The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04
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may think he is working for his own nomi-,
nation in 1880, but he is really working
much more effectively for General Grants
election.
! Memphis Avalanche iDem.); The high
destiny of the Democratic party is to end
in potterng for the balance of the year
1873. 1t islikcly to wind up business i'll
Potter's Field.
New Orleans Times (Dem.): If this in
vestigation ''vindicates" Mr.. TilSen, it will.
remove the supposed necessity Of his vindi-
cation in 1880. In that light let the inVes
tigation proceed.
New York Express tDem.): There are
more rumors that Sam. Tilden is pulling
ropes or wires or something-or other The.
only thing he is pulling at now is his booi-
straps, trying to hoist himself into the back
door of the White House.
Pittsburg Telegraph Qnd.): O'Connor, the
Ohio legislative criminal, creates quite a
sensation with his lecture, and one hundred
and fifty criminals of the late Pennsylvania
Legislature are abont to take to the rostrum.
But O OConnor sill has the best of them. He
has been in the Penitentiary.
Washington Post (Dem.): Hon. Hendrix
b. Wright is a liberal and eminently char
liable gentleman. He doesn't mind the
Governments loaning needy farmer $500
any more than he does the bestowal of
liye-cent coin and a ivedollar lecture on
every poor supplicant that he meets.
Richmond (Va) State: Robert Toombs
says the only prosperous negroes of Georgia
today were free before the war. the others,
as a rule, being thriftless and lazy. This
may be so in Georgia, but it is not the case
in Virginia. So far as our knowledge eX-
tends the ex-slaves are not behind their
free born brethren.
Utica Herald (Rep.): The Potter move
ment has given the Republicans one good
issue upon which to go to the country in
the Congressional elections and this assault
upon athe army gives them another. With
two such issues, thus sharply presented,
/ there ought not to be any doubt left about
the election of a Republican House of Rep
| reSentatlVeS.
4 New York Sun (Dem.) Mr.. Hayes need
not barriGade the windows of his temporary
home, nor arm poor Key with a horse pis,
4 tol. 1t will not require an army to clear
the White House of the presence of Fraud
1t will not require even corpOrals s guard
A single Deputy Marshal, armed with q pa,
per on which the will of the people is writ.
len, can do all the work. That is the diff
ference between this country and Mexico
Chicago Daily News Nnd.): The Rcpub
lican journals few days since expressed
the hope that there will be no more tinker
ing with the finance question. But yester
day one or two of them broke out in a new
spot, and demanded that resumption be in
augurated at once. The vagaries of these
journals upon those great questions which
affect the material well-being of the coun
try and its industries are simply won
derful.
Troy Times. (Rep): The people have
not as yet become fully conscious of the
danger which threatens them, but it seems
to us that they ought not to be long il
doubt as to the meaning of such measures
as the Potter investigation and the intended
crippling of the army. In Washington the
peril is well understood. but there must bt
some perception of it instiled into the pop
ular mind before next November, or the
country may find itself plunged into
struggle the horrors of which were no
equaled by that which was attempted il
1861. Potter may plead the cause int,
which he has been inveiged by the arch
conspirator of Gramercy Park as long and al
eloquently as he pleases but the truth still
will be that the1nelt behind him mean sc
rious business, even if lie does not.
Galveston News: Fate and folly seem tc
J be working together by infallible processc.
in favor of the restoration of Grant to the
Presidency. 1t is amazing that SO few
J Democratic leaders have the sagacity, like
Governor Hampton to understand the veil
of conversation which runs through. Ameri
can character and enters into the texture O.
American society Its instinct, wher
alarmed by agitations and commotion.
which seem to threaten the bonds of civ
cohesion, is to invoke the aid Of some calm
bold and strong nature like Grant, and in
vest him with the mission of maintaining
peace and order pretty much upon his owr
terms. The way to make Grant Presiden
has been indicated and the stupidity of hi!
Democratic enemies may by this way bring
about the consummation, unless prevented
by the still greater stupidity of his Repubi
can friends.
: New York Times (Rep.): The passage o
the bill forbidding further contraction O.
the legal-tender currency and directing the
reissue of the notes that may be received
lnLo lue treasury, Is spoken OF as " com
promise marking the close of tinancia
legislation in the present session. The tern
is used by the inhationists and anti
resumptionists as indicative at once of thei
power in Congress and of their moderation
= and generosity in its exercise. They accep
the Fort Bill as good of its kind, and as ;
stepping-stone to something better They
call it compromise we presume, on thu
/ assumption that they might have enforced
more exacting terms had they chosen to b.
troublesome-and not as indicative of ;
final settlement of the questions to whicl
: lit relates Having gained so much the.
+ think that they can afford to be magnani
nous and to await patiently the next op
portunity. They have not obtained all the,
t want, but they have got great deal and arr
, disposed meanwhile to be satisfied.
f San Francisco Alta (Rep.): Statesmen
readily see that it is no time to eavil abou
which particular set Of good men shall b,
- selected as delegates to the Constitutions
Convention, when the real question is how
> to get any good men there. If the very bes
, men Of the Republican party and the yer.