The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-27
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.
The English papsrs Of This Morning.

oAtohuS W MT oteFllng, ky., ana fe'
days ago contract was let for the cor
structi"n of road between MI
Sterling and Huntington, which will Civ
a through connection between Huntington
and Louisville. and a through line from
Richmond to the last-named city. A few
days later q party of CHICAGO capitalist
purchased large interest in the Sciot,
Valley Road. running from Portsmouth t,
Columbus. and thence connecting will
Chicago lines, and propose now to con
struct line from Portsmouth to Hunting
ton. This will give through line from
Huntington to Chicago and from Rich
mnnd to that city. There is another line
the Maysvile & Big Sandy, or some sucf
name, which had been looked to to bring
on the Kentucky side of the river, the
Chesapeake e. Ohio into Cincinnati. Now
it is understood that tie latest plan in re
gard to this is to turn off from the river
some distance above Cincinnati and run
the line several miles back of Newport and
Covington to strike Walton, Kentucky
the crossing of the Southern Rail
road and the Louisville, Cincinnati
& Lexington. This will give an.
other opportunity to shoot every thing on
by the Short Line to Louisville, and will
again effectively leave Cincinnati out. Ii
is great work to bring the business of a
system of railroads through mountainous
region three hundred and thirty-six miles,
at cost of $50, 900, 000. but when splen.
did. railroad ur hundred sand twenty -one
miles long, with an ability of placing the
seaboard and its great trade nearer to Gin
cinnati than is any other point upon the
coast is waiting only one hundred and fifty
miles away with route alongside the Ohio
the whole distance, it certainl seems like
grievous error to allow it to be gonbled
up by rival cities without at least reason
able effort at SELF Irolection.
The Commercial says: We prefer Blaine
to Grant. 1t is our judgment that the Re-
publican politicians who are pressing
Grant will find, if they succeed in making
,.im candidate, two or three things that
will defeat him, and therefore, as they
would have made their party a personal
affair-a mere Grant party-destroy it,
TAese things are: l. The record of Grants
administration, especially is second term.
will be found, when subjected to hostile
criticism, far more vulnerable than they
suppose. Soon after the close of the sec
ond term of the Presidency, Grant
sailed for Europe. and it would have been
to assail him. 1t took = very
mean kind of enemy to pursue him under
those circumstances, and he was not pur-
sued. His countrymen were all
pleased and flattered with his re-
ceptiou abroad, not dreaming that capital
vas to be made out If it. 2. The public
sentiment against the third term for any
man; the general -epugnance to taking the
irretrievable step away from the forms in
which the Government OF our Republic has
been administered; the distrust of the man
who, in the language of Jefferson, would be
the first to depart from the example of
the consciousness that a
third term means fourth and fourth a
hfth, would develop an overwhelming op-
position.-1t is estimated that the total iI-
come of the Government for the year end
ing in June will ne about 5000, 000, 900, and
that the total expenditures will be about
S275, 900, 000-There is another thing. The
of the Board of Public Works
us it was, means. in the public estimation,
the return of Colonel Anderson to the posi-
ton of Engineer, from which he was re-
moved because lie was an honest, capable
man.
The Gazette saws: New York can not be
counted as better than doubtful to tie Re-
oublicans. Her seventy votes may be
hrown imperiallv in the nomination with
mt carrying one elector The vote for in
tructing for Grant had majority of only
in total vote OF 397. In this
,lie imperialism seems to consist in con-
1uering Republicans Even this small bal
.nce was got by arbitrary overrulng sew
,ral contesting delegations. and by ways
,lat were dark in saAHe of the county con-
;entions 1t was in convention many of
whose members had been chosen by close
vote; also in a convention formed by the
exercise of all the power of
,ne official machine which Mr..
had grasped in Grants admins
ration, and still holds almost entire. And
. carry this vnte Mr.. Conkling made one
If the greatest efforts of his life, while the
opposition was not skillfully led. Is vote
4 instructions, which was carried against
70 strong Republican opposition way to
mite the Republicans of New York in the
election? Is it the way to make doubt.
ul State Republican, A just weighing of
Ill these conditions proves this vote de-
eat to Mr.. Conkling and General Grant;
or it is convincing evidence that nearly
,ne-half the Republican electors are op-
}, sed to this action. and probable show
ng taat majority are thus op-
:. is q great population in
,ur own country IN state of op-
PRESTON which makes that OF the
rish tenant farmers and farm laborers
lappy bv contrast. Despairing of any
in their condition by the act
# the landlords, some of these had looked
or relief by eniigrating. The existence of
he same causes in nearly all the Southern
states, and the event that the minds of
hese people have been directed in some
way to the State of Kansas, have made that
which in its scattered ate is only small
movement, result in the immigration to
Kansas OF a number too greatsfor the
inhabitants of the towns TO care for.
The Indiana delegates are in al
,ositon to take advantage Of all the new
light that may be developed. and to use
heir best judgment in making the inter.
sts Of the Republican'party paramount to
he aspirations of men. 1t is not so much
question who can or may be nominated
t Chicago as 1t is who can poll most votes
n November. This consideration. we are
atisfed, will, after all, control the Chicago
delegation. and smash all machine-made
nen. The candidate must be man witi-
ut dead weights. lie must be man
.ithout impediments. To nominate any
ther would be crime against the party.
We congratulate Indiana Republicans