The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-02
PITHI OF THE PRESS.

PITH OF THE PRESS.
Cleveland Herald (Rep.): A good share of
this counhy's troubles might be avoided
if Ben. Butler and Sam. Tilden were given
Consulates in some warm climate.
New York Star (Dem.): General Wallace
for him than Tilden, but he threw out this
broad hint merely to save Mclin from Dem
ocratc wles. How innocent!
Philadelphia Press (Rep.): Drunken Con-
gressmen are natural outgrowth Of bar
room politics. If voters were less reckless
of heir own interests, whisky would be less
a necessary element of political success
New York News (Ind.): Instead of the
warnings Lend no money to strangers"
and Beware of Pick-pockets," which are
posted up in our railroad depots, Others
should be substituted, reading: Beware Of
Rcformers," and Look out for Jurymen."
Philadelphia Record Gnd): The Ohio
Democrats have sung a lullaby for the rag
baby so long that they have forgotten all
other tunes. Their resolution demanding
the repeal Of the resumption act which goes
into effect almost contemporaneOusIy with
the next meeting of Congress, is an amusing
proof Of the tyranny of.CustOm.
st. Louis Journal (Rep): The Repub-
lican State Convention Of Illinois was COM
posed of nearly four hundred delegates of
which not one was Federal office-hOlder.
| The Convention was wholly made up of
solid farmers, merchants, mechanics and
lawyers, and was as thoroughly a repre-
sentative body as ever assembled in the
State.
Hartford Times Dem.): John Sherman
will equivocate SO long as there is a doubt
as to what the committee may yet be able
to prove. If he finds that the Committee
can not produce the letter nor prove its au-
thenticity, he will remember positively. If
the Committee finds proof that sherman
wrote it. he will say "Well, that is what |
would have said" He is hedging for either
result.
New York Tribune (Rep.): Patterson is in
imminent danger of one of the worst re-
lapses of his life Governor Hampton is
said to be determined upon his arrest, in
order that he may be taken to South Caro-
| lima to answer the charges against him.
| The adjournment of the Senate removes the
only safeguard Patterson had, and if he is
really brought to trial his seclusion in the
quiet of a penitentiary is sure to follow
New York Times (Rep.): There never
was any good reason for connecting the
name of Gen. Noyes with the alleged "con-
spiracy" to count the Electoral vote of
Florida for Hayes, and after the utter fail
ure of the Democrats to impllCate him
through the "confcSsions'' of Dennis and
McLin, it hardly needed his frank and
straightforward testimony to convict the
trainers Of the Potter resolution of having
grossly libeed a thoroughly honorable man,
St. Louis Post (Dem.): The Potter investi-
CATION continues to drag its slow length
along very much like a wounded snake,
and it is getting to be time to ask how much
more of it there is going to be- The only
thing which justified its appointment was
the certainty that it had means Of proving
what it intended to prove, and the result OF
its labOrS can not be more disheartcnlng tC
any one than to its originator am ) mem
bers.
Pittsburg Telegraph Ind); Billee Chand
ler the Diminutive, was not half so bold
when brought before the Potter Committee
as when he valiantly took up the pen to as
sail an official whose only offense was thai
he had not sufficient appointments at hi
disposal to "hx" the entire Chandler fam
Iilv. The severest charge Chandler car
make before the Committee is, that he be
leves' Hayes has appointed Floridians tc
Office in reward for political services
Chandler is merely contemplate.
New York Sun (Dem.): 1t is quite safe tt
say that large Jealous and powerful mi
norty of the Republican party are in favo
of General Butler for the next President 0
the United States, They may force hi
nomination. There may be other men il
: the Republican party who have less posi-
tive enemies we doubt whether there i
anv one man who has more positive friends
Indeed that is the characteristic of Mr.. But
2 lers friendS-they are positive. They ar
active, energetic and enthusiastic. Wha
man is there in the country who can draw
together a larger audience to-day to listel
+ to political speech than General Butler?
Albany Journal Rep.) The most brazel
| piece of platform literature which this yea
t has produced is the financial resolution
q adopted by the Ohio Democrats 1t is a
false and reckless in assertion as it
- rambling and disj0intcd in style 1t begin
: with a falsehood, proceeds throughout Wit
] impudent and are-faced misrepresentation
and ends with the most vicious and danger
ous doctrines Senator Thurman wa
g present at the convention, and is Credite
y with an active part in the preparation c
= the platform. If So it adds another to tn
MANY recent evidences that a man VIII
y might be statesman is only weak pol
r tician and demagogue.