The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-26
PITH OF TIE PRESS.


Hartford Times: 1t is 10 be feared that
Senator Burnside's genius runs too much
to side whiskers.
Ohio State Journal (Rep.): The working
men who assessed themselves to pay the
expenses of Dennis Kearney's tour of the
Union will probably go on bewailing the
hard times and distress of their families,
same as before.
Toledo Commercial Qnd.): Four of the
House of Washburne have been elected to
Congress, W. d. Washburne, of Minnesota,
being the last of the brotherhood SO dis
tinguished, The country is draining that
family pretty heavily.
Hartford Post (Rep.): The day is COM
ing when the right of free discussion will
be asserted and maintained at the South,
and the party that stands in the way of it
will go to the wall.
New York Star (Dem.): The wood-cut of
Samuel ]. Tilden which adorns the edito-
rial page of the Ithaca Democrat is doing
service in Pennsylvania as a likeness of
Jack kehoe the condemned boss of the
Molly Maguires.
Indianapolis News Und.): Butler will
have no influence at Washington this win
ter, it is said. Perhaps not, but we rather
wait and see whether he has any of those
cipher dispatches concealed about his per-
son, before admitting it.
Albany Journal (Rep.): The question of
saving the Republic from the sway of a
Solid South fresh from rebellion will not
down. 1t will appeal to the patriotic in
. OF nf tha 1,annla met 40 lDny a G the
methods of South Carolina prevail.
Washington Republican,: Richard R.
Mcmahon, of West Virginia, seems to have
the inside track with his Democratic friends
for the place now ably filled by the Hon.
Geo. C. Gorham. Mcmahon is shrewd
politician, writer of note, and speaker.
Raleigh News (Dem.): The intelligent
Representative mistakes the lesson of Tues
days election if he does not see in the small
Democratic majority in the XLVIth Con-
gress the peril to all Southern enterprises
now pending before Congress. The great
Southern work is the early completion of
the Texas Pacific Railroad. What can be
done must be done at the coming session of
Congress.
Indianapolis Sun Nationally: The Indiana
Senate being composed of twenty-four Dem
ocrats twenty-three Republicans and three
Nationals, it will be observed that the bal
ance of power is entirely with the Nation
ais. The Senate can pass no bill without
twenty-Six affirmative votes, and legislation
will depend upon the approval and sup
port of at least two of the three National
Senators.
The Nation (Tnd. Rep: Nothing is more
entertaining than the difference of mental
attitude of the Republican press about
Southern 'stories, according to the source
from which they come. The Bollandist
Fathers are not more credulOus than they
: about the doings of the rifle clubs, no mat
ter who reports them, while a charge Of
swindling against the carpet-bag statesmen
is met with a stern skepticism worthy O.
: Huxley, mingled with most respectable
, dislike Of tattle about other peoples affairs
3 Baltimore Sun Qnd.): 1t is stated by
= friends of Mr.. Clarkson N. Potter that ther,
is probability he will consent to stand TO
y Congress in the Twelfth New York District
which he now represents. 1t is said tina
: Mr.. Potter declined to be a candidate dur
0 ing the recent campaign for reasons whicl
q no longer exist. The death of Mr.. Smith
the Republican candidate elected on tn
9th of this month, will necessitate ney
election. Mr. Potter's ma ajority in the dis
/ trict two years ago was 5,0O0 and it is be
y lieved that he can again carry it.
= Philadelphia Times Qnd.): With Gran
e running for third term, in 1880, the Ne,
n York paper founded by Horace Greeley
+ and conducted by Jay Gould would have
- delightful time of it, 1t would be almos
J as funny as cipher dispatch to see the col
! Germ standing on its head and trying t
l. make the paper of 1872 fit with the orga
II of its time. On the whole, perhaps this
II a sufficient reason why Grant should not
= nominated, although the party who owl
J. and controls the New York organ is unde
. stood to be for Grant, first, last and all tt
W time.
San Francisco Bulletin (Rep.): If the R
publicans can carry the four votes of Cal
fornia in the next election, according to Il
. present state of the figuring, the XLVIt
~ House will be tied between the Democra
S, and all shades of the opposition. 1t is qui
N evident from this exceedingly close shavir
that California will be in great request
III the present and next Congress. 1t will ha'
ID in its hands the decision of great mar
rt important questions. On the money iSsl
:, there is not the least doubt where its vot
u will go, no matter what party is successfr
ell But while this great responsibility will d
a volve on our State it will also follow th
al nothing that she can in reason ask will
"n denied. A great many matters which, fro
OF our remoteness have not heretofore ]
d. ceived much attention, can now be settle
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