The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-19
THE NEW YORK PRESS,
| From the Trihune Of Ycstordax. /

FROM Jne lrlDune OF 1eStorday.1
The fate of Gov. Tilden hangs upon the
will OF three men. Ifthey are pleased to
agree that he may be elected President,
he will have a chance of election, If
they are pleased not to agree, he can
have little more hope than Peter Cooper.
The three men who hold the fate of the
"reIormer" and of the "reiorm" CAM
paign in their hands are John Kelly,
John Morrissey, and james O'Brien
I-"reiormers" all. They hold it
in this way: Gov. Tilden has
no hope of success without
the vote of New York State; he can not
secure the vote Of that State without a
large majority in New York City; he
can not get any majority in New York
City unless John Kelly, John Morrissey
and James OBrien agree to give it to
him. That is the whole situation.
These men realize it fully; hence their
persistent quarreling for spoils. They
can command their own terms OF GOV.
Tilden, and they are not the kind of men
10 be modest about doing it. On their
hands rests the ''retorm" issue, and
nice clean hands they are, as everybody
knows.
[From the World Of Yesterday.l
Bob Ingersoll is one Of the big guns of
the Republican campaign, but is a gun
that kicks harder than it shoots. His
last speech in Indiana was delivered in
Vigo County, and, according to the Chi
cago Tribune, was one of the most nota.
BILE orations of the season. There were
five thousand Republican voters in the
procession, the crowd around the
speaker was so immense that thous-
auds went with their capacious
ears empty away; altogether it was
"the greatest political gathering ever
known in the vicinity" Just three days
afterwards those five thousand Repub-
lican torch-bearers and the thousands of
people who were convinced OF the error
OF their Democratic ways by the speak
er's el0quence and logic, and the other
thousands Of Republicans OF Vigo who
live outside of Ierre Haute, rushed to
the polls in their ajesCy aud cast 3,425
votes, or 5S5 less than The Republican
candidate mad at the similar election
four years ago.
From the Times Of yesterday.l
Mr.. Stoughton on Monday evening
incidentally suggested a good point
against Democrats who affect virtuous
indignation in regard to the exposures
OF Mr.. Tilden's false pretenses which
have been made by the Times and other
journals. 1t is convenient for MIR. Til
denis apologists to pretend to be shocked
by the publications which fasten upon
him the guilt Of perjury and fraud and
a long course Of sharp practice in his
financial relations with men who trusted
to his "honor" and reputation. MI.
Belmont holds up his hands in
bn of nF hN
cism from which Mr.. Tilden suffers, and
the over-nice Mr.. Parke Goodwin EN-
ploys genteel epithets to express his dis
gust at the slender res pect shown toward
his fayOrite candidate Tor the Presiden-
cy. But when did these gentlemen, OF
any oil the crowd OF Democratic takers,
act upon the precepts they enjoin in
their comments upon President Grant?
With what crime has be not been charged
by the Sun and the World and the rest
OF the Democratic press? What unjust
insinuations have they not levied
at his conducts What foul asper-
upon his character? What base
imputations have they not heaped upon
his lie and associations, his motives
and proceedingsp There is hardly sin
in tAe decalogue which they have not at.
tributed to him, or an act unbecoming a
President which they have not alleged
against him. His splendid career as
soldier has not shielded him from coarse
abuse; his personal integrity has not
been allowed to moderate the assaults
to which he has been subjected. And
the men and the papers who, for the sake
OF partisanship, have thus maligned the
actual President, prate Of "decency,"
and ''scruples," and Courtesy" when
a nE is nf ha rati
didate for the Presidency, and his greed
and unscrupulousness and hypocrisy
are exposed in the full light OF dayl