The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-17
PITH OF THE PRESS.

PITH OF THE PRESS.
New York Star (Dein): Thurman is the
logician of the American Senate, Lamar
the rhetorician, and Bayard the Aristides.
Hartford Courant (Rep.): Mr.. Blaine has
never made a speech which has been in
fuller sympathy with popular sentiment at
the North.
Hartford Post (Rep): The evil genius
of the Democratic party seems to be getting
the upper hand in the matter of the cipher
dispatches.
Chicago Times (1nd. Dem.): The nomina-
ton of Grant by the Republicans is the
only act that can give the Democrats a
fair chance of success in the next election.
Baltimore Gazette (Dem.): Duke Gwin
would make picturesque Secretary of the
United States Senate He is almost as in
teresting as the ruins of Celtic smoke
house.
Chicago News: Some shallow-pated
editors are ridiculng Wade Hampton be-
cause he has lost leg by reason of the kick
of mule. Those editors write as If the re-
suit were family victory.
Utica Republican (Rep.): The Southern
bulldozer and Northern Democrat snuggle
in under the same blanket like two kittens.
Of course they are innocent and have no
claws. Their touch is 50 velVety!
New York Sun Ond Dem.): Ef1igy Sar-
gent and Grant are not likely to be called
again from private life. The State of Cali
fornia has had enough of the former, and
the United States has had enough OF the
latter.
Utica Observer (Dem.): From all pres
ent appearances the election of 1880 Will
turn, as it often has before, on the vote OF
the State of New York. If the Democracy
is defeated here it can not hope to carry the
country
Pittsburg Telegraph Qnd.): AS new
party issues arise the colored voters, as
we'll as the white, will be divided and the
"color line" will be wiped out, so far as
parties are concerned; and this will in the
end remove the difficulties of The southern
question, in its present form at least.
Ohio State Journal: The Hon. Sam. Hunt
can not be crushed by votes. He rises from
his defeat for Common Pleas Judge as re-
splendent as ever In one day, in Washing
ton, he was admitted to practice in the Su-
preme Court of the United States and ap-
reared as chest man" for Col. Brown, Of
Youngstown, who was married to Miss Hen
rietta Jetfries.
Troy Times (Rep.): Mr.. Blaine does not
make a special appeal in behalf of the
Southern colored citizens. He bases his
protest upon the fact that an infamous
wrong has been perpetrated upon the white
citizens of the North. And as this is a
point of view which is seldom taken or ap-
preciated, he elaborates the matter in such
| form that there is no such thing as over
looking it.
New York Times (Rep.): General B. F
Butler should have the credit of inventing
the crv of ''intimidation'' in the North.
Nobody but that wise politician could have
thought of explaining away defeat by the
allegation that his supporters in Billerica
Dracut, Great Darlington and other Massa
chusetts towns were kept away from the
poIls. or compelled to vote for Talbot OF
Abbott by system of bull-dozing.
Inter-Ocean (Rep.): Congress might witt
nroprietv ask Potter to ride a mule on hi,
tourney to New Orleans. The idea of ar
ambitious man, and one who has showr
evidence of ordinary good sense, going
howlirs on q cold scent after fraud whel
ihe fresh tracks are right under his most
smelling so loud that men turn aside TO
nure air! A common poodle would do bet
ter; and yet Mr.. Potter was marked as al
expert.
New York World (Dem.): 1t is conven
, tional with Senators to pretend to regar'
eocb other as seriously as did the augurs o
old But when Senator talks such arran
and bvnocritical humbug as Mr.. Blaine
neonle who are not paid to sit still an
listen to him politely may be pardoned
, tbev feel moved to forgive even the trul
shocking way in which Senator Conkln
eYnressed his contempt for him while Ii
was speaking his piece.
Nashville Banner (Dem. J: The unanimit
9 of the Southern Republicans for Grant
easily explained The carpet-baggers in
e acme that Grant, if elected, would re-estal
! lsh them in their old dominion, while tn
negroes are still looking to him for the
e nfortv acres of land and mule But tn
t unanimous Southern Republicans can
q elect ANYBODY; fact which will ratht
damage their influence in the National Coz
, vention, we should think.
= st. Louis Republican Dem.): The la
9 ready-made sensation of Blaine is plainl
IS much less of success than when he fiaun
l. ed his bloody-shirt over Andersonville ar
l. dragged the victims of that fated pen fro
their graves, to make him steppfng-ston
to the Presidency. He has done nothiI
e This time but develop the fact that Il
Is south is solid on one point only-the rig
e. of local self-government, which is fact
o- which both he and his party would ha'
70 profited more by concealing.