The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
THE WORCESTER CONVENTIONS
Comments Of the New York Press This
Morning.
National Associated Press 10 the Star.

National Associated Press 10 the Star.
New York, Sept 19.-The Herald this
morning says the Republican Convention
at Worcester yesterday was in every way q
contrast to its Democratic predecessors of
Tuesday. 1t was marked by harmony, dig
nifty and decorum, by nominations which
satisfied the party and by declaration Of
principals from which there will be little
dissent.
The Tribune says: After the frenzy and
turbulence of Buffers mob, the Republican
Convention at Worcester was as tame and
respectable as a religious conference. The
unassimilated immigrants, the professional
demagogues and the political tramps had
disappeared, and in their places were grave
and earnest men, who did not look, ''smell'
and act like rowdies.
The Times says: The platform of the
Massachusetts Republicans presents re-
treshing contrast to that which the Butler
mob accepted from their leader on Tues
day.
The latter was at once truculent and hyp-
ocritical; full of impudent misstatements
and of false pretense of sympathy with the
working classes, whom Butler has done as
press and whom he is now trying to mis-
lead and ruin in the relentless pursuit Of
his own ambitious purposes.
At the same time it lodged in curiously
cowardly manner the very issues on which
Butler processes to feel most strongly. The
Republican platform, on the contrary, was
frank, explicit raightforward, and while
not lacking in dignity, was not lacking
either in force and directness of statement
The World says The tone of the plat
form adopted by the convention suggests
the idea that it was acted upon by men,
who, while they voted kept casting appre-
hensive gances at the windows of the hall,
lest the heads of the emissaries of the enemy
should appear, and though the delegates
began by resolving that they had gathered
shook while they said so. The sound of the
resolution is no more like an echo of those
of old than the bleat of sheep is like the
roar of a lion.
The Convention by its action acknowl-
edges that Buffers charges have made too
deep an impression to be ignored, and that
body seeks to avoid contest by pleading
guilty and promising amendment. 1t is
thus made clear that the Republican Ad-
ministration of Massachusetts have been so
extravagent and uns atesmenlike that the
party newspapers and delegates in Conven-
ton are ashamed to defend it. Why was
the TASK OF discovering and exposing this
fact left to such man as Butler? Verify,
this canvass, taken all in all, is a satire on
our politics.
The Sun says: The main question of in
terest in the nomination yesterday of Mr.
Talbot as Republican candidate for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts relates to the prOba
bility of his securing the Endorsement of
the Anti-Butler Democracy next week. 1t
is strange that anybody should think Of the
Endorsement of such Republican as Talbot
by any portion of the Democratic party,
and it will be strange if anything Of the
kind finds Democratic supporters. Talbot's
nomination was case of Anything to beat
Butler"
The Star says: Close on the heels of the
Butler-Democrati Convention at Worces-
ter comes the Republican Convention eager
to strike telling blow while the iron was
hot. The latter assembly and its proceed
ings were tame and commonplace in
themselves, even apart from the wildly
contrasting one of the fiery gathering which
had preceded them. Buffers coup d'etat
has consolidated the Republican party en-
mass. Accepting the Republican party at
its own estimate it is really too virtuous
and goody-goody q party to be exposed to
temptation in this wicked world of ours.
Consequently we trust Butler will embalm
and bury it.