The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-04
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Eueli,h pauers Of This Moruiue.

1t is not easy to see how the Republican
party can be safely pleased and answered
on this arrument. The Republican PARTY
is responsible for the soidily of the South.
Hideous Republican misrule in the South
ern States, public robbery, enormous taxa
ton. bayonets, ignorant and debauchei
legislation, negro tyranny, have made the
South solid. The Republican party hav-
ing made the South solid. profess to be
enraged and horror-struck because it
is solid. Many, if not most of he
leaders of the Southern Democracy are not
old Democrats. but old Wings, driven into
the Democratic party bv Republican car
pet-bag government.-Theya are beginning
TO doubt in the East whether resumption
will be permanent, and the proposition
from Secretary Sherman to sell $40, 900 900
nf gold out of the Treasury and put it in the
Sinking Fund gives rise to considerable Op-
jcction. This criticism from his own party
must be gall and wormwood to John Sher-
man.-The condition t fairs in Ireland is
deplnrable indeed. Added to the terrors OF
famine and general destitution. the tenants
who. though both ignorant and poor, are
still willing to pay their rents are threat
ened with punishment by bands of agrari
ans who ride in the night and keeprp
man of the Republican State Central Com
mlttee of PENNSYLVANIA estimates majorities
Counties, in round numbers, and foots
up 81. 100 majority for Republicans to-
day. The Republican majority last year
was 22,3s3. .5t
The Commercial institutes a comnaris n
betu cen the lives and characters of the late
Zach. Chandler and Oliver P. Morton. 1t
remarks Chandler was elected u. s. Sen-
ator ur times. Morton VAS serving ont
his second term at the time Of his death.
Morton, as the War Governor was moving
heaven and earth to provide for Indiana
soldiers in front, and protect his State
from treacherous enemies in the rear, dur
ing the latter part of Chander's first
term in the Senate. A food of the memo-
! ries of that Id time seems to have poured
in on the Michigan Senator that last night
If is life, Wien he made his great speech
in Chicago. 1t was full of "reminiscences.
| lis eye sparkled with unwonted bright
ness as he tod how. before the war. the
South had said to the North: ID, this or
We will DESTROY your Government; fail to
do that, and We will destroy your Govern
ment" 1t made the old man laugh again
rs he recalled that, one day, one of these
braves made his usual threat tc sturdy
Ben. Wade, who Strengthened himself mp
and answered: "Dont delay on my ac-
COUNT All of the old guard are dead
now-Morton. Station. Johns n ard Wade
Zach. Chandler is the last. But Old Zach.
was tired. He had borne the heat and bur-
den uf the day. and he was wearler than he
knew. That night when lie badc 60 d-by
to the last friend who saw him alive, he
IL se ~ H.
words whispered by the dying lips Of SEN
at r Morton were: Il am worn out" No
vcmber 9Th, 1877, the body of Oliver F.
1879, the remains Of Zachariah Gland
not forget the one, while she muurns over
Godl We S. Orth that Indiana is Republi
can State. and will be carried by the party
next year. We can tell better about that
after the election to-day. The Democratic
| party here has been seriously weakened BY
| its unqualified committal tn the most ex-
| trayagunt theories of the inflntionists For
this no two men in the State are
more responsible than Ex-Governor
Hendricks and Senator Voorhees,
Tie elections which take place to-day may
not settle the Presidcn idl question, but
they are likely to forecast the result. The
only Northern state in which there is any
doubt is New York; and even should Cor
nell be elected by simple plurality, the
Democracy CARRYING the rest of the State
ticket it would still remain an open ques-
tiun how the State will 90 next YEAR But
should the entire Republican State ticket
be elected. with maj rily of the members
of tine Assembly to back IL, it would be az
fatal blow to Democratic prospects as the
October election in Ohio.
The Gazette says: Our dispatches from
the States in which elections are to be held
| o-day predict a complete circle of Repub.
ican victories fr' nj NJ innesota to Massaciiu-
sets. The chief interest, of course. centers
in New York. The New York Herald,
| which. during the canvass. has shown de-
| cidcd leaning toward Robinson. declares its
belief in the election of Cornell. Mr..
Whitelaw Reid. OF the Tribune, predicts a
si,uilar result. General Sherman,
in his report which is sum-
married. in to-day's kilograms, recommends
that the army be increased so as to give
25, OOO men for regiments of tie line, ex.
elusive OF the details for Signal Service and
similar duties. At presei.t there are but
| ~, fSJ nlcR LOT dCJuul IulltuTy SeTFlCe. --
A Sunday contest of rather peculiar char.
acter has just been decided in London.
There is Sunday Society which aims to
have all the libraries, museums, and er-
| haps places OF amusement in the United
Kingdom. open on the first day of the
week, as an alleged benefit to the working
classes and to all who are busy during
the six secular days. This organiza
ton lately attempted to have the Guild
hall Library of London opened on Sunday,
Only about five or six hundred persons
asked for opening On the other hand sew
en,een hundred signatures were obtained
for counter petition. The London Times
makes the controversy the subject of al
elaborate editorial. 1t holds that there was
no special need of opening in this case
though il comedies that the views of five
hundred persons who want to read are Of
more value than those of three times the
| number who do not. The ordinary English
man is now practically certain Of one day
of rest, and lie has shrewd suspicion that
| if libraries and museums we're open the
safeguards would, one by one, be removed
and continental Sunday with seven days
Of work cnsue.
The German Papera
| THE Volksfreund.l
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