The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-25

the Convention. The Convention met,
after organization. took one ballot felt its
own pnlse-beat and adjourned. When the
Convention re-assembled yesterday morn
ing combinations and contrivances and
schemes were unseen and urheard OF. The
throb of the heart of the Convention,
which the preceding dav had indicated, was
the emperor uf the situation; and thou.
sands of men and hundreds of women in
that temple consecrated to art then heard
the wild, sweet music" of the 'rebel yell. u
The Commercial says: Strange and per.
picking as 1t may seem to the Democracy
when they come to adjust their proceed
ings here to the circumstances of the coun-
try, their ticket is obviously weak where
it should have been. according to the great
principle of winning at all events, especial.
ly strong. 1t is weak in the doubtful o.
tober State, Indiana The nomination OF
Mr.. English is not only not strong in itself
lit is blow at Hendricks which strikes
him in hls tenderest part. Mr.. English is
the man who has been bepuffed fJr months
by the Tilden organs, that have made it a
point to hate and hunt Hendricks.
English was put up for the annoy
ance of Hendricks; and the whole
Indiana delegation. after making 1t merit
to stick to their great man and persist in a
furious battle for him. without hope,
blasp pheming Senator Mcdonald because he
was thought of for the Presidency and
growing desperate over the suggestion that
Indiana had any other favOrie son than
the one who was presented for the first
place-after all this, to vote for English
ana make up the ticket by adding to the
soldier for the Copperheads sn ex-banker
and gold bug for the Greenbackers, affords
a spectacle that should be instructive
The brass-bound and copper-bottomed In
diana Democrat, who sympathized with
the South in trouble and looked the
other way when he heard TT war drums,
may consent to take his crow if it
comes as game cock dressed with the spurs
on, but if he must take it seasoned with a
banker and real estate speculator who has
scraped the bones of the State and joins to
great wealth the reputation of a strict
economist, he may, inspired by super-
human sense of loyalty to his party, force
the full dose into his stomach, but he will
not banker for it; and he will not thus
nouris4 ed, insist upon getting up in the
morning at 2 o'clock to march upon the
works of the enemy. There is wailing
on the Wabash-not roar of resentment,
loud and long, challenging the Nation to
witness the woe of the faithful who are
hanging their harps upon the willows and
will seek to pay the war debt in cornstalks
no more, but the plaintiff cry that comes
from the sorrows of the soul.
The Gazette SAYS: The platform has
nothing for the comfort of the Greenback-
ere, nor for those who propose to pay the
bonds by issuing notes, nor for those who
propose TO coin an eighty-cent silver dollar
ON purpose to pay the war debt, nor for
those who want to abolish the bank circu-
lation in order to substitute greenbacks
Its declaration for sound money, specie
payment, public faith and against central
zaion OF power, fairly construed, opposes
the power of Congress to issue legal tender
notes. The declaration mo sumptuary
laws' means, we presume, no liquor laws;
that for the fostering of COM
mn schools proposes the assump-
ton of new central power; that for
tariff for revenue only" is reproach to
the Democratic Congress. The declaration
of "the right to free ballot, which must
and shall be maintained in every part of
the United States" is rather brassy tor a
party which controls Congress, and hopes
to elect President by the suppression of
elections. The declaration that Tilden was
elected and defrauded is disarmed by the
act Of the Convention in abandoning Til
den. If Democrats believed it true, that
would be the paramount issue. The tears
for Tildens ''renunciatinn" are crocodilish.
If free ships" means to open up our coast
and lake trade to foreign ships, it
Aieans to extinguish the shipping
that is left; If not that, who can
tell what its means? Amendment of
the Chinese treaty is what the Republican
platform resolves "PUblic money for
public purposes only" is condemnation
of the enormous bill for so called public
improvements passed by the present
Democratic Congress. Public land to set
tiers is what both parties have resolved
time out of mind and both have disregard
ed. The profession of love for the laboring
man is cheap taffy. The assertion that the
Democratic Congress has reduced the pub
lie expenditures $4,000, 600 closes the plat
form with a tremendous feat with the Ling
bow. The platform was cut out to fit the
candidates, one Of whom is an officer of
the standing army, and represents no
Democratic ideas; the other was an original
and prosperous national banker.
The German Papers.
The Volksfreund says: Hancock Is the
man who will lead the Democrats to vic
tory. He is no dark horse, but was one of
the most prominent candidates before the
Convention. His record is pure. He has
nothing to do with the credit mobilier, De
Goyer contract nor with the salary grab
The Republicans can prefer absolutely
nothing against him.
The Volksblatt says: Thurman is politi-
cally dead. His name will never again be
men TONED with the Presidency.-The re-
union of 1ammany and Anti -Tammany
was not only the most interesting scene in
the Convention, but it is political event
of the highest Importance and one to which
the Republicans will have to pay attention
Divided, the democracy of the Empire
State would have been easily defeated;
united it can .nly be overcome by bearing
on it all the forces of the party.
The Freie Presse says: VIM. H. English
is not popular enough in his own State, In
diana, to carry it for the Democrats in Oc-
tober.
Yesterdays Abend Post says: The Dem
ocratic Presidential nominee, General
Winfield Scott Hancock, is in our opinion
the strongest man whom the Democrats
could have chosen in their present posi-
tion.