The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-21

PlTH OF TIE PRESS.

Dayton Democrat (Dem.): Extremes
meet" The stalwart boom for Grant
and the Confederate boom for Grant
prove it for the forty thousandth time.
PHtsburg Telegraph Qnd,); Horatlo
Seymour plumply and peremptorily re-
fuses to be Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. Having given his active life
to the party, he asserts his right to pass
his old days in peace.
New York Word (Dem. j. The Repub-
lican managers under Sherman in 1876
were as eyeless as the Western Demo
ocrats in the St. Louis Convention of the
same year showed themselves to be under
the lead of General Ewing,
Columbus Courier; The price of min
ing is already being reduced. For every
rs cents ton advance, the operators
raised the price of coal so cents or more a
ton. Now we shall see whether the re-
ductious are made in the same ratio.
Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem. }: "a
Philadelphia man is now before the
courts for having voted the Republican
ticket eight times in one day" A Phil
adelphia Republican is subject to perse-
cution if he fails to vote his ticket at least
dozen times in one day.
New York Sun Qnd. Dem.): The
pith of a recent interview held with
Storekeeper Foster, of Ohio, is that, in
his opinion, a bird in hand is worth two
in the bush. His pair of uncaught birds
are the Ohio Senatorship and the Chair
manship of the National Republican
Committee-these he will leave in the
bush and hold on to his Governorship.
Cleveland Penny Press Ind.): And
now that white-souled victim of South
ern bulldozing, whom our own tender
hearted John Sherman so copiously wept
over, Eliza Pinkston, is under arrest for
numbering her husband. 1t is good
thing this did not occur during a Presi-
dental count in Louisiana, or it might
have been made the excuse to again re-
verse the vote Of the State.
Chicago News Qnd): Senator Bayard
Aas been heretofore regarded as gentle
man, an honest man, and rare bird
among statesmen. He was praised by
his enemies as well as his friends. But
as soon as he stuck up his head as pos
sible candidats for the Presidency, it be-
came mark for every politician who did
not like him. The heresies of the Sena-
tor appear to be nothing more heinous
than the possession of unusual virtues.
Having these, he need not duck his head
at every shot.
Chicago Times (Ind): A good word
4or Mr.. Thomas Hendricks, of Indiana,
creeps into the newspapers now and then.
The remark OF Judge Lochrane, of Geor-
gia, that there is actually on record an
instance in which Hendricks took strong
ground on only one side of a great ques-
ton is being widely quoted with ap-
proval. "He spoke at an Agricultural
Club" says the Judge, "and openly op-
posed hog cholera" And yet hog cholera
at that very moment was carrying every
thing before it.
New York Times (Rep): Secretary
sherman is busy man and may well ask
to be excused for not taking a active
part in the Louisiana canvass. But it is
unfortunate, to say the least, that after
denouncing the South in Maine, Ohio,
and New York, as a section in which Re
publicans are denied freedom of speech
aud fair play in a campaign, he is now
under the necessity of declining the test
which his own words invited. The Louis.
ianians will declare, not without a sem
blance of reason, that he should not have
thrown down a challenge unless he was
prepared to abide by its acceptance.
Chicago Tribune (Rep): The South
must acquiesce in the National theory as
completely as the North has adopted it
The necessities of the case may be formu
lated in the following propositions:
The Southern and Northern Democracy
must concede to the Nation, within it,
field of constitutional powers, a sovereign
control as absolute as is conceded to tn
State Governments over their local at
fairs
The Nation is as much consolidated
Government within its constitutions
authority as the States are consolidated
governments within their powers.
The Southern politicians, however con
servative and patriotic they may be il
individual instances, will never fine
themselves in perfect harmony with The
Northern idea until they shall cease tc
claim, as well AS cease to assert, the pre-
tended right of encfoachment upon The
National Government.
American Wountai" sheep.