The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-19
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning.
The Enquirer SAYS that GarGeld's friends
are moving everything to capture ma
jorty of t Legislature. They are not
caring for the State ticket, but think that,
by carrying a few of the close counties,
they can obtain majority of the Lesisla-
ture and elect Garfield U. s. Senator This
is no time for the Democrats to trade
The Republican game of brag, says the
Enquirer, is about played out. -Four weeks
ago they claimed it by majority of forty
thousand, now the most boastful do not
speak of more than ei sht or ten thousand
and the shrewd ones claim nothing.-lhe
Massachusetts Democratic Convention on
Wednesday nominated Ben. Butler for
the Governorship. Buffers Candidacy
is peculiar one. He represents
Greenbacks, Labor and Retrenchment
almost elected last year his defeat
this year seems scarcely possible. What
ever the Democrats do General Ben. will
doubtless ruin the Republican party in that
State this year. Yesterday he was nomi-
mated by another State Convention in
Massachusetts. This was an independent
ItCpuDlCull NoIl' DutiCl plC'
viously been nominated for the Governor
nominee Of three parties. There
are vet three Conventions in Massa-
chusetts to hear from-the Prohibition,
the Labor Ref form and the bolting conven-
ton of last year. He will be nominated by
the Labor Reformers unanimously. The
Temperance will not nominate Butler but
tl,nr ;c ay,artotinp that thoSa u,i,f hIl +
ed the Worcester Convention last year on
accnunt of Butler will this year make him
their nominee. Then among seven State
Conventions he will be the choice of five.
The Faneuil Hall Democrats should nomn-
ate him and the overthrow of the Republi-
can party in Massachusetts is complete.
The Commercial declares that the leaders
of Democratic opinion are stopping over
with information not calculated to cueer
and encourage the rank and file of the par
ty, the substance Of which is that the pros
poets for carrying Ewing in Ohio is not
promising and that the New York Democ-
racy are Ii peessly divided. 1t is the uni
versal expression tnat if Maine and Cali
fornia had been carried for the Democrats,
the State Rights party would have arted a
boom that would sweep the country III 1880,
and that if Ewing is elected in Ohio, and ii
Robinson carries New York, the
boom will start anyway. But, as
neither Maine nor California was carried,
and the chances are one in hundred for
Ewing, and one in a ousand for Robinson
unless Tammany is placated, the outlook is
more discouraging for the Democracy than
in any year since the war. Meantime, it
would be just as well to charge it up to the
Confederate Caucus, the extra session and
the SURPRISING blunder on the financial
question.-Speaking of the possible cleo
ton Of Jeff. Davis as Senator from Missis-
sippi and his letter declining this the Com
mercial says The recent letter Of
Mr.. Jefferson Davis, in which
he softly declines to be
candidate for the United States Senate from
Mississippi, and yet employs such language
as is certain to put him in position where
he can not refuse to conform to the wishes
of his fellow-citizens, has been widely read
and commented on. Mr.. Davis declination
does not decline, and there is no reason to
believe. if the Senatorship is urged upon
him with any degree of unanimiiy by the
Mississippi Legislature, that he will refuse
toaccept. He may, therefore, and in spite
of his pretentious letter, be regarded as
probable Senator of the United States.
General Ewing is gentleman of too
much intelligence not to comprehend the
disasters that threaten his party. General
Ewing's platform invited defeat. His own
record as public man invited it. Nothing
could have swept him into the Gubernato-
rial chair of Ohio in the teeth Of his plat
form and his record, but season of adver-
sty. period of blasted crops. silent work
shops and general bankruptc ptcy.-According
to the Albany IN. " Journal, Senator
Mcdonald does not believe that Robinson
can carry New York. If Robinson goes
down, he carries Mr.. Tilden beneath the
cold waters as certainly as the sinker car
rieS the tsll-hook.
The Gazette delivers leader upon 'the
several Democratic speeches." and alleges
that to say that the Democratic party, like
the Bourbons, has learned nothing and for
gotten nothing, is not quite accurate.
While it has learned nothing, it has forgot
ten whatever of sense, policy and party sa-
gacity it may have had, and all that it pro-
fessed to call principles All the speeches
of the campaign, whether by Thurman,
Durbin Ward, Ewing, Morgan, or any
other, are alike in senile repetition of
ancient partisan caumnies and catch
words, and in emptiness of any. real
questions. To read one is to read all. To
answer one is to answer all. Take for ex-
ample the speech of George w. Morgan.
After he had delivered speech occup, ing
three columns or more on money, green
backs, finance, resumption. contraction and
refunding, can any man tell where General
Morgan stands on these questions? The
financial situation, says the Gazette, is such
as appeals to all rational men to be let
alone; but here are lot of agitators for
revolution. who can give no idea Of their
complaint, nor of what they have to
propose. They are incendiaries,