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Show POLITICAL ITEMS. Hayes admits that he is an accident. acci-dent. He s:ys: It was not by reason of ability or talents that be was I chosen. There were accidents and contingencies that caused the result. A Boston correspondent writes: It cannot be said that the nominations at Cincinnati have satisfied people here, and slid less can it bo said that they have given rise to any eutbusi j asm. i Tilden is, after all, the "great unknown" of 1S76. The extent wf . Lis public service has been two terms in the state legislature of New York, a member of two constitutional conventions con-ventions and he is serving his first term as governor. The nominations of Tilden and Hendricks were enthuastically received re-ceived in San Francisco. Ono hundred guns wure tired on Wednesday night. Tho anti-Chinese plank in the platform plat-form gives satisfaction and prominent democrats assert that they can carry the state on that issue. Montgomery Blair says that Hayes when in congress never made any attempt to correct the abuses of his party. He was in the army but he never made any distinguished mark there. He ia a well rounded, pleas ant, nice gentleman, who will be entirely en-tirely in the bands of his party. The Maine republicans do not feel kindly towards their brethren of Massachusetts who deeertcd Blaine. The Maine convention in ccom-mentling ccom-mentling the appointment of Blaine to the senatorial scat to be made vacant by Morrill, added, "Massachusetts "Massa-chusetts will please take notice." Maine now has the opportunity to reciprocate on the reform policy by casting her electoral rote for Tilden. The expense of the Indian service during seven years of Grant has averaged aver-aged an annual excels of $3,251.03.5-73 $3,251.03.5-73 over the annual expense under Lincoln and Johnson, making ft total excess of $22,7(50,760.10 in the seven last above the seven previous years, notwithstanding the Indians have largely decreased in numbers. The Sun caleulutis that $4 000,000 a year has been stolen in this service by the udian ring. The New York Freeman's Jvio n-il (Catholic) says in reference lo the free school plank in the republican platform: plat-form: It is not our wish to have t:ie democratic convention at St. L nib j so much as touch loe subjent ut schooling. We stand by the principles princi-ples of our grandfathers on this snil. Government, federal or stale, has no business lo nwddiewilb anything thai belongs to the internal regimen oi the family, and the schooling of children is a farx-ily aflair. |