The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-22
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning.

| argument These questions" SAYS Mr..
Pendleton, "involve elections free from
military and Governmental interference,
and currency and trade free from the con-
troll of gigantic moneyed corporations"
This is an absolutely exact statement of the
issues pending between the two great polit-
ical parties. One-half of the speech is de-
voted to the financial question. He quotes
and defends the Ohio Depocratc platform
upon this subject-the full restoration of
silver as a money metal, the same as gold,
and opposition to the perpetuation of the
National banking system. Mr.. Pendleton
does great service in exposing some falla-
cies connected with the alleged resumption
of specie payments. The broken
fortunes and broken hearts of the
last ten years will remain monu-
ments of Republican policy" and the az
proach of better times or the fact that
times are growing no worse, is not because
of, but notwithstanding, this ruinous poll
cy. Regarding the late election in California
the Enquirer SAYS: California more than re-
spends to Maine bv giving So 600 Democratic
and Workngmen's votes to $4,000 Repubi-
can votes. In 1876 the Republicans car
ried California by 2.SD0 majority over all
opposition. In the late election they have
lost the $500 majority and are in minori-
ty on the popular vote of %, 157. If in a
popular vote of 1873. 343 the Republicans
have lost %, ,l57 what at their same rate
will be their loss in the 660 900 votes of
Ohiop Over 100000. 1t is a harder blow
than the Republicans received from the
State of Maine.
The Commercial devotes its editorial
pages chiefly to a review IF Mr.. Pendetons
speech made on Saturday at Edenton 1t
saws that Mr.. Pendletrn be.ins BY asserting
that the Republican party claims the right
to use the army at the polls and expends
much history and rhetoric, all of which is
not material since the President signed the
| Army Bill, and the bayonet has never been
employed since the war save to preserve
the political right of men to whom the
Government owes protection. 1t should
be carefully noted and understood, how
ever, when Mr.. Pendleton speaks of the
poor and lowly, the bone and sinew, the
laboring and aspiring, that he bv no
means includes the colored peoole,
for he is in the most sympathctic
cooperation with those who take from the
poor man in the South, if he happens to be
black, the protection of the ballot and the
right to express his political opinions.
There is, says the Commercial, but one
practical meaning attached to the phrase
States Rights" and hat is that South.
ern State, if diSpleased with the Govern
ment, has a divine right to destroy it at
pleasure Mr. jefferson Davis recently
wrote letter defining the doctrine of States
rights as he understood and practired it
when engaged in the Southern Confederacv,
and predicts its ultimate triumph This
doctrine, Mr.. Pendleton seems to be in the
sweetest harmony with and laboringto pro-
duce the result Mr.. d. predicts Silver,
SAYS the Commercial is now one of uur
money metals. 1t is maintaining its
position. Debts are PAYABLE in
silver. Bonds are pavable in
silver. Our mines produce more silver and
gold than those of any other country. We
are gaining gold from Europe at the rate of
two tons per day. We are crowding the
mints to stamp two million standard silver
dollars per month. And here comes the
great Greenback statesman to tell us that
the essential money question is whether we
shall have forced or free coinage of silver.
Perhaps we do no injustice to Mr.. Pendie-
ton if we characterize this speech as ''the
greatest effdrt of his life" but wecan vouch
for its demonstrating one thing desirable,
and that is that is that it shows the Demo
Gratis of Ohio incapable of accepting the f.
nancial situation and letting it alone. The
business interests of the people of Ohio i'm
peratively demand the defeat of these men
in the State election pending. In whatever
Mr. Pendleton's speecn may be lacking it
proves that much beyond reasonable doubt,
and Republicans should be grateful for the
testimony.
The Gazette says Gen. Grant, as the peo-
pie delight to call him and as he will be
known through life and recorded in history
reached home through the Golden Gate on
Saturday evening and was received by the
people of that city with unsurpassed DEM
onstrations. There was no overshadowing
military event in American history from
the war for independence down to the war
for the Union. The first was for national
independence. The second was for the fife
of that nation which was the result of the
revolution. Had the first been lost we
might still be the subjects of king
Had the second been lost, we would
have been in worse condition than
that of a coloAv. Washington was the
hero of the first achievement, and was
made President, and held it until he re-
fused to serve longer for reasons that were
as patriotic as they were prudential.
Grant is the hero of the second great
national victory, and was made President
and held it until lie virtually declined a
denomination for third term. Two years
ago General Grant took his departure from
Philadelphia for trip around the world.
His remarkable receptions abroad from the
day he touched the docks of Liverpool were
duly noted. For free elections, and free
speech, and a free press, the Mississippi
policy as illustrated by the tissue ballot in
SouRaCarolino, the Chisholm massacre in
Mississippi, and the Yazoo County terrorism,
las been substituted. And under
these circumstances the silent man, as
lie is called, sets his feet upon his
native land, and this is the meaning in
chief, of the great and unprecedented ova-
ton of which he is the recipient on the Pa
cifc Coast, and of similar ovations which
await him in his progress through the
States. 1t is this sentiment that carried
California and Maine in September; that
will carry Ohio in October, and other
Northern States in November. This is
not sectionalisni, but is nationality. The
question of the Presidency we are not dis
cussing. Against an overwhelming, rush
ing public sentiment, it is useless to
kick For the rest, the immediate future
will determine whether Grant is to be the
| Republican candidate for President in 1880
or not.-President Dabney, of the Hamp-
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