The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-24
G1eanfngs from the New York
Press.
[From the Tribuno;o of yestcrday.l


is conducted is to be found in the circu-
lar issued from the Democratic head
quarters, urging Democrats to arrange
their visits to Philadelphia SO as to
be at home on election day. Such a
caution is much more necessary in
the case OF Republican voters, who
visit Philadelphia doubtless, in much
greater numbers than do the Demo-
Gratis. A Washington dispatch SHOWS
that probably five thousand Republican
voters from Ohio alone were in PhiIa-
delphia shortly before the Olio election,
and estimates that several thousand
votes were lost to the party in both Of
The great October States by means of
this absenteeism-not enough, perhaps,
to have turned the scale in In-
diana, but enough to have sensibly in
creased the Republican majority in Ohio
and to have reduced the Democratic
majority in Indiana to SO narrow a mar
gin that the Republican hopes oil redeem
ing the State in November would have
grown q most into certainty. Those
who have arranged their visits to the
Exhibition for this time can wait for the
week following the formal closing day,
during which the Exhibition is still to
be kept open. 1t must be remembered
that the contest is close and the issue
vital, and THAT every vote will count.
1t is claimed as great merit that the
Democratic House, at it's last session,
reduced appropriations below those OF
the previous year $25, 100000. Since the
adjournment of Congress and the print.
ing of the laws, it has become apparent
| that the reductions were, in many
cases, iH-advised, and in some
unjust and even cruel. The Post
office Department has been SO Grip
pied as to be unable to establish post.
Offices as demanded; and it has been
announced by the Postmaster General
that applications for the establishment
of between two and three hundred
money-order offices have been refused
Tor lack OF funds. Public building gs have
been stopped, repairs are unproYided
for, the revenue cutter service is dis
abled, and the general clerical service
at Washington so reduced as to make
the prompt transaction OF the public
business impossible.
A painful proof of the reckless "econ.
omy" OF the House has recently been
furnished. This is the year in which.
under the law, limbless holdiers Of the
Union are entitled either to new limb
or 500 commulation for it. In reply to
All application made within few days
the Surgeon General has Informed the
applicant that, in consequence OF the
failure OF sufficient appro priations, the
$5OO, 900 required to pay this debt to ten
tnUusand soldiers can not be drawn from
the Treasury. So these one.legged or
ione-afmed soldiers must await the action |
iof Congress next winter, or tie action
of new Congress. What sort OF Con-
gress shall it be?
From the World of yesterday.1
1t has been O common cant with Re-
publican orators of independents ante
cedents, that what is called the spoils !
system originated with General Jack |
son, and they have assumed that the |
mere promise of Governor Hayes to
abolish it is guaranty that it will cease
for the future. Professor Sumner, who |
is without a rival in accurate knoWI.
edge of our political history since the
Revolutionary era, attacks vigorously
in our columns to-day this IDEA
that the spoils system arose
by the will OF any one man
or can be overthrown by the efforto of any
one man. 1t must be attacked by the
people in all directions; and the failure
OF the Independents to push the reform
issue in the present campaign he ex-
poses with cool disgust. The folly ofin-
trusting to Hayes task which Grant un-
Gertook and failed in, shows clearly, aud
the Inconsistency of his former asso-
ciates who have allowed the canvass to
degenerate into struggle between old
prejudices, and forgotten the question
of reform in taxation, reform in the
currency and reform in administration,
and ranged themselves against reform
in Southern affairs is made SO plain that
fog of Schurz's subterIuges could not
cover it. The unspeakable meanness OF
the Republican politicians who endeav-
or to Shift The responsibility for the par
ty sins upon Grant, is SO well pictured
that the President owes Professor Sum-
ner his hearty acknowledgment. AL
though the whole letter will be found in
another part OF this paper, we can not
refrain from quoting here this
succinct statement of doctrine
which the World has taken some
pains to inculcate in opposition to one
Of the political deluslons which have
come into vogue lately. Professor Sum-
ner thus teaches that the true way to
reform is through party responsibility
"There can be no sound political Life
in a popular system and with party gov
held TO a responsibility for facts and
acts which it can escape by no subter-
fuges. 1t has no right to demand to be
allowed to reform itself. The proper
political penalty OF fault or failure is Ioss
of power, and it ought to be enforced il
we want g0od government, otherwise II
government comes to be d vested interest
of a party"
From the Times Of yesterday.l
1t would appear that the war crisis :,
eastern IL lr"e .,re mas not yet passed out
0. sne influence of diplomatic negotia-
tions. Two things are now clear enough.
No European Power will actively sup
port Russia in the forwarding of any
of her. ulterior designs on Turkey,
and Russia is not now averse