The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-08
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Morning.

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Government is being put forth to prevent
a full and fair vote being given.-Referring
to Senator Thurmans speech at Columbus
on Saturday evening, the Enquirer claims
that he is a man of national repute, and his
utterings from year to year serve as key
notes for speakers in dozen other States
1t thinks the pirh of his speech is his dis
cussion of Federal interference with State
elections and the efforts of a Democratic
Congress to repeal the Supervisory Lay. 1t
claims that the Deputy Marshals
who were appointed to elect But
terworth and Young were elected from
the same class of men that Johnny
Davenport appointed in New York.
''Ihieves, murderers gamblers, ex-convicts
of all grades and classes, work-house grad
uates, were appointed here in Cincinnati
to secure honesty of the elcctions!" Had
this secret Council of Seventy once under
taken in Cincinnati the bold frauds prac-
tised in the Eastern cities, q riot attended
with bloodshed would have ensued. Sena-
| tor Thurman says the Enquirer argues
that resumption has not been reached be-
cause the notes of the National Banks can
not be converted into coin. 1t claims that
whatever may have been the Senator's for
mer differences, he is now fully identified
with the Democratic party in Ohio.
The Commercial devotes column to
| Mr.. Mulberry Ewing as a Financial Or
ator,' and claims that General Thomas
Ewing is rashly undertaking to correct
| Carl Schurz in respect to money matter of
law and fact, places On exhibition his in
competency to discuss financial question
intelligently. 1t says there are in legal
tender notes, greenbacks $3l6,6Sl, ,0l6. The
amount of National bank ttes circulating
at the date of the last report of the Comp
troller of the Currencv was $322, ,000, ,000
| Total greenbacks and bank notes, $685. 000,-
900. The specie reserve of the Government
on 1st September was about $l75,000,000
The Democrats of Ohio say that the 1922
O0O 600 of National bank notes shall be
withdrawn and grcenbacks substituted
making the amount Of Government paper
to be rushed in for redemption S66S, 900, 600
We hold says the Commercial, that the
specie reserve is not sufficient to meet this
demand, that the substitute of greenbacks
| for bank notes would be equivalent to the
overthrow of the resumption policy, and
| those who urge it are doing so to destroy
the equivalent of paper with coin for pur-
poses of Initiative, speculative, protigacy,
bankruptcy and reputation. 1t says that
Mr. Ewing undertook to show that the
/ Government is already responsible for the
resumption Of bank notes, and that the
competency of the Government reserve to
meet the whole $66S 900 600 would be no
less than now to meet SAG, 600, 900 in green
backs. 1t saws that no intelligent citizen,
who reading the law, would fail to see that
Mr. Ewing either had not read it himself,
was incapable Of understanding it or was
/ rool, losc in p,iS1D Outstanding it
With reference to to-day's election in
Maine, the Gazette says that the campaign
which has Just closed, has been most ex-
citing one The candidates for Governor
are the same as last year, with the excep-
ton of the Republican nominee, Mr.. Davis
| having been substituted for Mr.. Connor.
| Solon Chase, the great champion of the
Greenbacll cause, has been travelling around
the State in an OK cart, and wearing the
costume and playing the part Of a hard
handed tiller OF the soil.-The Green
hackers have been as boastful
as last year, but there are indications that
their strength has diminished which we
do not think falacious. The Democrats
have not been idle, but the main fight has
been between the Republicans and the in
nationists. 1t adds, that if the predictions
of the different sides are sincere, each
party expects victory, but the Gazette
will not prophesy results, since their next
issue will probably announce the result
Reviewing Senator Thurman's Saturday
evening speech at Columbus, the Gazette
characterizes it as a rehash of partisan
calunnies against the party of Washington.
Mr., Thurman remarks, the Gazette says,
Aith reference to the law enacted in Feb
ruarv. 1865, authorizing the use of the
army to keep the reace at the polls that the
Government had existed three quarters of a
century and never before had such a law
been deemed advisable. This the Gazette
saws is false as the law authorizing the use
of the army and navy for preserving the
peace everywhere was enacted in 1907 in
Jefferson's Administration. The act OF
1865 was restriction on the use of troops
And now he comes before the people talk
ing of free elections, against all laws to pro
tect the voter when free elections are over
thrown in ali the Confederate States by
military force; when Congress is controlled
bv a majority made by this destruction o
elections, and when he and his party are il
conspiracy to seize all branches of the
government through the consolidation o
the South by military power.
The German Papers
TThe Volksfreund.l
Hickenlooper and the Gas Company ar
one heart and one soul.
Conkling's enemies were present Ell
masse at the New York Republican Con
vention. They attended his triumph anC
not his downfall. as expected.
Sad, but true. Since Grants visit to tn
: King of Burmah, the latter has not beer
sober for one moment. Bad compan,
spoils good manners.
TThe Volksbatt.l
Every Councilman who votes for the ten
years gas contract at more than 81 so, sign
his own death notice.
The impossibiity of Ewing's election a
Governor of Ohio is admitted by most o
the Democrats. In private intercourse eyel
, some of the most prominent Democrat
: partisans say that the case of their Gubel
material candidate is hopeless. The ques
ton is now only by how great a majorlt
t General Ewing will be defeated.
; TThe Freie Presse.l
, The overwhelming majority that MI
Luke A. Staley, the Republican candidat
for County Treasurer received on the frs
: ballot is the best evidence that MIR. Stale
It is no ''ring' candidate, as stated in Satul
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