The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-15
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Ensli,h Papers Of This Mornine,

the Nationals, have received the legitimate
reward of their behavior. Some of them
chose to think that sectionalism was a more
lovely and important issue than currency,
and so, of course, voted the Republican
ticket. Encouraged by successes at the
polls; encouraged by misfortune abroad;
encouraged by abundant crops at home; en-
couragedby the limitation" of our currency,
consequent upon these facts, the Money
Power that has complete control of this
Administration has ventured to recon-
mend the prompt annihilation of the green
back. If the Greenbackers had been sensi-
BILE in the late elections neither the Presi
dent nor the Secretary, with their capacity
| for, and adrotness in, trimming would
have dared to make the financial recon-
mendations which they did make in their
recent State papers. 1t is now plain that
thousands of these Greenbackers have be-
haved foolshly or worse than foolishly.
Many of them have been deceived, and
some corrupted. 1t is of 10 avail to point
to forty thousand votes in Ohio, or forty
five thousand votes in Maine, or to their
thousands of votes in New York or Penn
sylvania, or to their million of votes in the
thirty eight States The Greenbackers have
wasted them, thrown them away. They
have PLAYED into the hands of their enc
mics, some by purchase and some by being
misled.-Our dispatches this morning indi-
Gu te the probability that the "Fusionsts"
in Maine will be found to have elected the
Legislature of that State. The result of the
count will be made known to-day,
and the Republicans fear that they
will be counted out" u 1915
to steal one State was to steal the
entire thirty-eight States. To take posses
sion OF Maine in 1879 is only to take pos
session OF one State Should tie Maine
count result disastrously to the Republi-
cans, we shall take pleasure in reproducing
the exclamations of Republican indigna-
ton while our thoughts pensively turn
toward 1876. None the less shall we think
that stupendous fraud upon suffrage is a
bad precedent to fix in the history of the
| United States.
| The Commercial says: The second week
of the session passed without any striking
incident or actin on the part of Congress.
There was flood Of bills introduced-tw
hundred in the House on Tuesday-but
were all referred without debate. There
seems to be no disposition to push things
till after the holidays. One thing was
settled, however, that the appropriation
bills be reported early and acted
upon Immediately, in which case,
if expedent, Congress can ad-
journ u, any time and probably without
injury to any interests of the country. The
disposition to tinker with the finances was
shown by the variety of bills and resolu-
tions offered in both Senate and House.
Various miscellaneous bills and resolutions
were introduced, and on Friday Mr.. Boxer,
from the House Committee on Appropria-
tiohs, reported the Fertilization Appropria-
ton Bill, which, after slight discussion, was
passed. 1t varies little from that of last
year. The Pension Appropriation Bill was
also reported and passed. The amount ap-
propriated is $32,4O4,0 900, against $29 $685.
900 last year, due to the increase in
the number of pensioners. There
was no political discussion in either
branch and the slightest political
reference on one OCCASION excited laugh.
| The people of Cincinnati elected Board
of Public Works. Itwas legislated out OF
Office, not on account of its deficiencies, but
because it was doing honest work. Let 1T
be reinstated.-I one colored voter in
hundred of those disfranchised in the South
could remove to Indiana in time to vote in
the next Presidential election, the effect
upon the country might be quite salutary.
I uuHc rIlLSClhlu oVCSh WON " SOAAA
muncate all lie knows about the next
Presidency to the public, for few days.
There is Something startling in reserve.
| There is curious development of strong
feeling among the workingmen Of Cincin-
natl in respect to the Grant 'boom." 1t is
but very feebly and partially expressed in
| the proceedings Of meeting held yester-
day, the business object of which was to
prevent the payment of public money to
defray the expenses OF the Grant reception.
These workingmen think they see in the
movement to give Graut third term. a
symptom Of change in the form of our Gov
ernment, so that it shall not be to the ex-
tent that it has been Government by the
/ people for the people, and they are angered
in anticipation OF evil.
The Gazette says: The Maine Democrats,
having taken into their. head to count out
Republicans elected to the Legislature of
that State. with view to making it Demo.
cratic, and for the purpose of having that
bogus legislature appoint Presidential
Electors instead of having the same chosen
startling discovery that the New York Leg
islature could also choose Presidential
Electors are now frightened and have
Il frightened their party also The party
now declare that the Republicans favor
the Maine infamy in order to furnish q
pretext for making the thirty five
votes of New York sure for the Republican
candidate Since this discovery there is a
great deal of double-leaded virtue in the
Democratic newspapers. and it has been
discovered that the game is poor one that
two can not play at-Wappenstein, in
stead of dropping out of the police force
altogether when he resigned the position
of Superintendent, dropped into the place
of Captain Reilly, the best officer on the
force. And" the ostriches that have Their
heads in the sand imagine that the gauzy
performance is sufficient to conceal
its true inwardness from the eye
of public opinion.-That ht Of vir
tue which seized our wonderfully con
str,cted and fearfully made Board o.
Police Commissioners a week ago did mo-
last long, and the friendly feeling OF the
police authorities for the indecency anc
iawlessness which have disgraced Cincinnati
soon found way "not to do it" The pro
prietors of the unlicensed shows were ar
rested and held to bail to answer. WheT
: they appeared. in court their cases wer'
postponed. Meantime the show business
went on, and they are all as safe under thu