The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-18
PITN OF THE PRESS.

SlTllC anu ue1nOTullEdJlOn as now.
Vicksburg Herald (Dem.): Mr.. Hendricks
favors the investigation, but doesn't want
Hayes disturbed. This seems to us to be
very curious position. What, then, is the
good OF ofinvesligation?
Pittsburg Telegraph Qnd.): 1t was
Wednesday last that Butler found his first
match upon the witness stand And, wo.
full to state, his name it was Smith. a But
Ter beaten by a Smith.
indianapolis Journal (Rep): Alexander
H. Stevens is no more unpopular with the
Democracy now than he was in 1860, when
he opposed secession. Then, as now, he
was too much of patrio and too little of a
partisan to suit the ruling element Of the
party.
New York Tribune (Rcp.l; The fourteen
able bodied members of the House of Rep
resentatives who insisted yesterday upon
their inalienable right of revolution, might
find a more congenial atmosphere in Cen
trail America. This inappreciative country
has no use for the services of statesmen of
that description, and is quite likely to in
innate something of the kind at the next
election.
Nashville Banner (Dem.) If the admins
traton Republicans have any sense of graft
tude, they ought to cease their sneers at the
Confederate Brigadiers'' of the present
Congress. Senator Ben. Hills interesting
disclosures prove that if the Confederate
Brigadiers did not actually make Mr.. Hayes
President, they did secure his inauguration
by thwarting formidable scheme to resist
st. Paul Globe (De,n.): Mr.. Hayes can
be duly and legally reached. He is clearly
particeps criminis. Hayes has used the
Government patronage to execute the con-
tracts made by his friends in order to secure
the Presidency. He has given appoint
ments knowing them to be rewards for
fraud in the contested States. He has rati-
fed the bargains of John Sherman and
Stanley Matthews There is no necessity
for revolution to relieve the country OF
Hayes. 1t can and will be done decently
and in order.
New York Sun DENY: The military
magnates at Washington have at last ac-
tually made up their minds that the Rus
slams and Turks are not now fighting each
other, and have accordingly issued orders
recalling Hazen, Chambers and Greene from
,Noir arduous labors of observation. The
military magnates have been unusually
rapid in reaching their conclusion. But
for this timely discovery and recall, Gen.
Hazen might have perished at his post, like
Casabianca, rather than desert it.
New York Star (Dem.): We arr. now in
formed that the expenses Of the MacVeagh
Commission were betrayed out of loan
furnished by the First National Bank OF
tins city, with the patriotic desire of heal
ing the political difficulties of the South "
Mr.. Sherman asked for the money, engag-
ing to pay it back when Congress met The
President of the bank makes the point that
there was no syndicate then in existence.
Conceded; but may not a sprat be thrown
to catch salmon? There were syndicates
before and there is syndicate now. BY
a curious coincidence the First National
Bank is member OF the present one.
Albany Argus (Dem.): The career of Stan.
ley Matthews, though short, has sufficed to
prove HIM Just the man to serve as go.
between in infamous conspiracies. He had
been Tom ScOtts counsel before going to
Washington, and has cllampioncd his Jobs
ON the floor of the Senate. lie sustained
| lhe GouId-Huntington combination; op-
| posed the Thurman bill compelling the Pa
Citic roads to establish q sinking fund for
| the payment of their indebtedness to the
| Government, and offered substitute con-
coctcd by Gould Hayes was Goulds and
Scott candidate for the Presidency. and IN
that as in all things else he has served them
with an audacity equal to the bold crime
perpetrated under the manipulations of the
friends of Hayes.
New York Times (Rep): A grab of $125
from the National Treasury is not so tre-
mendous that any Congressman who makes
it need lose any sleep o,er it. But the
smalIness of the steal suggests the mean
when the House, the other night, voted
$125 for newspapers and stationery" to
each Senator and Representative for the
called session of Congress, it did thing to
be ashamed of That session lasted six
weeks. The usual allowance of $l25 fol
newspapers and stationery" for the annual
session is very liberal To take an addi-
tional allowance for a short extra session is
a sort of constructive larceny.
Cleveland Leader (Ren.): The career OF
Senator Matthews will probably silence for
a long time to come the lofty contempt
WnlCn Cne uOCtTlIldlTeS VI TWO VI llTee years
ago, used to profess for 'machine" politi-
clans. Mr. Matthews misfortunes and blum
ders have been those of an able and we'll
meaning lawyer, who has rushed into poll
tics without any previous experience or
knowledge of the business He refused to
recognize the fact that parties depend very
largely for their success upon machinery,
organized and managed in accordance with
the teachings OF experience There is GER
tain necessary work to be done which only
the machine" can do, and without this
work party is very much like an army in
the field without quartermaster or COM
missary department
Peoria Democrat (Dem.): Let's see. A
few years ago there was an explosion and
exposure concerning the Credit Mobilier."
Several "Christian statesmen" were
smirched by it. But the Republicans and
few Democrats who had touched the pitch
said it wouldn't amount to much. 1t
didn't, eh? Where's Smiler Colfax Subsidy
Pomeroy, Senator Patterson, of New Hamp-
shire, Oakes Ames and half a score of other
statesmen" who are already forgotten?
Never fear. The ''visiting statesmen" like
the "Christian statesmen" will all go the
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