The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-23

H~fr-@'+ ~ ~"AN IVY SA""HAOS bCtO1U LuCLu
they ought to be able to present an inn
proved edition of platform literature. u
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Preside entail Prophecy.
The Boston Journal has recently
burned its attention to presidential
prophecies as founded upon the political
arithmetic of elections past and future.
We do not attach any great importance
10 such vatticinations, especially when
coming from the Inspiration Of par
lisan paper, which invariably works out
r. triumph for its own candidate. In
such cases the conclusions always have
their parentage in the wishes of the par
ty prophet. a f t.s. ,y..s.-s =.
The Journal, however, assumes to be
occupying position peculiarly ethereal
and sublime. Those papers that do not
concur in its prophetic enunciatio ms,
and which look at the political field from
an sindependent" standpoint, the Jour
nal eharacterizes as the 'smilk-and-water
press" The editor says those papers
s'are too thin-skinned to belong to any
party" e-' ''' hfh#|t ~ l-a
We certainly are not far from agreeing
with the Journal that it requires skin,
Doth thick and tough, to belong to any
party in these days. But the Journal
has it; and has it bad. Nothing short of
- pachyderm can possibly endure the
slings and arrows OF outrageous fortune
that party leaders now compel their
party press to suffer under. 1t would
surely require the hide of rhinoceros
10 turn aside the blows that party in
EQUITIES call down upon their defenders
pf the press. People who are too thin
skinned to publicly defend the wrong
End TO assail the right may be those oil
the ''independenp press, which the Bos-
ION prophet affects to scorn; but it
should be imputed tothem for righteous
ness, and not for the conscious weak
ness that impels some, like the Journal,
TO lean upon a party for support. .,
: But. leaving the prophet Of the "Hub"
TO the enjoyment OF his boast, that he is
Ihick-skinned enough to belong to a
party, let US turn to his prophetic utter
nnces concerning the coming Presiden-
tial= election Upon this subject he
speaks with all the solemnity suited to
q seer, and with the certainty that
should install him as the particular sold
Prob" of the political campaign. ls :
OF the 369 electoral votes to be given,
fhfd Rnefn xuha a.
prophesy against the Democratic Nine.
yeh, gives to the Republicans, as GER,
an.@ tse rc>ne.- to tha Democrats. as
9AaS ~ss '~.Ss, ~ 49, =
certain, 80 votes; and the remaining 1853
votes he toretells to be doubtful. His
mystical lore, even though it come from
the sunset Of age, does not enable him
to fix the destiny Of. that large s.dcubt-
ful" proportion Of the electoral vote
with. any degree of certainty. And yet,I
in that vote, classified as 'sdotbtful," !"
aies the election of President. From,
this may be seen how iiasle such prophe-
cies are worth.
Is But our prophetic Jonah proceeds to
wrest1e with this ssdoubtlup' whale;
and, in contravention OF ali teaching by
both precept antf example, he actually
swallows the whale. He volunteers to
nominate BLAINE and HEN bricks as the
opposing candidates; and then the count
stands thus, Blaine, 237 electoral votes !;
Hendricks, 1872. So that, il there is any
truth in arithmetic, the Journals candi-
date Blaine. is elected by majority OF
105 electoral votes. And that, s'though
Eot So deep as q well nor 50 wide as g.
door, will DO; 1t will do.n And our Bos,
tonian; prophet proceeds to clinch and
copfrm this by saying-''a positive,
kwidesawake candidate like Mr.. Blaine
gan more than justify our prediction in
nis behalfn And having thus predicted,
the Journal further says,-"We have
taken pains to place the statistics in
such form as TO be conclusive at q
glance" 'fs SEQ stl &c (
n Now, the. United States of. North.
America.ought to return thanks to this.
,1,ostonian prophet for having been to
the troublesapd taken the pains TO make
this matter. conclusive. at a glance:
ht simply saYes all the trouble and time
and expense Of conducting II political
campaign to-. settle the question. The
people hayeonIy to stglance" at these
prophetic statistics to find the whole
matter concluded by the immutable laws'
pi arithmetic, endorsed by a POLITICAL
soothsayerin Boston. This revealer of
fhings hidden In the future fnalIy wlpds
pp his book Of reveiations BY saying;
,!ERegefQEp We eQaSlaae q we began, that