The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-05

VetOeu because pOl1ClCal leSlSlatOn lS ht-
tached to it is idle as it is false. Every ap-
preparation bill MIR. Hayes has signed
since he became President has con-
tanned political legislation. In twelve
years the Republican party enacted three
hundred and eighty seven provisions OF
general legislation on appropriation bills.
1t is the element of decency that is We
toed-not the fact that it is political legis-
lation.-Samuel J. Tilden is in robust
health. His right arm is as strong as the
right arm of any other man who never
trained for a prize fight, worked at the
blacksmith business, or engaged in other
physical labor calculated to develop mus
Gle. His mind is as clear as it ever was,
and his average head-work in tie past is
we'll knoan. He is as empha'caly can
didate for President now as he was in 1876
In s ort, he is candidate FIR President; is
familiar with ali the moves that have been
made, and looks with an eye more or less
prophetic to the future.
The Commercial says: If General Grant
wants to be remembered with Washington,
he sh uld follow Washington's example
| He is being driven to the slaughter house
| by gang of the worst men who have
| cursed this country, and it is high time he
knew it. They profess to be his friends
and champions and to have his glory espe-
| cially under their guardianship. In fact
they desire to utilize his great name for
their own political purposes. If he allows
| them to be the 'hucksters of his reputa.
ton so much the wo Sc for him. He
might, upon returning from his voyage
around the world, have settled into
the position of our First Citizen, but the
Senators who praised all his faults and got
him into trouble wnen he was in power,
thought there was speculation in him
and they are determined 10 enj y the usu-
fruct Of his fame. The Senators pretend
to be Republicans. They are monarchists.
Why, the greater part Of monarchy is the
continuity of rings of plundefers. Oppor-
tunities to steal officially from the
people are hereditary unuer the sys-
TENS of royalty. That is the thing
precisely sought in the third term: The
rest refers TO matters of ceremony, formal
lty and decoraion.-lhe point of the Anti
TEird Term Convent at st. Louis is to
call National Convention in case the Re-
publican party passes away at Chicago aud
| third term faction takes its place.-The
people of Pennsylvania are wondering what
the le4 is ative bribers were convicted for
If it was to furnish subjects for executive
clenency, it was expensive and useless, for
the Governor could have practiced upon
C. .nvicts already in the PenitentIary. Gov
Hoyt will find the rest of his life too short
TO frame satisfactory apology.
The Gazette says: In these times there
are cipherings h w much would be saved
| if women ,uld abolish trails to their
dresses; if they would wear calico instead
OF silk; if they would wear plain under
garments instead of frills and lace; if they
would give up jewelry; would make their
own dresses, do their own housework; if
people would give up tea, coffee, sugar, to
bacco, drinks, fine clothes; if they would
live as plainly as their wild ancestors, and
50 on, as if the ceas,ng to consume the pro-
ducts of labor, and to give any employ
ment to laborers, would make the county
rich. All t,is stuff abounds in every busi
ness revulsion, and doubles its disaster
by mere ignorance and folly. No one can
measure how much the credit revulsion OF
1873 and the prostratlon of the six
following years was increased by
this stupendous folly of ignorance
which enioined a suspension of employ
nAnt and Of the consumption OF the pr
ducts of labor, as a cure for hard times. -
Gen. Grants new departure, and his plat.
form of union of tie blue and the gray,
require Confederate soldier for the place
of Vice President. The fitness OF things
calls FIR the most distinguished soldier o.
! the Confederact. Of all that now survive
we suppose that Gen. Joseph L. Johnston
is universally recognized as the ables
soldier by both Northern and Southern
people, and that no one is 50 popular as h,
| Al nf tho and al ! h,
adherents of the lost cause. Grant ano
Johnston would 'entwine' as well on
ticket as Col. Patterson at Memphis, sal,
the names of Grant and Lee woult
in the historians Immortal chaplet."- -
The President has vetoed the Deficienc,
Bill because it contained a clause virtually
repeating the election laws. 1t appropri
ated $500, 900, of which about 5000, QUO wa
for deficiencies in the pay of United state
Marshals. Yet, reckless of the stoppage 0
; the administration Of justice, the Demo
Gratis refused to appropriate, at the last ses
, on, and have now refused to appropriate
, for he deficiency, save with proviso prac
tically repeating the election laws.-Cin
cinnati has two great parks, which, as the,
ere bought on credit are heavy burdel
on the taxpayers. Butif capacity and hon
esty were pl ssible in the government of on
city, she could relieve herself Of all the buI
den of the original cost and construction O
{ these parks, and of much of the expense o
, current repair and improvement, and still
l could retain all their attractiveness as .puk
t lie parks, and even increase them. Sur
: pose that portions of them were improve
with fine houses and grounds like the bes
paris of Clifton, Walnut Hills and Avor
dale, but in pats of curved zines and ur
, dulating face, according to the fornatio
of the ground, as an artist in landscape col
struction would design them; would nc
. these add to the beauty of the parks an
: still keep them as useful to the public
4 And is it not certain that enough sue
places could be i'd 10 pay the cost OF tt
r parks and still add greatly to their pictu
7 esqueness, their cultivation and their gel
eral attractiveness to the public?
The German Papers.
The Volksfreund says: Grants frient
complain that nothing is being said in h
favor. No campaign documents in his i
! terests have been printed. What shall
: said in his favor2 What shall the cat
!. paign sheets contain? Can anything,
/ fact be said in his favor as the Executi'
: OF the civil power2 Intelligent Republican
i admit that his eight years in Office we
ieight years Of robbery. If Grant should