The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
THE DAILY STAR
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
As 1t Is Seen by Our Distant Exchanges.
Providence Star, Rep.1


that barrel in Gramercy Park been un-
headed? We suggest that the Democrats
are little too late. The Republicans
have already pre-empted Ohio.
Indianapolis Sentinel, Dem.]
The Cincinnati Commercial wrestles
tremendously with Pendleton's speech
Tom Thumb wrestling with the Ken
tucky giant
[Inter-Ocean Repl
General Ewing, of Ohio, says "times
are very hard" We do not wonder that
Ewing thinks so. A man who stands by
q high fence and tries to lift himself over
by the straps of his boots always sweats.
If General Ewing will climb the fence
and get over on the other side, and listen
TO the music Of hammer and forge, and
hear the farmer whistle as he views his
well-filled bins, and note the smile of
contentment which has replaced that of
distrust and complaint, he will at once
see his folly. Times are hard to man who
Is trying to make people believe they are
miserable when everything speaks to
them of prosperity.
New Orleans Democrat.
Williams, the colored man on the Re-
publican legislative ticket in Cincinnati
Is said to have been offered the mission
10 Hayti as an inducement to get off the
track But Williams will not go. He
wants to see Just how far the Republicans
will carry their views concerning the
negro; whether they think him good
enough to be representative as well as
voter. This interesting question will
be settled to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned in October.
lChicago Times, Ind. Dem.l
1t is now the happiest of happy fami-
Ges, for, according to the Cincinnati
Commercial, "The President appears to
be about as stalwart Republican as
Senator Conkling or Zach Chandler could
wish"
New York Sun, Dem.
Ohio has been close State for years,
and neither party is justified in assuming
TO be much stronger than its adversary
Bishop, the present Governor, was elect
cd in 1877 by plurality of 22,520, but
he was really in minority Of the whole
vote by LILY. Last year the Republi-
cans carried the State by plurality of
1854, but were in minority of the whole
vote by 40S60 The Nationals polled
1892, and the Prohibitionists 1852. The
Democrats in 1878 polled within $50 of
their vote of 1877, and the Republicans
Increased their vote 25,015.
1t is very evident that the thirty-eight
thousand Nationals of last year hold the
result of the present contest in their
hands, if there be as full vote as is now
expected. The general belief is that two
thirds of them will desert their own can
didate for Governor, from the weakening
of the organization in other States and
because they know that every vote given
to Piatt is vote thrown away. Sup
posing twenty OF more thousand of these
Nationals to return to their original po-
itical preferences, the contest would al
most assume the character of an old cam
paign with but two parties in the field to
be determined by fortuitous combina-
ton of circumstances or perhaps by an
accident at the very pinch of the can
vass.
Detroit News, Ind
Mr.. Sherman neglects nothing to Sc
cure success for his protege, Foster, in
Ohio. Although the election is still a
month ahead, he is giving his clerks
leaves of absence to go home and work
for the storekeeper of Fostoria. EWING
defeat was already reasonably assured
too, but Mr. Sherman evidently wants tc
overshadow Blaine's little boom by the
size of Fosters majority. If, while
Blaine had to be content with plurality
Sherman can bag clean majority of al
the votes of Ohio for this man, the Sena
tor from Maine can regard his case al
hopeless.
Baltimore Gazette Dem
A noted feature of the Ohio campaign
will be meeting at Toledo, on the I'd O
October, of survivors of the Southern
prisons. A lot of the ex-Union soldier
who had the misfortune to be held in thu
South as prisoners of war are to bC
brought together to recite their woes ant
revive recollecti0ns of the war. Tht
spectacle of these unhappy persons is ex
pected to move the hearts of grca
many wavering persons and induce then
to vote the Republican ticket by way o
putting down another rebellion. Thes
reunions are always held in the Nortl
during political campaigns, and they ar
always intended to have political effect
Nobody ever dreams of bringing togethe
in social way the old suffers or the oil
mule drivers of the army, because tn
contemplation of these fellows in the ac
of exhibiting their scars would not excit
the animosities of men.
Baltimore Gazette
The campaign in Ohio seems to hav
settled down to brag and bluster. Fac
party is bombarding the other with bi
Imaginary majorities, and it looks now a
though the battle would turn on tn
simple question of noise. Victory wi
probably perch on the standard of tn
party which can first secure Eli Perkir
and turn him loose with his statistics.
A young lady was recently buried &
Brighton, England, under romantic ci
cumstances. The day of her intermer