The Portland daily press., 1876-05-02
Current Notes.

Our preference is for Blaine and had been
from the moment he drove Ben Hill and his
rebel crew into their holes, last winter
Neoc Hampshire Sentinel.
The able editors who are so overloaded
with "bottom facts'' against Mr.. Blaine
should relieve themselves by speaking out.
Their attitude at present is strikingly like
that of Henry G. Bowen in the Brooklyn
scandal.-N. Y. Tribune. 81
The Buffalo Erpress says 1T is becoming
a popular political axiom that the quickest
and surest way to keep the Democratic party
out of power is to give it a partial lease on an
''of year," in order that it may exhibit pub
licly its utter incompetency and narrow par
tisanship." s,sr .... .q
Some of the independent papers are in
timating that they could tell tale, 'an' they
would" but the great body OF the people will
accept the statement of Mr.. Blaine for what
it purports to be, solemn and truthful de-
nial of all political ng-doing, and as abb
| solving him from all suspicion thereof-Proo-
idence Journal.
Mr. Tilden's agents are now in Washing
ton city loaning money to Southern members
of Congress, and explaining the peculiar pro-
cess by which New York, New Jersey and
| Connecticut, united with the South, will
| elect Mr.. Tilden President, and place the
South upon its feet.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The Westliche Post (Carl Schurz's paper)
says:-"That mud baths are healing is not
| new fact, but the example of B. II. Bristow
shows that they are capable of producing the
most remarkable effects, As often as his
| friends, the united Bourbons and whisky
L .Hrov, oro for him, nnn nf hair md
baths, he issues from it cleaner and stronger
| than before. ..
In our opinion, and its but an opinion,
the large majority Of the Republicans Of
Connecticut would sooner vote for Blaine
than for Bristow, and sooner for Marshall
Jewell than for either. Gov. JEWELS record
as an efficient executive officer and as an en-
| emy of fraud, it, to say the least, as good as
Mr.. Bristow's.-Neao Hduen Palladium.
| Within a few weeks both parties will have
nominated their. presidential tickets, and
Congress will have adjourned, leaving
everything at. odds and ends as they were
eighteen months ago. The Democratic party
must go before the country confessing that,
after six months absolute control of the
House of Representatives, that party was
|
ton, to correct or reform any of the many
errors of the Republican party during its
rule OF sixteen years.-Chicag0 Tribune.
Unclean rumors. whispered through the
| key-holes of committee-rooms, have ceased
to stimulate the app elite for scandal. Since
there is no longer apparent even stimulated
zeal for the unmasking of evil doers as such,
but rather industrious endeavors to fabricate
some charge that will adhere TO political op-
ponent or a rival candidate who is making
dangerous headway, this entire investigation
business is beginning to excite a pretty gen.
eralnausea.-N. Y. Tribune.
| The expression of the California Republi-
can convention in favor of Mr.. Blaine is
more significant than the presentation of the
names of favorte sons by some other States,
because it cannot be suspected Of having
been prompted by local pride or self-interest.
1t is testimony to the fact that Mr.. Blaine
has achieved a national reputation, which
makes the locality of his home matter Of
small moment. The extreme West halls the
extreme East. Probably to the people Of
California the inhabitants of Maine and
Ohio seem to be neighbors, between whom a
quarrel on sectional grounds would be alb
surd.-B0st0n Advertiser.
| The Massachusetts, Republican delegates at
large, have been heralded far and near as
"Bristew men," On the contrary, we be-
lleye every one OF them regards the question
OF candidates as still an open one, and has
not authorized any one to give pledges in his
behalf. Judge Hoar, Mr.. Dana and Mr..
Forbes are certainly in this category; and
President Chadbourne has made no public
avowal. It is perfectly true that the REFORM
ers won gratifying triumph in the state
convention; but the inference that the re-
formers are all "Bristow men" is q mistake
1t is fortunate for the Republican party that
no mans personal strength as a candidate at
this state of the canvass measures the
strength and scope of the reform spirit.-Bos-
ton Aduertiser.