The Portland daily press., 1884-04-24
Political Notes.

We ourselves are not extravagantly fond OF
Hendricks. But we think the old ticket with
him would be an absurdity. To be ehectual, 1t mr.
be both Tilden and Hendricks, or neither.-L
vile Courier-Journal.
President Arthur's administration has been
Greet, conservative and Clearly; will not suffe
comparison with any of its predecessors since
coln and indeed, 1t is above the average OF
bellum administrations in point Of respectable
New York Post.
Secretary Folger, in a recent letter to Cole
Duval, saysi 81 do not, nor does he Nhe Presid
wish any man in Office under his administration
feel compelled to go counter to his duty as az.
zen" Nothing can be palmer or more satisfacto
than that.
The advice of that journal (the SUM for a year
past, in its connection with democratic politics, Is
detrimental to all that partys in the Prest
Dental election. There is not a journal in the
country which has done or is doing more to keep
the republican party-including the present secre-
tary Of the navy-in power-New York Herald.
If President Al thur is nominated, business will
revive in July. II he is not nominated, it may re-
yiye in November if a Republican President ID
elected, it may continue depressed until his pol
icy has been defined. There Will be none of this de-
pressing uncertainty II the present incumbent Is
nominated because the business men know what
his policy will be- and what it viii not be. -Phila
delphia North American.
~ wish the way was open to me to accept the poe
sition of delegate to Chicago on behalf Of my COLI
league, Senator Edmunds, but the position of af-
fairs here such, and especially in relation to tho
for being absent single day for the remainder Of
the session. / feel that Edmunds is the only man
that would be sure to carry New York, and that
regard as the pivotal State in the next election.
From letter by Senator Morrill, of Vermont.
The Iowa delegation to the Chicago Convention,
remarked prominent Iowa man now in Congress-
will not, think be instructed as it was in 1880
II Will not, however, be less heartily in favor Of
again be solidly for Blaine. His strength in the
State has not been declining; If anything it has
grown. The tendency, though, is 70 proceed care
fully and with elaboration this year, and to this
feeling is to be ascribed the unwillinguess TO in
struct delegates Washington despatch to N. Y.
Tribune.
The notion that Presidential candidates must ba
Western men is exploded by the present drift Of
politics. Arthur Edmunds and Blaine are the lead.
ing candidates for the Republican nomination. All
three from Eastern Sta. es. Blaine Is from the
eastermost Of all; Edmunds from one OF the small
est. Either one of these men, If chosen will run
no better and no worse because he halls from the
further edge of the country. The Republican
party knows no North, no South, no East and
West. The centre of population and of power M
the West, or rather In the Mississippi basin. y
that signifies nothing in such q eontest.-St. Il
Globe-Democrat.
Should Mr.. Blaine be a candidate before thee
vention the delegates from Pennsylvania win
questlonably support him. We know of no Of
candidate who would want nomination seouref
the transfer to him Of the votes of PennsylVk
under such circumstances. 1t certainly would
be the high-minded senator from Vermont Mr.,
munds. And yet some Of his pretended friends
attempting to give currency to the falsehood a.
the action Of the Pennsylvania convention, ano
seeking in like manner to misrenresent the
knowledged feeling in New Jersey and Delsw
This is year when the people mean to speak
| themselves. 1t is bad time for political disl
esty.-New York Tribune.
There is in the North not loud, but very de
sentiment. which delegates will not be either alb
willing to ignore that the action of the convent
| is not to be guided by hurrah, nor by any mar
featured "boom, nor by lurid oratory, but b
| calm, dispassionate, if need be a self sacrifc
obedience to the interests of the party, as the
terests of the country. In a word, the dut
Republicans, as we apprehend it, Is to strenRt
their lines by recurrence TO principles r. Their Z
| by the suggestion of names, TO fight against
| errors of Democracy rather than to assume that
Democratic party is dead. A Republican succea
| November is, humanity speaking, certain, If str
| for judciously and with a full understanding of
power Of the foe; it may be thrown away bya
den blindness which obscures principle.-Pr
dence journal.