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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1888
Page
2
A public remark asserts that Maine will vote Republican for any national convention nominee and that the state will deliver its electoral vote to the Republican candidate regardless of the specific nominee. The speaker emphasizes Maine as a Republican state ready to back the party’s standard bearer.
In Ohio and across several cities the Blaine letter provokes mixed reactions from politicians. Governor Foraker says Blaine would not run, while Butterworth Thompson and Pugsley in Pittsburgh predict Sherman nomination. Murat Halstead hears Blaine undecided. other figures weigh sincerity and party unity, with some hopeful Blaine could still be a candidate if urged.
The speaker concedes no great surprise at Mr. Blaine's move, noting calm acceptance of the decision and implying established expectations guiding the response. The remark hints at broader political or personal dynamics shaping public or private reaction.
A long lot of local voices weigh Blaine’s withdrawal from nomination and the implications for the 1888 campaign. Many echo that Blaine acts from patriotic duty, hoping to spare the party from personal conflicts and to focus on tariff issues. Some predict Sherman would emerge as the strongest viable successor if Blaine steps aside.
In a letter to Augustus Russ Allan Cameron and J Audley Maxwell Mr John Crowley explains his departure abroad for health reasons and assigns his property to the three men to aid his creditors. He says he has borne his father’s liabilities for nineteen years with mortgages taxes and other charges on unsalable property and denies personal extravagance. He promises to furnish asset details and answer questions.
The Trinity Club held its third annual dinner at Young's Hotel with seventy five members present. A reception preceded a formal dinner, where toastmaster Lorin F Deland introduced Rev F B Allen and Rev Phillips Brooks among speakers. Brooks lauded the club as a year round fellowship fostering usefulness, debate, and community service, while other members praised origins, Harvard ties, and the club's influence on young men. The event closed with toasts, songs, and a communal toast to the youngest member.
An almost infallible cure for coughs colds and early consumption is Duffy's Formula composed mainly of raw beef and Duffy's Malt Whiskey. It stimulates and strengthens and has proved its efficacy in thousands of cases offered for sale by all druggists.
The Boston Club celebrated Lincoln's birthday with a Thorndike banquet tracing its ante bellum origins. Notables F. H. Boardman Rev. De Normandie Harvey Shepard and Lincoln cutlery items joined the toast list while General Banks presided. Letters of regret from Sherman Cleveland Ingersoll and others closed the program.
Among yesterday’s arrivals at the United States Hotel were Professor T R Pynchon of Trinity College Hartford and several other guests from across the Northeast and Midwest. The S A Woods Machine Company held its annual meeting and dinner at the Quincy House, while the Merchant Tailors Association met for a monthly dinner at Parker House. The Gettysburg Pilgrim Club held its third annual dinner at Quincy House with officers elected and speeches by Emma Start Hampton and others.
At a Cambridge chamber meeting the board rejected proposed state limits on Grand Junction railroad operations. They warned such curtailment would harm Boston commerce and factories on the line. The president and transportation committee were instructed to oppose the petitions at the March 19 hearing and seek broader organizational cooperation.
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