American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-17

TIE Liberal Republican party
which, guided 10y the tat. that a.
tends all third parties. died resl'Sct-
ably ut A bAny the Other day, "rIgl-
mated, lived, and finally Was buried
in rhetM ical exclaul:st ions. 1t was
essentially - newspaper party,
whose members gained power un-
der the Republican "reaI. cation,
and, finding that the IOavrS and
fishes we've div Gle,i into fragments
too small for the proper nOnrisl'-
m-nr Of the ,urnaiis' ic brain. float
ed in'U al ideal organization ct
gTau,feur ami rt:<;atis rhetoric.
\ Yer b-tnr.. did n party C. mmand
50 little reason and so much
70. vni immigra' ion. l, Was II glOsi>
Gus cheat. Blu whIl. it had u"
popular irtiurncr, because thu. Ve.'-
pie have r..a<On a. we'll rs sentiment
it lett for ITS jon, nalistic disciples u
sty le OF criticism which is wonders
full ia words and wonderfully lack
ing il common SENSE
1t .s fair t." .ay hat Mr G,rrl.,A ,
" hO for a \ ear and a halt previous
tp the Republican Pr.-sislem ial nom
inatiOn "f 1872 protested against
haste III choosing II candidate, sci
dom INDUCED in stale and u,.prOfita-
BILE criticism bur chAng-a!'Ir, par
TITAN politician, thar he WAS, he
hoped, AS hr had hoped III 1860,
that the regular Republican party
would chW's4. SaImt. other han the.
m,,st available CANDIDA z. HIS
a.a,stl-s have not l-arned the whole
lesson Uf his example. II IS fairly
we'll known thar two weeks before
ills death hr Was planning To accept
with SENSIBLE grace. the views of the
people whose. decree had made Gen.
Grant The President If the Unirrd
Stat~s. Ills apostles have cOnfinu
ed their opposition, NOT only to the
men, but to the measures. of the
Republican parry an"i their OpI"-
sitIoIl, carried on ia the style OF
Rhapsody left in thea by Liberal
k..pui,licai I<m, makes no popular
impression, because it is small and
contemP'ihle. AMI to th"s" who
know some hing of the workings "f
politics there cat come no idea 1T
wonder ut this c:i"k ~ thu. picayun-
in all that the OplnsIti"n .iO-a.
When mems hands have fa,lrd t."
grasp the picayume, their minds
rise no higher than those empty
hands. Ii sp"-cula,i""s in whisky
were continual ph-n''mrna in news
paper businrss tue niinds at cities
might rise to loft! th~mes /; tut
since the cask Is empty and the
pocket no longer b. l'efml, it becomes
nrcs.rnary, III independent criticism.
10 charge II Congressman with the
vice OF Cocktails, 10. aecnSr Sec,--
tarys wife Of wearing jew elry, and
to post a ish-r"ne.l c"rrrsn,nd..mt
at the fanliSht of domestic house
h ,l,is in order hat h~ may detect
the siigh'r sI disagreement i~tw..n
a statesman and his wife. Seldom
do W. hear Il criticism Of the orig
nal measures out Of which 80 called
attribu a biz either to u lack OF iH-
teflisencs. or to some rem. m l".rancr
,hx the c'tit'a themselves once al
vO<:afed tus,S.. measures. The ac.:u
salons OF gs.sticu:ating cities Who
follow the fashion IF Col. C"uk!iug
are m..rr accuSAti hing more.
In 1867 II was considered political
hel -sy I" Ol'; .Ost. the construction
If the Pacific. railroads. To-day THE
men who i.uilr tn. P.r.ific railroads
are will fed, and charged with the.
c,,i,sllmutiUn at IL n .ti."nAl fraud, for
no o; her reason than that they have
ti,.ishet their tssk much sbOner
than the country demanded that
they should do, and have suca~e.le i,
for The cOurtry's gW,d. Yet every
needy siat~snan ~hO Inv~s'e,i his
small earnings IN the bonds OF a
railway. and made. an honest hun
sirsti dollars out nf his transaction,
ias ds'zens of great Newspaper cal
umns devoted to him aIsi his fam
lily. fa lawyer holding "ffic. argues
u c:,se before u Court in Washington
and the fact app" ars in the news
reports. nothing ia thOusht ut it Ivy
the a.tuie correspondents; but the
III .m-nt 1t appears that the lawyer
x'e>mxm male All hO"est speech
rs u public .ffiriAl on pOli ical
sui.j-cr remotely cOnnes:t"d with the
subj ct which he legally argued,
t. Z al">tirs ut independent cIi:i>
..ism hint that he earned his m"n..y
IN ur,i.r to take some pprs"n, mot
his wife, t" Long Branch !! The.
h., cha Of journalism prov 3 al"u'
hotels and r,'s aus ans, rOiintin. the
grains at sugar THAT an Offir,at tins
Idly I.ui 5 in his caiet and liter
I,rcting his kindness to the waiter
pirl as \ jour naIisiic reason for iii
vOrce And So dem. 'raliz .ng has this
,,icayun- srNl. of e, atheism became
ihat We discover the rrI,icS, t. the
disgust OF tine readers, spying our
the. holes il Oilt. anOthers sI.N:K-
ings, one JOIN na'ist heIng c'',t-mpI
IDLY charged wi. h appearing in the
streets in mems cl"hing; anO' her
finding himself n"ised about as n
man who violently as~ ults n lad
another being accused OF having
biackma,led his en-mit.s in'O ri~nd-
ship, aud more and another iii the
list is not t.", fuID being recorded AK
having writ en- his criticism under i,
worse tn III LO..g b .,nca Int.'Xica-
finm. We affrc, none If this sly IL
OF cri' iciSm.
THE REPURIIC-W have. in Il