The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-06
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York is Democratic State. The proof
could not be more emphatic. This fact
adds 35 Democratic votes in the Electoral
College, making 173. New jersey has 8
Electoral votes, and New Jersey has been
Democratic bv q majority of more than
II 900 in every election in seven years. She
votes rs steadily as does New York. New
jersey makes the Democratic Electoral vote
1872. Indiana, with Is Electoral votes, is
Democratic-l97. One hundred and eighty
five Electoral votes are necessary to elect a
President-Gen. Grant has been discuss
ing Presidential candidates. He regards
Thurman and Tilden as dead; says Bay
| ard is II true man of extraordinary ability;
that Garfield is an able statesman, and that
| Hancock would be stronger man than
Tilden, "bnt would be assaled by the Cath
olics FIR hanging the sainted Mrs. Surratt,
when he was really no mvre responsible for
it than you WERE" Two Foreign Missions
are still vacant. They might be used to
dispose of some of the superfluous Ohio
candidates for the United States Senate
Special Agent Newcomb, of Washington,
has begun his investigation of Clerk Am.
brosets Office. He has already discovered
enough to justify the Enquirer in all it has
said and charged on that Court.-The Chi
nese already constitute over one-fifth of the
population of the Hawaiian Islands, and
they are "still coming" They threaten to
overrun the country. The Government is
trying to discourage the unwelcome emil
grafton by procuring labor from the South
Sea Islands, but the sugar planters have
more regard for their pockets than the we'll
being of community, and populate their
plantations with the "cheap Johns"
The Commercial savs In New York the
Democrats had moi committed themselves
against honest money. They had n It aban-
doned hard-money doctrines and made a
b,,ast of 81 doing. They were neither idi is
nor repudiators.-The Indiana politicians,
headed by Hendricks, seem to think that
they, though all dabblers in the Wabash
style of financiering and determined to
pay tho National debt in cornstaks rather
than that it shall be repudiated, are the
heirs of the party and appointed to admin
lister upon the political estate If Saluuei J.
1Ilden. Still they do not see to what it is
that the party owes its strength in New
York, and they go on blathering about
money reform, meaning, of course, some
thing crude and crazy, if not rascally.-
! Speaking of the Democratic split
in New York, it remarks: The Tiden
organization was &onderfully COM
plete in the country. and that OF Kelly in
the city. 1t is not probable that candi-
date can be found who would get the full
voc of both factions. Certainly MIR.
Hendricks, who is expecting the fruit of
the tree Kelly has shaken, is not in po-
stion to be harm,nizer. The bolt of
Kelly and its consequences makes wound
that can not be nealed in time for the
Presidential election. 1t isno exagg Grafton
| to wi ha Wi n 81,
faction among the Liberals of New York
following Corneli's nomination, that had
the Administration cherished toward Mr..
Cunkling the bitterness he has not failed on
all occasions to manifest toward it. and ell
couraecd the scratching of Cornell, which
Mr.. Curtis, of Harper's Weekly, openly ad-
vanccd, Governor r binson would have
been reelected in spite of the revolt of
Tammany. But it did not do SO, and to
the great disappointment of the Demucra-
cy, the President warmly advised the Re
publcans to stand by the entire ticket.
while Secretary Eyarts and Sherman took
an active and influential part in its sup
port This was done through no special re-
gard for tie New York Senator or because
Of apprehension Of anything he mignt do
on or of the floor of the Senate to the pre-
judice of the Administration, but because
Republican success on the eve OF the Presi
dental election is more important than the
fortunes or msfurtunes of any man-Tne
reduction of the National debt at the rate
of ten millions a month is almost as bad
for the opponents of the Sherman boom
as the reduction of the interest Oh
the debt at the rate of million a month.
The policy of making the South Demo-
craticaiy solid by the use Of the shotgun,
N Ia Itli Nv In hul nt l,no
had its natural result. The people Of the
Northern States believe abuve all things
in fair play. If the Southern States had
been carried for the Democracy by fair
methods and free elections, leaving all
; men, black and white, free to vote as they
pleased, there would have been no such
reaction in the North as the October and
November elections have witnessed. As
the case stands now the prospect OF Solid
North for the Republicans, based upon the
moral sense of the people, is as promising
: as a Solid South based upon rutfiani snl
and the shotgun. 1t is rather late now
for the Democracy to correct their mistake.
in time to be OF any benefit to them
| III the Presidential canvass next year.
Republican victory of Tuesday are growing
The news of this morning adds thousands
, to the ma jorities previously reported in the
various States. Cornelis plurality, which
we placed yesterday at from Is 200 to 80, OOO
now promises to reach 4O, 600. The major
ity for Butler, the Republican candidate
, for State Treasurer in PENNSYLVANIA, was
+ given at sc. 900; this mornings dispatche,
add over 70, 0U0 When the State of Penn
sylvania, un light vote. gives a Repub
, lican majority of So 000 there are iudiCa