The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-21
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Tho English Papers Of This Morning.

The Gazette says with reference TO the
Gram victory achieved in the Illinois State
Republican Convention: How many such
vict ,res can the Republican party afford2
Do these plotting politicians think that
after the nomination an election is to be,
and that such plots and victories are bad
for that? Is this process of rending the
bowels of the party In the nomination
healthy preparation for election? Is the
Republican party so badly off that it must
take candidate who comes out OF such a
STRIFE and whose nomination would bea
destructive victory over the party itself?
Surely it can do better among the ten mil
lion If citizens who are by the Constitu-
ton qualified for the Presidency.-A new
law is now in force in Massachusetts,, though
the authorities of the largest city Bos-
ton, do not seem disposed to carry it out,
which may have an important bearing on
the temperance question. 1t forbds the
use of screens, curtains or ground glass in
the windows of drinking Saloons thus rem
derng the traffic as obvious to the passer
bv as any other branch Of retail business
The measure has been bitterly opposed by
the parties most interested, and in various
instances not without cause. Some dealers
claim that their business has fallen so per
cent. since the order was instituted. 9th
ers affirm the contrary but il is generally
admitted that men are much less disposed
to hang round saloons than formerly.
They now take their drinks and depart,
instead of waiting to treat and be treated
An anonymous contributor to the Atlantic
Monthly, who writes as if he was well &C.
uuuinted with his subject, asserts that the
people of the South are still as much bent
as ever on gaining the management of the
| national government for their section.
They want not only 10 get control of both
the executive and legislative departments
but to have soldiers who fought for the
G nfederacy put on an equality with ma
tiunal volunteers, as regards pensions, etc
and also to reconstruct the Supreme Court
deprive tie national government of al
power in regulating elections, and tt
make the solid South dominant by the
subdivision of Texas and the annexation o.
Cuba and Mexico. There are, no doubt
ambitious schemers in the South who cher
isb all or part of the foregoing pro
pramme. Still there can hardly be said tC
be any organized party which is governed
by such views. The Southern Democrats
may need watching, but the recollection.
of the late war are still too fresh amonl
moderate people to render any very deter
mined action likely at present The great
est danger that the country could sustain
would arise from the election Of Demo
cratic President by the help Of Northern
votes. In such an event every Southern
agitator and plotter would take courage.
The Enquirer says: The friends of Gran
have possession of the Illinois Convention
by majority of eighty, after the admission
OF fifty-six Anti-Grant men from Cool
County. The Illinois Republican Conven
ton will elect all OF the delegates from. tn
districts, as well as the delegates at large
and all Of the forty-two delegates to tn
Chicago Convention from Illinois will b
pronounced Grant men. The Grant reso
ton was adopted by vote Of SS6 to 307
after the admission of the Cook Count
delegates. After the greatest wranglin
the Convention decided that 1t and not tn
districts should select the delegates fron
the State, other than the delegates at large
The result in a word b that Illinois will