The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-26
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Indianapolis News Ind.); Erring
Brother Key wins the first round in the
fight against the lottery dealers Keep
him fresh and give him room.
Chicago News (1nd.): The Grant
"boom" is only tangled up among the
Quaker legs under Philadelphia tables.
1t will emerge when the General starts
for Cuba.
Chicago Journal (Rep,): The two
great Democratic victories of 1879 are
the killing of Captain Dixon in Yazoo,
Miss, and the stealing of the Legislature
of Maine.
Chicago Times Ind.): The Democrats
were tricked in 1876 and endured the
outrage. The Republicans of Maine
were tricked few days ago, but won't
endure it at all. That's the difference
between the parties.
Mobile Register (Dem,): We call upon
Senator Moruan to throw no stumbling
block in the way of return to Constitu-
tional money, so ardently lOnged for and
so loudly demanded by all the business
eenters of the country.
Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.): They've
settled it. That is, both the Cincinnati
Commercial and Enquirer announce that
Grant will be candidate. And as
they make the announcement their
teeth rattle like the caving in of gravel
mine. a
Milwaukee Sentinel (Rep.): Governor
Garcelon should be Immediately "men-
| toned" for the Democratic nomination.
He is in every way worthy to succeed
Cipher Tilden as the Bourbon candidate.
He hasn't SO big bar'l, but more check
and nerve.
Boston Traveller (Rep.): Don Cam
eron says his preference is for General
Grant first, last and every time, and that
in so saying he merely echoes the Penn
sylvania Republican sentiment. Who
ever is nominated will receive their cor
dial support, but they mean to have
Grant. ....
Milwaukee Signal Qnd.): "Have not
the Democrats as good right to steal a
State as the Republicans to steal the
General Governmentw - Exchange.
Perhaps; but both parties are thieves;
and if they could be tied together like
cats and hung across line till they de-
voured each other, the country would
have chance at honesty and fair deal
ing once more. ."- ..a.,
New York Times (Rep.): If fraud,
"frst triumphant" in the Pine-tree State,
is successful in clutching the present
object of its endeavor, it must inevitably
be at the price Of turning the conscience
of the State against the perpetrators and
against the party that benefits by their
acts. If such performance shall fail to
be visited with an overwhelming con-
demnation at next years election, then,
indeed, will those who are inclined to
despair of the Republic have some rea-
son to show for their gloomy forebodings
New York Sun (Ind. Dem.): The fight
in Maine is not fight between the Re-
publicans and Democrats, but between
the Republicans and all others, of whom
the Greenbackers are a large majority.
The Governor is a Democrat, or more
properly Fusionist, but the majority of
the Council which did the counting are
Greenbackers and if the men to whom
certificates have been issued as members
of the Legislature keep their seats it will
result in the election of the Greenback
candidate for Governor.
New York Tribune (Rep.): Judge Ly.
man Trumbull is the first prominent
Democratic leader to make a public de.
fense of the Maine theft. At recent
meeting of the Illinois Democratic State
Committee, he opposed the adoption of a
resolution disappearing the crime, saying
that the Democrats were merely paying
the Republicans back in their own coin
for the fraud of 1876, and that there was
nothing wrong in the Maine business
4 anyway. There is something inharno.
NOUS in this defense. The Judge has
been charging fraud upon the Republican
party with great vehemence since 1876
Nobody doubts his sincerity in the mat
ter; yet he says that the Democrats art
paying back in the same coin, but art
doing no wrong Does he mean thai
fraud is no wrong when it is committed
by the Democratic party? Or does h,
i mean that there was no wrong in the al
legged Republican fraud in 1876? If h.
means the latter, what has he been cry
ing aloud about during the past thre'
years9