The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-11
PITH OF THE PRESS.

Albany Journal (Rep.): The partisans of
Tilden will now be deeply impressed with
Anderson as a witness. Last winter they
vowed that he was perjurer and couldn't
be believed under oath.
Chicago Daily News Qnd.): General
Grant will come back in the spring-time.
He will stay here until the fall-time of $780,
when he will probably go back to the
haunts of the old masters again.
New Haven Palladium Dem,): If MI
Stanley Matthews is able to clear himself
so much the better, but if he should get
badly smlItted the country will manage to
bear it with resignation. He never was q
person of much discretion.
Washington Post (Dem.): That '1ittle
red-headed scoundrel, perjurer and black
mailer" Anderson, made Stanley Matthews
climb a creased pole yesterday. He may
not be great himself, but he is the cause of
a good deal of greatness to Others
Chicago Inter-Ocean: If Congress does
not make appropriations speedily for the
sustenance of the Fraud Committee, it will
perish. A Democratic Committee without
fluids is like fish ON a sand-bank With
out the usual Democratic alment Potter's
New York Sun (Dem.): Does anybody
suppose the people Of the United States are
going to endure the presence in the White
House of man who got there by fraudu-
lent returns of votes, secured by the bar
gaining and man9uvring of his confidents,
by the aid of an electoral certificate worth
less through forgery, even if it had not been
worthless through Fraud.
st. Louis Post Qnd.): Outside of Louis
lana great many people are inclined to
think that hanging is rather severe penal
ty for an unsuccessful attempt at murder,
and in nearly all civilized countries it is
customary to try criminals and to find them
guilty before hanging them. In Louisiana
however, and indeed in nearly all the old
slave States, it suttices for negro to be sus-
pected of crime to ensure his being lynched
and the brutal ferocity which recently MUIR
dered five negroes at Raceourci is national
disgrace.
Burlington Hawkeye: One popularity
of the new party is that, like Georgia regi-
ment, it is composed entirely of leaders
This explains the singular fact in the his
tory of new and independent parties, that
they always make quite as much noise dur
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party on record, and never make any kind
of show at the polls. Every man in the
new party is generally a candidate. If he
isn't a candidate, he expects some ap-
pointive office, and in either or in any case,
he is always on the stump.
Cleveland Herald (Rep) 1t looks now as
if the Cincinnati Convention would be a
love-feast of harmony and enthusiasm
rather than contest over nominees and
resolutions, The three State officers whose
terms expire will probably be renominated,
no rival candidates having been put for
ward thus far. AS to the platform, there is
no probability of a controversy either in
the Convention or the Committee on Reso-
lutions. A general agreement is manifested
that it should sustain the title of the Presi-
dent rebuke the Mexican plots of Tilden
and the revolutionary schemes of the Dem
ocrats in Congress, and condemn the out
rageous partisan performances of our Dem
ocratic Legislature.
The Nation 1nd.): 1t is marked feature
of our financial crisis that after a period of
stupefaction, dependency and stagnation
more or less protracted, the men of small
savings and good habits, who have been liv-
ing on diminishing wages, and have seen
the avenues of employment narrowing
around them in the towns and cities, begin
to contemplate agriculture as a source capa-
BILE of furnishing home and the means of
independent livelihood under all crcum-
stances. A movement to the unoccupied
portions of the public domain then sets in.
The displaced artisans and mechanics either
buy out small farmers in their own neigh
borhood, who are thus pushed westward to
new lands, or migrate themselves to the
most fertile and accessible districts of which
they can obtain any knowledge.
This was the distinctive course
of social and industrial devel-
opment shortly after the panic of 1887.
The same symptoms had begun to show
themselves after that of 1857, until the out
break of the war turned the public energies
into new channel. The same movement
has commenced again in full force. There
are no statistics available to show the ex-
tent of the westward migration from year
to year, but all accounts represent that it is
heavy. continuous, and of extremely GOOD
character at the present time, extending
from Dakota on the north to Texas on the
south. The land sales of railroad compa
! MES having land grants to dispose of have
been large and remunerative, and the only
portions of the country that can be called
really prosperous are those which Congress
| is urged to develop by subsidies--that is
: by taxing the less prosperous portions.