The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-26

of corporative power. The allusion Il the
Democratic reduction of expenditur{s tp
the extent of $40, ,000, 900 per annum not
least am ing the claims this platform MAJ kes
for public favor 1t is good PLATFORM and
II the ticket Is a better it is only beeause
the ticket is extraordinarily good.
The Gazette says: In the event Of Han
cocks election, not the man but the-party
would rule the country, dictate its laws.
prescribe its methods, and carry out its
purposes. And what is this Democratic
party? What has it been for twenty
l860-652 What has been its position since
on the reconstruction measures2 Where
has it stood on the financial question:
How much did it contribute toward the re-
sumption OF specie payments, and the en-
hancement OF the credit of the Govern
ment2 How many months since its lead
ers stood up in Congress anu boldly de-
clared that the Democratic party would
not stop until every war measure
should be wiped from the statute books
Has it ceased to labor to break down the
safeguards erected to protect the purity of
the ballot-boxP When did 1t abandon its
efforts to destroy the army by refusing ap-
preparations unless the Commander-in-
Chief should submit to have his hands tied
by unconstitutional enactments? How
long since it murdered legal voters and car
| ried elections by shot-gurs and tissue bal
lots2 How long since it undertook to steal
the State of Maine2 How long since it
turned men out of Congress who were fair
ly and legal elected, in order 10 seat parti-
sans who were not elecUed2 AID it was
only day before yesterday that Wade
Hampton, in pledging a solid South to
the Democratic party, said that South Car
olina, with an unquestioned Republican
majority of the voting population, would
give larger Democratic majority than
any State in the Union. How long since
ostracism on account of political opinions
has ceased at the South2 How many States
are there at the South in which ever man
is free to vote as he pleasesf Would not
an attempt to exercise the constitutional
riaht to vote in Mississippi, Alabama,
Louisiana, Sluth Carolina and Arkansas
against the Democratic party, be attended
with bloodshed, murder and arson? If
States in November as they will be held and
conducted at the North. Louisiana, Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi, and South Car
olina would, be> ond question. vote for
Garfield and Arthur. But in advance
these States are included in the Solid
South, and the people of New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana-the
States that are classed as doubtful-are
asked to join the Solid South and restore
to power pa ty guilty OF more political
crimes than are recorded upon the pa ,es of
the history of any civilized country; and
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in the past, but in spite OF it, and because
it has deemed it expedient to drop its
trusted leaders, and for the occasion, put
on mask in the shape of a Union soldier.
This is the shape the camp lign will take,
and upon the issue thus indicated it will
be conducted.
The Commercial says: Indiana's point
was that she must have Hendricks for
President-nothing else was possible. 1t
wouldn't do even to dream of Hendricks
for The Vice Presidency. He had made
deplorable sacr flee once to that effect, and
would do so no more Therefore no other
Indiana man must expect or hope for or
think OF anything. Hendricks was "our
great man. and no other could be named.
MIR. William H. English is the man, we pre-
sumo, upon the whole rather more gener-
ally and distinctly detested than any
other citizen of Indiana. His house is
built with an iron door, and his celebrity
is that OF man from whose grasp dime
does not escape until he has caused the
Goddess of Liberty to cry aloud. The
friends of Tilden have been dwelling upon
him as a Presidential sort of person merely
for the aggravation of Hendricks. To
praise English meant to sneer at He'll
bricks. Heartily as the ferocious partisans
of Hendricks hated to hear the name Of
Mcdonald, they would have been moved to
tenfod fury if tie thonght OF English had
been suggested. Fancy, therefore,
the horror to the Hendricks
men when they found advantage
taken of the folly of their position by the
men who desired to avenge the defeat Of
Tiden. Indiana had stood for the Presi.
dency for Hendricks only. They bias
phemed the Vice Presidency Tor Hendricks
who could have had the nomination fol
that office. When, therefore, the sarcastic
. proposition was made to push Indiana.
favorite son, the Hon. VIM. H. English
there was no resisting it. The Hendricks
men had not permitted themselves an,
ground to stand upon. Hence the nOmina
|. ton which is ridculously weak in Indian,
the most important of the States in thl
campaign.
The German Papers.
The Volksfreund SAYS: The Republican
Times calls Hanc ock a strong candidate
The Volksblatt is of the same opinion, an(
says plainly that charges of no kind cal
be made against the Democratic candidate
The Volksblatt says: We do not wan
to mix up in Democratic family affairs bu
we can say this much, that Bishop of Ohio
would have been stronger candidat
than English. of Indiana.
The Freie Presse says: George William
Curtis, editor of "Harpers. Weekly"
thorough politician and journalist, and
man of sjund character, considers Han
cocks nomination weaker one than Bay
ards would have been.
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