The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-26
Political Notes.

den, MI, hayes cnauOVS Hafu hot uh-
proved since his nomination. The longer
he remains in the field the weaker he be-,
. comes. There is no life in his canvass
except what tho oiliceholders give to it.
The strong men on his side are nearly all
under cloud, and what they say has no
weight with the people. His most promi-
nent supporters are the men whom we
are all anxious to throw overheard, Ham
ilton Fish is one of the few bigh-toned,
honest, honorable men left 10 the Rcpub.
iean ranks, but MIR. Fish has nowhere
said word in favor of Hayes, Wendell
Phillips has not opened his lips for Hayes.
Garrison is silent. Whittier has not even
written poem, and the respectable gen.
tlemen of the Union League in Phladel.
phia and New York seem to have forgot
ten that we shall have presidential
election in sixty days. The burden of
supporting Hayes has fallen entirely upon
the shoulders of Grant, poor old Judge
Taft, of Ohio Zach Chandler and Don
Cameron. Mr.. Tilden, on the other hand,
is growing every day, and if his campaign
receives no unforeseen check he will be
elected by as large majority as General
Grant received in 1872. Scores of strong
men, many of them identified in the past
with the Republican party, are earnestly
working in his behalf Mr.. Curtin, Of
Pennsylvania, the most popular Of all the
war governors, and one of the nearest and
dearest friends of Mr.. Lincoln, is on his
side aud will canvass Pennsylvania for
him. In Massachusetts, there is Mr.,
Charles Francis Adams, Lincoln greatest
of foreign ministers Mr.. Adams is for
Tldcn, and will possibly be the Democratic
reform candidate for governor in his ma
tive State. In Connecticut Mr.. Welles,
a member of Mr.. Lincoln's cabinet, is a
warm supporter Of Mr. Tilden. In Ohio,
Illinois and other Western States, there
are scores Of men less known, but almost
equally influential, who are striving to
drive the present corrupt gang from power
and make the centennial campaign in its
results worthy Of the centennial year
If Mr.. Blaine had been nominated at
Cincinnati, and had succeeded in showing
his entire innocence of the Arkansas bond
business, the position of the Republican
party would be infnitely stronger to-day.
Blaine's plan of campaign was the only
one to win. He took the aggressive. He
defended nothing the Republican party
had done or proposed to do. He threw
the religious question into the campaign
and endeavored to revive all the bitterness
and auimosity of the late war. Zach
Chandler, Judge Taft, Mr.. Cameron and
Gen Grant have been feebly endeavoring
to follow out the plan of campaign for. Mr..
Hayes which Mr.. Blaine had marked out
for himself. All limitations are failures,
and the rule holds good in politics as in
everything else. Grant and Chandler
have made mistake in endeavoring to
put Blaines armor on Hayes The small,
Ohio politician, is completely lost sight of
aud hidden behind the buckler Of the
Maine giant. Blaine would have carried
the North Cor attempted it at least even
on so old aud trite an issue as the late
war When Grant and Chandler and
Hayes attempt it, rs in the late order TO
Sherman, they succeed only in arousing
the indignation of the whole country.
Hayes is weaker to-day by hundreds of
thousands of votes than he was before
Sherman was directed to hold the troops
in marching order to assist his election
Blaine would never have permitted a
blunder of that kind, or If his friends had
been so indiscreet as to commit it, his re-
pudiation of their action would be prompt,
stern and electric by its very eloquencc.
Thus far the canvass on the part of the
Republican party has been characterized
by the grossest laundering aud stupidity;
that of Mr. Tilden has boeu able, wise and
sagacious. He has his party well in hand;
he manages his own campaign. From
Florida to Maine it is easy to sec that one
man directs the whole political line Of
battle. On the other side there is Chaos,
doubt, uncertainty If Mr.. Tilden is as
wise in the sixty days that are to come;
if his followers will be guided by him as
implicitly as they have been up to this
time, his election in November will be
Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
The Confederate Congress" is the
name applied to the Congress Just adjourn.
cd, by the Radical press of the country.
Cali i what YOU please. it has reduced the
appropriations $40 900 200, in the face of
che fierce opposition Of the Republican
Administration. the Republican Senate
and the Republican press. 1t has forced
retrenchment and economy in the expen-
ditures in smile of the determination of
the Republicans to increase them over
former wears. It has exposed the thiev.
cry and rottenness of the Republican Ad-
ministratiop and broken IN some of the
raseallv schemes far Numbering the people
Whatever NAV be said of II. none charge
the Uouse of REPRESENTATIVES with iobbery
or Numbering schemes as has been the
case with several Of The recent Republican
Uouses There have been no Credit
Y Mobil;er swindles MIR roilrord subsidy
iobs Il has stood between tho public
nlunderers and tho neople and protected
the interests of the latter-N Z World.
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