The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-09
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning.

The Enquirer says: The Democrats of
the United States are looking about for o
Presidential candidate. A candidate should
not be selected without reference to his
opportuneness, his timeliness. In thishour
the name of Mr.. Justice Stephen ]. Field,
noble and conspicu ,us, stands for civil lib
erty, for the defense of local self-goyern.
ment for opposition to the Capitalization
of power as against the States" He is of
fine New England stock. His family name
is illustrious. Seventeen wears ago he was
made Justice If the Supreme Court by
Abraham Lincoln. and he has adorned that
lofty Bench. He lives at the far edge of the
country, but his recent protests against in
fractions of the Constitution have made
him Stephen ]. Field. of the United States.
There would be something beautifully non
sectional and dramatically attractive in
reaching over the Rocky Mountains to
take candidate from the shore of the
Pacific Sea. 1t would be captivating DEM
ocratic devotion to doctrines old as the
century to take candidate from the gold
en-, youthful State that was born into the
Union when half the sands of the CEN
tury had fallen, in recognition of the
fact that that candidate had spoken
wise, brave and timely words on be-
half of these doctrines. This would be-
come the ancient party of the Re-
public, and it should not be for
g tten that California has six Electoral
votes. Nevada. three, Oregon three, and
Colorado three-fifteen Pacific Electoral
votes. These votes, otherwise doubtful, or
Republican, Mr.. Field could add to the
natural strength of the Democratic party
in the Union. The name of Mr.. Field,
therefore, is entitled to be warmly pre-
sented to the Cincinnati Convention in
June-Our amiable Republican contempo-
raries are taking deep and compliments
ry interest in the Presidential candidacy of
Hon VIM. S. Groesbeck. Perhaps they
would like to take Mr.. Groesbeck and solve
the ant-Blaine-Sherman puzzle with
him.
The Commercial says: There was bal
ance of trade against the United States in
February for the first time in four years.
Our people slide easily into tue follies of
other days. We are buying too much in
Europe.-The Treasury Department pur-
chased five hundred ounces of fine silver
yesterday. If Congress was capable of busi-
ness there would be no more silver pur-
chased except in the form Of trade dol
lars-Out Of one hundred and sixty
ing to the report of the Board of Statistics
of Labor, but eighteen have been success.
full. Most of the strikes ended in utter
failure. When the loss of time and
labor is considered, it is not surprising that
the Board should come to the conclusion
that strikes are improbable to those no
engage in them, and do not help labor.
They cost more than they come to and
generally originate with the least skilful
and meritorious workmen.-TheG Grant men
are becoming quite desperate. They we're
outnumbered in Louisville yesterday, but
gathered crowd of Democratic despera-
does and disreputable black men to carry
the primaries by storm. If they fail to carry
the Kentucky delegates for Grant, they
will be clearly beaten, and the whole fraud
in behalf of the third term will collapse
The Tariff Ring in Congress might as
we'll understand tnat they must get out of
t way of the newspapers. If they hold
their tools up to the work, and do not re-
duce the duty on paper and type and re-
move it from wood-pulp and chemicals.
they shall be hunted down. Each Senator
in Congress is to be watched and marked
for destruction. The rural member who is
fool enough to think the tariff is levied fol
the protection of homo industry is to be
taken in hand by the county press and
sponged from all the states of the future.
| There will be sucn murder done among
members as never was known, and no great
hereafter for the victims.
The Gazette sa s: General Grant did
wisely in disabusing the minds of the
Southern people of the prejudice that he
was coming in as the strong man to inter.
fere with their home rule privileges of reg
ulating elections and civil and political
rights after their own manner. The vast
quantity of the vague talk of the need oi
the strong man, and of the soldier who by
his own s,ie arm had once whipped the
South, made this necessity in any expec
tation of Southern aid in his election
Equally polite was he in the other expires
sions of this speech, in giving the assar
ance that instead of being the stront
man who was to hold down thu
South with an iron hand, as he wa
stalwartly represented in the North, HI
intended an administration which
should obliterate all sectional divisions by
leaving the South free from interference
by the National government, and the
Southern States as having the same privi
leges, immunities and oignities as tht
Northern. Since Gen. Grant has thus lait
down his platform to the Southern people
!, and has founded it on an eternal principle
it seems to be proper that the talk of til,
necessity to nominate him to keep dowr
the South with the iron hand should
cease. He has plainly expressed that h'
has no such idea, and that his polio,
would be to conciliate the ruling class o
the South by ceasing all interference witt
their domination.-The Western Iron Asso
citation unanimously agreed. at Pittsburg
, yesterday, to reduce the card rate from $
to So 20. The mill men seem to hav
reached the sensible conclusion that an act
) i've trade at moderate prices well gus
tanned is better than stagnation at high tis
ures. A lively business once secured will
probably send prices upward again. News
papers containing accounts Of murders
suicides, and executions are carefully ex
cluded from asylums for the insane, les
the patients should be moved by their read
ing to initiate the acts there described
There are probably many crazy person
outside of asylums At any rate crime ha
often proved contagious. The spectator
of executions sometimes become murder
; ers, and narrative of suicide has not in
frequently driven the reader to the sam
course. Two melancholy examples of thes