The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-08
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.
The Eneli.h papsr. Of rhi, MORNING,


The Governor and his Council have pro-
ceeded to carry on the programme of count
ing out Thus they have dsregarded the
expressed will of the people and the law as
declared by the Supreme Court of the
State. We are unable to see what gain the
Democrats and Greenbackers who are
conducting this enterprise propose to
themselves. They may elect Senator of
the United States. That body belongs of
their party already. If they appoint Pres-
dental Electors the Republicans can fol-
low their example in New York; and there
can be no doubt that upon the Maine case
the Republicans can 60 before the country
and win. The danger is that the action of
the Governors Council in Maine may be
sympt0matic and that we may expect of
the Democratic members in possession of
both branches of Congress to use Con.
gress as Returning Board In the next
Presidential Election, according to the
Maine precedent. In that case we may
not escape from the consequences of dis
puted Presidency as cleverly as we did
three years ago.-A curious thing has hap
pened. Mr.. George Jones, proprietor Of
the New York Times, was admitted to the
secret circle of the Grant boomers at Phila-
delphia, and the Times has been profound
ly silent about the third term ever since
and has published stalwart biography of
Elihu B. Washburne.
The Enquirer says: OF course it was
folly in Governor Garcelon'to ask a CON-
pany of gentlemen, on or off the bench, all
his political opponents, in an hour of great
political excitement, how they liked the
action of himself and his Council. The
Governor and Council, i'll yesterday, were
the court of last resort in passing upon
these returns They had complete and
final jurisdiction-the Supreme Judicial
Court none. Of course it was foolishness
for supreme tribunal with Jurisdiction,
after deciding case, to inquire of another
tribunal without jurisdiction, composed of
known opponents of the court OF juris-
diction, whether or not the case was de-
cided so as to please them. But before and
after this inexplicable folly, Governor Gar
celon behaved handsomely. Yesterday lie
behaved literally. He adhered to his view
of the Constitution and the laws; but he
laid before the Legislature the opinion of
the Republican Judges, the protests that
had been sent him, and all the essen
tial facts in the premises, recognizing
that the same Constitution which made
the Governor and Council the final
authority to pass upon the re-
turns also made each House the sole Judge
of the qualifications and elections of its
own members. The evidence is placed
where it belongs. philanthropic-mind-
ed citizens of Cincinnati. and they number
not few, will scarcely find better or
more promising field in which they may
benefit the people than that indicated In
the suggestion for the establishment of free
kindergartens in the city. What field
is this for the philanthropst! Froebel,
the originator of the kindergar.
ten system, believed that children
might be benefited by it from the earliest
infancy. He received them in the nurses
arms, and, beginning with his first gift"
the box OF colOred balls, led them through
the various stages of cubes and circles, and
music, and singing, and natural history of
his system during the succeeding years,
until, by the time they had reached the age
at which children usually begin the rudi-
ments of an education, they were found
possessed of knowledge and habits of
thought that are accounted great credit
to the higher grades of the common schools
of to-day.
The Gazette says: There should be no
performance in Cincinnati to which man
might not, without danger, take his wife
and daughters This ought to be the stan
dard. Men who, in violation of public de-
cency, gave performances in spite of public
sentiment and law to which no decent man
would take his wife or daughter, or son
either, should be treated as unworthy Of
either confidence or respect. This is the way,
and the only way, to crush out the vile sys-
TEN. 1t will prove preventive an ounce Of
which will be worth more than half ton
of cure. The Mayor is at the front in this
contest. The people in overwhelming ma
jority are at his back.-The Fusionists in
Maine yesterday attempted to organize the
Legislature in defiance Of the peoples cleo
ton and of the law. Governor Gsrcelon,
having referred the question of legality t.,
the Judges of the Supreme Court, and they
having given the opinion that his acts in re-
verslng the peoples election were illegal, he
determined to disregard the judicial opinion
and to go forward and play out his game of
robbing people of their elec ion. They who
nave overthrown the law to usurp official
power are not likely to stop at law or par
Iiamentary rules in carrying forward their
crimes. the larger branch Of tie Legisla-
ture pretended to organize and elect Off
GERS without a quorum and needed no pro-
tests Of this illegalty. The performance
Yesterday in pretending to organize the
Legislature plunged further into unlawful
acts, and still further distinguished the
rectitude OF the attitude of the Republic
ans. Every step onward is illegal and only
increases the popular condemnation. There
seems to be only a question Of the time
when this band Of lawbreakers shall back
down, and shall submit to the sentence
pronounced on their crime by the whole
country.
The German Papsra
The Volksfreund says: The pardon
mill will in all probability not grind so fast
in the future. A State Board of Pardops
is to be appointed to examine applications
for pardons. The bill referred to u.s. ON the
whole, good one, and should be made
law.
The Volksblatt says: A reorganization
or publication OF our School Board would
be desirable. but this can not be done by
poll ical party conventions TO
make the nominations of members-We
are sorry that the Commercial has joined
those who are opposed to German instruc-
ton in our public schools. ..s...
The Freie Press says: Tilden and
Kelly, the sly fox of Gramercy Park and
the wild Tammany Chief, are said 10 have