The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-14

SPIRIT Of THE PRESS
The English Papers of This Morning,

The English Papers Of This Morning.
The Enquirer says: The Republicans in
Maine are now anxious to leave everything
to the Supreme Court What the decision
of that Court will be upon any of these
political questions that may be submitted
to it is now known IN advance. And. ac-
cordingly, mob calling itself Leglsla-
ture assembled one night and proposed to
| leave it to the Supreme Court to decide
whether it was Legislature or not One
Chamberlain, in command of the militia,
refuses to recognize the authority of Acting
Governor Lamson. and he wants to refer
the matter to the Supreme Court. The
Constitution of Maine permits the Govern
or and Council and Legislature upon SOL
emn occasions to submit important ques-
| tions to the Supreme Court; but mob is
not a Legislature. The men who met in the
State-housea at Augusta on Monday highland
pretended to organize Legislature have
no more right to call themselves Legisla-
ture than have company of New Bruins.
wick lumbermen further East. They have
no right to call on the Supreme Court, for
an opinion. They are not a Legislature
the attention of the Democracy of the
| dyed Federalist who has approved of ev-
cry outrage that has been committed by
the Federal Government for the last fifteen
years, isnow asking Democratic Senators
to make him United States Supreme
Judge. To put snch man on the Bench
of a Court Of last appeals. is far worse than
voting for Commission whic cheated the
Democracy out of the Presidency. The
President has no such power as
the Supreme Court. His duty
is to execute the laws, whereas
the duty of the Supreme Court is to con-
strue the law. Great National questions,
involving civil liberty life and property,
are in their hands, and their opinions will
necessarily par AXE of the color of their po-
litcal prejudices. s.-When the next Ma
tiona Republican Convention shall assem-
BILE, Mr.. Foster will be Governor by plu
rality ever so popular candidate as Gen
eral Ewing of more than 1900 votes, and
by clear majority over all of nearly 1000,
and this popularity of Mr.. F'ster was
shown on a total vote larger by $4,000 than
the vote on which Mr. Hayes was elected
in 1875 Without making odious or in
vdious comparisons we NAV say that Mr..
Fosters abilities are superior to those of
Mr. Haves. The impression he has made
upon public affairs is greater than that
made by Mr.. Hayes prior to his occupancy
of the Presidency. His experience in pub
lie life is greater than that of Mr. Hayes
was in 1875. Mr.. Foster was member of
the Forty second. Fnrty-third, Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses, serving eight
consecutive years in the House of Repre-
sentatives. He has as few enemies as Mr..
Hayes had in 1876 and he has more friends
than Gov. Hayes then had. There is no
public consideration or political or per-
sonal reason which helped to cause the
nomination of Hayes in 1876 that will not
more strongly argue in favor OF the noml-
| nation of Foster in 1880.
The Gazette says: To sum up the facts of
the situation: the Republican members of
| the Legislature. whose choice by ma jOri-
refer the wi ole matter to the Judiciary;
have received majority of the votes, but
claiming under technicalities of law, re-
fuse to refer the question of law to the
highest State tribunal. The Democrats
have had their usual fortune in placing
themselves in the wrong both as to the
election and the law. One of the remarka-
Bile features of this remarkable situation is
that General Chamberlain has assumed the
control If the State, and seems to be mas
ter of the situation. He claims to be act
ing under written order by Gov. Garce
Ion, given on the eve of the expiration of
his term, to take charge of the public prop
erty, and to protect the peace till his sue
cessor was qualified. Thus the State Gov
ernment is actually under military control.
But Gen. Chamberlain processes willing
ness to surrender his trust whenever Gov
ernor has been elected. The Republicans
had the advantage of the popular majority
and the law, and it is probable that they
will prevail.-Mr. Kirby introduced bill
for the reorganization of the Cincinnati po
lice into the Ohio Senate yesterday. II
differs from Representative Williams bill
only in giving the appointment of members
: of the force to the Mayor absolutely in
. stead of to the Mayor and Council. At 6
meeting of the Hamilton County delega
ton last night it was decided to support
this bill.-Mrs. Liyermore has related
on the platform that much think
ing on the wrongs of woman
had so impressed her mind that
when she became q mother and they tolc
her it was girl, she turned her face to tht
wall and wept. Yet to those who have no
eaten of this tree of saddening knowledge
the birth Of girl brings no less JOY than o
boy, and it arouses the tenderer feelings
If the suffering suflragists would turn from
this in,rospecti"n and observe the state o
man, they would see that the ballot ha
not made it perfect; that the mass hav
always their stock of wrongs; that the Ia
borer's state is one Of chronic discomfort
that there is ever multitude who thinl
their fate so bad that revolution of sOci
ETY., government and property is impera
lively demanded. They perceive that tn
ballot does not make men intelligent o
virtuous; does not put all men into tn
professions, nor make them capitalists
Office holders, managers of great business
, nor give them skill in the mechanic arts
and that the differences OF condition, tn
vices and all the social ills are pretty muc
Y the same as in countries where the govern
ment is not made by the ballot.
The Commercial says: By Section % {
the Board Of City Commissioners Act It |
! provided that "No grant of the use of
Street or highway in any such city for th
purpose of street or other railroad, or a
4 extension thereof. or for any other pul
pose, shall be made or renewed, unless mrs
= recommended by the Board" Nearly tn
identical language was in the old Board 3
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