The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-09

and the money staked on Blaine's success in
1880. 1t was Blaine's victory mainly, and
may be counted as Jim's leading card for
the Presidency to the Exposi-
ton which is to open tomorrow, it says
that there is better display and a better
arrangement of the exhibits than there has
been at the opening of any previous Expo
stion in this city. The Exposition will be
orened with fitting demonstrations, build
ings will be decorated and military and
civic societies and business interests will
join in the great procession. The Presi-
dent of the United States the Governor of
the State and other distinguished guests
will be present, and the great enterprise will
be put in motion with eclat.
The Gazette says that the Republican vic
tory in California is met by like victory
in Maine. The victory on the Pacific coast
was larger than anybody expected. The
gains in this farthest Atlantic State, so far
as reported, are greater than the Republi-
cans reckoned. This is the beginning of
the answer of the Northern people to the
Confederate South. 1t shows that a solid
South will inevitably make a solid
North and when the Northern States are
united the South is a weak minority. This
boom" betokens the complete triumph of
the Republicans in the President and of
the next Congress. The gain of Congress-
men destroys the Democratic majority in
the House, and makes that party dependent
on the National members. The general
Republican tide is pretty good assurance
against the election of President going into
the House; but for such event the gain in
California balances the vote by States, and
gives to De La Matyr the balance of power
in the Indiana delegation, which would
hold the balance in the cleo
ton of President by the House.-In answer
to a correspondent who inquiries whether
the Gazette opposed the adoption by the
State of Ohio of the XIV Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, it
says no, it did not oppose it. although
objecting to its phraseology. There were
several drafts for the XIV Amendment be-
fore Congress. The Gazette criticised
their style as not expressing what was in
tended. At last new form was proposed,
and it objected to the wording OF them.
But when we had used our eXertions to
get the amendmentfram right we took
the only practical course and accepted
what was done"
The Commercial says of the result of
yesterdays election in Maine, that the Re-
publicans have a large majority of the Leg
islature, which gives them the State officers
if they fail of an election by absolute ma
jority. This is decisive Republican ad-
vance upon last year, when they lost the
Legislature, and the majority against them
was thirteen thousand. Referring to
the conference of Free Thinkers,
which is to assemble in cincinnati on the
18th, it says that among those expected to
be present are that bad man Col Robert
G. Ingersoll; Parker Pillsbury, the famous
agitator of the anti-slavery PERIOD Prof.
Jameson and other equally notable free
thinkers. 1t claims to be ignorant of the
objects of the meeting Its object is to
give organization to the body of "free
thinkers of the United States The practi-
cablity of such an organization will be
raised at its outset Organizations spring
generally from the fact that there are
enough individuals in community hold
ing a certain set of opinion or belief
in common to form an association.
That is true in politics as in religion.
The platform or creed goes be-
fore the organization, and is simply a
formulation of opinions and beliefs exist
ing in common among number of pc pile
This community of sentiment brings them
together by a law of attraction as newt
able in its operations, and as universal, as
the law Of gravitation. 1t comprises the
elements of cohesion and adhesion. But
the tendency of free thinking is to disin-
tegration of association. AS rule free
thinkers" are people who have read much
and thought much, asserting the right of
private Judgment. Such people are not
manageable, and we should not be sur
prised to hear that any effort to formulate
them into cohesive mass would be a
failure