his own. They are widely divided.
No other candidates besides Blaine nd
BristoW are so much as mentioned in New
England as first choice.
Mr. Brstow impresses the Troy Press,
democratic paper, as a comparative faiure.''
Let's us have some more comparative failures
OF the same sort, please!
If the Democrats should get control of the
Government would Republicans be compelled
to ask for amnesty for having saved the Un-
ion? 1t looks like that.
The Portsmouth Journal and the Ports
mouth Chronicle advocate the election of
Hon. E. II. Robbins for United States Sena-
Tor in place of Cragln.
The literary society of the Maine Central
Institute discussed resolve to the effecS that
Mr.. Blaine is preferable to Mr.. Tilden for
the Presidency. After long discussion, the
society voted 80 to 12 for Blaine.
Accepting Schenck's own version of the
facts, the New York Times thinks it extreme
ly difficult to reconcile them with ''the pro-
prieties of eminent diplomatic position, or
even with any very lofty standard of business
morality"
A Terre Haute correspondent writes to the
Cincinnati Commercial that there are now
ten Republicans in that part of Indiana for
ilarly the Democrats are struggling over from
Hendricks to David Davis.
The Concord Monitor, the leading Repub-
lican paper of New Hampshire, is out strong
ly for Blaine, which foreshadows Blaine
delegation from the Granite State. The opin-
ion of state where the Republican majority
has increased Is fold in year, is worth hav.
ing.
The Minnesota greenbacS convention last
week was attended by fifteen persons and
they are not united, one faction desiring to
nominate Judge Kelly for President and the
Donnelly men urging the policy of forcing
the Democracy to take soft-money plat.
form.
The Albany journal says: thine makes
makes all things even. Last year Tilden and
his commission attempted to blacken ex
Lieut.. Gov. Allen c. Beach, because he was
not of their clique. This year Beach carrie;
| all the delegates from Jefferson against Til
den and will himself go as the delegate to tht
ST. Louis Convention. And he will not g
for Tilden either-yes, We are mistaken, Id
| will ego for'' him tooH'
The indianapolis Journal has epitaphs Oh
Pnndleton and Hendricks. The former i.
said to have ''died in Washington, March 10
| 1876, of enlargement of the pocket, compli
Gated by ossiication of the conscience" @
Hendricks we are told: During most of hi
life he took an active interest in politics, ant
was several times elected to Office, though tb,
| record does not show why"
1t is stated that Greenback Landers of In
| diana paid $4,000 for his Democratic con
| gressonal nomination and that be is willing
to pay $50, 900 for the democratic nomination
for governor. Part of this $4,000 is reported
to have been already paid for his nomination
| by the independents, the chief object OF rha
nomination being to impress the Democrat
with the importance of taking him up a
their candidate.
The inventors of the charges against Bris
tow have now pretty much exhausted the
Kentucky staules, as the Washington Sta
points out First whisky; then mules; thel
hogs. "We shall soon hear, no doubt" say
the Star, "ofsome stupendous Bristow frau
in bluegrass. And when that is disposed G
it really looks as if the Bristow investigator
would have to shut up shop"
A New Hampshire paper says that in Sir
clair's Plantation, commonly Known as Be IL
lehem, twenty-five votes were declared f
Cheney and two hundred and twenty-five f,
Marcy. But now thirtyJfre men of th.