The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-28
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Mornins.

The Commercial SAYS: There are several
points scored against Grant in the Presi
Dental race:
l. He will not get vote from New En-.
gland. 81.
2. He will not get the vote of the Solid
South.
8. He will not get vote from the State
bordering on the Pacific.
4. He is in the Northwest the least in
favor of the candidates
3. The rule of the unity of the States can
not be enforced in his favor.
TO make it obligatory upon the Presi-
dent to appoint two col1red boys every
year as cadets to West Point would be to
discriminate in favor of that race as against
the white race. Race discrimination
should be avoided. Besides it would be
cruel to require the President to send col
ored boys to place where the Government
Is unable to protect them against NAL
treatment-The smack of piety with
which Mayor Kalloch concluded his letter
in regard to the killing of Mr.. De Young,
OF the San Francisco Chronicle, will move
the sympathies of the public almost as
much as the professions OF con vict about
TO receive the attentions of the hangman.
lie ought to 20 to meet Kearney.
The Enquirer says: Upon the whole we
advise the Convention to indorse Sherman.
1t would be cruel not to do this. 1t will
only he less cruel to do it. With two hun
dred or two hundred and fifty delegates in
the Convention in his own State in pro-
nounced hostility to his nomination for
the Presidency, Mr.. Sherman can hardly
be said to be the choice OF his State But
it is better to instruct for him. And still
this should be done guardedly; for these
instructions include the unit rule" and
the unit rule in the Chicago Convention
will cover, or not cover, the thirty
eight States. This course will be
the best method of concealing from
the eyes of the country the en-
nifty to Mr. Sherman at home. Not to in
struct for him would expose the truth to
the whole country. To instruct for him
would conceal the truth from some. The
actual opposition can not be wholly blank
eted, but instructions might help to cover
1t, and we recommend instructions. The
platform should not fail TO mention the
crops of last year, and of this year, and it
would be well to include the crops of the
next Presidential term, and mention them
as the products of the Republican organiza-
ton. If the Convention does these things
and damns in advance a majority of the
American people for the intention to vote
against the Republican party, it will prob.
ably have fulfilled its mission.
The Gazette says: The New York Times.
which in 1875 was s;renuously opposed to
the breaking of the limitation of re-elec-
| tons of President, now prints an extract
IRON letter of Washington, to show that
he declined a second reelection because of
his own convenience, and not to set an ex-
ample OF limitation of terms. Does that
paper think it wise now, in general, to
break that unwritten law. and to open the
Presidency to the struggle of each incum-
bent to renominate himself continually? Z?
We have yet to fnd one SUPP orter of the
denomination OF Grant who admits that
this would be a safe precedent for Demo-
cratic Presidents. But there will never be
one who will not desire it the
same as Grant, and who will
not use all the Government pat
ronage to carry denominations as long as he
can.-The Ohio Republican Convention,
which assemblies at Columbus to-day, will
be overwhelmingly for Sherman The Con-
| vention will of course, indorse John Sher-
man as strong man. No delegate in the
Convention will OPPOSE that, and therefore
| there need be no differences. Ohio is more
n early unanimous for Sherman than it Was
for Hayes in 1876, or than it ever was for
any body. This is sufficient. 1t proves the
strength of Sherman in his own State, and
| there need be no quarrel with those who
| prefer somebody else to the Secretary for
| President. The Convention should not
forget that Ohio will vote in Octo.
ber and November, and that every
Republican vote will be needed at the
polls. We feel afraid, sometimes, Re-
publicans think the nomination will end
all. and are disposed to antagonize each
other as if they belonged to different par
ties.-In some of the speeches of Lesseps
be said he IS not an engineer. His part in
the Suez Canal was that of protector, and
financial undertaken and manager. If the
real character of the Suez Company's
transactions with the Khedive were known
to the American people, Lesseps would be
Stunned or treated with contumely as q
swindler and robber, instead of being lion
lied as a great protector and benefactor
Yet this adventurer, from glance at the
isthmus, presumes to make an estimate ot
the cost OF sea level canal along rivers
which become torrents, and under noun.
tain range in which every element of the
work is strange to him, and is, in fact, un
movable. There is no need for our Gov
ernment to disturb itself about the roit
ical effect of any canal that this adventurel
will make in Central America.
The German Papers
The Volksfreund SAYS: The Grant peo
pie are Increasingly at work trying to Sc
cure his election. If it is necessary to dc
this by foul means, Grants friends will moi
hesitate to call together the Legislature o
New York and steal the State from thu
people either by directly appointing thu
electors or by electing them by districts
by which procedure the Republicans woulc
get about 81 out of the 33 districts. Sucl
an experiment is more dangerous than the
Grant men believe. The big fraud of 1876
has not yet been forgotten.
The Volksblatt says: Secretary Sherman
will get more than two-thirds of the dele
gates in the Ohio State Convention.-The
more the Blaine men work for their candi
date in Columbus the better it is for Grant
The Freie Presse says: The eyes of all
noliticians in the Union are concentrated
to day on Columbus. Since yesterday
Columbus is the Mecca Of all prominent
Rennblican politicians in Ohio. s