The Portland daily press., 1884-05-30
Political Notes.

If the Republicans of New York were willing to
give Arthur 2l 900 majority in 1880 as A candidate
Tor Vice Presdent-and that is what they did-isI L.
reasonable to suppose that they would mot do a.
st Louis Globe-D Democrat.
Excited by the freshening Of the Arthur breeze.
the Blaine men have been inspecting their tackle
again, and making everything snug, although they
continue to express the conviction that it "snt GO
ing to be much OF shower after ALL" Meanwhile
the politicians are on the beach anxousy inspect
lug the now pending Storm ready to launch the Ed
munds, Hawley Lincoln or Gresham lite boats in
case of need. washington Star.
Mr.. Tilden is merely accident and his record.
from the day of the election in 1876 has been sucll
as to d:satisfy if not disgust those who were his
warmsst supporters. Tilden is tainted politically.
and the Democratic party, in our opinion, will find
him an incumbrance instead of help. This was
our view in 1880, and nothing that has since oc-
CURED has caused us to change our opinion that
Mr. i1den is, in every sense an improper candidate
ior the Democratic party to nominate il the desire
be to win the election and keep it when won- Char
lesion News and Courier.
In this last week of the preliminary canvass fl IL
plain that the Edmunds movement Is stronger than
at any previous time. By this phrase, the Ed
munds movement, is meant the deliberate, con-
sistent and persistent endeavor to secure the NOM
nation of man of the Edmunds type-"a man.
in the language of the Massachusetts, Republioap
platform 'of proved fidelity in public life ana
whose relations to the party such thai ali mem
bers heartily unite in his support This
movement has steadily progressed and is more
promising at this hour than in any hour BEFORE
Boston advertiser.
The bounding of Mr.. Hayes by the Democrats
since his retirement is unprovoked and cowardIy,
and is not rendered bit more respectable by the
encouragement which Mr.. Beecher gives to it, Mr.,
Hayes came into Office under delicate and difficult
circumstances. He bore himself with dignity ans
moderation and his administration -
above reproach. The manner of living which he in
troduced at the White House has been sneered al.
as IL 1t were prompted by parsimony, but 1t was in
accordance with the tastes of his wife and himself
aud was attended with frank and simple hosrdtals
Boston journal.
Mr.. Blaine, as our readers are well aware, wsU
defeated long ago and ruled out Of the field a. a
possible candidate for the Presidential nominate, n
Through the inscriptions use of the enormt Us
patronage at his disposal this dreadful man was
able to buy up the support of a majority Of the
Republican voters in the Republican States and in
the Republican districts of the doubtful States n
the New York Evening Post rose up in its mil hit
and majesty and crushed him, as one might ON Al
caterpillar. And then there wasn't any m. ~
Blaine LETT. We have not complained of the 4 IL
ing OF Mr.. Blaine Perhaps it was Inevitable ana
1t was better that the job should be done in ri
imam IN November. But there is ground for I'm
slslnI IN tne peIsistetey with which the Post and
It's allies return to the charge and persist I'm Llin
Mr. Biaine over again. IL isn't fair or manly N
Mr.. Blaine isn't dead, there has been a terrihia
waste OF premature rejoicing but II he ia dean ~
doesn't look like square thing to condemn him -
q hsW ctuclnnon every day.-Brooklyn Tmes.