The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-29
SOME EASTERN PRESS OPINIONS.

Inc NEW OK sun c0nceues that
senator Blaine acquitted himself
pretty fairly in his assault upon the
old Massachusetts Federalists. Their
anti-war, peace-at-any-price policy has
an unpleasant odor, and Mr.. Blaine
stirred it up very vigorously under the
nostrils of their descendants"
The New York Herald says that Sem
ator Hoar, in his reply to Blaine, "unin-
tentiOnaily furnished grotesque illus
ration of the culture which is the boast
of the American Athens. We doub.
whether any other alumnus OF Harvard
College could have given quite 80 ex-
traordinary an illustration of Massa.
chusetts scholarship as Mr.. Hoar re-
galed the Senate with in his re-
ply to Blaine." And the Herald
quotes and finds fault with Mr.. Hoars
rendition Of sentence from tie
classics.-Concerning silver, it says that
public feeling is getting 30 ilfamed on
the subject that unless the dispute is
closed the nomination of any but pro-
nounced hard money man or a Ir
nounced soft money man will be impos-
sible by either party, and the
beaten fac ion in each will bolt.
The consequence will be either
scrub race, with four candt-
dates in the field, or else an immediate
reorganization of parties on the cur.
rency issue, with all the sound money
false money men on the other"
The New York World is inclined to
hink that "a good many people who
fancy themselves to know all aboul
New York, would be considerably as
tonished if we could get at real mani
testation of the real opinion OF all the
voters Of this oily as to whether 1t is or
is not the best way of managing the COR
porate affairs of the metropolis TO put
up every office to be scrambled for at
| the ballot-boxes, under the control and
manipulation of those who organize and
run the political machines of the two
| great national parties"
| The Boston Advertiser says that the
vote on Senator Matthew'S resolution is
u scandalous one ana an assault upon
the national credit, that has not even
the poor excuse Of saving a dollar 10
| tile nation.
The Rutland (Vermont) Herald and
Globe, in an article on the Bristow din
uer, alludes to his hosts as ''the caek.
ling breed OF Boston Brahmins," ana
has no dOubT that they are "lhe children
of the generation that were Loadies
when Daniel Webster was King all.
Peter Harvey was his Boswell" l
says "Ihe hunkerism OF old Boston wa.
Everett, Ots, Prof. FELTON, OF Harvard
Robert 1. Winthrop, Rufus Choate, mel
who would grow warm and eloquent
| over dead literatures, and yet view with
silent and contemptuous indifference
the ensiavem9nt OF living men. They all
worshiped the great Webster, anu
| their fulsome and immoral del.
| tication OF the great eXpounder
| taught their children the CON
LemptiDle trick of the unmanly speech
ot gross adulatiOn Of men rather thai
tue nobler worship OF LOFTY IDEAS" AlteI
criticisiDg William Everett and Dana
for their luls sOme speecIes, it adds: "dOd
be thanked that MassacDusells has d
| uobIer breed than this classical suOb
toady. An hour of Andrew, Parker
PnIllips, Wilson, or even brIstIy Ben
Butler, i S worth a century Q; auch Ori.
entail iuolatry and herc-SlobberiUg a
his"
The Fall River (Mass,) News sug
Sests that the settle bet" cen SenaL,
Blame and the Massachusetts Senator'S
will have good result as "certain gen
tlemen, who have passed till now Tor in
telligent, will go to work and real III
the history OF the uommonW e attn o II
1905 to 1S!l.' And it adds that "tAul
wIil be surprised at the diff rent aspec
history will wear from what they SUI
pose," though "they will find Massu
chusetts was just as good, il not little
better than her neighbOrs."