The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-22
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Morning.

Hoffman does not seem to have left lis &C.
counts in good order The assessment &C.
count is a curiosity OF disorder. So is the
market-stall account The wharfage ac-
count is l3 15, IA puzzle. Mr.. Hoffman
says he hadn't sufficient clerical force.-If
Cincinnati can pull herself together. so as
to straishten out her accounts, and borrow
money at per cent it would pay to buy
the park property on which we are now
paying per cent In some cases the city
has this option. Then we might sell few
parks without harming ourselves.
2 int graduates are rallying in solid pha-
lanx to the defense of their Alma
Mater. That is all very we'll and natural.
But it does not dispose of the fact that a
cadet who happened to be an American
citizen of African descent was mutilated
and otherwise maltreated at the institu-
ton. and the authorities have not been able
to discover who did it. The public COM
plains of the government of all Academy
under military discipline where such an
outrage co I'D occur. Aud unless those who
manage the school show how the outrage
are, the publ c censure will fall more heav-
| will not cover the blotch.-If Grant should
be the Republican and 1ilden the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Presidency, there
will be broad ground for a third party.
The ENQUIRER TANKS that the Groesbeok
boom is frozen to death h-The attitude of
John Kelly, of Tammany, and OF the Kel-
ly following is un-Democratic and unpa-
triotic to the last degree. Their position
is that of deserters They are boters.
They assume to be dlctators 10 the extent
of commanding the National Democratic
party not to nominate certain candidate,
and of threatening that If certain man is
nominated for the Presidency b, the Gin
cinnati Convention they will bolt--will re-
fuse to vote for him. This is unquestiona-
bly, insolent and offensive to the last de-
gree. Such position is absolutely iLex-
cusable, 1t was vicious and insolent last
year. This seeding impulse. this piety
of revolt, was able to poll 1900 votes last
year in the State of New York. and it was
pernicious and hateful in proportion to its
magnitude Last year the rebellion only
concerned one State-New York. 1t indi-
rectly and nferentially concerned the parry
| in all OF the States, but it was in State
election. THIS year the situation Is differ
ent The interests of National election
are involved, and still the same uictat rial,
overbearing policy is announced. The fac
| ton in the Democratic party in one State that
undertakes to dictate or forbid to the Dem
| ocrats OF all the States a nomination is
passing beyond the borders OF party decen-
CIV or devotion. Whatever may be true
concerning the expedency or strength of
the candidacy of Mr.. Tilden, this is true of
the attitude of Tammany and John Kelly.
Jim Blaine will make very respectable
showing in the Ohio Republican State Con-
vention. II lis friends in this State had
the financial support that Sherman gives
to his strikers Ohio would vote for him at
Chicago.
| The Gazette says: The Syracuse Conven.
ton, knowing that the delegates to Cincin-
natl would be for Tilden, niagnanlm ously
refrained from direct Instructions; but
they did instruct the delegates to vote as
unit, and that answered the same pur-
pose. Tne seventy-four delegates to the
National Convention will be for Tilden,
and if he shall not be there as can
didate, for the man upon whom
Tilden shall spread his mantle. The
next thing the Convention did, not in
cluded in the original platform, was to con-
struct fraud plank. Of course. If 1ilden
is to be the candidate this should be the
platform, and if this is to be the platform
riden should be the candidate. 1t was
Tilden and reform in 1875, and the New
York Convention declared it should be
Tilden and reform in 1880. Here we have
in one platform an alleged fraud denounced,
and living, moving fraud indorsed. We
are told that in order to pontedly condemn
! the so called Electoral fraud the great fraud
Samuel J. Tilden, the hero OF Cii her alley
the defrauder of great industries, the
man who perjured himself in order to evad.
Just taxation, the purchaser OF political con
troll, the manipuia iator OF conventions, thu
man who abandoned his alleged claim tt
7 the Presidency rather than hive his ras
calites exposed-this man must be re
nominated for the Presidency. Republi
cans will not object to either the platform
or the candidate. There could be II,
better issue with which to 70 before tn
people Of this country event of tn
a New York Democratic Convention prove
that Tllden is master of the situation il
that State. They sh. W that Tilden can hav
. the solid delegation of New York in tn
Convention at Cincinnati, and that tn
n Kelly bolt will not be sufficient to preven
his carrying the Electoral vote Of the State
as he did in 1876 in spite of the pronounce
;, opposition OF the Kelly faction. The
,r sh w that if he should not grasp the nom
nation for himself. he could WELD the Ne
n York delegation to say who should be non
mated These circumstances notify til
e Republican party that it must not max
its plan hang on division of til
a Democrats of New York, expecting it I
,r give them an easy victory in that State
MIR. Conkling is potent, with the machir
n to pack conventions, and he has in h
= hands the machine which he organize
% when Grant gave him full swing with tt
icial patronage. Nearly all the offic
4 holders in that State are the same that wei
er appointed under Grant. and they natural
1t regard the return of Grant for unlmite
terms as the life tenure for them. But Nj
~ Conklins is not potent in carrying election
- for the Republican party in New Yor
~ ~ Only by the John Kelly bolt, at an electc
!" in which only local iss les were consldere
was his candidate for Governor cleo
n ed. The Kelly bolt will not
lg strong enough in President ! election
or give away the victory to the Republican
The intelligence which our telegram
!, bring from the Republican Convention #
= the State OF Georgia, in its first days SC
y T. sion yesterday, is not refreshing. In tn
" State, which can not BY any possibility r
turn Republican elector, the touters #
n | 49,. q - 60 . cnpt rol