Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-01-30
Correspondence from the Key
stone State.
TowaxpA, Pa. Jan. 26, Is

TowaNpA, Pa. Jan. &c, 1880.
DEAR Journal The unusual continu-
ancc of warm weather is robbing winter OF
its most touching qualities, AMI causing the
local ice dealers of this part Of the country
many an anxious thought. how they shall
prov lie for next summers emergencies. Not
a particle of ice can be seen in the Susque-
hanna river and none has yet been stored in
the State so far as | know. Unless Jack
Frost turns his attention this way soon, Maine
will have to supply the whole country with
ice the next year, and reports from the Ken
nebcc seem to indicate that ice-dealers are
prov iding for the emergency.
The coming State Republican Convention
which il to be beld in Harrisburg on the 4rh
prox mo, is the only important topic which
seems tn agitatc the public mind in the Key
stone State Just now. II is universally con-
silcred that the calling of the Convention
was nice little plot on the part of the State
committee, cpuncilled by Senator Cameron
to take advantage of the enthusiasm eukin-
died by the recent triumpha visit of Gen.
Grant to the State and secure for him the
Pennsylvania delegation at the National Con-
vention in Chicago next June. The scheme
well laid as it was. does not seem to take
well with the republican masses. Among
them there is an unbounded enthusiasm for
Names tavorite senator. James G. Blaine.
The Philadelphia Press in late issue
says, Blaine appears to be having boom
throughout the counties of PENNSYLVANIA.
Tie is capturing county after county, and
district after district, and this not through
the power of organization or the activity of
politicians, but by the spontaneous action of
the people, who manifest a purpose to re-
dress the great wrong which. by the sue
cesstul bsrgainings and combinations Of po-
htical schemers in 1876. was done him and
them in Cincinnati" The Bradford Repuh-
lican the lesd n, paper in this part of the
State, printed at Towanda. saws s'the evi.
deuces are overwhelmniag that the republi-
cans of Pennsylvania prefer the nomination
OF the Maine Senator to that of any other
publican, is most enthusiastic for Mr..
Blaine. He was an assistant clerk in the
National House of Representatives during
the whole period of Mr.. Blaine's service in
that body and therefore know him we'll Mr..
Hnlcumh, says Il would 90 thousand miles
to vote for Jim Blaine"
I have had many conversations with re-
pablicans who represen, the rank and file of
the party and am satisfied that the
masses, in the several counties where I
have aeen, would have their delegates, at the
Chicago convention in June, vote for James
q Blaine first, last, and all the time. as the
candidate for the next President. He is uni
versally regarded as one of the ablest and
purcst statesmen of the country. to whom
the management of the government, could
safely be entrusted: and unless the wishes Of
the great majority of the republicans of this
State are defeated by the action of political
sChemers, the fifiy-four delegates OF Penns,l.
vania may he counted .olrlly, for our di.,in.
guished Senator, a, Chicago
Bradford county has population of forty
Thousand OF more, majority of whom are
uliers of the sail. There are numerous lirrle
villages wedged in among the hills, where
small manufactures give employment to
many persons and furnish markets for the ru-
raj population aroun them. Politically the
people are republican. having an average ma.
leriiy OF abou, three thousand a, their anuu.
A. eaectiens. Originally this section was sci.
lied BY families from Connecticut and Massa.
ehnsetis, and the Inhabitants hsvc retained
'hc hsii,is IN customs of their Ne~ England
ancestry IN many respects. There are now
iune number Of German and Irish s.t,lers
n aliierent parts of the county but thew
orm bat small per cent of the populari, n.
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