Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-04-26

Disturbing questions, of no small M magnitude
promise to meet the Cincinnati convention at
the very outset.
IL was originally called, it will be remem-
bered, as mass meeting, rather for the pur-
rose of consultation than with the view of nomi-
mating candidate for the Presidency. Latterly,
however, IT has become apparent that the meet
ing will be nothing more nor less than a nomi-
mating convention, and that it will place a can
didate for both the Presidency and the Vice
Presidency in the field. And just here diff
Guilty will arise. From present indications, the
humber in attendance VIII be so large that no
Place can be found spacious enough for the
deliberations Of the meeting; and, as no ere
dentials are required, one man is presum-
ably as good as any other, and las an eaua,
light with any other to a voice and a vote in the
Proceedings of the assemblage when once con-
vened. Consequently the question of who shall
so in and who stay out will protrude itself at
Cnce.
Then, again, a few states are certain to be
much more largely represented, by reason of
their contguity to the place OF meeting, than
others, so that, without some preliminary action
to that end, most OF them will not have an infiu-
ence in the deliberations of the convention in
proportion to their electoral vote.
These two points must be met and settled at
the beginning, and very much will depend on
the manner in which they are disposed Of So
lar We have seen no solution of the threatened
difheulty; nor, indeed, does its magnitude ap-
pear to be comprehended by those who have I'M
dertaken the management of the affair. The
only feasible way out would seem TO be for the
Representatives from the different states present
TO first hold separate meetings on their own ac-
count, and through these organizations appoint
regular delegations proportioned in size to the
electoral vote of each, and furnish them with
credentials which will entitle them to a place
and vote in the convention when it shall be
convened Unless some such measure shall be
accepted there is little probability of its conclu-
siors amounting to anything.
Rev. John Weiss, of Boston has been telling
'an unusually cultivated and thoughtful au-
dienee" in that city what he thinks of marriage
and divorce. In these days Of the keen discus
sion Of social problems all sorts Of remedies are
propose for all sorts OF evils, but most Of them
lack originality. Not so with this reverend gen.
tleman's discourse on "the law of marriage
10 be sure, he advances no new argument in
favor of joint education Of the sxes and his
cictum that marriage is discipline" will not be
disputed by those who have had marital expe-
rience enough to judge. He takes the bold
ground that chronic ill-temper on either side
ought to be sufficient cause for divorce What,
II they separate, will become of the children?
Mr. Weiss answers by saying -" Simply, worse
cannot become Of them than at present. lie,
them escape, either with the father or the
mother, away from the fatality of both, into
neutrality, where the ideal Of domestic har-
mony may yet put forth its buds" But the
most original idea in the paper read by MI.
Weiss was the new kind Of divorce court he
recommend-"a special court of divorce, on
whose bench noble matrons should sit by the
side Of accomplished men, to throw the instinct
OF wifehoOd and the subtle judgment Of woman
into their grave balancing"
The special Committee OF the New York legis.
lsture appointed to re-district the state have
reported . bill dividing it into thirty-two con-
gressional districts. The only CHI - yes made are
the addition of one congressional district for the
city of Brooklyn, the revision OF the sixth dis
trict on Manhs attain Island to conform to the
movement Of population up town, and the trans
fer Of Schoharie county from the Albany dis
trict, to the thirteenth district, which will here
after, II the bill is passed, comprise the coun-
ties Of Schoharie, U lister, and Greene.
The election in Maine, this year, IL is stated by
the newspapers in that state will be merely a
matter OF form. Gov. Perham will be reelected,
and the republicans returned from all the con-
gressional districts without serious opposition
The liberal movement Is declared without exist
ence in the state.
Republican conventions to nominate repre-
sentati,es in congress are to be held In North
Carolina a. iScllows: First district, in Plymouth,
May q; third distrsft, in Clinton, June 49, fourth