The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-01
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Morntns,

The Gazette says: On the evening of the
18th of March the excursionists over the
Southern Railroad will arrive from the
South, and that will mark the for
NAL opening of our great line of
trade and travel. In connection with
that event there will be grand
banquet at the Music Hall, and cur
guests, in addition, will have an oppor-
tunity to see the city and its surroundings.
But in addition, we would suggest that the
18th of March be declared, officially and
bv common consent holiday, and that
| there be a procession, in which all the
trades shall be fully represented. This will
be business affair, and it should be so
| conducted that our visitors may have a
full opportunity to see what Cincinnati is
as great commercial and manufacturing
city.-A party of twenty-seven Kentuck-
| ians has arrived In Putnam County, Indi-
ana looking for work. They were imported,
they say, to offset the "nigger vote" and
| their fare was paid to their destination.-
Judge Moore, of the Court of Common
Pleas on Saturday sentenced number of
notorious characters to terms of imprison-
ment varying from thirty days in the
Work-house to eight years in the Peniten-
tiary. There is nothing to show that any
of these sentences are undeserved. Among
the prisoners were man and his
wife and two brothers. The last two
members of the notorious Nuttle
gang which infests Deer Creek-go to
the Penitentiary for terms of three and
four years respectively. There are ten
members of this family, male and female,
and all bear a bad reputation among the
police. Their father Pat. Nuttle. was a
policeman. Ten years ago he was muir
dered while in the discharge of his duty by
a desperate, whose character was hardly
any worse than that of the murdered mans
sons. Judge Moore has performed disa-
greeable duty well.-The plain plotting of
the Democrats in Congress to steal two
States, in order to fix the House to steal
the election of President, in case it shall
fall to that body. may possibly react
upon the p.otters by making the cleo
tion of the Republican candidate so decided
that Congress will not dare to dispute it,
and that it will not fall to the House.
There is no attempt to disguise this
knavery. 1t puts on an air as bold as the
pirates when he has overhauled a mer-
chairman. To put out Washburn, who
was elected. and put in Donnelly, who, by
a large majority. was not elected, will
make a Democratic majority of one, in
the delegation of Minnesota, which would
carry the vote of that State in an election
by the House. That Washburn received
the votes of 20,942 lawful electors is ad-
mitted also that Donnelly received only
1880. Nobody pretends to deny that
Washburn received majority of 3,012 of
the lawful voters.
The Enquirer says: There are symptoms
of reorganization of the Ohio Peniten-
tiary. The present management of the
prison is wisely commended as one of the
most efficient, if not the best, it has ever
had. Warden Dyer has now been in his
place long enough to be thoroughly tested,
and as yet no complaints have been made
against his administration. From a party
we confess to an indifference as
to the fate of Mr.. Dyer and those officially
associated with him at the prison. 1t would
be rough on them to be reorganized out,
but the performance might be rougher on
the Republican party at the election next
fall; and we feel that this solemn warning
will not be needed by the Republican Leg
islature, else, possibly, it would not be
given. The reorganization fever has seized
upon the Republicans, and there Is not
enough material with which to feed it with
out throwing in the Penitentiary.
The Commercial says If Tilden persists
in his candidacy, he will do in Cincinnati
through his agents, what was done for him
in st. Louis. His agent has already secured
three hundred rooms, more or less, in the
leading hotels. Large investments in hotels |
were made for his friends IN st. Louis, Also |
and they will fill the galleries of Music Hall
as they filled the galleries of the Merchants
Exchange with his friends. 1t will be re-
membered that after his nomination four
years ago, it was a matter of complaint, |
even among his friends in New York, that
they we're not admitted to his confidence or
given that share in the gen.
eral management of the campaign to
which they thought themselves entitled. |
1t is Mr. 1ilden's habit to superintend his
own business and to manage it in his own
way through his carefully-selected lieuten-
ants. Mr.. Tilden will not burden local
committees with his interests in the Gin
cinnati Convention.-Under the Burlin-
game Treaty all Chinese residents in the
United States are entitled to the protection
of the Government. Should the Sand-lotters
of San Francisco make war upon them,
burning them out of their homes, killing
or otherwise molesting them, the Govern
ment, unless prepared to ignore the obli-
cations of that treaty, is bound to come
to their rescue with whatever force is neces-
sary to repress persecution and prevent
violence. There is no escape fromathis
that would not be dishonorable. We re-
Gently resented in Court as an impertilence
an inquiry as to the names of the stock
holders of the corporation of M. Halstead
g. Co., proprietors of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, and there were some remarks
about it, We take occasion to mention that
all the shares Of the stock of the CONNER
cial, with not single exception, are the
property of persons engaged in the labor of
producing the paper The Commercial is
owned exclusively by those who are at
work in the Office.
The German Papers
The Volksfreund says The latest mys-
terious disappearance-the s. erman boom,
writes the New York Sun.-Tiiden in Ohio
is per cent. stronger than any Ohio man.
This is not only the opinion OF Thurman,
but also that of his friends. Thurman will
without doubt get the complimentary vote
of Ohio, but as soon as he withdraws the