The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning

the fact 1t thinks the California election
will not discourage the Confederate caucus
and that one of the first things of the regu
lar session of Congress will be to unseat Re.
publican member i'll Indiana and substitute
a Democrat, so that the State will vote
without reference to the present Greenback
members from that State, in case the next
Presidential election is thrown into the
House. 1t thinks, too, they will throw out
Butterworth or Young under some puerile
pretext, and possibly both. This Congress,
both Houses, counts the electoral vote for
the next President. 1t is the purpose of
the caucus to use Congress as returning
board to count in the next Democratic can
ddate. 1t thinks that the safety of the
country will depend in remark
able degree on the next House; the
Republicans can not capture the Senate for
several years.-It thinks there is nothing
in Gen. Morgan Speech delivered in this
city last evening, to demand its publication
or an answer in full. Itsays that the ques-
ton of taxing the Government bonds was
settled long before the Republican party
came into existence, by the Supreme Court
of the United States. The decisions of that
court have been uniformly against any
power to tax these bonds. 1t deniest truth
of the Generals allegation that the Repub,
lican party enacted law authorizing the
appointment of Marshals and Denuties for
the acknowledged purpose of placing politi-
cal power in the hands of that party. 1t
declares that the law was for the protection
of the ballot-box from fraud and violence.
1t has been appealed to bv both parties,
and was designed for all parties. 1t ridi-
cules General Morgan's attempt to show
that there is any considerable number of
persons in the United States who aim TO
establish an Empire on the ruins of the Re-
public, or anv twin relationship between
Royalism and Federalism.
The Enquirer, speaking of the split in the
DEM cratic Convention of New York, at
Syracuse yesterday, says that Tilden has
triumphed in the Convention of the State
He has shown his ability to cause the De-
mocracy OF the State to express his person
al will in their Convention when he was
not before it as personal candidate. Con-
trasting Tilden's success at Syracuse with
Cunkling's at Saratoga it says But Sena-
tor Conkling at Saratoga, had the advan-
tage of presence of opportunity for person
al appeal for holding his sensi
tive finger upon the warm heart
beat of that political body of his
eloQuence and platform for it. Mr.. Til
den, at distance, whispers his way into
power. Conkling conquers with ''the ma
chine;' Tilden conquers against it. Conk-
ling wins by open audacity and almost fe-
rocieus courage; Tilden triumphs by sly
sagacity, and the conditions precedent to
his victory can be traced for years. Conk-
ling carries a Convention by his hold upon
the politicians Of his State. Tilden car
ries one by his hold upon the
ueope of the S ate. The city helps
Conkling; the country helps Tilden. They
have each undertaken to elect a Governor
of New York. and the battle will be
watched with National interest. The En-
quirer thinks the duty of all Democrats in
New York is to vote the regular ticket,
since it argues that the nomination of Mr..
Robinson was fairly won, and it pre-
boilers who nominated Kelly can
1t claims that if the Democrats and Green
hackers had united as heartily in Maine as
they S ould have done they would have
secured the Governor and all the State off
GERS. Combined the same elements in this
State can carry Ohio by 40, 900 to 50, 600 ma
jority. Last year the two had majority
of over 81, 600 votes. The Republican party,
it alleges is going through the same stages
of decline under the iron rule of the bond
holders that the Democracy experienced
under the rule of the shareholders
previous to and in 1860. The
result in Maine. the Enquirer
argues, prefigures the election of Ewing in
Ohio. 1t SAYS, of the vote in Maine: "The
estimate of the New York Tribune is that
the Republicans will poll 6S.500 the Demo-
Gratis q 900, and the Greenbackers $4,000
an aggregate of 139 500 votes. This is the
largest vote that has ever been cast in the
State, and furnishes a just basis for judg-
ment. We may be sure that the later re-
turns will make worse Republican show
ing than this; but this sho vs. that the
Republican majority of $1,000 in 1876 has,
on larAer vote, become a minority of
5000 in 1879" A corresponding shrinkage
of the RenublCan vote in this State, it
claims, will elect Ewing by large ma
jority.
The Gazette, speaking of the New York
State Democratic Convention. says that it
commenced and ended in disorder, but had
a high time generally. The Tanlmanv or
John Kelly delegation from New York
City was admitted, but withdrew before
the nomination for Governor was made,
threatening they would not support Rob-
inson if nominated. The Convention
thereupon nominated Robinson, when the
boiling Tammany men nominated John
Kelly, who accepted with the statement
he did not expect to be elected, but de-
sired to defeat Robinson. Tilden, it adds,
is for Robinson, and Tiden is the remark
able man whom no Democrat in the
United States speaks well of, but who has
the grip on the party, and will probably
nominate himself President again in the
face Of the universal dislike.-in answer to
the Lexingt II, KY, Transcript, which asks
the Gazette why it attacks Governor Black
burn, OF Kentucky by innuendo and not
by square charges as to an attempt to intro
duce yellow fever into the United States
few years ago from Canada, it says: The
Gazette makes no charge against Governor
Blackburn. either by innuendo or other
wise. The question concerns Governor
Blackburn and the people of Kentucky,
not u.s. For us to pronounce, when
Governor Blackburn and the people
OF Kentucky are 50 much more com
petent, and are the interested parties,
would not be proper. We have printed Of |
fetal records of the testimony in the exam
ination of DR.. Luke P Blackburn, at
Toronto, for conspiracy to distribute bed |
and body clothes, infected with yellow |
fever, int cities of the United States. and |