The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-27
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers of rhi, Morning.


the preferences OF delegates to Chicag and
says, This table shows that nothing but
the blackest treachery and corruption can
enable the Grant men to control the tour
Important committees Give the Grant
managers all the doubtful delegati ms, and
they would still require two more for q
majority. What two can they getf They
assume that they can tix up the remaining
Territories, or the Window minnesota J
delegation, or even New Jersey or Massa-
chusetts. They have ten delegations to get
before thev can pack the permanent com.
mittees, and the Bosses will find
this something of task. The seven
delegations We have marked doubt
full are, in our opinion, Anti-Grant
except that of the District of Columbia, re-
ported to be evenly divided between Blaine
and Grant Before the Committee on Gre
dentials. thus formed-unIess all prece-
dents are revolutionized-will come the
contests in Illinois and other States. The
strength of the anti Grant men, If wisely
exerted, seems to be invincible- Lo-
gan and Conkling and Cameron belong to
the Republican party, or does the Re-
publican party belong to them2-Grant
is not nominated, Notwithstanding the
persistent reiteration of the Third
term organs that he has a majority
of the delegates to Chicago. The Thomp-
sonian plan of claiming everything, and
claiming it exultnsly, has been adopted
by the Grantites.-The Third-termers are
in pursuit of something they do not care
to avow. What is it? Plainly they have
been lying to tne country. They said
tnere was an emergency that demanded
Grant; and they have dropped that. We
hear of it no more. They said Grant was
not candidate; but he is as voracous a
candidate as ever appeared, All the asser-
tions from the beginning that he was not
an eager and scrambling candidate, ready
to fight on all fours to go into the White
House as master again, have been false;
and all the atfectations of modesty and re-
luctance have been sheer imposture. The
Bosses want the use of a great name, under
hich they may divide the spoil of the
country perpetually. That is the true and
only explanation of the present situation.
The Enquirer says: Judge Baxter init
mates that the Louisville and Nashville
monopoly has become formidable enough.
Right, Judge.-Charley Farwell will sup
ply the audiences at the Anti-Grant meet
ings in Chicago. He has them hired. The
Sherman men are praying for thunder
storm at Chicago. They want to be hit by
Ii i4htning.-Blaine is not to go to Chicago,
all previous reports to the contrary not
withstanding. He will manage William
E. Chandler by wire, and Chandler will
manage the Blaine interest at the Conven-
ton.-Congress is expected to adjourn
about the 10Th of June. The
Democratic members will not trust
the Republicans with the Con-
gressional machine during the Gin.
cinnati Convention. They will profit b,
the experience of the Republican mem
bprs of the Ohio Legislature who ran off to
Washington in 1877 to see Hayes inaugu-
rated, and left Drummer and Norton to
adopt resolution denouncing the ''count-
ing-n" process.-If any one else than
Grant should be nominated, it would be
unnatural if the friends of Grant, the COM
manding candidate, the only moveless,
voiceless, stoical candidate, should not re-
talate. Sherman has no strength in tn
Convention that is not bought by Federal
patronage. Blaine, now. only hopes to
capture the Convention by stealing its ma
chinery. He proposes to grab the commit
tees and count out delegates enough that
are instructed for Grant-who has ma
jority of them-to defeat his nomination.
We see no peaceful, prosperous path for
the Republican party out of these bitter
nesses and difficulties. We have no hesi-
tation in saying that the Republican party
is hourly paving the way to its own defeat.
The Gazette says: Tilden stock is de-
clining. Missouri, the State in which lie
was nominated in 1876, is hard to capture,
and other Democratic States are develop
ing strong anu-Iilden sentiment. The
candidate on the Democratic side who
appears to be gaining the most rapidly
just now is an Ohio man. Make way for
the red acknowledgements of how it
may work, who it may help or VINO it
may hurt, the unit rule is out of place
in Republican Convention. 1t ought to
be smashedeA few years ago-ten, per-
haps--a shrewd observer and heavy capi-
talist and large real estate owner of this
city said the Time would come when a s
per cent investment in Cincinnati would
be at par. He might not live to see it, he
said, but it would come. And it has come
much sooner than he anticipated. He
has lived to see it, and he is now well salts
fed with the Improvements he then made
which at the time were generally consid-
cred improbable. The man who can now
secure net return of to 6 per cent Oh
investments considers himself fortunate,
and bank stocks that pay 10@l2 per cent.
annually are we'll up to 200 with few
selers.-We observe that many of those
who are speculating about the Chicag
Convention speak of Ohio as having
adopted the unit rule. Ohio did nothing
of the kind. The Convention instructed
the four delegates at large and requested
the district delegates to vote for Sherman
There is no unit rule. The district dele
gates are at liberty to vots as they please,
and that is precisely what they will be
likely to do. Nearly all of them, however,
will please to vote for Sherman, because he
is unquestionaby the first c. oice of an
overwhelming majority of the Republicans
of Ohio.
The Germsn Papers
The Volksfreund says: Hendricks would
like to get the nomination for President.
If he does not get it he will rest contenIsd
with the nomination for Vice President
The Volksblatt says: The hanging of the
colored murderer Geo. Price will not take
place tomorrow. Gov. Foster has respited
him for six weeks in order that an exam
ination of his mental condition might be
made. The insanity dodge that has served
rnanv n candidate of the galiOws will prob-