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Show BLAINE THE COMING MAN. Blaine has substantially captured cap-tured the extreme states ot California Califor-nia and Massachusetts, which gives him a considerable moral as well as numerical strength at Cincinnati. t begins to look as if tl.-j eastern state of Maine would carry of! the ia-jrelB, and as it is certain tl. vt the republican republi-can party might do woro without resorting to the "great unknown," they are to be congratulated on the prospects of securing perhaps as true an exponent of their principles as is to be found in the country. This nomination will lairly teft the strength and popularity of the republican repub-lican party among the people, including in-cluding tire war issues, which were squarely brought fur ward in his reply to Hifl of Georgia in the early part of the present session of congress With Blaine in the front the '"bloody shirt" will be made to do effective s?rvice in the north, and a lively republican re-publican campaign may be looked for. |