The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-05-10
Current N0faS.

1t is becoming more clear every week that
the tendency toward imitation and rerudia-
tion is very strong within the Democratic
party. Yet men wonder why the independ-
ents hesitate to trust it IN. Y. Tribune.
Blaine and Bristow seems to be very pop
ular ticket in some q1arters-notab!y in
Pennsylvania and parts of this State. A
good many Republicans begin TO believe they
want both these gentlemen.-Bafdto Er-
press.
Senator Morton's review of certain matters
of Indiana war history, following so close upon
the indianapolis election, has left vague iIu-
preston upon the Hoosier Democrats that
something has struck them. Hendricks and
his blue jeans henchmen will not take much
interest in subsequent proceedings
natl Gazette.
For ourselves, remembering that in the
past elections when Great Unknown has
run, he has shown himself to be Great No.
body like Polk and Pierce, we much prefer a
candidate with record, with convictions,
with blood and Drawn, and not a negative,
aaccid, trimming aiterthought, taken up at
the last moment by weary convention-N.
Y. Herald.
The grand victory in New Hampshire, the
reduced Democratic majority in Connecti-
cut, the gam of two hundred and eighteen
Republican supervisors in New York, and OF
about one hundred in Michigan, together
with unprecedented Republican gains in the
municipal elections this Spring in the sever
al States, all point clearly and distinctly 20 a
Republican victory in November.-Albany
Journal
Without the aid of "united South" the
'united South" cannot be looked for under
fair conditions. Let the voting at the South
take place as the voting al the North will
take place,-:hat is, let every man be free to
vote as he would vote,-and the Republicans
would have more than half the Southern
electoral colleges on their side.-BostOn
Irdueller
The truth is that in counties largely DEM
ocratc the negro, although not whipped, or
assassinated, or overawed by actual violence,
is cowed into submission because he knows
that all the machinery of justice is in the
hands of his enemies, who have no scruples
in using all its terrors against him. He know
he can expect no mercy from white juries.
This is done all over the Gulf states. Ihey
are at peace because the constitutional
amendments are defied-practically abolished.
Ed Governor Ames Of Mississippi.
If the Democracy are successful in the ma
tional campaign this year, it will not be be-
cause they have the support of any consid.
cradle number of the States which were
loyal 10 the Union during the war OF the re-
bellion. They count, on the contrary, upon
carrying almost solidly the States which at
tempted to secede, and which were in open
revolt against the government, together with
the border States which sympathized with
them although not drawn formally into the
rebeion.-Albany Express.
A gentleman in this city has, we believe,
an autograph letter written by Washington
from Mount Vernon to the Secretary oi
State at Philadelphia, only few days before
the annual meeting of Congress, in which
the President remarks that he had entirely
forgotten that Congress was to meet so soon
and requests his subordinate to prepare the
material for his annual message. How JOY
fully and speedily the present Congress
would impeach President Grant it he were
guilty of a like apparent neglect OF duty
Hartford Courant.