American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-02
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

The ranks of the Administration
voters in Washington Were thinned last
week by the arraignment of six persons
for murder. and it is feared they can't be
tried quickly enough to receive pardon
before election.
-Ofall the ofIice-hOIders whose places
are within the gift of Grants Cabinet and
Congressman, the provincial postmasters
with perhaps the single exception of Mr..
Jesse Grant. the recent postmaster at
Covington. Ky.,) seem to have been for
electiOneering purposes the most grevious-
ly bled.
The high moral leaders of the
Grant party are Morton, Cameron. Hart
ranft. Yerkes, Murphy, Tweed, O'Brien
and Oakcs Ames in the North, and the
whole plum 7cr-bloated band of carpet
baggcrs in the South. These are the men
who deprecate Democratic victory on
the ground that it would ''hopelessly de-
moralize American politics."
We shall carry all the South, prob
ably with the exception OF Mississippi
and South Carolina.
Southern vote, 12i
New York, 81
New Jersey,
Indiana, II
California,
Connecticut
Total 1875
There are but 1867 electoral votes. This
would give Grant 172 votes "a ma
jority of twenty-three for Mr.. Greeley.
But we shall carry Illinois, which has an
electoral vote Oftwenty-One, which would
give us majority of Observation-Disclosures
natl Enquirer.
In political controversy with col
ore brother the sable United States Min
lister to Liberia has been seriously stabbed
and lies at the point of death. Had he
L., 4
have escaped the injury which has fol-
lowed i'm the train of his imitation of the
wandering. stump-speakingp roclivities of
other appOintees of this Administration ::
but perhaps that intestine war in
Liberia, of which we now and then re-
ceive some inkling, made it as dangerous
to abide as the event has proven it was to
the foreign blacks to whom he was ac-
credited fighting among themselves over
constitutional amendments. and the home
negro with whom he would argue demon
strating the ordinary cOlOred idea of poll
tics by operating upon him with his knife!
Free speech and confinement of political
warfare to verbal Observation-Disclosures are
things, we fear, to the comprehension
whereof the man and brother can never
be expected to attain.
The merry little farce of reforming
the civil service still goes on. The ms,
appointed solely as reward for partisan
services, have been or are about to be ap-
pointed to all the good places, the COM
petitive examinations having been strictly
confined to their number, and now few
little Waterman and doOr-keeper positions
are to be offered to the efforts OF the gem
eral public. The text of the examining
questions being kept sedulously secret,
there is no knowing whether the great
question of what are your politics is the
vital point or not; but however this may
be, the applicant who may painfully work
himself into a door-keepership to-day may
be thrust out at the mere will OF his next
official superior tomorrow. The great
Administration reform of the civil service
goes no further than to make admission.
except by partisan favor, extremely diff
cult. leaving dismissal entirely unre-
strained. The report of Mr.. George Will
liam Curtis's commissioners says, "the
power of removal, which i'm our judg-
ment is essential to the highest efficacy OF
the service, is left untouched Let a
man pass fifty competitive examinations.
each more searching than the other, and
there is nothing to forbid Grant turning
him out whenever he wishes to put some
pff in his Mace