The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-13
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning.

The Enquirer says that Gen. Butler ha
been nominated for Governor of Massachu
setts by the Greenbackers and adds that i
!, the Democrats would now nominate hin
the State would easily be taken from the
possession of the Republican party. 1t re
: marks thereanent that perhaps the loss o
Massachusetts would be an indication O.
growing Republican strength. En-
: quirer prints an interview had with
, the President and another will
Stanley Matthews with reference to the
boltin the Democratic Convention at Syra
cuse, New York. The President expressed
himself as of the opinion that this was 6
move set up in advance by John Kelly in
advance of the meeting of the Convention
for forcing his own terms on the victorious
Tilden or Robinson wing Of the Democratic
party. Stanley Matthews thought the bolt
a genuine one, and pretigured the defeat OF
the Democracy of the State of New York
in the coming elections.
The Commercial discusses the late annual
conference of the Methodist Church al
Urbana, Ohio, and its trial of two minis
ters-one for the charge of drunkenness and
immortality alleged against him while Pre-
siding Elder, and the other for heresy.
With reference to the one charged with
drunkenness and immortality, the CONNER
cial says: Although the very serious
charges against him were sustained, yet in
view of his peculiarly sensit We nervous or.
ganization and other extenuating circum-
stances, it was resolved that he be forgiven
and restored to his former posi-
ton. The brother with the sem
silive temperament will, therefore,
resume all the high privileges and honora-
Bile duties of a Presiding Elder. The Sec
ond brother was proved guilty of gross
heresy, his license as a preacher taken from
him, and expelled forever from the Church,
aud thrown out upon the merces of the
cold world. 1t is to be hoped by this time
he has come to due sense of the exceed
ing sinfulness of having views. 1t is wick
eder infinitely wickeder, than getting
drunk, or at least than being drunk under
the extenuating circumstances of a sensi-
tive nervous organization. The CONNER
cial copies an article from the New York
Tribune on the Ohio Political situation and
says: "Tne New York Tribune is more breezy
than the circumstances warrant. There is
no great trouble in Ohio. Ewing is de-
feated. He was beaten when nominated,
and has been failing rapidly ever since. 1t
says the finance question has been more
thoroughly discussed and is better under
stood in Ohio than in any other State.
They have reached the point Of saying that
is settled, now let us talk of mething
else. They understand, too, that a Demo
cratic victory would mean the unsettling
of that question, and therefore there
must be no such thing as a Demo
cratic victory and disturb the country;
and, moreover, seeing the Democratic
party serving as a tail to the Solid South,
OHIO is not to be considered tag on that
tail,-Referrng to the Liberal Convention,
called to meet in this city to-day, the Com
mercial says that the purpose of such Con-
vention is to consult together, and if found
advisable to proceed to the organization of
Liberal party, to take part in the fail
State elections With reference to the plat
form it says that the new party
has already one of the most
valuable articles to go to house
keeping with, viz: a martyrl Cincinnati,
it adds, is good place to hold a Conven-
ton. Thought here is as the girls say.
quite too awfully free, and free-thinkers
are almost as numerous as the saloons, but
we must family express regret to see the
magnificent humorist 1ngersoll entering
for race on the thorny path of progress as
a solemn reformer.
The Gazette says that few days ago the
New York Sun, the ablest organ of the
Democracy in the East, said that if Henry
Sully and his associates in the murder of
the Chisholm family escaped Justice
through the potency of political principle
the effect on the next Presidential election
in favor of the Republican ticket would not
be small. Yesterday Henry Sully was
found not guilty. 1t adds that in all the
history OF crime there never was more
cowardly and inhuman deed than the mur-
der of Judge Chisholm and his family. The
aCquittal Of his murderers withoutso much
as a reprimand from the Court will shock
the public sentiment of the North,
and as the Sun predicts, prove
costly business to the party
that encourages murder as a means of ac-
political ends.-In an article
entitled, what the Free-thinkers Want"
the Gazette says few years ago a man
named Haywood, once clergyman but
now radical of the widest stripe pub
lished a book in Massachusetts entitled
"Cupid's Yokes." 1t advocated free love
in the most sweeping and offensive manner.
For the publication Haywood was very
arrested, tried and sent to
JAN. hlIeT ptlilS Ill jail LOT
some months petition was drawn
up, receiving many signatures, some of
which have since been declared to be
forgeries, and handed to the President
who granted his pardon. Haywood at
once began series of harangues against
the law under which he was convicted,
and received the congratulations of various
Liberals as martyr to The cause of free |
thought. Of the gentlemen who issue the
call for this Convention the Gazette
enunciates the following: James Par
ton is the husband of his step
daughter; Parker Pilsbury, few years
ago, was charged with administering the
sacrament to some puppies, to show his
for the ordinance; J. P. Mendum
is publisher of b oks in Boston sufficiently
ike those issued by Bennett t enlist his
interests as we'll as his sympathies for his
brother publisher; Horace Seaver is editor
of paper issued by Mendum; Col. Inger-
SOIL who heads the call, gets SO restless and
ierce when future punishment is men
Toned that we must call him The Man
A fraid of Hell. OF Messrs. Wakpman and |
Neyman, of New York, we know nothing.
B. f. Underwood, the remaining signer, is
| peripatetic atheistical lecturer"
The German Papers
THE Volksfreund.l
The Republicans are not so well pleased |