The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-05
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning

The Commercial thinks the contest be-
tween Cornell and the Democracy this fall
in New York will be red hot. The
two factions of the Democracy are seeking
to bridge over the chasm between them,
while the Administration and anti-Admin-
istration Republicans are practically unit
ed. The fight will be watched with interest
in any event as foreshadowing next years
result. 1t thinks it is by no means certain
that the nomination of C,rnell was fortu-
nate thing for the Republicans, for although
the war OF the factions is over, still there
was too much of the machine in the Sara
toga Convention to please a great many
people. 1t thinks that while Conkling
could control the Convention, it is hardly
sufficient to grasp the entire State.-It SAYS
that the Cleveland Paindealer has made
what it esteems to be great discovery in
that somebody living in Canal Fulton and
formerly in Missouri is understood to have
entered into a negotiation with Chas. Foster
and Major Mckinley to Use his influence to
secure the formers election, for which the
two latter are to reward him with an army
Chaplaincv. This person is claimed to be a
Catholic priest and is represented to have
written letters denouncing Ewing as an
apostate and declaring Foster to be sym.
pathzer with the Catholic Church. The
Commercial declares the story improbable,
as Foster is not Catholic and not fool
enough to enter into such bargain, as it
would be certain to do more harm than
good. Neither would Mckinley do SO; nor
would any Catholic priest lend himself to
such scheme though certain of Chap
laincy, as it would be violation OF his
priestly VOWS. Gen. Ewing, if Catholic,
has never publicly turned his back on the
church. and can not, therefore, be an apos-
tate. Gen. Ewing's religious belief, in a
public sense, is nobody's business. While
it is possible there are foolish people who
would use the religious belief of candidates
for influencing the campaign, it thinks
neither Ewing nor Foster should be held
responsible for their utterances.
The Enquirer thinks that if nine-tenths
of the business men, farmers and manu-
facturers of Ohio are opposed to any ag-
tation of the currency question, as alleged
by Republican exchange, they ought
to stop agitating the question, and the Re-
publican financiers ought to be able to cease
placing themselves against it as piops.-It
thinks the triumph of Senator Conkling, in
the New York Convention, is more sgnili-
cant in its bearing upon John Sherman's
Presidential prospects, as it was not Hayes
alone that Conkling desired to crush out,
but the foxy Secretary of the Treasury be-
hind Hayes. 1t thinks that whatever Conk-
ling can do, and he has shown his ability
to do great things, will be brought to bear
against Sherman's aspirations from this
time forth.-The Enquirer refers to state
ment made in the Boston Herald that the
Parisians are complaining of the price paid
for gas which in that city is 81 62 to pri-
vate consumers, the city, however, paying
but half the price charged to citizens,
and having one-half the profit therefrom.
This profit the past year to the munich
pality netted $1,600000, while sharehold-
ers netted 81 per cent. on the original
price of their stock. The Enquirer would
like to be advised as to the prices paid for
coal, labor, iron, pipe, &c., by the Paris
Company, and what it receives for coke, tar
and other residium and what ton of coal
ields OF gas, coke, tar, &c. 1t claims that
it has been demonstrated in Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburg that
gas can be profitably manufactured ats 60
to 81 80 per one thousand feet, and coal,
iron, pipe and labor are no dearer here. 1t
urges as an objection to the plan of the
Committee on Light that under the manip-
consumers can not know whether they are
the people would be satisfied with any such
bargain.
Referring to the iron trade, the Gazette
remarks that the orders sent to England for
an article of the iron product so simple of
manufacture and of which the freight bears
so large ratio of cost as steel rails, show