The Portland daily press., 1896-07-14
CURRENT COMMENT.
RESIGNATION.
{ Eastern Argus.

Our National Democratic Convention
having selected candidates for President
and Vice President, we place their names
at the head of our columns in accord
with our iuyariable custom. We have
heretofore .nestly contested the wis
don g she free silver policy" but the
clilHention has decided for it and we nc
qulesce, that being the Democratic doc
JrIne, because any other course would
lead to this employment Of force, which
Is the ready method of despots
For our State campaign we happily
are heartily united in support of our
popular candidates from Governor down.
and every indication points to q full
vote and we fondly hope to reasonable
measure of SUCCESS.
MIR. SEWALL'S NOMINATION.
Boston Herald.)
From political point of view the
nomination is colspieuously weak. In
turning to Maine for the second name on
the ticket, the managers OF the Demn-
CRITIC campaign have made bad blum
der. They have nothing to hope from that
state. In presidential contests Maine haa
always leon faithful to the Republican
party, and there is not the slightest pros
pecG that in the present contest she will
turn aside from the well worn path. If
this Bryan managers were good strate-
gists, they would have reoogniZsd that
the true line of their choice lay in the
disputable section of the country, where,
by enlisting state pride and local nfu-
ence for their ticket, they might turn q
dubious balance in their favor and gain
electoral votes. This chance they have
now thrown away, and in doing SO they
have shown an abuunding lack OF politi-
cal capacity, which, we are glad to say,
augurs i'll for their conduct of the cam
palgn.
Boston Advertissr.)
y 1t is to be doubted that the man from
Maine will really, in the long run and in
the end, prove himself to be source OF
strength. There is not any slightest, re-
motest chance of his securing for the
ticket Of Bryan and Sewall the electral
vote of the Pine Tree State. Maine has
never once, since the Civil War, gone
Democratic in a Presidential year. 1t has
very, very seldom done SO in any other
year. This year the chances CT its doing
su are more remote than ever. The in
f1uenca of Speaker Reed, whom the voters
of Maine admire. love and honor with
the same degree of enthusiastic loyalty
that was SO long given to James q.
Blaine would alone suffice to keep that
great State in the Republican ranks; for
Reed will make splendid and unwaver-
ing fight for Mckinley and Hobart. Yet
without any fight at all, the Republican
majority there would certainly be i'm
mense. Thousands of sound-money
Maine Democrats will refuse to support
the platform of Republication and business
paralysis. Three OF tho delegates from
the State published a card addressed to
Chairman White, in which they indig-
nantly denied the assertion that their
delegation voted soIidly for Sewall,
declaring that while they esteemed their
fellow citizen personally. they could and
| they did take no part in nominating any
man on such platform as had been
adopted. In those parts of the country
where the populistio fever RACES most
yirulently, Mr.. Sewall's banking and
railway affiliations will be looked upon
with no good will; while his aggressively
0utspoken opposition to the pet Demo
cratic doctrine Of free Ships" his con-
spicuous advocacy in that respect of the
Republican principle of protection will
make him persona non grata wit h al
tariff reform" Democrats.