The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-21
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Morning.

Vice Presidency on the Grant or any other
Republican ticket strengthen it in the
South. 1t is our recollection that when
called to place In President Hayes Cab
met and in furtherance of the policy of
conciliation, his appointment was not
hailed with enthusiasm in the South. He
WAS denounced as traitor to his party,
and an unworthy survivor Of the lost
cause. Putting him in the Cabinet GER
taiDly did nothing towards influencing the
South to accept the olive branch which
the President held out graciously to the
ex-Confederates If the Republicans elect
President this year, it will be by the
votes of the people of the Northern States,
and by those votes alone. 1t will be fa-
tai mistake 10 name candidate at CHICAGO
who can not command the undivided sup
port of the North, under the idea that
though he may not carry some of the
Northern States the loss will be made
good in the South. The Democrats
shrewdly encourage the idea that it NAV
be done if Grant is nominated, knowing
how fatal an error it would be. The Elec-
toral vote of every Southern State
will be cast for the nominee
of the Cincinnati Convention, whether
he be Mr.. Tilden or Justice Field. What
the Republicans must do is to name can
didate who will sweep the North, or they
are beaten at the outsettof the canvass
There are good many persons we would
prefer to Mr.. Blaine for the Presidency.
But we prefer Blaine to Grant This we
have been saying ever since it became evil
dent that Grants travels abroad were being
managed for electioneering purposes, and
the experiment was to be tried on grand
scale whether the American people were
natural sycophants ready to barter away
their liberties In spirit of abject toadyism.
All publishers Of newspapers and other
large consumers of paper should take notice
that if Congress adjourns without abolish
ing the duty un wood pulp, the price of
paper will rise. The ques,i, is practically
in the hands of the Committee of Ways and
Means If the House. and as that Committee
is divided, the decision rests with Mr.. Gar
| ield.-lhe Republicans OF Georgia meet in
Convention to-day to select delegates to
Chicago. OF the 800 delegates, IT'S are col
ored, the majority of whom are for Grant
The ENQUIRER says of Yesterdays Demo
or. tic State Convention at Syracuse, New
York: There was Democratic detection
enough in New York by reason of Mr..
Tilden's candidacy, when Tammany, that
polled seventy seven thousand votes last
year, revolted. That protest was never so
great as it was yesterday. But this not all.
Many of Mr.. Tildens own friends, in his
own Convention, while they fought Tam
many, abandoned Tilden. Mr.. Tilden
may be able to name any other Demo-
cratic candidate than himself; him
SELF il we may judge from the
hopes and fears of his friends in his own
State he can not nominate. 1t is not his
enemies who look upon his candidacy with
aversion, but his friends, who look upon it
with despair who have, as our latest dis
patches indicate, ruled him out of the list
of available Democratic candidates for the
Presidency. 1t was State Convention, but
it was one that commanded National inter
est. 1t is the significant, the interesting,
the monitory State Convention of this
Presidential year to the Dem cratic party.
New York, harmonious, could have dc
tated nomination to the Cincinnati
Convention. The opposition TO Mr.. Til
den's candidacy represented by John Kelly
was formidable, we'll organized, bitter, re-
lentless, and of vicious and unexpected
magnitude. 1t left no hope of peace OF
under the candidacy of MIR. Tilden. The
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friends of Mr. Tidtn say that the John Kelly.
Tammany fight is against the regular or
ganiZation;" but this assumes that Mr. Til.
den is the regular organization, for the
fight is against no one else tnan MIR. Til
den. The faction represented by John
Kelly gathers about it wealth, character,
| tire.essness, votes. 1t is remorseless and
irreconcilable. The fact that MIR. Tilden's
candidacy means hopeless quarrel ir
New York stares the Democrats of the 9th
er thirty seven States in the face; but the
more hostile fact to the candidacy of Mr.
Tilden is that his own friends in his oSl
State seem to despair of his nomination, o
success after nomination, in melanchol!
!, numbers.
The Gazette says: Tilden can at leas
claim the control OF the Democratic parl,
OF the State of New York. This is show
by the action of the Syracuse Convention
Yesterday. Tammany howls, john Kell
raves, and the whole crowd yell, but tn
old man of Gramercy Park feeble in bod,
as he is represented to be. is master of til
situation. 1t remains for him to say whethe
he will be candidate before the Cincinnati
Convention, and it will also be for him to sa
what shall be done with the vote of Ne,
York. Tilden delegates were selected wit
such care that they will prove Tilden me
throughout, without ifs or butts. The
may not care a rush for Tiden, but the O
knoweth his owner, and the ass his mas
ter's crib. John Kelly will be at Cincinnati
ibut he will be on the outside. He ma
buzz, and threaten, and kick, but h
will be as fly OH the 1ilden wagon-whee
Those Democrats who do not recognize tn
power of Tilden's money should retir
t from the leadership of the party. No on
doubts his wealth. Neither does anybod
r doubt his readiness to use it to advance h
I own intert sts. He has not other use for i
He is four years nearer the grave tha
he was in 1876, while he h:
several millions more money than he ha
$ then. A man with his shrewdne.
his wealth, and his want of scrupes, ca
always 10 through Democratic Convel
/ ton. For these reasons those Democrat
who like Tilden least fear him most, an
they fear him not without cause. As v
: have remarked, Tilden will he the nomin,
s of the Cincinnati Convention. unless h
Q concludes that money could not elect hi
if nominated. In that case he will pul
r isl those who have dared to cross his path
II Thanks to the Legislature and Gov Foste
the benevolent institutions of the Sta
d have been redeemed. And right bel