The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-03
THE DAILY STAR
FHE OHIO CAMPAIGN,
As 1t is Viewed Through Other Peo.
ple's Spectacles.


purposes in New York last week, put,
unfortunately, there is law OH the
statutes of Ohio in relation to the use OF
money in politics, so stringent that the
State Committee will not be able to use
it without making a close corner on the
Penitentiary. The money will probably
be employed in establishing home for
broken-down politicians.
New York Tribune Repl
Mr.. Hendricks is the Apostle of Trim
ming and Trickery, His speech at Eaton,
Ohio, to which the Democratic papers
give less space than it deserves in COM
parison with other ingenious appeals for
their party, deals with the financial ques-
ton in a peculiarly adroit manner, and
needs some puncturing to show the hol-
bwness of its specious argument. The
keynote is that resumption has been
brought about by "the diligent industry
of the people" and the improvement of
the crops, and not at all by any legisla-
tive or governmental action. As this
claim Is not an uncommon one with those
Republicans who were not pleased c,th
the resumption act, or are pc, nle,sed
with those who framed Nv -IS nnw p od.
o' ,anm ho onnr ,'i0 INV .snuity of Mr.. Hendricks
xrcch@a " ''pp .eciated, even though his own
I'd and lost position, as leader
~no insisted that resumption was not pos
able, merits sincere pity.
[Chicago Times, Ind. Dem
General Samuel Beatty, one of Ohio's
conspicuous "war Democrats" who here
tofore has been reckoned among the
"wheel-horses" of the Thurman, Ewing
party in Ohio, has published letter de-
claring that his vote and influence will
be given for Foster, instead of Ewing.
He gives two reasons for this course, both
of which 60 straight to the point. The
first is that the promise Of the Govern
ment, issued because of the necessity OF
war to feed and clothe the army that put
down the rebellion, is now equal to gold
and the man of the party that would dis
turb or depreciate its value | will not
support" The second reason, which he
says is the stronger one, is that
the solid South have seen fit to
raise again the question that
confronted us in 1861, namely:
Shall the Constitution and laws of the
Nation be the supreme law of the land
1.-THE purpose was to settle that question
by the late war;" General Beatty says;
but solid phaanx of Confederate briga-
diers in Congress have seen fit to deny
that it is settled, and to propose the re.
peal of all laws based on that assump.
ton. For the candidates of a party
which takes it's place before the country
In that attitude, General Beatty say,
with emphasis he will never vote "Tht
principles | fought for on the battle
field | shall contend for and defend al
the polls" are the words in which he re-
pudiates the reactionary programme OF
Mr.. Thurman's steering committee and
the Southern brigadiers. The inventors
of that wretched programme will find
In the outcome, what the North, which il
America, thinks of it.
New York Times Rep.1
Ex-Gov. Hendricks is the first Demo
cratic orator of any prominence who ha'
mustered courage enough to refer to the
Yazoo murder. To be sure, he ap
proaches the subject in timid manner
strikes at it wildly, and runs away as il
afraid of fatal explosion. But Mr.
Hendricks deserves commendation anc
applause. He may be shaky, but he has
done what many more Democratic states
men have been vainly besought to do
We are entert ined with the statement
that the Ohio audience to which he ad
dressed himself last week was deeply i'm
pressed with his "arraignment of the Re
publican party for maladministration O
public affairs" 1t is pretty well under
stood that a party that has its own scan
dals to manage in Ohio, Georgia, tn
Carolinas, Louisiana and Texas, cal
hardly be expected to find time to direc
its attention to the alleged maladminis
tration of the Republicans.
Mr.. Hendricks, although a public man
and an alleged statesman, has no opinio
as to the ascertained facts in the Yazo
case. He thinks it great shame tina
the crime should be attributed to Demo
cratic principle or Democratic organize
ton" ''The great and leading sentimen
of Democracy" he eloquently remark
"is equality and justice, and crime ca
not spring from such source"
New York Sun, Ind. Dem
Mr.. Blaine, whose present glory is thu
he almost escaped defeat in Maine, hi
heard the Macedonian cry from Ohio, al
with wry faces and dry undertone 7
marks he has gone thither to help Haye
Sherman, Foster and the brethren.
Who are the brethren to whose reset
the dashing campaigner rushes, when
has scarcely had breathing spell fro
his own tremendous struggle in Mail
for mere life? They are not the sta
warts, not Republicans first, last and a
the time. The stalwarts were route
horse foot and dragons in the so-call'
Republican Convention of Ohio, al
Hayes men-men who are for one polio
to-day and another tomorrow, men wi
tried to form a third party, men wi
struck down the Republican party in Il
South, and who never had any defni
purpose in view except to get possessi'
Of the spoils of weak administration