The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
PITH OF THE PRESS,

Chicago News: The Indian Territory is q
grand theme for the investigator.
Pittsburg Telegraph Representative Wal
ter, of Delaware, wants stop put to the
custom of treating, and accordingly intro
duces bill to make it penal otfense to set
'em up" Would it not be q good idea for
our legislators to give their constituents the
practice first and the precept aftcrward?
New York Tribune: The Republican
party is in no condition to tolerate sulking.
If men like Mr.. William E. Chandler have,
for any cause, kept out of this campaign or
away from the polls, they have missed their
purpose. They meant to damage the Ad-
mlnistration, but the chief injury they
have really wrought is upon the Republican
party itse1L
New York Star: A Custom-house en-
ploye resigned, the other day, q position
which he had held for fifty years. His ap-
pointment, therefore, dates back to the
time when Martin Van Buren, was Govern
or of New York, and the second Adams was
President of the United States. Perhaps
when the veteran compared that era with
the present one, it gave him strength to re-
linquish office.
Philadelphia North American The state
ment that a manufacturing firm in Pitts
burg last week paid off it's hands in gold is
good card for business, and exhibits the
readiness of tradesmen to avail themselves
OF such chances to attract attention. Some
shopkeeper in Philadelphia have been
using gold dollars to make change with. 1t
was III this way that subsidiary silver was
fret fIrpaI inf 1ir1ll1ntin l.,
really far more gold than silver coin in the
country, and the premium is merely nom
lnal, the chance for circulation is a good
one.
Philadelphia Record: There was a time
when Pennsylvania was pretty reliable
State for the Democracy. Years ago, when
that party bent its back to the task, it sell
dom failed of winning an election. But
the leaders OF the party in that day would
as soon have entered into a coalition with
the devil as with believers in rag currency.
The sublimated philosophy which finds its
expression in the theory of fiat money"
was too thin and ethereal for persons who
recollected the fiat money with which a
great part of the debt of the Revolutionary
war was paid
Washington Star: Judge Pierrepont, late
Minister to England, etc, publishes card
in the New York papers to the effect that
he is not candidate for certain position
in connection with which his name has late
ly been mentioned, and would not accept
the place if rendered. We guess the Judge
can escape, if he will only stand firm. Up
to the time he made his arrangements to
come home from England, this Admins
hadn't Oh a Il
alton to force an office on him, and up to
this time it has given no visible signs of a
change of mind, If the Judge will therefor
only be firm he will be safe, we think
New York Sun: Stanley Matthews ex-
planned to the Senate why he prefers the
Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund Bill, reported
by the committee of which he is a member
to the Judiciary Committees bill on the
same subject. This latter measure ilnpresses
the scrupulous Matthews as the most dread
full attack on property and contract rights
he has ever heard or read of. Yet this man,
who is so solicitous that the rights of fat
con, 'HHorations shall be respected is one of
the most brazen apologists for, as he was
one of the most Jealous actors in, the great
crime against the rights of the American
people Mr.. Christiancy and Mr.. Edmunds
will take Matthews and his bill in hand
next week.
St. Louis Evening Post: Gail Hamilton
is upon the war path once more. Having
apparently exterminated, root and branch,
the old set of howlers for civil service re-
| form who wrote for the daily and weekly
newspapers it seems that great peace fell
upon the country. In an unguarded hour,
| however, Mr.. Dorman b. Eaton venturcd to
print an article in the Atlantic, perhaps
with the vain hope that the dignity of the
magazine would shield him from harm
But the lady of the pen-lance swoops down
upon him like an eagle on spring lamb
The best or the worst of it is, too, that she
has him, as the phrase goes. 1t may be a
. matter of serious consideration whether the
common politician" would mt be willing tc
give Gail the ballot on condition that she
should stop writing. The woman with 8
vote is not half as formidable as the woman
with pen.