The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-24
PITH OF THE PRESS.

Norristown Herald (Rep.): Samuel ].
Tilden will not hang up his stocking this
year. He is afraid old Santa Claus will fill
it full of cipher dispatches.
Chicago News Gnd. J: Judge Blodgett and
his friends" seem to be moving heaven
and earth to prevent an investigation. Is
such conduct at all consonant with the
Judges innocence.
Hartford Post (Rep.): With gold actually
at par, and Secretary of the Treasury who
knows what he is about, business men can
rest assured that the mischiefmakers will
not again get the upper hand.
Burlington Hawkeye (Rep): Probably
the reason Mr.. Tildcn does not explain that
cipher business is that the Government oc
cupies all his time pestering him to pay up
those back taxes. Give the old man a
chance.
Sharon (Pa. Times (Dem.): Old Senator
Beck of Kentucky, is after John Sherman
with sharp stick Senator Beck is true
blue and when Sherman's duplicity in
vied his opposition, it was a sad day for
Sherman.
Utica Republican (Rep): Senator Bay
Democratic World has fallen desperately in
love with him, and insists on pushing a
bouquet of hollyhocks under his nose every
morning.
New Orleans Picayune: The war is not
yet over in Kentucky, so far as Breathitt t
County is concerned. There is blood on
the moon; the air is full of powder and
| the descendants of sires who saw General
Jackson at New Orleans all Breathitt
Boston Post (Dem.): George Boutwell, is
the author of a paper entitled Substance
and Shadow in Finance" We trust he
ambles easy over the substance" but
when it comes to the shadow" he can
unbuckle to the last hole-he knows all
about it.
Pittsburg Telegraph: In the absence of
Ben Butler and his hat full of bricks, from
| he House at Washington, Congress has
done more work, and had less disturbance
in the past three weeks han in any period
of the same length since Ben. S appearance
in that body.
Baltimore Gazette (Dem.): John Sher-
mans name turns up at the end of another
circular. Sherman dashes off his financial
bulletins with as much facility as he trees
of Arabia drop their rmedicinable gum. He
is achieving almost as much notorietv as
Mexican manufacturer of pronunciamen
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| Providence Journal (Rep.): If the Soutl
will not be honest it can not by any mere
law be compelled to be so. If it persists il
rebellion it only invokes the strong arm
It expects to escape that through the form!
of law, or the inetficiency of the Fedora
Government. Possibly it is correct in it,
anticipatiOns
Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep,): If the Soutl
loves Mr.. Blaine more than any other Re
publican leader, as one enthusiast has as
serted then indeed lis repentance is sin
cere, tor it is learning to love its enemies
10 do good to its haters, and to pray fo
those who use it despitefully. But we fea
Blaine will learn that there is touch O
real human nature" in the South yet
Inter-Ocean (Rep.): The Democracy O
Ohio might just as well let Thurman alone
Notices are already up for 1880, mo Ohio
man need apply" 1t is the multitude O
great men in Ohio that is working her ruin
Indiana is much wiser, and lavishes all he
affection on one. The whole Democracy 0
the State are training him, and at thi
writing Hendricks could distance all Obi,
in the first stretch.
New York Express DENY However
may be with Tilden's Democratic oppo
nents, his friends and admirers manifest
strange backwardness in coming forwart
and demanding an investigation. Mr.
Hewitt is as silent as a graveyard. Senate
Barnum has not opened his mouth. Wher
are Pelton and Marble and Weed, and tn
rest of the inplca ed parties that they d
not demand thorough overhauling of tn
whole business? Considering that all tn
character these men have is at stake, tbei
exceeding great silence and equally exceed
ing scarcity are truly phenomenal.
Providence Press (Rep.): Will B. f. B
! kindly resume his seat in Washington an,
his place on the Potter Committee? TIL
country waits upon his pleasure. There
a little ciphering to be done, and the ciphe
business is the problem TO be elucidated
Butler is the man to inaugurate the exami
nation. The Louisiana muddle, includin
that mythical Sherman letter, is 'playe,
OUT but the cipher business is more tangi
BILE. Call the editor of The Tribune witt
his bundle of cipher dispatches, and tha
; wonderfully discovered key, and then MI
Tiden and the "coparceners," and let
, waiting but impatient country have all tn
facts in the case
} The Belfast municipal elections too
place, and resulted in the return in all tn
wards of the retiring Aldermen and Coun