American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

The Wilmington Commercial, a
Grant paper. says that ''the stump speak
er who counts on Delaware for Grant
simply makes fool of himself.''
-Hartranft's majority is now put up
to thirty-siX thousand. The Philadelphia
Age does not know that there is any i'm
pediment to putting i'll up to million.
The Administration most sanguine
organ in Boston Is plucking up courage
since the October elections. 1t now claims
New Hampshire for Grant by ], 800 major
ity.
"A man named Bunch, living in To-
ledo, was the only one of the colored
troops who ran for office on any ticket in
Ohio. and the Detroit Free Press says that
the GRANTEES Laid him out as cold as a
crOwbar."
81 voted for Hartranft because my
party compelled me to-" says John +.
Bent, prominent Pennsy lvanian, ''but
the election of such a man will stand on
record forever as one of the most disgrace
full acts of American politics.
john A. Wimpey, late Grant can
didate for congress, who tried to convince
a Georgia district that the finances of the
country would not be safe under Greeley,
has been arrested for forging pension pa
pers. some of which were found on his
person.
Tho Administration organs are say
ing some very curious things just now.
They want the Southern vote. and to get
it, they even go to the extent of speaking
OF the late ''red-handed rebels as ''gal-
liant cOnfederates,'' and apologizing for
the war for the Union.
-Forney continues to fire away at
Cameron and Hartranft while supporting
Grant. the man who s'pulled them
through" FOrney's old fusee is the only
one in the country that is sufficiently
warped for shooting around such sharp
corners.
Gen. Grant could not have found
time to attend Stewards funeral even if
somebody had put him in mind of it.
just about that time he was in peck of
trouble about his sorrel team, and the I'M
happy discOrds it had introduced into his
stable cabinet required his whole atten-
ton.
INSTRUMENTATION victory i'm Penn
sylvania is followed by wholesale arrests
of leading Administration partisans for
bribery and fraud A member of the city
council of Lancaster. and a prominent
broker, have been arrested and held to
bail in 81 800, on charge Ofissuing fraud
ulent naturalization papers. In Scranton
the mayor, postmaster, and several other
officials have been arrested for bribery
and ballot-stufiing.
1t is not easy to decide whether the
loyalty or the blasphemy of the Bcllefon-
tame (O.) Press is most startling when it
says: ''There is a similarity between
Grant and Christine latter, the Savior OF
the world, and the former the savior OF
his country. One cannot think of the
whole character of Grant without think
ing of Christ" And one cannot read
such stuff without thinking of the ass he
rode into Jerusalem.
1t is one of Mr.. Samuel Weller's
very singular and hextraOrdinary cOinci-
dences that the contestant who carries of
the high-class clerk:hip at the custom
house competitive examination, recently,
in New ork ,rejoices in the name of Grant.
This sort of thing not only solves the long
veXed problem of what's in IA name, but re-
calls Marryatt's story of Il certain compcti-
tive examination in his time. Alter badger
ing MILDLY for hours, the naval board
asked if he had ever been Off such and
such a point. - Yes,' said the lad; ''my
unc'e's state reaches to the waters edge
Ono! so you are Lord Blanks nephew.
Then why the devil didn't you say so, in
stead of keeping us here these two
hours? and the MILDLY passed to his
lieutenancy.