American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-11-22
POLITICAL ITEMS.

- amer, was Greeley elected ~
asked an unsophisticated twelve -year-old
of his Republican sire. Starting up with
establishment, the latter answered, NO :;
why do you ask such a foolish question:"
Because" said the boy, you sad last
fall that If Greeley was elected there
would be panic, and everybody says
there is panic now, so thought Greeley
must have been elected.'
A Massachusetts, organ of the ma
tiOnal cigar-holder says that the Wash
ington Administration is struggling with
the first principles of the science of po-
litical economy" What the Washington
Administration supposes the first princi-
pies of political economy to be is perhaps
inferable from its overtures TO Charles
Sumner and Carl SchuIZ, to bring them
back into the party, in order to avert a
political reaction! The political econ
omy with which the Administration is
struggling proposes to economic the poll
ticians of party that finds it has none
to spare-Chicago Times.
-Radicalism is the foe of honesty in
the administration of Government, and
the enemy of constitutional liberty and
the industrial interests of the land. We
mean Radicalism under the Grant dynasty
in the National Government and carpet
bag government in the South, and such
men as Pomeroy, Caldwell, and others in
Kansas; Carpenter and Washburn in
Wisconsin; and Bingham e Co. in Ohio.
We care little by what name you call the
allied forces in these contests that are but
the prelude of the great National contest
that is yet to come.-Kdnsds City (lHo.)
Times.
The pretense that the Republican
party will aid the Reform movement is too
bald. That party perpetrated the wrongs
complained of-kept up high protective
tariff; inaugurated the system of land do
nations; made the infamous Credit-Mobi-
lier; instituted the salary grab; winked
at corruption; shielded known dishonest
officials; profited by the remorseless
greed of monopolists, and failed every
time to lift, even with the tip of their fin
gers, the heavy burden imposed by the
monopolists. How, then, can the people
expect relief from the party which i'm
posed the wrongs and made money by
them?-Iuinois State Register
-Harper's Weekly has an editorial
upon the Lesson of the Autumn" in
which the results of the October elections
are held up as a warning. 1t says; LET
this autumn, with its defeats and its re-
duced majorities, undeceive us all, from
the President to the boatman in the Gus
tom. House barge" If the October e lee
lions furnish this lesson, the November
elections have given it additional force.
found in the fact that Harper's Weekly is /
a weathercock. Last year the wind was |
strong in the Republican quarter, and the |
Weekly was as intensely Republican as
possible. Now, the wind has changed; |
there is popular revolt all over this |
land against the Republican party, and |
the Weekly veers round, and tells the peo
pie all the bad things of which the Re |
publican party has been guilty, from the |
President to the boatman in the Custom |
House barge.-Chicago Tribune.
Such an outspoken confession as
that made by the New York Times is
notable as indicating decentralization, if !
not disloyalty on the part of journal
that has held the position of mouth piece
and special defender of the Administra-
tion. In exp.a1ning the "lesson" of the
condemn all that the Republican party |
praised in its platform, and, in a fiimsy |
afectation of frankness, to trace the de- |
feat directly to those measures for which |
the Administration is responsible. The |
back-pay grab is stigmatiZed as the first |
and greatest cause of injury; and this, as |
Congressman Willard testifies, originated |
with the President and was lobbied |
through by him. Improper nominations, |
the Times considers, made the failure |
sure; while everyone knows that the can |
didates were put upon the party by SEN |
ator Conkling's convention of Federal |
office-holders, representing the Admins |
tration and acting in furtherance of its |
personal schemes. The Times explana-
ton, in fact, pulls away the very founda- |
ton of the party by conceding the charges |
made by the Opposition against the Gov
erYment and its political representatives. |
-Boston Post.
Public indignation has been arous |
ed to very high pitch in Louisiana by |
the terrible outrages committed in Grant |
Parish by some of the turbulent negroes |
who infest that region. The Kellogg Gov |
eminent is held responsible for these |
crimes, since there can be no little doubt |
that they were the direct result Of the un-
necessary raid made upon that Parish by |
Metropolitan Police. 1t is not |
supposed that the United States Deputy |
Marshal who was in command of this |
force knew anything about the outrages; |
but it is firmly believed by the whites |
that it was the presence of the Metropol- |
itans which elnboldened some of the |
worst of the negroes to commit the fright |
full excuses in which they INDUCED. |
There was no necessity whatever for the |
expedition sent against the whites of
Grant Parish, for perfect quiet prevailed |
there, and there would have been no diff |
Guilty in serving warrants without the aid |
of a military posse. 1t is thought that |
the object of sending troops there was a |
deliberate purpose to provoke disturb
ances between the white and black races, |
in order to supply political capital for the |
use of Kellogg's friends in Congress. The |
result only tends to confirm the accounts |
hitherto published of the lawless charac-
ter of the negro rioters who instigated the |
trouble leading to the shocking Colfax |
massacres, in which the blacks were fully !
proved to have been the aggressors. The |
citizens of Alexandria at public |
meeting held October %, passed resolu- |
lions, appealing to the commanding officer |
of the United States troops stationed OPP
posite that town for protection while Kel- |
logg's forces remained in their region
N. Y. Sun.