American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-19
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

-ParsOn Newman, chaplain to the
President, holds family prayers twice Il
day i'm Gen. Grants military household
Four prayers a day would be none too
many il the prayers We're in proportion to
the iniquity.- Boston Post.
If Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati
Gazette, is the good man he is represented
to be, he should have exposed the wicked
ness of HaSsaurek before Iassaurck came
out for Greeley. Had Hassaurek come
out for Grant, would Mr.. Smith have
found time to say anything against the
great German.-Cou1'ieT-.Jo
George Pratt, of West RoXbury,
Mass, offers to prove under oath that
Henry Wilson said in his presence, 81 am
willing to grant every foreigner the same
rights ask for myself or my son, and
that is, that he shall be twenty-one years
an American citizen before he can claim
the right to vote"
If there is anything a post-oflice
editor is peculiarly cutting upon, it is the
subject of treason to the Great RenOmi-
mated. The last effort of the Toledo
Blade reads in this crushing way: "Hor-
ace Greeley was born to make Andrew
Johnson look respectable by contrast.
Andrews treason looks very light indeed
when compared with that of Horace
- Hurrah for Grant!' cries the
troOly-loil poor devil who herds his wife
and ten children in a thirty-dOllar log
cabin for the want of something better in
to which to herd them. Grant has just
finished Il hirty-thOusand dollar stable in
the rear of the White House, and that
trooly loil poor devil must help to pay for
it.-Louisvilte Courier-Jo,amal.
Would it not be well for Mr..
Streets, who is now drawing the salary
of the place (given him by GranD of Con-
sui to Elsinore, Denmark, to go to
Elsinore, instead of stamping Alabama
for Grant? Or do applicants for Con-
sulships nowadays have to promise to
electioneer for the President, besides pay
ing the regular commission to the Presi-
dents brOther's-in-law?
besides their importation of ne
groes the Cameron ring have brought a
pig iron corner to bear on the Pennsylva-
mia election. The price has been run up
to $55 and $50 per tOn-a rate only
reached in war timcs-and from the enOr-
nous profits thus obtained, a large con-
tribution is applied to Radical campaign
purposes. But the scheme has been car
ried too far, and manufacturers and their
employees begin to feel its pain. The Lib
eral campaign in that State is an insur-
rection against these predatory combina-
tons of capitalists, and every move they
make to perpetuate their power only eX-
poses the rottenness of their rule.
"A torrent of coarse invective was
poured on Mr.. Beck when he asserted,
with strong testimony, to back him, that
the administration had diverted to cleo
pioneering purposes in North Carolina,
large sums appropriated by Congress
for the expenses of the United States
courts. Now, however, comes Mr.. Jones,
acting comptroller of the treasury, with a
circular announcing that the apprOpria-
ton for federal court expenses has been
exhausted, and that no more accounts
against that fund will be paid until new
appropriation is made! He admits that
some of the United States marshals drew
more than they needed, and we know that
the North Carolina marshal drew over
500, 1000 for a district wherein the highest
range OF expenses heretofore has not eX-
ceedcd $4,000. Is it not about time to
have an investigation of the books2
-''ShOw the books" say the people.
We have trusted you so long that you be-
gin to deny our right to see them at all !!
When charges of fraud, profiigacy and
speculation are made, you smother inves-
tigatiOn with whitewash or suppress it
altogether. You attack with teeth and
nails every mar. of your own party who
dares talk of reform or the serious prose-
cution of corruptionists. You have had
the books i'm your keeping for twelve
years. while the great debt was growing.
and enormous disbursements were mort
gaging the labor of the people for niany
generations. During this time poor men
have gone into congress and come out
milliOnaircs: rings have controlled legis-
lation and all the ring men have become
suddenly enormously rich 1t may be all
right but we want the books placed in
the hands of the men whose interest it is
to post them and show the results rather
than conceal them.