The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-24
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.
The Enrli.h Papers Of rhi. Morning.

The Gazette saws: No respectable ply
sician can afford to hold the position of
Health officer under the Board of Health
recently elected. Senator Kirby will go to
Columbus next winter with great fund of
information. Meantime Council should
repeal the Health Ordinance. A vacancy
is better than that Board.-The County
Commissioners do not intend to elect a
County Attorney. Baker will hold on till
fall. Did not the Republicans make as big
a mistake when they elected Hopkins Com
missioner as when they elected Weber Sher-
iff?-The county should have the service of
one of our best lawyers, and 1t would have
the service Of one of our best lawyers if
the two Republican Commissioners had no
axes to grind.-We do not say that John
Sherman will be the nominee of the Chi
cago Convention, but we do say that John
Sherman is stronger to-day than at any
time since the opening Of the campaign for
the nomination. The sober second thought
of the people is coming to the front.-Mr
Gladstone, by the force OF mind
alone. achieved the greatest tri-
umph that was ever gained
by purely intellectual power, in over
throwing government insolent with its
large majority, and with the tinsel of its
theatrical foreign policy. The world ad
mired this exhibition of mental force.
And now he has triumphed over the
Queen, who sighted and hated him. But
lis character warrants the belief that he
met her with the same respect and dignity
as when he was Premier, and when his self
respect and his consciousness of the dig
nifty of the government which he repre-
sented would not permit him to take on
the obsequious manner of Oriental cour-
tier. .,-
The Commercial says: The Syracuse Con-
vention settled the question of the appear
| ance of the Tammany delegation US dis
turing element in the Democratic Ma
tional Convention. 1t may, and probably
will, appear here in force, and make no
end of noise: but when the real work Of
balloting comes Tammany will be consplc-
uous by its absence. If Mr.. Tilden man
ages his cards as adrotly at Cincinnati as
he did at s racuse, the Convention will be
in his control, and he can name the candi-
date should he conclude to Withdraw him
self.-So plainly was the recent victory in
England over the Tories Mr.. Gladstone's
affair, that the Queen could not decline
calling him to form Government and he
couldn't avoid the responsibility. Her
Majesty having to yield, did so gracously.
asking Gladstone to call and see her and
bring his wife and daughter. Mr.. Glad
stone made triumphal journey from Lon
don to Windsor, the people taking great
aud sympathetic interest in his crowning
triumph. 1t is not true that the Queens
repugnance to Gladstone arises from his op.
position to her title as Empress. He has
assn med the theory of the Constitution to
be that the Crown is mere sign-that the
Queen has no real power. Beaconsfield has
given royalty more actuality. and therefore
stepped higher into favor.-There can be no
sort of doubt that there are four Re-
publicans in Pennsylvania for Blaine to
one for Grant, and that in New York there
are three for Blaine to one for Grant. New
England, with the exception OF the Ex-
Governors, is solid against Grant Iowa
and Kansas, the great Republican States,
are for Blaine. So is the Pacific Coast
Ohio and Indiana against Grant The sup
port which Grant has received in Missouri,
kentucky and Virginia is not creditable to
him. So much for spontaneity.
The Enquirer says: 1t is undeniable
that the men behind the Kelly-Tammany
movement are numerous and formidable,
and constitute a dangerous political ele-
ment That their position is to the last de-
gree undemocratlc Is equally undeniable.
The right OF one faction in one State to is,
sue an edlct that certain man shall not
be nominated by the National Democracy
for the Presidency can not be admitted.
The nomination OF Mr.. Tilden for the
Presidency is not a National necessity.
here were brave men before and
after Agamemnon. Inc ihsolence OF
the un-Democratic faction IN New York
should be small among the influences al
lIo'.' 10 t,s M.ti.'rsi Dsnocrst,c conv.m,,nn ~v.n
The Cincinnati Convention ought NOT to
refnse to Nominate apy man because of
Tho factions Nav York rebellion. II should
not he nrovok ed into nominating anv man
ont of spite to this factious revolt in New
York. If there were no other reasons for
refusing to nomina'e Mr.. Tilden than the
threats of John Kelly the Tilden candi-
dacy would still be strong. Ii there were
no Democrats in New York and out of
New YORK opposed to the nomination OF
Mr.. Tiden save those in sympathy with
John Kelly Mr.. Tilden would be nom
mated at Cincinnati in June. 1t is signifi-
cant that this un-Democratic rebellion in
in the Empire State is not made in
the interest OF purity, OF superior honesty,
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