The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-23
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PITH OE THE PRESS.

Uuca hepuDlcan. (Rep.G Don't oul
friends in Congress, make mistake in an
tagonizing the Blair movement?, Why nol
let the dead bury the dead, fthey want to;
Chicago Daily News: The death of Lei
trim has not caused very much feeling il
England, simply because Leitrim was &
cold-blooded scoundrel, and deserved hi
fate.
Pittsburg Telegraph (Ind.): The more
sensible Republican members of Congress,
see the folly of fighting the Administration
because of its reform policy, and show {
strong disposition to sit down on the ma
chine politicians. and implacables.
St, Louis Eyening Post: Look out now
for philanthroplsts w,s.2 will be eager to go
out and sell goods below COST W. TO- ,,1a tn'
Chckasaw Indians Congress mas JUS
passed bill ordering the payment to Ihehl
of back interest amounting. to $222, 900.
Philadelphia Press (Rep.): Resumption
has come any way. We want no new legis
lation except the repeal of that which for.
bids resumption Let us have clean field
and the era of revived activity, confidence
and honesty wild come upon us of itself?
Philadelphia Record lind J: The Hon. Ga
lusha A. Grow is developing unexpecteo
strength in the Western part of the State a.
Republican candidate for Governor Mr.
Hoyt is adroit and may not want nomina
ton, Mr. Grow is slow and he may get il
for the race is not always to the swift.
st. Louis Journal: Senator Howe has
made personal explanation. His reeen
speech, in which he attacked the President
hurt no one but himself, it seems, and hc
seeks to heal the wounds. He declares tina
he had no accomplices in the preparation
or delivery of that remarkable sereed. Thi.
exoneration must be comforting to the per.
sons suspected of completely in the crime.
New York Times. The Senate Committee
on Commerce frequently wastes good dea.
of valuable time over very trivial matters
but it will dc good publicservice by probing
to the bottom the extraordinary rules OF
promotion which Secretary Sherman, witt
the Presidents approval has recently at
tempted to enforce in the New York Ap-
praiser's Office. Though the members of the
Committee are not troubled with any prin
ciples to spel Tx of in regard to the exercise
of tho appointing power, they can AT leas'
do some good by holding the President to a
strict observance of rules of action which he
has been more successful in formulating
than in carrying into practice.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: The phonograph
grows More wonderful, An exhibition was
lately given at the Academy of Music in
Philadelphia, and the Press says that "away
back at the door, perhaps one hundred and
twenty feet, every word, every sound, ey-
cry syllable could be heard as distinctly as
if uttered at ones ear Mr.. Bachelor
(Edison's assistant) laughed, sneezed,
groaned, sang, barked, whistled and sighed,
and every sound was loudly and distinctly
reproduced. 1t was certainly most con-
elusive demonstration of the powers of th
machine, and Mr.. Bachelor was applauded
again and again" With the phonograph
and the bell-punch in universal use, the
happiness of the people would be pretty
near complete.
Albany Journal (Rep.): The duty of the
Republican party is to meet the direct and
positive demands of the hour. 1t has as
distinct mission. and perhaps one as vital
as at any former period of its career To
consummate the resumption Of specie pay
ments and restore financial stability and Sc
curity to the country; to protect the Re-
Southern claimants who seek to rifle its
treasury, and of Northern demagogues. who
menace every safeguard of national honor
and prosperity; to save the nation from, the
control of the party which threatens every
industry with an upheaval of the tariff,
which proposes to reenact perjury and
fraud in the odous income tax, and which
is the chief support of the dangerous and
communistic tendencies of the times-all
this affords the broadest platform for Repub-
lican unity and success.
New York Sun: If the Federal Treasury
was overfowing with money, if the taxes
placed on the people were light and easy, if
the country was prosperous and all the peo-
Pile were we'll off, it might be proper for
Congress to appropriate money for the erec-
| ton of monuments in honor of the de-
ceased Presidents of the United States
Favorable action has already been taken in
Congress on bill to appropriate $4,000 for
monument to Thomas Jetferson and yes
terday Senator Beck of Kentucky intro
duced proposition to appropriate SIS 900
| for monument to Zachary Taylor. 1t
seems to us that members of both Houses of
| Congress ought to know that this is poor
| time to expend, in any unnecessary way,
any part of the money that is screwed out
of the hungry pockets of the people. 1t
seems to us that these liberal appropriations
ought to be able to find out that'th times
are hard, and that multitudes of American
citizens are suffering in way that they
never suffered before