The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-14


Democratic Committee has issued an
address to the people of the United
States congratulating them upon the re-
suit OF the October State elections.
COLUMBUS, October 14.-Hon. J. B.
Cassidy, OF GAINESVILLE. addressed the
Republicans here last evening. An inn
mense crowd assembled. Political meet
lngs are warming up.
[From the New York papers of yesterday
Now the tramp has come back, and
he signifies his intention to vote for Til
den and Reform. He wants change.
Many and many year he has felt in his
battered wallet for change and has
found none. He has sat ou the rim of
the great waterleSs Tammany fountain
in City Hall Park, waiting for a change
to turn up. He is discouraged by this
long delay Of the golden millennium
when he can lie in the sun all day, and
rise up and feed on the fat OF the land
whenever he feels like it. He never
voted the Republican ticket i'll his life.
He never staid in any one place long
enough to vote. But be is going to try
and smuggle in his ballot for Tllden and
Reform. An aged and seedy member of
this despondent band sat on the marble
steps of Gramercy Park mansion the
other night, and murmured: 81 don't
know nUJhing about this man Tllden.
But we want more currency into the
country. | have not seen dollar bill
since the year one. We need a
change. l need change" And
he looked down ut the linen pantaloons
which hs had lightly plucked from an
Onondaga County clothes line, and
siy he'd as be thought of November and
the slender chances Of TIlden and Re-
| form. Other kinSmen of this cynical
politician have set their faces toward
New York, and are tramping along the
b ghways Of Westchester as hopefully
as ii they scented rom atar the Odor Of
the public sour-h0use, or the appe-
| tizing menu of the kitchen column
OF the World. They are coming to exert
their influence for Tilden and Reform.
| The housewife locks up. her spoons and
gathers her chickens into their coops as
| sue sees these Tldenites Slouching down
| the road, the dirt and rags all eloquent
| with desire for change. The county
Work-house Vainly opens its doors and
| shops to these apostles OF reform. They
shun the harvest-deld as they do the
| water-trOugh, and even the sweet coun.
try fragrance disappears when they
steam by. They 30 in ior a change Of
administration.
No wonder the tramp wants change.
AS things are now he must work or beg.
Work he will not, and to beg he is disin-
clined; it is so much like work. People
| do not give of their best to mendicants,
aud sometimes the tramp is obliged to
travel as Tar Tor good dianer as he
would if he had been following some
useful calling. He has a constitution
| al habit of laZiness which units
him for the stern duties of life
| OF manual labor, and ii he were only
certain OF his bread and meat-whicn
must be go0d-irom day to day, he
would prefer his free, unburdened life
to any other. As it is. he is soured by
| continual disappOintments. Bread!
| breadl" sneered one OF these tramping
epicures; ''do you 6'posa fellow wants
to eat bread all the timeP' That man
wanted a change. He is now the re-.
| turning prodisal. He comes back to the
city 10 swell the ranks of Tilden and
| r form. 1t is a matter of perfect in-
difference to him whether Boss Kelly
puts the city rate of wages up or down.
| Big.pipe men and small-pipe men may
wrangle for jobs without his interfer.
ence. His it is to live without labor and
to eat the bread of easy idleness. So far
| be has been obliged to win his uncertain
| grub" from cold and heartless world,
Wages without work." is his motto.
| He preys on society in daily dread OF
| the Work-house and the policeman. He
expects to find immunity with Tillen
and Reform.-[Times.
While the gallant Democrats of Ohio
and Indiana thus have their work made
easier and their brethren e,sewhe re
have been encouraged and holpen might
lily, there must be no Illusion, no over
confidence, no time wasted in felicita-
lions. We have the weight of the in-
itiative, but we have also a strong toe
made more desperate by defeat. The Re-
publican overthrow III November means
starvation orhard work tor nearly hum
dred thousand fat officials and pollti-
clans, and for many of the greater ras-
Gals social ostracism and the convicts
stripes. There is no weapon from mur-
der and high treason that they will not
employ. But happily to no purpose, if
we are only true to ourselves. Lei there
be no relaxing of effort or discipline; no
selling the BEARS skin till he is quite
dead. Three weeks more of such work
u
simultaneous advance all along The line,
and we shall dictate peace ut the
Capitol.-[ World.
Nothing but the extreme repudlating
wing Of the party has prevailed, if there
has been Democratic success in
Indiana. That State, immeasurably
worse than any other in respect to the
currency question and the public credit,
mas been carried, if at all, only by a
demagogue whose sympathy with the
worst Democratic element made him
strong in that State, as it would have
made him weak in those which are now
to decide the contest. The worst and
most dangerous END of the party gains
the upper hand. Precisely because the
party can win, in such State as
Indiana, and with such candidate as
Williams, 1t will be the weaker in New
York.-LTribune.
NOTES.
Horrible thought Perhaps some Of
those needed Indiana Republicans were
talked to death.
1t has again been proved that 1t is
easier to tell who has been elected Coy
ernor after the votes have been counted