The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-15
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning.

The Enquirer characterizes the game that
the Rep bicans are playing in Ohio as
Bluff" but that they are OVERRIDING it,
1t says that the Republicans of the State
are accustomed to say that the Democratic
party is about to overturn the Common
School system; that the Democrats are on
the point of making the Pope of Rome the
Monarch of Ohio and of the country that
the Democrats are about to pay the "rebel
debt" pay for the emancipated slaves, pay
untold millions of rebel caims;" that the
Democratic party is about to starve the
Government; that Democrats are perpetu-
ally on the eve of committing hideous and
measureless crimes 1t adds that
every sane and intelligent man knows
that their campaign statements were damn
able falsehoods. 1t is known that there is
no such thing as a rebel debit that no
''rebel claims can be paid; that a man
must be a Republican to have proven his
LOYALTY to collect claim. They are trying
! to bluff their way into power with suspi-
cious industry; their journals say that the
Democrats have given up the contest; that
they are in a state of 'goneness;" that
Gen. Ewing has really abandoned the con-
test that Ewing, Pendleton and Thurman
are quarreling; that Ewing and Thurman
are only endeavoring to carry the Legsla-
ture. All statements tending to show lat
Democrats are in despair are untrue. Ewing
can not be beaten by bluff; Democrats will
not permit him to be beaten by money;
he can not be beaten by the free sutfrages
of the State, for of them he has majority
We shall shall poll our full vote in October
and be strengthened many thousands by the
Greenback vote and Maine shows that if
there is anything probable in human affairs
it is the election of Ewing.
The Commercial, in speaking of the Lib
eral League Congress- quotes the reply of
the Lacedemonian, who, when asked what
he knew how to do, said: Il know how to
be free" and adds that the members of the
League having attained unto this knowl-
edge now propose to take step IN advance
of the old Greek and confer the inestimable
boon upon their less fortunate fel-
low creatures through political in
strumentality. 1t claims to have
stated some DAYS since its belief
that there were difficulties in attaining
this, that without a great central idea and
purpose to overcome the centrifugal ten
dencies Of free thought and free-thlnkeFs,
it was our impressip n that the organization
of the Liberals into cohesive and harmo-
NOUS body Tor pOlltlcal ehus Wouiu pe
impossible. 1t thinks the proceeding OF the
late Congress have deepened and confirmed
this impression. more motley and incon-
gruous collection of able intellects have
never been assembled within the
walls of public building. Great
thinkers, advanced thinkers, spe-
cial thinkers and universal thinkers,
no doubt, but each thinking and contend
ing for himself, with the stiff dogmatisn
of the high priests and disrutants OF the
various theological and medical schools.
At every step Of the proceedings the dispo'
sition to fly off at a tangent was apparent.
The Liberals are fond of comparing their
movement with that of the anti-savery
agitators of forty years ago. But the re-
formers who initiated that movement were
men of one idea, and they tenaciously adj
hered to it. They aimed at the abolition
of human slavery in the United States, and
they dedicated themselves to that work
with singleness OF purpose. We are unable
to perceive any such central idea as main.
spring of concerted action in the Liberal
movement. If the League ever attains lts
ends they will be realized through its dis
organizing influences ard methods. DIS
organization is of the very essence
of its existence, and any attempt