The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-23
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Morning.

opeeCH pelOTe Tue UTdnL CluD as saying tndt
Grant is strong, robust, healthy and
hearty" and adds; There is Rutherford
b. Hayes; he Is about as old as Grant is,
He is also "stiong, healthy, robust and
hearty" He has had but one term. VIII
nobody suggest Hayes for second, or is he
merely to be plastered over with high
sounding but meaningless words to let
him down easy when he falls at the end of
four years? Republican Conventions
should do something substantial for Hayes
or quit adopting resolutions about him.
The Republicans of the United States
nlonious position. The discussions OF
their journals have, If we take them all in
all, disbarred all OF the Republican candi-
dates for the Presidential nomination.
The Republican attacks made upon Mr..
Blaine in Ohio and elsewhere ought to be
sufficient to convince the American peo-
pie that Mr.. Blaine ought not to be elected
to the Presidency. If we may believe Re-
publicans, Mr.. Blaine should not be made
President; and if we may believe Republi-
cans, Grant sh ,uld not be made President;
and if we may believe Republicans, Johu
Sherman should not be made President.
From the Republican press OF the country
the evidence, much of which is before us,
indicates that 70 Republican candidate for
the nomination at Chicago for the Presi-
dency should be nominated or elected.
The Commercial says: The last lingering
expectation that General Grant would get
out of the Presidential race before suffer
ing defeat, is fading out.-The House of
Cameron has never before seen such a
rebellion as now RACES in Pennsylvania,
Conkling has lost control of the New York
Legislature. New England will not give
Grant a vote az Chicago. Sherman will
have nearly one hundred Southern votes.
The State of New jersey is reserved-not
for Grant. The Pacific Coast, with the ex-
ception of Nevada, will be solid for Blaine.
Ohio and Indiana are against Grant. Iowa
and Kansas, the strongest Republican
States in the Union, are overwhelming
for Blaine. Nebraska is for
any candidate rather than Grant. 1t
is clear proposition that Wisconsin will
be Democratic if Grant is the Republican
candidate. In Minnesota and Michigan
there is no special Grant strength. Indeed,
the death OF Chandler spoiled the third
term scheme in the Northwest 1t seems
likely that Blaine will break the Illinois
delegation badly.-In this the great COM
mercal city Of Shermans own State his
fellow-citizens, doing their duty tonight,
in casting the only direct vote for the next
President that they will have as Republi-
cans, should show their enlightenment by
their appreciation of the statesman who
has seen to it that their money is good as
gold; that the credit of the Nation is as
high as that of France, and who has re-
duced, vastly and wonderfully both the in
terest and the principal of the public debt.
The Gazette says of the new Board of
Health: The Board has the election of
Health Officer, salary $2,40O; Secretary,
81 200; Milk Inspector, 81, 200; Market Mas
ter, $1,000, with six assistants at $50 each
per month; two meat inspectors at $50
each per month; four market watchmen at
policeman's pay five market-house sweep
ers, $40 each per month; twenty-five ward
physicians for the outdoor POOR; from fif-
teen to twenty-five sanitary policemen;
druggists for each ward to fill prescriptions
of the district physicians at the city 5 cost,
with such drugs and at such prices as their
own consciences will permit. Here is
large field for patronage and a larger
for plunder and the Council has
handed it over to persons whose gem
6Tdl ItputC dllu WIoSC ScUcIul
for the duties warrant the belief that they
will work it deeply, and that the sanitary
condition of the city and the protection
smallest of their considerations. Mr..
Kirby thought to confer benefaction, but
it is such as will cause howl for its aboli-
ton at the next session.-The accounts of
the City Auditors ofice, as kept by 81.
Hoffman and his assistants, are in such a
condition that the services of two men for
six months would be required to straighten
them out. His term of Office has lasted
four years, and an investigation which
would give satisfaction to the public
would have to cover the period from 1875
to the present time. The accounts ap-
pear to have been kept after
Father Edward PurceIs original method
that is, not kept at all. For example,
market stall licenses to the amount of
"a, 500 are reported for 1876, while in 1877
they aggregate $4,000 The present Solic-
| itor, C. w. Baker, is an unscrupulous par
tisan, and deserves no consideration from
Republicans. BIT Republican successes
appear to have developed an uncommon
amount of unfaithfulness in so-called Re.
publicans. The Commissioners have held
three numerous ballotings on three differ.
ent days to elect Solicitor, the
Democrat voting for Baker, Zumstein
part of the time for Drausin Wul
sin and part of the time for Smith Stimmel;
Hopkins voting all the while for Asa Wa,
ters. Mr.. Zumstein has presented names
of Republicans recognized as OF good stand.
ing and law qualifications. By his alter.
nate he has shown that he Is ready to vote
for any well qualified Republican. Hop.
kins has clung. to one person, who is not
believed to be qualified as lawyer for the
place. This has caused the suggestion that
he clings to him because he is one whom
Mr.. Zumstein can not conscientiously vote
for, in order to prevent an election. The
circumstance that by law Baker holds out
until his successor is elected and qualified
has raised the suggestion that this is a plar
to keep in Baker.
| The German Papers.
The Volksfreund says: Grant Is the ele
phant in the Republican party.-Blain'
has suddenly become an ardent admirer o
Grant. He probably wants to secure ,
nice morsel if he himself should fail to ge
the nomination.
The Volksblatt says: As it appears nov
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