The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-29
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.


The English Papers Of This Morning
The Commercial says: The precarious
tenure of life held by MIR. EI ,hraim Holland
is said to be associated with the valuable
information stored in his spacious brain.
1t is believed by the citizens most con-
cerned that this valuable information is
lodged with Holland only, and that If he
should be extinguished several dark and
terrible secrets wou d perish.-The deter
mination of the Trustees of the Southern
Railroad to have the line built from
Boyoe's Station to Chattanooga seems
to signify change OF policy that
we trust will not be carried out The
object in leaving the five miles was
to take advantage of the Wright Law,
which authorizes the com pletion an | leas-
ing of the road as one contract, and tina
without submission to the City Council,
the process being one OF advertisement OF
proposals involving competition. We are
aware that the Common Carriers are Gin
cinnati men, and we wish them we'll on that
account but we d. not think it proper pub
lie policy to give these enterprising end ex-
cellent gentlemen the control of this road
upon their own terms, guided and re-
strained only by the wisdom of the Trustet IS.
What we want is competition, and the
Cincinnati Company or Companies should
compete with the rest To give up this
road to the Common Carriers, substantially
upon their own terms, would be to enrich
few of the citizens Of Cincinnati at the
expense of the many.-The history of leg
islative bribery in Pennsylvania goes back
| a quarter of century, and possibly fur
| thor Tho uonalitu nf ho1x
became so notorious that when the new
Constitution was drawn, several penalties
were engrafted upon it for the form of
corruption that had made the Pennsylva-
MIA Legislature synonym of bribery, Men
were bought and sold right and left in the
! interest OF either politicians or railroads,
and the elder Cameron is credited with
having reduced the system to fine art.
Kemble and his cronies are, if we mistake
not, t first convictions under the new
ence could save them, and they 20 to the
penitentiary to serve the State for one year
at hard labor.
The Enquirer says of yesterdays Co
lumbus Convention: State pride, Federal
machinery, the power of local and Nation
al patronage, the unlimited use of the
Federal exchequer, all of these potent ele-
ments, were able to produce the results
of yesterday at Columbus on behalf of
Sherman. What were those results? With
the influences in his favor, named, he was
not able to capture his own Convention.
He captured it, but not all. The Sherman
strength outside of Ohio is little. His un.
opposed candidacy in Ohio might have
given him strength abroad. But
his candidacy in Ohio was so
far from being unopposed that he is weak
ened abroad by his Columbus Convention
of yesterday. The candidacy of John Sher-
man was weak, anyhow. 1t needed
strong and enthusiastic support from his
own State to give it respectable and
prominent position before the coun-
try. This is lacking There are thirty
seven States outside of Ohio. In none Of
these is there spontaneous enthusiasm in
his party for Sherman. There was an ex.
pectancy in these States for the verdict of
Ohio upon John Sherman. That verdict
is rendered, and it is divided. Only an
individual verdict in Ohio in favor of
Sherman could command confidence in |
his candidacy among the Republicans Of
the Union. The Convention YESTERDAY |
weakened Sherman; it could not have
strengthened him. Of the delegates
elected to Chicago and Presidential Electors
selected at Columbus yesterday not one is
a colored man. This fact is especially note
worthy, because the cJlored people made
special point of being recognized in this
and presented the best men
they had in the State for delegates.
The Gazette says: The Ohio Republican
Convention yesterday in addition TO de-
carng in favor OF John Sherman for
President made a good State ticket and
adopted a strong platform. Of the forty
four delegates to the Chicago Convention
five are for Blaine and thirty-nine for
Sherman. This result was reached after a
persistent contest on the part of the friends
of Mr.. Blaine, and the result may be
accepted as fair expression Of the people
of Ohio. 1t is better for many reasons
than if there had been no contest, because
the thirty mine Sherman delegates are for
him without ifs or butts. The five may
join the thirty-nine, but the thirty-nine
will stand firmly by the choice of Ohio
Republicans and use all fair means to Sc.
cure his nomination at Chicago. Thirty
nine earnest men are always better than
forty-four with divided affections We are
entirely satisfied with the result. If John
Sherman shall fail of nomination at Chi
cago, it will not be the fault of Ohio Re-
publicans. five Blaine votes from
Ohio are the five dearest votes ever secured
by a candidate for the Presidency. .-Auxil-
iary women's societies have been organized
to help in aid of both foreign and domestic
missions among all or nearly all the de-
nominations. The money that lhey raise
and the helpers whom they send to the field
finally reach the same end as the appro-
priations of the parent boards, but the
means employed are independent. One of
the oldest and str INCEST of these organiza-
tions is now holding its meetings in the
Broadway Church, and deserves the atten.
ton of women OF every ycreed.-Three thou
sand millions were drawn from the people
in extra taxes for the war, and three thou
sand millions more were borrowed and laid
as a debt on the backs of the people, to
burn up j n powder and munitions and EN-.
gines for killing. Could this be without af-
fecting the general prosperity of the coun-