The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-09
SRIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English PAPER. of This Morning.

The English Papers of This Morning.
The Gazette says: Readers of the daily
papers have observed that much of the
crime occurring in the city is due to what
may be called all-nigat saloons-that is to
say, places where intoxicating liquors are
sold at hours when people ought to be at
home. Men become infamed with liquor,
and when in that condition they get into
brawls, quarrel and fight without knowing
very often what it is all about This is an
evil that ought to be abated and it may be
done by the Legislature passing law re-
quiring all places where Intoxicating
liquors are sold to be closed at II O. clock
p. m.-The machine politicians if they
succeed in forcing matters generally,
as they have done in Pennsylvania,
and as they seem likely to do in
New York, will disgust honest voters
and risk defeat at the polls 1t should not
be forgotten that nomination viii not be
equivalent to an election, and thatth can
didate, to succeed before the people, must
have clear title to public confidence. The
objective point should be success at the
polls rather than success in the nominating
Convention. The latter might easily prove
barren victory. Present movements, it
seems to us, are intended to stifie the will
of the people, rather than secure full and
fair expression from the voters, Otherwise
4 fConventions wonld not be called in Febru-
ary to send delegates to a Convention that
is to meet in June. 1t would be safer and
better to hold such Conventions in May
Amend the Kirby bill, so as to give the
Mayor power to license at his discre
ton places of amusement, Ind
pass it. The charge for license
may also be defined in the law.
That would dispose Of the legal contro-
versies which, under the decision of the
District Court, will become as thick as
blackberries How to keep the govern
ment in South Carolina, State and munich
pal, in the hands of the whites, while a
majority of the males are colured, is a
question which the Charleston News and
Courier is discussing frankly and earnestly
in series of articles appealing to the Cen
eral Assembly to take up this as the most
important affair in the State, in the extra
session soon to be held. The News and
Courier states the issue frankly, clearly and
forcibly. The first article was headed,
'The Negro Vote in South Carolina-Kill
or Cure" The line of argument is that to
keep control in the hands of the whites
justifes the killing OF negro voters, and
that experience has proved that it can be
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spirit cannot always be kept up to this
concert pitch, and that at the best the
killing of electors is rather strong method
of carrying elections, and that a milder is
preferable if it will achieve the same end
The Commercial says: Rays bill for the
reorganization of the School Board pro-
poses that instead of electing member
from each ward next spring we shall elect
ten members at large for three years, the
twenty-five members whose terms expire
in 1881 to hold over, This will make the
Beard thirty-fve. In the election of 1881
under this arrangement twenty-five would
be elected-the odd numbers for two years
and the even numbers for one year. The
composition of the Board would thus be
one member chosen from each ward and
ten members chosen at largely recent
decision of the Supreme Court soldiers liv-
ing in the National Homes are entitled to
receive and apply their pensions for per-
sonal use. An effort will be made, it is re-
ported, to have the law so amended that
their pensions will go into
the general fund of the Homes
inasmuch as the Government sup
plies every necessity to inma.es, and that
by this means much dissipation will be
pievented.-It is expected the idiocy of
the Greenbackers will put forth blossom
to-day in the House of Representatives.
They want to get bill started for the is
sue of 81, 0O0000 600 in greenbacks. Moth
ing but the overthrow of the prosperity of
the country in fresh food of paper money
would satisfy them.-The policy of the
extra session was dictated by the assunp-
ton that some issue could be made that
would consolidate the Democracy North
and South, and divide and distract the Re.
publicans But it resulted in precisely the
opposite effect. 1t arrested all symptoms
Of Republican disintegration, brought lib
era S and stalwarts on the same platform.
while it contributed to an increase of diff
: ferences and dissensions in the Democratic
ranks. 1t was a nliscalculation Of causes
and effects for which the Democratic lead.
ers have of late years shown masterful
capacity. .a .....
The Enquirer says: Sherman may get
the vote of two New England States,
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He is
not certain of these but concedng to him
these he will have thirty-four New Eng
land votes 1t is not easy to see how he
can get more from New England than
these Blaine's hold upon New Eng.
land is not weak, and even General Grant
has been heard OF in New England. Forty
six votes from New England will almost
certainly be east in the Chicago Conven-
! ton against Sherman. Tie Middle States,
New York, Pennsylvania and New JERSEY,
will have one hundred and fnrty-six votes
in the Convention. Fifty-eigbt of these
are already instructed against Sher-
man. In a little more than two
weeks New York, with seventy
votes, will have given similar in
structions. Shermans name was not men
toned, at Harrisburg; it is not likely to be
heard in Utica. New Jersey, with New
York on one hand and Pennsylvania on
the other, will vote beside them. Sherman
| need not expect any vote from these Mid
die States The nine Western States will
have 2O6 delegates in tie Convention.
Sherman does not appear to have any en-
phat;c support in any of these, save in
Ohio. Grant or Blaine will carry the States
of Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Kansas, Michi-
gan, Minnesota. Nebraska and Wisconsin,
with their 162 votes. Sherman has none of
these. In Indiana, where Sherman should
be strongest, next to his own State, he has
about one-fifth of the Republican prefer
ences There are the Pacific States, with
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